THE AZUSA PAPERS

By

Rev. Raymond 'Doc' Burkhart

(c) 2000 by Doc Burkhart

FOREWORD

This book is free. There aren't too many things left in the world that are, but this is one of them. This book was either given to you, recommended to you, or you found out about it and searched it out on the Internet, or a local church or bookstore. No matter how you received it, you have it now, and it is no accident. You see, God doesn't believe in accidents.

This book is intended to show today's world about a spectacular event that took place nearly one hundred years ago. Using ordinary farm-workers, mundane house-keepers, and forgotten ministers, God decided to bring about a revival in the hearts of a few, that today has literally spread around the world.

The revival we are talking about is the one that began in a barn on Azusa Street in Los Angeles. From around the globe, God gathered together those people that had received this renewed experience call the Baptism of the Holy Spirit. From that old building went a fire, igniting hearts and changing the course of church history. Many of today's Pentecostal and Charismatic groups and fellowships can trace their history back to the fateful period of 1906-08 in Los Angeles.

What follows is their story, in their own words. The Azusa Street Mission published a series of thirteen newspapers called 'The Apostolic Faith'. These documents have been rewritten to update the language and writing style, making it easier to read and understand. It is our hope and prayer that by reading this updated edition, your heart will be moved to seek a deeper experience with God.

As we said, this is free. We encourage you to forward this document to friends and neighbors who may have a similar interest in a renewed relationship with the Holy Spirit. We ask that you forward it in it's entirety, as it is copyrighted.

We also want to distribute hard copies of 'The Azusa Papers' free to call who ask, for whatever they can afford. In order to do that, we need the help of people like you to assist in publication. We ask for your prayers, your input, and your financial support of this vision, to bring revival to our churches.

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We want to hear from you. We want to hear if 'The Azusa Papers' has had an impact on your life and your church. God Bless You!

DEDICATION

I want to thank the following:

My aunt Dorothy, without whom I would never have known Christ.

My father-in-law, Rev. Fred Burcham, for being an example to me of what a man of God truly is. 'Dad', if I could ever be just 10% of what you are, I could pass from this life to the next with no regrets.

My kids, Tandace and Shaun, for being examples to me how I continually need to approach God: open, honestly, and with child-like faith and expectance.

Finally, my wife, Cyndi. Cyndi, I have failed so many times. I don't know how you do it, but somehow you have put up with me through the years, in spite of my struggles and my ups and downs. You have been an anchor in the storm. I wish that I had your perspective, your clearness of thinking, and your determination. God knew I needed those things, and that is why He brought you in my life. I do, have and always will love you. Thank you.

THE AZUSA PAPERS

CHAPTER ONE

Los Angeles Being Visited by a Revival of Bible Salvation and Pentecost as Recorded in the Book of Acts

The power of God now has this city agitated as never before. Pentecost has surely come and with it the Bible evidences are following, many being converted and sanctified and filled with the Holy Spirit, speaking in tongues as they did on the day of Pentecost. The daily scenes in the building on Azusa Street and at missions and churches in other parts of the city are beyond description. The real revival has only started, as God has been working with His children mostly, getting them through to Pentecost, and laying the foundation for a mighty wave of salvation among the unconverted.

The meetings are held in an old Methodist church that had been converted in part into a tenement house, leaving a larger unplastered, barn-like room on the ground floor. Here about a dozen congregated each day, holding meetings on Bonnie Brae in the evening. The writer attended a few of these meetings and being so different from that which he had seen and not hearing any speaking in tongues, he branded the teaching as third-blessing heresy, and thought that settled it. The writer was compelled to do a great deal of apologizing and humbling to get right with God.

In a short time, God began to manifest His Power and soon the building could not contain the people. Now the meetings continue all day and into the night and the fire is kindling all over the city and surrounding towns. Proud, well-dressed preachers come to 'investigate.' Soon their high looks are replaced with wonder, then conviction comes, and very often you will find them in a short time wallowing on the dirty floor, asking God to forgive them and make them as little children.

It would be impossible to state how many have been converted, sanctified, and filled with the Holy Spirit. They have been and are daily going out to all points of the compass to spread this wonderful Gospel.

BROTHER SEYMOUR'S CALL

Brother WJ Seymour has the following to say concerning his call to this city:

"It was the divine call that brought me from Houston, Texas, to Los Angeles. The Lord put it in the heart of one of the saints in Los Angeles to write to me that she felt the Lord would have me come over here and do a work, and I came, for I felt it was the leading of the Lord. The Lord sent the means, and I came to take charge of a mission on Santa Fe Street. One night they locked the door against me, and afterwards got Brother Roberts, the president of the Holiness Association, to come down and settle the doctrine of the Baptism of the Holy Spirit, that it was simply sanctification. He came down and a good many Holiness preachers with him, and they stated that sanctification was the Baptism of the Holy Spirit. Yet they did not have the evidence at the second chapter of Acts, for when the disciples were all filled with the Holy Spirit. They spoke in tongues as the Spirit gave utterance. It was after this that the president heard me speak of what the true Baptism of the Holy Spirit was he said he wanted it, too. He told me that when I had received it to let him know. I received it and let him know. The beginning of the Pentecost started in a cottage prayer meeting at 214 Bonnie Brae."

LETTER FROM BROTHER PARHAM

Brother Charles Parham, who is God's leader in the Apostolic Faith Movement, writes from Tonganoxie, Kansas, that he expects to be in Los Angeles September 15. Hearing that Pentecost had come to Los Angeles, he writes,

"I rejoice in God over you all, my children, though I have never seen you; but since you know the Holy Spirit's power, we are baptized by one Spirit into one body. Keep together in unity until I come, then in a grand meeting let all prepare for the outside fields. I desire, unless God directs to the contrary, to meet and to see all who have the Full Gospel when I come."

THE OLD-TIME PENTECOST

This work began about five years ago last January, when a company of people under the leadership of Charles Parham, who were studying Word of God tarried for Pentecost, in Topeka, Kansas. After searching through the country everywhere, they had been unable to find any Christians that had the true Pentecostal power. They laid aside all commentaries and notes and waited on the Lord, studying His Word, and what they did not understand they got down before the bench and asked God to have wrought out in their hearts by the Holy Spirit. They had a prayer tower in which prayers were ascending night and day to God. After three months, a sister who had been teaching sanctification for the Baptism of the Holy Spirit, one who had a sweet, loving experience and all the carnality taken out of her heart, felt the Lord lead her to have hands laid on her to receive the Pentecost. When they prayed, the Holy Spirit came in great power and she commenced speaking in an unknown tongue. This made all the Bible school hungry, three nights afterward, twelve students received the Holy Spirit, and prophesied, and cloven tongues could be seen upon their heads. They then had an experience that measured up with the second chapter of Acts, and could understand the first chapter of Ephesians.

Five years later some 13,000 people have received this Gospel. It is spreading everywhere, until churches that do not believe backslide and lose the experience they have. Those who are old in this movement are stronger, and greater signs and wonders are following them.

The meetings in Los Angeles started in a cottage meeting, and the Pentecost fell there three nights. The people had nothing to do but wait on the Lord and praise Him. They commenced speaking in tongues, as they did at Pentecost, and the Spirit sang songs through them.

The meeting was then transferred to Azusa Street and since then, multitudes have been coming. The meetings begin about ten o'clock in the morning and can hardly stop before ten or twelve at night, and sometimes two or three in the morning, because so many are seeking, and some are slain under the power of God. People are seeking three times a day at the altar and rows of seats have to be emptied and filled with seekers. We cannot tell how many people have been saved, and sanctified, and baptized with the Holy Spirit, and healed of all manner of sicknesses. Many are speaking in new tongues, and some are on their way to the foreign fields with the gift of the language. We are going on to get more of the power of God.

Many have laid aside their glasses and had their eyesight perfectly restored. The deaf have had their hearing restored.

A man was healed of asthma of twenty years standing. Many have been healed of heart trouble and lung trouble.

Many are saying that God has given the message that He is going to shake Los Angeles with an earthquake. First, there will be a revival to give all an opportunity to be saved. The revival is now in progress.

The Lord has given the gift of writing in unknown languages, also the gift of playing on instruments.

A little girl who walked with crutches and had tuberculosis of the bones, as the doctors declared, was healed and dropped her crutches and began to skip about the yard.

All over this city, God has been setting homes on fire and coming down and melting, saving, sanctifying and baptizing with the Holy Spirit.

Many churches have been praying for Pentecost, and Pentecost has come. The question is, will they accept it? God has answered in a way they did not look for. He came in a humble way as of old, born in a manger.

The secular papers have been stirred and published reports against the movement, but it has only resulted in drawing hungry souls who understand that the devil would not fight a thing unless God was in it. They have come and found it was indeed the power of God.

Jesus was too large for the synagogue. He preached outside because there was not room for Him inside. This Pentecostal movement is too large to be confined in any denomination or sect. It works outside, drawing all together in one bond of love, one church, and one body of Christ.

A Mohammedan, a Sudanese by birth, a man who is an interpreter and speaks sixteen languages, came into the meetings at Azusa Street and the Lord gave him messages which none but himself could understand. He identified, interpreted and wrote several languages.

A brother who had been a spiritualist medium and who was so possessed with demons that he had no rest, and was on the point of committing suicide, was instantly delivered of demon power. He then sought God for the pardon of his sins and sanctification, and is now filled with a different spirit.

A little girl about twelve years of age was sanctified in a Sunday afternoon children's meeting, and in the evening meeting she was baptized with the Holy Spirit. When she was filled those standing near remarked, "Who can doubt such a clear case of God's power?"

Nearly an hour and a half later, a young man was converted, sanctified, and baptized with the Holy Spirit, and spoke with tongues. He was also healed from consumption, so that when he visited the doctor he pronounced his lungs sound. He has received many tongues, also the gift of prophecy, and writing in a number of foreign languages, and has a call to a foreign field.

Many are the prophecies spoken in unknown tongues and many the visions that God is giving concerning His soon coming. The heathen must first receive the Gospel. One prophecy given in an unknown tongue was interpreted, "The time is short, and I am going to send out a large number in the Spirit of God to preach the Full Gospel in the power of the Spirit."

About 160 people in Los Angeles, more than on the day of Pentecost, have received the gift of the Holy Spirit and the Bible evidence, the gift of tongues, and many have been saved and sanctified, nobody knows how many. People are seeking at the altar three times a day and it is hard to close at night because of seekers and those who are under the power of God.

When Pentecostal lines are struck, Pentecostal giving commences. Hundreds of dollars have been laid down for the sending of missionaries and thousands will be laid down. No collections are taken for rent, no begging for money. No man's silver or gold is coveted. The silver and the gold are His own to carry on His work. He can also publish his own papers without asking for money or subscription price.

In the meetings, it is noticeable that while some in the rear are opposing and arguing, others are at the altar falling down under the power of God and feasting on the good things of God. The two spirits are always manifest, but no opposition can kill, and no power in earth or hell can stop God's work, while He has consecrated instruments through which to work.

Many have received the gift of singing as well as speaking in the inspiration of the Spirit. The Lord is giving new voices, He translates old songs into new tongues, He gives the music that is being sung by the angels and He has a heavenly choir all singing the same heavenly song in harmony. It is beautiful music; no instruments are needed in the meetings.

A Nazarene brother who received the Baptism of the Holy Spirit in his own home in family worship, in trying to tell about it, said, "It was a baptism of love. Such abounding love! Such compassion seemed to almost kill me with its sweetness! People do not know what they are doing when they stand out against it. The devil never gave me a sweet thing; he was always trying to get me to censure people. This Baptism fills me with divine love"

The gift of languages is given with the commission, "Go ye into all the world and preach the Gospel to every creature." The Lord has given languages to the unlearned Greek, Latin, Hebrew, French, German, Italian, Chinese, Japanese, Zulu and languages of Africa, Hindu and Bengali and dialects of India, Chippewa and other languages of the Indians, Eskimo, and the deaf mute language. In fact, the Holy Spirit speaks all the languages of the world through His children.

A minister says that God showed him twenty years ago that the divine plan for missionaries was that they might receive the gift of tongues either before going to the foreign field or on the way. It should be a sign to the heathen that the message is of God. The gift of languages can only be viewed as the Spirit gives utterance. It cannot be learned like the native tongues, but the Lord takes control of the organs of speech at will. It is emphatically God's message.

During a meeting at Monrovia, a preacher who at one time had been used of God in the Pentecost Bands under Vivian Dake, but had cooled off, was reclaimed, sanctified and filled with the Holy Spirit. When the power of God came on him, his eight-year-old son was kneeling behind him. The boy had previously sought and obtained a clear heart, and when the Holy Spirit fell on his father, the Spirit also fell on him, his hands began to shake and he sang in tongues.

Brother Campbell, a Nazarene brother, 83 years of age, who had been for 53 years serving the Lord, received the Baptism of the Holy Spirit and gift of tongues in his own home. His son, who was a physician, was called and came to see if he was sick, but found him only happy in the Lord. Not only old men and old women, but also boys and girls are receiving their Pentecost. Viola Price, a little orphan colored girl eight years of age, has received the gift of tongues.

Mrs. Lucy F. Farrow, God's anointed handmaid, came some four months ago from Houston, Texas, to Los Angeles, bringing the Full Gospel. God has greatly used her as she laid hands on many that have received the Pentecost and the gift of tongues. She has now returned to Houston, en route to Norfolk, VA. This is her old home that she left as a girl, being sold into slavery in the south. The Lord she feels is now calling her back. Sister Farrow, Brother WJ Seymour and Brother JA Warren were the three that the Lord sent from Houston as messengers of the Full Gospel.

An editor in Salem, OR, Rev. ML Ryan, writes: "When I finished reading in your letter of what God was doing in Los Angeles, I fell on my knees and agonized Godward a bursting soul of appreciation. A great and blessed conviction seized me, and I rushed out of the office shouting and praising God. The fire had struck my soul. I then read the wonderful works of God in Los Angeles to others and a little crowd gathered around me; they too caught the fire of the spirit in the letter and some shouted and some wept.

The disciples were looking for Jesus to set up His millennial kingdom at His first coming, and they expected to reign with Him there in Jerusalem. They asked Him when they went out to the Mount of Olives, "Lord, wilt thou at this time restore the kingdom to Israel?" He said, "It is not for you to know the times and seasons which the Father hath in His own power; but ye shall receive power after that the Holy Spirit is come upon you." When they received the Baptism of the Holy Spirit, He would teach them things to come. Dear ones; do not puzzle yourselves by theorizing, but tarry in Jerusalem, and the Spirit will throw light upon God's Word and you will see it just as it is. He will reveal the whole Word from Genesis to Revelation.

THE PRECIOUS ATONEMENT

Children of God, partakers of the precious atonement, let us study and see what there is in it for us.

First, through the atonement we receive forgiveness of sins.

Second, we receive sanctification through the Blood of Jesus. "Wherefore Jesus also that he might sanctify the people with his own blood, suffered without the gate." Sanctified from all original sin, we become sons of God. "For both he that sanctifies and they who are sanctified are all of one: for which cause he is not ashamed to call them brethren" (Hebrews 2:11). It seems that Jesus would be ashamed to call them brethren, if they were not sanctified. Then you will not be ashamed to tell men and demons that you are sanctified, and are living a pure and holy life free from sin, a life that gives you power over the world, the flesh, and the devil. The devil does not like that kind of testimony. Through this precious atonement, we have freedom from all sin, though we are living in this world. We are permitted to sit in heavenly places in Christ Jesus.

Third, we receive healing of our bodies. Sickness and disease are destroyed through the precious atonement of Jesus. Oh, how we ought to honor the stripes of Jesus, for "with his stripes we are healed." How we ought to honor that precious body which the Father sanctified and sent into the world, not simply set apart, but really sanctified, soul, body and spirit, free from sickness, disease and everything of the devil. A body that knew no sin and disease was given for our imperfect bodies. Not only is the atonement for the sanctification of our souls, but also for the sanctification of our bodies from inherited disease. It matters not what has been in the Blood. Every drop of blood we received from our mother is impure. Sickness is born in a child just as original sin is born in the child. He was manifested to destroy the works of the devil. Every sickness is of the devil.

Man in the Garden of Eden was pure and happy and knew no sickness until that unholy visitor came into the garden. His whole system was poisoned and it has been flowing in the Blood of all the human family down until God spoke to His people and said, "I am the Lord that heals thee." The children of Israel practiced divine healing. David, after being healed of rheumatism, (perhaps contracted in the caves where he hid himself from his pursuers,) testified saying, "Bless the Lord, Oh, my soul, and all that is within me. Bless His holy Name, who forgives all thine iniquities, who heals all thy diseases." David knew what it was to be healed. Healing continued with God's people until Solomon's heart was turned away by strange wives, and he brought in the black arts and mediums, and they went whoring after familiar spirits. God had been their healer, but after they lost the Spirit, they turned to the arm of flesh to find something to heal their diseases.

Thank God, we have a living Christ among us to heal our diseases. He will heal every case. The prophet had said, "With his stripes we are healed," and it was fulfilled when Jesus came. In addition, "He hath borne our grief," (which means sickness, as translators tell us). Now if Jesus bore our sicknesses, why should we bear them? Therefore, we get full salvation through the atonement of Jesus.

Fourth, we get the Baptism of the Holy Spirit and fire upon the sanctified life. We get Christ enthroned and crowned in our hearts. Let us lift up Christ to the world in all His fullness, not only in healing and salvation from all sin, but in His Power to speak all the languages of the world. We need the triune God to enable us to do this.

We that are the messengers of this precious atonement ought to preach all of it, justification, sanctification, healing, the Baptism of the Holy Spirit, and signs following. "How shall we escape if we neglect so great salvation?" God is now confirming His Word by granting signs and wonders to follow the preaching of the Full Gospel in Los Angeles.

WJ Seymour

GOOD NEWS SPREADS

People from all over the country are sending in letters of inquiry, having heard that Pentecost has come to Los Angeles. Some have traveled long distances and report that the half has not been told them. Through this paper, we answer inquiries, as it would be impossible to write to each. Souls are hungry all over the land.

TONGUES AS A SIGN

Man is a fallen creature, and as such cannot receive the things of the kingdom of heaven, because they are spiritual and "foolishness unto him." He must be born again to understand God and His Word. God recognizes this, and all through the ages has granted signs and wonders to awaken man from his spiritual death and turn him to seeking after God.

If you will turn to Mark 16:14, you will read as follows: "Afterward He appeared unto the eleven as they sat at meat, and upbraided them with their unbelief and hardness of heart, because they believed not them which had seen him after he was risen." You see that after these men had been personally with Jesus for something like three years, and had witnessed His mighty power in raising the dead and performing miracles. In a few hours after His crucifixion, had allowed Satan to harden their hearts and fill them with unbelief. They were also sanctified, as we read in John 17:17, Jesus prayed, "Sanctify them through thy truth; thy word is truth." This prayer was undoubtedly answered, as Jesus never prayed in vain. In John 15:3, we read, "Now are ye clean through the Word which I have spoken unto you." In John 20:22, we read, "And when he had said this, he breathed on them, and said unto them, receive ye the Holy Spirit." By comparing the Gospel of Mark referred to above with this message from John just quoted, we believe both utterances of Jesus were made at the same meeting of the disciples. After He had upbraided them for their hardness of heart, He breathed on them the Holy Spirit to sustain them until Pentecost. They were anointed, as many sanctified souls are today while seeking a real, personal Pentecost.

Jesus at this time also said to them (Mark 16:16-17), "He that believeth and is baptized shall be saved, and he that believeth not shall be damned. These signs shall follow them that believe; in My name shall they cast out devils; they shall speak with new tongues." Here a belief and baptism are spoken of, and the sign or evidence given to prove that you possess that belief and baptism. This Scripture plainly declares that these signs SHALL follow them that believe.

We also read in Paul's epistles to the Corinthians that he speaks of nine specific gifts in the Holy Spirit. We also find in searching the Word that eight of these gifts were in the church before the Day of Pentecost, the gift of tongues on this day being the power that startled the multitude.

"Now, when this was noised abroad, the multitude came together, and were confounded, (marginal reading, troubled in mind) because that every man heard them speak in his own language. They were all amazed and marveled saying one to another, behold are not all these which speak Galileans? How hear we every man in his own tongue, wherein we were born? They were all amazed, and were in doubt, saying one to another, What meaneth this? Others mocking said, These men are filled with new wine. Peter, standing up with the eleven, lifted up his voice and said unto them, Ye men of Judea and all ye that dwell at Jerusalem, be this known unto you. Hearken to my words, for these are not drunk as ye suppose, seeing it is but the third hour of the day. This is that which was spoken by the prophet Joel: "And it shall come to pass in the last days, saith God, I will pour out my Spirit upon all flesh. Your sons and your daughters shall prophecy, and your young men shall see visions, and your old men shall dream dreams" (Acts 2:6-8, 12-17).

In Luke 24:49, Jesus told His disciples to "Tarry ye in the city of Jerusalem, until ye be endued with power from on high."

"And being assembled together with them, commanded them that they should not depart from Jerusalem, but wait for the Promise of the Father that, saith he, ye have heard of me. For John truly baptized with water, but ye shall be baptized with the Holy Spirit not many days hence. When they therefore were come together, they asked of him, saying, Lord, wilt thou at this time restore again the kingdom to Israel? He said unto them, it is not for you to know the times of the seasons which the Father hath put in his own power. Ye shall receive power after that the Holy Spirit is come upon you: and ye shall be witnesses unto me both in Jerusalem, and Judea, and in Samaria, and unto the uttermost part of the earth" (Acts 1:4-8).

They obeyed this command, and Acts 2:4 states, "And they were all filled with the Holy Spirit, and began to speak with other tongues, as the Spirit gave them utterance." We see here that they ALL spoke in other tongues.

If you will now turn to Acts 10 and read the story of Peter and Cornelius, you will see that the speaking in tongues was the sign or evidence to Peter that the Gentiles had received the Holy Spirit. Peter preached the Word, and they were cleansed through the Word, as the disciples before the Day of Pentecost. This was a hard dose for Peter to take, he being a Jew and having been taught that the Gentiles were dogs and unclean. God had previously given Peter a vision of a great sheet let down from heaven, filled with all manner of unclean animals, with the command, "Rise, Peter, slay and eat." The preaching of Jesus to the Gentiles was part of the eating, but Peter obeyed, and Pentecostal signs followed (Acts 10:46): "For they heard them speak with tongues and magnify God."

If you will now turn to Acts 19:1-6, you will find about twenty-nine years after Pentecost Paul found some disciples at Ephesus that had not received their Pentecost. He preached the Word and explained to them their great privileges in the Gospel, "And when Paul laid his hands upon them, the Holy Spirit came on them. They spoke with tongues and prophesied" (Acts 19:6).

How foolish so many of us have been in the clear light of God's Word. We have been running off with the blessing and anointing of God's power, instead of tarrying until Bible evidence of Pentecost came.

Sister Wettosh, a German sister of Pasadena, who was in the darkness of Romanism and in great physical suffering about a year ago, but who has marvelously saved and healed, has been baptized with the Holy Spirit, received the gift of tongues, and has gone out to carry this Gospel. Her destination was Reno, Neb.

Los Angeles, August 12th, 1906 This will certify that my daughter, Mrs. SP Knapp, of Avenue 56 and Alameda street, was healed of consumption by God on the above date, God's Spirit working in answer to prayer and through a poor Mexican Indian. For particulars, inquire of Frank Gail, with Troy Laundry; corner 14th and Main, Los Angeles.

In a cottage meeting on Morton Avenue, Elysian Heights, several souls have been baptized with the Holy Spirit, and a brother, George Hock, who has been stone blind for more than a year and a half, was saved and then received his sight. He can now read, and his relatives and friends who were unbelieving are filled with wonder and are publishing it everywhere.

Canes, crutches, medicine bottles, and glasses are being thrown aside as God heals. That is the safe way. No need to keep an old crutch or medicine bottle of any kind around after God heals you. Some, in keeping some such appliance as a souvenir, have been tempted to use them again and have lost their healing.

Jesus said, "Believe me that I am in the Father and the Father in me, or else believe me for the very work's sake." He is showing signs in Los Angeles, and yet some doubt, as Philip did. If you cannot understand it, just take the Word of God. He said, "These signs shall follow them that believe: In My name shall they cast out devils: they shall speak with new tongues; they shall take up serpents. If they drink any deadly thing, it shall not hurt them; they shall lay hands on the sick and they shall recover." Believe for the very work's sake. God is confirming His Word with signs following.

A young man, who a year ago was in the chain gang, is now baptized with the Holy Spirit and preaching everywhere. He was a Catholic but God took all the Romanism out of him. He is telling the Catholics to get their own Bibles and the Protestants to get to God and not lean on preachers. He is a powerfully built young man. God has so taken the fight out of him that when he was struck and spit upon in the face, he went home and was so blessed that he prayed all night. He said he loved the people who persecuted him more than if they had asked him to pray for them.

During the preaching service, the Holy Spirit fell on a preacher and he jumped to his feet shouting "Hallelujah!" and immediately spoken in tongues. He speaks Zulu and many tongues more fluently than English and interprets as he speaks. The Lord has since used him to stir a whole city. He is filled with divine love. His family were first afraid to see him speaking in tongues, thinking he had lost his mind, but when his wife and children felt the sympathy and divine love which the Holy Spirit puts in people's hearts, they said, "Papa was never so sane in his life."

FROM A MISSIONARY TO AFRICA

Brother SJ Mead, who was sent to Africa by Bishop Taylor in 1885, has been attending the meetings for several weeks. He has the following to say of God's dealings with him:

"My heart praises God, as I trace the leading of his blessed Spirit, in the past quarter of a century, when I first sought to know and do His blessed will. My call to Africa in 1884; the blessed thought of going out in His name, so full of comfort and victory; and yet my call to my native land and civilization is more wonderful and blessed. The getting down in quietness in the presence of the Holy Spirit, and letting him teach and show me what he would have me know of His Power and omnipresence. I found it so true, He is all love, "and in Him is no darkness at all." My soul groans out this morning for the Holy Spirit to have perfect control of His temple. We often hinder the blessed wooing and power of His love by cross currents of our human mind and thought. May God help us to be little in our own eyes, not over anxious to serve much, but to love Him with all our heart, mind and strength. His simple love in our hearts does the work among the heathen. The dear children of Ham are stretching out their hands for the love that is manifested in the sons of God. Often tears fill my eyes, as I think of their simplicity and kindness to us, in the years of our residence among them. One time while going down to our Annual Conference, one hundred miles from where I was situated at Malange, we often met with a slave woman, with whom we lodged nights, who showed us much kindness. She would listen to the story of the Lamb of God, who taketh away the sin of the world, and say, 'Tell it to me again,' I would go over it again. She would say, 'Tell it once more;' then she said, 'Tell it to me on my fingers.' I said to her, Hold up your hand. I bent down her first finger and said, 'That means that God's Son has died for you, and shed His Blood for your sins. Bend down the second finger, that is, if you believe it, He will take you to His home, where is no death, nor crying, whippings nor pain. Bend down the third finger, that is if you do not believe, you will be obliged to live in a land of sorrow, pain, death and crying forever and ever. She repeated it repeatedly, and we could see the truth getting into her heart. We lost sight of her for a long time; her village was burned up, her people moved away, and she had gone out of our mind. One day there was a commotion at the entrance of the compound at the Mission. I saw the same slave woman, running into the yard, leading a little boy by the hand. I did not know her at first, and she cried out, 'Don't you know me?' I remembered my lesson on my fingers,' and she repeated it over to me, and said, 'Now I know what you said about God's Son is true.' See my boy,' as she pulled him by one hand. 'He was dying with smallpox and I asked the same Jesus to make him well, and He did.' Praise God, she may have preached the fundamental truth of the Gospel to more souls in Africa than I have. My brother, if our love and faith were but more simple, to take God at His Word, our life would be full of sunshine and it would lighten and brighten up the dark places, that sin has caused on God's beautiful earth."

God called Brother Mead and wife from the Central part of Africa to Los Angeles to get their Pentecost. They recognize some of the languages spoken as being dialects of Africa. When God has fully equipped them, they will return to their labor of love.

NO BOTTOM

We meet many honest souls these days that are under the delusion that they have committed the unpardonable sin. The following incident should be an encouragement to such.

A child of God was attacked by the enemy with the suggestion that she was forsaken of God and had committed the unpardonable sin. She was then on a mission field in the South, separated from other Christian workers; and without any apparent cause, the archenemy that tempted our Savior told her that God hated her. The Words, "God hates you" seemed to be continually shouted in her ears and she could not get away from it. She lost her faith and believed the enemy, not knowing His Power. The next suggestion was, "Drown yourself in the river." She stood looking into the dark water, but the thought of her dear mother made her turn away.

She returned to her room, and throwing herself down, fell asleep and dreamed. She seemed to be on a boat on which all the people were rejoicing and praising God, except her. She heard the captain call out to the pilot, "Sound the depths and compare it with the love of God." The depths were sounded and the call came back "No bottom! No bottom!" She awoke in an ocean of God's love, all darkness past and the cry ringing in her ears, "No bottom!" For years since then, she has been in Gospel work on both sides of the ocean.

A young woman who came into the meeting unsaved, went to the altar during the sermon, under deep conviction, and was saved in about five minutes. Before that evening was over, she was sanctified and baptized with the Holy Spirit and had the gift of the Chinese tongue and was singing in Chinese in the Spirit. Her mother followed her to the altar and has also been saved, sanctified, baptized with the Holy Spirit and healed of asthma and heart trouble that the doctors said was incurable.

TWO WORKS OF GRACE AND THE GIFT OF THE HOLY SPIRIT

We preach old-time sanctification, and old-time Baptism of the Holy Spirit that is the gift of power upon the sanctified life, and God throws in the gift of tongues.

First, justification deals with our actual sins. When we go to Him and repent, God washes all the guilt and pollution out of our hearts, and we stand justified like a new babe that never committed sin. We have no condemnation. We can walk with Jesus and live a holy life before the Lord, if we walk in the Spirit.

Second, sanctification is the second and last work of grace. After we are justified, we have two battles to fight. There is sin inside and sin outside. There is warfare within, caused by the old inherited sin. When God brings the Word, "It is the will of God, even your sanctification," we should accept the Word and then the Blood comes and takes away all inherited sin. Everything is heavenly in your soul; you are a child of God. The Spirit of God witnesses in your heart that you are sanctified.

Third, the Spirit begins immediately leading us on to the Baptism of the Holy Spirit. Now, as a child of God, you should enter the earnest of your inheritance. After you have a clear witness of the two works of grace in your heart, you can receive this gift of God that is a gift without repentance. Pray for the power of the Holy Spirit, and God will give you a new language. it is the privilege of everyone to be filled with the Holy Spirit. It is for every believing child.

EVANGELIST TW McConnell's TESTIMONY

About 28 years ago, I went into a meeting to break it up and the Lord broke me up. My conversion I never could doubt. I was called to preach and refused, and went on for a number of years trying to get away from the call. Finally I obeyed the Lord, and started in to work for Him, but not to preach. The Lord sanctified my soul. Then I commenced to try to preach. About two years after, the Lord appeared to me in a dream. He so filled me with His Spirit that people were not able to stand up before me, for a time. A few days after, He told me to give up my business, and make my wants known to Him, and not to man. I obeyed. The Lord supplied my every need, and was with me in revival meetings and in healing many that I prayed for. I heard of people receiving the Holy Spirit and speaking with tongues. I came to Los Angeles to investigate, and found it was a fact, and earnestly commenced to seek the Lord for the Baptism of the Holy Spirit. The Lord, knowing my heart, came and took possession of me and spoke with my tongue. I want to say to every person, test God and you will never deny the Baptism of the Holy Spirit.

THE SAME OLD WAY

It has been said of the work in Los Angeles that is was "born in a manger and resurrected in a barn." Many are praising God for the old barn-like building on Azusa Street, and the plain old plank beside which they kneeled in the sawdust when God saved, sanctified and baptized them with the Holy Spirit. Those who know God feel His presence as soon as they cross the threshold. "Can there any good thing come out of Nazareth?" "Come and see." This is the Nazareth of Los Angeles. Some have come from long distances to this spot, directed of the Lord, and the humble have always been greatly blessed. The work began among the colored people. God baptized with the Holy Spirit several sanctified wash women, who have been much used of Him. The first white woman to receive the Pentecost and gift of tongues in Los Angeles was Mrs. Evans who is now in the work in Oakland. Since then multitudes have come. God makes no difference in nationality, Ethiopians, Chinese, Indians, Mexicans, and other nationalities worship together.

PENTECOSTAL FAITH LINE

There are a dozen or more Christian workers who are devoting their time to the salvation of souls, having been called of God from other lines of employment to devote their time in praying with the sick, preaching, working with souls at the altar, etc. We believe in the faith line for Christian workers, and no collections are taken. During the four months, meetings have been running constantly, and yet with working day and night and without purse or scrip, the workers have all been kept well and provided with food and raiment. Workers who have received calls to foreign lands are going out, the Lord providing the means with no needs being presented. The ones that give, give as the Lord speaks to them and do not want their names mentioned. It is a poor time in these last days to board up treasures on earth. When the Lord speaks it is a blessing to the obedient, so we covet no man's gold, nor silver, nor apparel.

A sister who was called to Oakland had her faith tested as to her fare, as the time was near and she had not received it. That night she was caught away in the Spirit and when the Lord brought her back, the Words came to her, "If I can carry you around Los Angeles without a body, I can take you to Oakland without a fare." That day she received the money.

FIRE FALLING AT HERMON

Hermon is a small Free Methodist settlement in the hills near Los Angeles. At cottage, prayer meetings being held there, the Holy Spirit has manifested His presence in a marvelous way. The church people stand aloof, but God is overthrowing all opposition.

At a meeting recently held in a cottage near the church, one sister was baptized with the Holy Spirit on the front porch. She lay under the power of God for something like two hours, praising God and speaking in an unknown language.

Two nights afterward, at another cottage prayer meeting, the house was filled to overflowing with people. The meeting lasted until one o'clock in the morning. Five were baptized with the Holy Spirit and three were sanctified. Two sisters lay under the power of God until after one o'clock, speaking and singing in unknown tongues. The singing could be heard over the hills. This is stirring the people, and God is going to work wonders in this place. He recognizes no man-made creeds, doctrines, nor classes of people, but "the willing and obedient shall eat the good of the land."

CONTEND FOR THE FAITH

It is our privilege to earnestly contend for the power of the early apostolic church, so that men would be instantaneously healed and baptized with the Holy Spirit. The power of God is going to fall on men in this city. He wants people that will believe in Him and exercise the faith. Faith moves God, that is one thing that makes God get in a hurry, when he can get the faith. When they put Paul and Silas in the Philippian jail, they went joyfully. They sang and prayed and at midnight God heard their prayers in heaven and shook the earth until doors flew open. The jailer trembled and was going to take his life. He fell under conviction, and what happened? They all were saved. I believe those men had faith in God. When they called upon God, something happened. When are we going to get that perfect faith? The Lord is just preparing His people now for the work He is going to do. We have been a long ways from it. The devil does not like to see us getting back, but God is going to overrule.

THE MILLENNIUM

All these 6,000 years, we have been fighting against sin and Satan. Soon we shall have a rest of 1,000 years. We are going to rest from our 6,000 years of toil in a reign of 1,000 years. That will be the millennial age (Jude 14:15). The saints who have part in the first resurrection will return with Jesus and reign over unglorified humanity (Revelation 20:4). Our place will be higher than that of the angels, because we are partakers of His divine nature and His immortality, and angels are simply pure spirits. We can go and come, just as Jesus did when He rose from the dead. We can vanish out of sight and go millions of miles in a second. Paul prayed that the Ephesians might know, "What is the exceeding greatness of His Power to us ward who believe, according to the working of his mighty power that he wrought in Christ when he raised Him from the dead." We shall be "like unto His glorious body." (Phil. 3:21). We shall have the same privilege as He had, for "we shall be like him." We shall shine forth as the sun in the kingdom of our Father. We shall be in the heavenly image.

That is the time when the lion and calf shall lie down together and a little child shall lead them (Isaiah 11:6-9). That is the time when God is going to give some two cities to reign over, some ten, and the twelve apostles will reign over the twelve tribes of Israel.

In the millennial age, we shall have great glory; but it will be still greater glory when Satan has been judged and cast into the lake of fire; and the meek, the justified souls, shall inherit the earth. We shall be living in the new heaven and the New Jerusalem. Jesus will turn the kingdom over into His Father's hand and sit down among the brethren. We shall have the same glory that Jesus had with His Father before the foundation of the world. God will be everything, and we shall be swallowed up in immortality (1 Corinthians 15:24).

It is wonderful how God sent His Son to take little worms of dust and to transform us into glory and immortality. We do not know what it means until we begin seeking God. "He that hath this hope in him, purifieth himself even as he is pure." We must go on to perfection and holiness, and get the Baptism of the Holy Spirit, and not stop there, but go on to perfection and maturity. God has many things to teach us, as we remain humble at His feet.

On August 11th, a man from the central part of Mexico, an Indian, was present in the meeting and heard a German sister speaking in his tongue which the Lord had given her. He understood, and through the message that God gave him through her, he was most happily converted so that he could hardly contain his joy. All the English he knew was Jesus Christ and Hallelujah. He testified in his native language that was interpreted by a man who had been among that tribe of Indians. This rough Indian, under the power of the Spirit was led to go and lay his hands on a woman in the congregation who was suffering from consumption, and she was instantly healed and arose and testified.

THE SPIRIT FOLLOWS THE BLOOD

Jesus said, "Now ye are clean through the Word which I have spoken unto you." The cleansing took place before the Pentecostal baptism. Jesus said on that night before he was betrayed, "Now are ye clean, but not all." (He knew that Judas had the devil in him). The disciples had been sanctified before Pentecost, for the Word of God is true. We know they had been justified a long time before, for he said, "Rejoice not that the devils are subject unto you but rejoice because your names are written in heaven." We know they were sanctified when Jesus prayed for them, for Jesus' prayers did not have to be answered in the future, but were answered right there. He said, "They are not of the world, even as I am not of the world." They were not only sanctified but had received the Holy Spirit in a certain measure, because He breathed on them in the upper room and said, "Receive ye the Holy Spirit." Some have put it off that they were not sanctified until Pentecost. We know the Spirit only follows the Blood. The heart must be clean before the Holy Spirit can endue with power from on high. It is not the work of the Holy Spirit to burn up inherited sin and carnality; he is not our Savior. The Blood cleanseth us from all sin. The disciples were cleansed and sanctified and were sitting and waiting when the Holy Spirit fell upon them.

We know also that Cornelius was clean, for when the Lord let down the sheet before Peter, he said, "What God hath cleansed, that call not thou common," or unclean. The Holy Spirit fell on them as at the beginning and they spoke with tongues and prophesied.

THE PROMISE STILL GOOD

The hundred and twenty on the day of Pentecost were baptized with the Holy Spirit according to promise. The converts of Philip in the Samaritan revival were baptized with the Holy Spirit, when Peter and John came from Jerusalem and preached the doctrine to them. The household of Cornelius received the same endowment of power, showing that the promise was also extended to the Gentiles. Again, to the Corinthian church the record is given of the fulfillment of the promise. That the Apostolic church had wonderful power is evidenced by its remarkable growth, as well as by the record of the Word. We have the promise of the same power today. What about the fulfillment of that promise?

However, did not Paul prophesy that these things should be done away? Let us see. 1 Corinthians 13:8 'Charity never faileth: Whether there be prophecies, they shall fail; whether there be tongues, they shall cease; whether there be knowledge, it shall vanish away. Sometimes, not stopping to find out when this shall be, we jump at the conclusion that these things have been done away. We have only to read the next two verses to be set clear. "For we know in part, and we prophesy in part. When that which is perfect is come, then that which is in part shall be done away." Paul knew only in part, and prophesied in part, and spoke in tongues only in part; but when that which is perfect is come, then the knowledge, prophecy, and tongues of Paul shall be done away. If they are to be done away on that great and notable day of the Lord, they must be in existence when He shall come. Divine love never faileth. When He returns these other things shall fail. God's promises must last until by God's own word they are withdrawn.

At the beginning of the Eighteenth century, among the French Protestants, there were wonderful manifestations of the Spirit power accompanied by the Gift of Tongues. The early Quakers received the same powerful religious stimulus and had the Gift of Tongues. The Irvingite church, about 1830, had the Baptism of the Holy Spirit, and spoke in other tongues. In the Swedish revival in 1841-43, there were the same manifestations of the Spirit and the Gift of Tongues. In the Irish revival of 1859, there is the record of the power of the Spirit in winning souls and the speaking in tongues by Spirit filled men and women (For the above facts, my authority is Bishop Hurst's History of the Christian Church, Vol. 1). Bishop Taylor left the record that he took a young woman to labor among a certain tribe in Africa, and left her preaching through an interpreter; but returned two months later and found her preaching fluently in the native language, without having learned it.

A drunkard got under conviction in a street meeting, and raised his hand to be prayed for. They prayed for the devil of drink to be cast out, and the appetite was gone. He came to the meeting and was saved, sanctified, and baptized with the Holy Spirit, and in three days from the time he was drunk he was speaking in a new tongue and praising God for Pentecost. He hardly knows himself.

A sister was healed of consumption when she had but a part of a lung left. She lay in a trance for three days and saw heaven, hell, and unutterable things. She received the Pentecost and gift of tongues and feels called to a foreign land.

The preaching of old time restitution is owned of the Lord. People have been paying up old debts, making wrongs right, getting hard feelings out of the way, etc. One was saved from drink, and he confessed to his crimes, offering to pay the penalty of the law. People living in adultery or where one party had a living husband or wife have separated, and God is wonderfully pouring out His Spirit on this line of things.

EXPERIENCE IN TRUSTING GOD FOR NEEDS

The first time I was out of wood after the Lord had shown me to trust Him, I asked the Lord for wood and the wood did not come. The Lord had shown me that I could not ask for flour until it was gone. I went down into the basement that morning and found some hard knots that had been laid aside and had enough wood for that day. The next morning I asked the Lord for wood. The wood did not come. I picked up enough chunks and chips to do that day.

The next morning, I went to the Lord and said, "Father, there are no more chunks and chips, we are out of wood. Send the wood." I went down to the city and forgot all about it. Did not think of it, until I returned home, and my daughter said, "Papa, who brought the wood?" I told her that "she need not trouble, the Lord would send it." However, she said, "Some man brought wood, who was he that you sent it by?" I thought she was joking, but she said, "Look in the box and in the basement." I went down and found a large load of wood already for the stove and just the length that we used in our stove.

I did not know for some time who brought the wood; but one day when holding meetings in South Seattle, a man invited me home with him, and while at dinner he said, "I want to tell you something that happened to me. I was crossing the bridge with a load of wood. My wife had written out a bill of some things that we had to have, and I needed feed for my horses. I was taking this load of wood in to get the groceries and feed. While out on the bridge and no one near me, an audible voice said behind me and just above me, 'Take this wood to McConnell.' I looked around me and there was no one near me. I said, 'I cannot take this wood to McConnell, I have got to have the groceries and feed,' and drove on. The voice said again, 'Take this wood to TW McConnell.' I said, 'How can I take this wood to McConnell; I must have these groceries and feed for my horses.' The third time the voice spoke, and so strong that it scared me, and I answered, 'Well, I will,' for I believed it was the Lord talking. There was no one about.

"I went and made inquiry, finally looked in the directory and found where you lived. I drove to the house and unloaded the wood, then drove back home as quickly as I could, loaded up some wood that I had and drove back to town, sold my wood as soon as I reached town, and got my feed and groceries. From that time I have prospered as never before."

FIRE FALLING AT OAKLAND

A band of workers left Los Angeles for Oakland. All are baptized with the Holy Spirit and speak in tongues. They are Brother GW Evans and wife, Sister Crawford, Brother Johnson, Louise Condit and Brother Manley, editor of the Household of God. Brother Manley had come down from Oakland especially to see the movement but did not receive his Pentecost until after he returned. Reports brought back by Brother Evans are that hundreds have been at the altar, many converted, sanctified, and healed, and thirty have received their Pentecost and are speaking in tongues. Praise God! The saints of Los Angeles rejoice to hear the good report.

A man visited saying, "I have been afflicted with paralysis eighteen long years, if you can do anything, will you lay your hands on me? Before he was prayed for, he called a physician to be a witness. The Lord relieved the man of his distress in the presence of the physician.

A minister in the city was raised up after eight years of suffering.

A man who was deaf and said he had not been able to hear for half his life was prayed for. God instantly gave him his hearing, when he was anointed and prayed for. He was a practicing physician in Oakland. He weighs between three and four hundred pounds. The Lord dropped him on the floor and gave him the Pentecost.

THE LORD SENDS HIM

A Pentecostal missionary has left for foreign lands, Brother Thomas. P. Mahler, a young man of German nationality, has the gift of tongues besides the knowledge of several. He left here for San Bernardino. He may go by way of Alaska, Russia, Norway, and Germany and to his destination in Africa. As our brother was leaving, Brother Post spoke of his call and gave a message in tongues in regard to Brother Mahler which he interpreted as follows: "I have anointed this dear one with my Spirit. He is a chosen vessel to me to preach the Gospel to many, and to suffer martyrdom in Africa." We are expecting to hear from our brother reports of God's doings. Our prayers follow him.

ASCENSION ROBES

The secular papers have said, "These people are buying their ascension robes." Now it is not our place to refute any reports, but as this brings up the subject of ascension robes, we do believe in buying them of Jesus, for He said, "Buy of Me raiment." We believe the time of ascension is drawing nigh when "The Lord Himself shall descend from Heaven with a shout with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God, and the dead in Christ shall rise first. We which are alive and remain, shall be caught up together with them in the clouds." (1 Thessalonians 4:16, 17). We shall not rise to meet Him in grave clothes or any earthly clothing. We shall leave them behind as Jesus did when he left the tomb. For John saw the linen clothes lying," and Peter following him, "seeth the linen clothes lie and the napkin that was about his head." Yet, Jesus was clothed when the disciples met Him. We will be as well when we are changed in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, clothed in garments not made with hands, fit for the bride of Christ to wear in the courts of Heaven.

The garments that Jesus wore after His resurrection could appear, disappear, and pass through bolted doors and walls. They were none such as are worn on earth. Many who are proud of their clothing here are selling their birthright for a mess of pottage and know not what they are losing. It matters not how poor our clothing may be, the Lord knows those who are ready and all glorious within."

GOOD NEWS FROM DANVILLE, Virginia

Brother and Sister AG Garr, former leaders of the Burning Bush work in Los Angeles, were powerfully baptized with the Holy Spirit and received the gift of tongues, especially the language of India and dialects. Brother Garr was able to pray a native of India "through" in his own language, the Bengali. Sister Garr also spoke Chinese. They left Los Angeles for the East in July going by the way of Chicago, where they met with the Burning Bush leaders, then on to Danville, VA, where they have been preaching to hungry souls. From there, they will go on to India.

In a letter from Brother Garr, we learn that God is honoring His precious Gospel in a marvelous way, reclaiming, sanctifying and filling with the Holy Spirit nearly all the members of the old Burning Bush band. The brother writes that when they spoke in tongues the people had such confidence in their Pentecostal baptism that those who were sick were immediately healed.

TONGUES CONVICT SINNERS

We clip the following from the Apostolic Faith published by Brother Charles. Parham at Baxter, Kansas

"A remarkable incident of God's searching power was recorded in Melrose, Kansas, during a revival which has been held by some of our young people at that place.

"The power of the Holy Spirit was greatly manifested in the meetings by the speaking in unknown tongues. This was much criticized by the town and vicinity, so the principal physician, who was familiar with several different languages, was prevailed upon to go to the meetings in order to denounce the whole as a fake. Miss Tuthill, in an unknown language to herself, but known to him as Italian, spoke his full name. No one in the town knew save himself, telling him things that had happened in his life twenty years ago, and on up to the present time, until he cried for mercy and fell on his knees seeking God.

"He found full salvation the next day, and is now a believer in 'the Gospel' that Jesus taught, and also in the power of the Holy Spirit that was given unto us to witness to a living Christ. He now says he would rather pray for the sick than give drugs, and is seriously thinking of leaving his profession and going into the Lord's work.

"Many precious souls have been saved, sanctified and baptized with the Holy Spirit as a result of the preached word under the Spirit's anointing power."

HOLY SPIRIT SINGING

A song in an unknown tongue was interpreted as follows: With one accord, all heaven rings-With praises to our God and King; Let earth join in our song of praise, and ring it out through all the days."

VICTORY FOLLOWS CRUCIFIXION

Think of what hung on that momentous hour that Jesus suffered. No hour in all history has been fraught with such eternal interests. It was a crucial hour and He was a willing offering. He said, "What shall I say, Father save Me from this hour? For this cause came I into this world." There is a crucial hour in every man's and every woman's life. Someone now may be facing their cross, their Gethsemane. Will you say, "Father save me from this hour?" You know the blessing that came when Jesus endured the Cross, despising the shame. Face the hour. God will give you grace for the hour of your opportunity. Some are drawing back. Let us pray, "Lord, save me from drawing back." Our Christ, who went every step of the way, says, "I will never leave thee nor forsake thee." When we get on the resurrection side of the Cross, the glory and victory will be unspeakable.

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JESUS IS COMING

Sister Anna Hall, who came here from Houston, Texas, in response to the call of God, is now assisting in Los Angeles. The Lord led her into the Pentecostal Baptism and gift of tongues without her hearing the truth except from the Word. She related the following wonderful vision and revelation.

A few weeks ago, as we were in our campmeeting, the first night we called our altar service there were 100 at the altar seeking God, and a strange power came into my being that I had felt once before when God wanted to reveal something to me. I have learned that it pays to be quiet before the Lord. I went home to my daughter's house and prepared for bed. Just as the gray dawn began to appear, I waked as if someone had touched my shoulder, and felt the same power. I heard the beautiful warbling of a bird and thought it was a mocking bird which one might hear there. No, it seemed away down in my soul. As that beautiful bird began to sing, I saw a little infant face right before my eyes. As the song of the bird began to ripple, it began to sound like water running over pebbles. It increased until it sounded like many waters, and the face enlarged until it was a full-grown face. I said, "Surely this is a messenger from the holy country." The voice answered. "Yes and I have come to tell you that Jesus is coming. Go forward in My name; preach the Gospel of the Kingdom, for the King's business demands haste. My people have only time to get on the beautiful garments, and prepare for the wedding supper in the Heavens." Dear ones, have you got on the beautiful robes of righteousness? I said, "Lord, reveal unto me what this means, the singing of the bird and rippling of the waters." God spoke to me, "The singing of the beautiful bird and the baby face was the proclamation of the first coming into the world; and the voice of many waters is the proclamation of Jesus Christ that is soon coming."

Repeat and believe the Gospel, for the Kingdom of Heaven is at hand.

DIVINELY HEALED

Brother JA Warren of Houston, Texas relates his experience as follows: "I had suffered two years from chills and fever and could never get rid of them. I was down with them, when it was told to me that the Lord would heal us and wanted to do it without the help of medicine, so I made up my mind that I would not have another chill; that the Lord would heal me. My chill was to come on about seven o'clock in the morning. It started to come and I was about to call my people to put more cover over me, when I thought how I had taken the Lord for my healer. I got up and dressed and would not let the devil bring a chill on me, but prepared for breakfast. When the ice wagon came along and my little grandchild called my attention to it, I started to say, "No, I will not take ice for this is my chill day." (I was in the habit of taking ice only on the day I had a fever). Then I stopped myself and said, "Yes, I will take ice," and I drank ice water all day. I was healed and in two months had gained about twenty-five pounds in flesh."

RUSSIANS HEAR IN THEIR OWN TONGUE

Different nationalities are now hearing the Gospel in their own "tongue wherein they were born." Sister Anna Hall spoke to the Russians in their church in Los Angeles, in their own language as the Spirit gave utterance. They were so glad to hear the truth that they wept and even kissed her hands. They are a very simple, pure, and hungry people for the Full Gospel. The other night, as a company of Russians was present in the meeting, Brother Lee, a converted Catholic, was permitted to speak their language. As he spoke and sang, one of the Russians came up and embraced him. It was a holy sight, the Spirit fell upon the Russians, as well as on others, and they glorified God.

A baptismal service was held at Terminal Island, one of the beaches near Los Angeles. One hundred and six persons were baptized in the ocean. About 500 people went down from Los Angeles and spent the day. A number of extra cars were filled and such a singing, shouting, joyful company Terminal Island never saw before. The day was spent in services of worship and the baptismal service. Brother Seymour performed the baptismal services. All were immersed.

Monrovia, Pasadena, San Pedro, Sawtelle, and Whittier are places about Los Angeles that are catching the Pentecostal fire. Elysian Heights and Hermon, suburbs of Los Angeles have cottage prayer meetings where souls are being baptized with the Holy Spirit. Two Holiness churches, one in Los Angeles and one in Monrovia have caught the fire, the ministers and several of the congregation having received the Pentecost and are speaking with tongues. The Burning Bush workers in Los Angeles came into the movement in a body and numbers of the different missions and the New Testament and Nazarene people are being filled with the Spirit and carrying the blessed light to other hungry souls. It is not our desire to tear down churches but to make new churches out of old ones. We pray God to send the Pentecost to every church.

THE LORD LEADS

We earnestly invoke God to manage the publication of this sheet and He is editor-in-chief and business manager. We publish it with the clear leading of the Lord. Hundreds of workers and missionaries will be represented in it. We wish no human writer to receive any honor but that it might be all to the glory of God, and that it may voice the power and presence of Almighty God who is moving on the people in Los Angeles and over the world. We start with not a cent in sight, but in the little upper room office above the mission on Azusa Street, we dropped on our knees and asked Him to send the means to publish the paper. In a short time, the money began to be sent in. No debt will be incurred. The paper will only be published as the money comes in advance.

MESSAGE FROM GOD

A message that was given in tongues for God's people was this, "Humble yourselves under the mighty hand of God." He is now about to move on the world in a mighty wave of Pentecostal power and salvation. A sister had a vision of God's people as vessels that were full and the Lord said, "The vessels must be emptied and I will fill them."

ARRESTED FOR JESUS' SAKE

A brother who has been baptized with the Holy Spirit was arrested because of the disturbance that the preaching of the Gospel created among the people who crowded about the tent in Pasadena. As he stood to answer the accusation of disturbing the peace, another brother says he saw an angel standing by his side. He was released. The Lord has been doing great things in that place and we expect greater things.

Some workers were preaching on the street corner in Los Angeles and a poor drunkard had just been saved, when a policeman came up and ordered them to stop, and took two of them off to jail. The sister sang all the way to the jail, shouted, and prayed while they were there. They soon were anxious to get rid of them and let them go. Meantime the other workers returned to the mission and told how the workers had been arrested and they all went to the altar and prayed and rose praising God; and soon in walked the ones who had been arrested. We are ready not only to go to prison, but to give our lives for Jesus.

MISSIONARIES TO JERUSALEM

A band of three missionaries, Brother Andrew Johnson and Sisters Louise Condit and Lucy M. Leatherman, who have been baptized with the Holy Spirit and received the gift of languages, have left for Jerusalem, going by way of Oakland, leaving there August 10th. Reports came of meetings on the way that four souls received the Pentecost in Colorado Springs and three in Denver.

Brother Johnson has received seven different languages, one of which is the Arabic. Sister Leatherman speaks the Turkish language, and while in Oakland, some were talking on the street about the gift of tongues. Sister Leatherman began to speak just as a man wearing the Turkish fez came by. He listened in wonder and asked what college she had attended. He said that she spoke perfect Turkish tongue, as he had heard spoken by a foreigner. He was an educated man from a Turkish college in Constantinople. She told him the Holy Spirit gave her the language which she did not understand herself and he was the first person that had interpreted for her.

When we leave the Blood out, Satan has power to switch us into fanaticism, but no powers out of hell are able to make their way through the Blood.

This is a worldwide revival, the last Pentecostal revival to bring our Jesus. The church is taking her last march to meet her beloved.

Brother John Matthews, a minister of San Luis Obispo, writes that himself and little flock are in harmony with the Los Angeles revival and waiting on the Lord for Pentecost to come that way.

A returned missionary from the interior of Africa was present in the meeting, when a sister testified in an African tongue which the brother interpreted to be, "The Lord is my husband."

A band of four Spirit baptized workers left for Arizona. We hardly know people's names in this movement and have failed to get these names. We hope to have a report from them.

"He that believeth on Me, as the Scripture hath said, out of his belly shall flow rivers of living water." We took that to mean sanctification, but since we have received the Pentecost, we see what the rivers of living water mean. It is the Lord preaching His own sermons, singing His own songs, and prophesying.

"Be glad then, ye children of Zion, and rejoice in the Lord your God: For he hath given you the former rain moderately, and he will cause to come down for you the rain, the former rain and the latter rain the first month." Joel 2:23. He gave the former rain moderately at Pentecost, and He is going to send upon us in these last days the former and latter rain. There are greater things to be done in these last days of the Holy Spirit.

CHAPTER TWO

The Promised Latter Rain Now Being Poured Out on God's Humble People

All along the ages, men have been preaching a partial Gospel. A part of the Gospel remained when the world went into the dark ages. God has from time to time raised up men to bring back the truth to the church. He raised up Luther to bring back to the world the doctrine of justification by faith. He raised up another reformer in John Wesley to establish Bible Holiness in the church. Then he raised up Dr. Cullis who brought back to the world the wonderful doctrine of divine healing. Now He is bringing back the Pentecostal Baptism to the church.

God laid His hand on a little crippled boy seven years of age, healed him of disease, and made him whole except his ankles, causing him to walk on the sides of them. When he was fourteen years of age, he had been sent to college and God had called him to preach. One day as he was sitting reading his Bible, a man came for him to go and hold a meeting. He began to say to the Lord: "Father, if I go to that place, it will be necessary for me to walk here and yonder, just put strength into these ankle joints of mine." Immediately he was made whole and leaped and praised God, like the man at the Beautiful Gate. He has since been in evangelistic work all over the United States, seeing multitudes saved, sanctified and healed.

Five years ago, God put it into this man's heart (Brother Charles Parham) to go over to Topeka, Kansas, to educate missionaries to carry the Gospel. It was a faith school and the Bible was the only textbook. The students had gathered there without tuition or board, God sending in the means to carry on the work. Most of the students had been religious workers and said they had received the Baptism of the Holy Spirit a number of years ago. Brother Parham became convinced that no religious school tallied up with the second chapter of Acts. Just before the first of January 1901, the Bible School began to study the word on the Baptism of the Holy Spirit to discover the Bible evidence of the Baptism that they might obtain it.

The students kept up continual prayer in the praying tower. A company would go up and stay three hours, and then another company would go up and wait on God, praying that all the promises of the Word might be wrought out in their lives.

On New Year's night, Miss Agnes N. Ozman, one who had for years "the anointing that abideth," which she mistook for the Baptism, was convinced of the need of a personal Pentecost. A few minutes before midnight, she desired hands laid on her that she might receive the Gift of the Holy Spirit. During prayer and invocation of hands, she was filled with the Holy Spirit and spoke with other tongues as the Spirit gave utterance.

This made all hungry. Scarcely eating or sleeping, the school with one accord waited on God. On the 3rd of January 1901, Brother Parham being absent holding a meeting at the time, while they all waited on God to send the Baptism of the Spirit, suddenly twelve students were filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak with other tongue. When Brother Parham returned and opened the door of the room where they were gathered, a wonderful sight met his eyes. The whole room was filled with a white sheen of light that could not be described, and twelve of the students were on their feet talking in different languages.

He said they seemed to pay no attention at all to him, and he knelt in one corner and said, "O, God, what does this mean?" The Lord said, "Are you able to stand for the experience in the face of persecution and howling mobs?" He said, "Yes, Lord, if you will give me the Experience, for the laborer must first be partaker of the fruits." Instantly the Lord took his vocal organs, and he was preaching the Word in another language.

This man has preached in different languages over the United States, and men and women of that nationality have come to the altar and sought God. He was surely raised up of God to be an apostle of the doctrine of Pentecost.

This Pentecostal Gospel has been spreading ever since, but on the Pacific coast it has burst out in great power and is being carried from here over the world. We are expecting Brother Parham to visit Los Angeles in a few days and for a mightier tide of salvation to break out.

FIRE STILL FALLING.

The waves of Pentecostal salvation are still rolling in at Azusa Street Mission. From morning until late at night the meetings continue with about three altar services a day. We have made no record of souls saved, sanctified and baptized with the Holy Spirit, but a brother said last week he counted about fifty in all that had been baptized with the Holy Spirit during the week. Then at Eighth Street and Maple Avenue, the People's church, Monrovia, Whittier, Hermon, Sawtelle, Pasadena, Elysian Heights, and other places the work is going on and souls are coming through amid great rejoicing.

Four of the Holiness preachers have received the Baptism of the Holy Spirit. One of them, Brother William Pendleton, with his congregation, being turned out of the church, is holding meetings at Eighth Street and Maple Avenue. There is a heavenly atmosphere there. The altar is filled with seekers; people are slain under the power of God, and rising in a life baptized with the Holy Spirit.

The fire is spreading. People are writing from different points to know about this Pentecost, and are beginning to wait on God for their Pentecost. He is no respecter of persons and places. We expect to see a wave of salvation go over this world. While this work has been going on for five years, it has burst out in great power on this coast. There is power in the full Gospel. Nothing can quench it.

Missionaries for the foreign fields, equipped with several languages, are now on their way and others are only waiting for the way to open and for the Lord to say: "Go." We are on our faces before God. Let a volume of prayer go up from all the Lord's people. Awake! Awake! There is but time to dress and be ready, for the cry will soon go forth. "The Bridegroom cometh."

Eight missionaries have started to the foreign field since this movement began a Los Angeles a few months ago. About thirty workers have gone out into the field.

The brother at Elysian Heights, who received his eyesight after being blind for a year and a half, is a living witness of the power of God. Since that he has been sanctified and anointed with the Holy Spirit and his wife has been saved.

In the City of Oakland, during the five weeks that the band from Los Angeles was there, Brother and Sister Evans and Sister Florence Crawford, sixty-five souls received the Baptism of the Holy Spirit, and thirty were sanctified and nineteen converted.

A man who was twice in the insane asylum, an infidel that had been going from place to place denying the name of Jesus Christ, is now saved, sanctified and baptized with the Holy Spirit, and working to win others.

Sometimes, among officers of the law, we find a keen judgment concerning genuine or spurious religion. In Pasadena, where the Lord was working in power some months ago, the chief of police made the remark: "I would not give much for a meeting that did not have a shout in it."

Sister Lizzie Frazer of Colorado Springs, Colorado, was one of those who received the gift of tongues when the Palestine Missionary band passed through there. She writes that she expects to go to India with a band of missionaries next month. The Lord has given her wonderful equipment.

Mrs. J. Kring was healed of cancer of the lungs on August 8, after the doctor had given her up. One lung was entirely closed up. When she was prayed for, the Lord immediately touched her body and healed her. She shouted for an hour with strong lungs, and is the happiest woman you ever saw.

A mother brought her son to the Mission to be healed of epileptic fits. He is about twenty-one years old and has been suffering for years, like the boy that was brought to Jesus that the devil had often caused to fall into the fire and into the water. The boy was so wrecked in mind and body that he was in a semi-conscious condition. Brother Batman, who is called to Africa, prayed for him, asking the Lord to cast the demon power out of him and give complete healing. The boy raised up from the floor and witnessed that the work was done and went home rejoicing.

A brother living in the east had been down sick for quite a while and sent a handkerchief to be blessed as in Bible times. His sister brought it to the Mission, praying for the Lord to show her to whom she was to give it, and the Lord showed her to give it to Sister Sallie Trainor. She immediately took it upstairs and as she knelt before the Lord, the Spirit came upon her in great power and she prayed in tongues, and kissed the handkerchief three times, as the Spirit seemed to lead her. It was sent with a prayer and the brother was immediately healed.

A PORTUGUESE MINISTER RECEIVES HIS PENTECOST

Rev. Adolph Rosa, a Portuguese brother from Cape Verde Islands, was baptized with the Holy Spirit in Oakland and is now in Los Angeles preaching the full Gospel. He was a Catholic and his father had expected to have him educated as a Catholic priest; but God had His hand upon him. He came to America, was converted from the power of Romanism and captivity about six years ago in a Portuguese Methodist church in New Bedford, MA, and entered the ministry of the Methodist church as a missionary to the Portuguese in the state of California. He was sanctified about four years ago, and is now conducting Pentecostal offerings in the People's church in Los Angeles.

BROTHER ROSA'S TESTIMONY

When Rev. Evans and his wife and Sister Florence Crawford went to the city of Oakland preaching the full Gospel, I went the first night, not to criticize but to investigate. Many preachers were there to criticize, but when I stepped in, I felt the power of God and could not say that it was the work of the devil, as most of the preachers declared, for I was practically convinced that it was the work of the Holy Spirit. I went home, began to study my Bible, and went to God in prayer to reveal to me if these people were really the people of God. He revealed to me in the attitude of my supplication that they were preaching exactly what the disciples of old preached. I was convinced that every minister of the Gospel should receive the same Baptism of the Holy Spirit and fire that the disciples received on the day of Pentecost, before they are prepared to preach the Gospel. I was teaching that when we receive sanctification, we receive the Holy Spirit, as most of the preachers are teaching. As I went to my Bible with the spirit of prayer, God revealed to me that the disciples were justified before Christ ascended: but they never were baptized with the Holy Spirit until the day of Pentecost.

The second day that I went to the meeting, the Lord put a real hunger in my soul to go forward. However, I was too proud as a minister of the Gospel to humble myself in a lowly mission and let women pray over me for the gift of the Holy Spirit. I had in my mind what people would think of me. I at the third day, as I arose to testify in the audience, the only words I could say were: "What does God think of me?" Then I could only weep for some minutes and the power of God came upon me until I dropped to the floor. I was under the power of God for about an hour and a half, and it was there that all pride, and self, and conceit disappeared, and I was really dead to the world, for I had Christ within in His fullness. I was baptized with the Holy Spirit and spoke in a new tongue.

I praise God for the light, and now I am walking in it. The desire of my heart is to see every man and woman that preaches the Gospel of Christ, baptized with the Holy Spirit, for without the Holy Spirit it is almost impossible for us to convince the world of sin, of righteousness, and the judgment.

GET INTO THE CORNFIELD

"It is an awful hard thing to get a Holiness preacher that has been indoctrinate for years to see that he has not received his Pentecost. I have been preaching for twenty years and never preached anything but a full salvation. To get a fellow that has been preaching twenty years to see that he has not received the Baptism, when he has been preaching all the time that he has it, and then to get him to turn seeker, is a hard job. I tell you it means he must get pretty near the end of himself.

"The time has come, in the full blaze of Pentecost, that if you do not walk in the light, you will become a dry chip. Bless God, I humbled myself. On the 10th day of July, the Lord gave me the evidence of the Pentecost. It took me three weeks, searching the Word, from Genesis to Revelation to see that these things were so. Any fellow that will get down on his knees and pray through and read through will find that the Holy Spirit only falls on a clean temple. You must give over and let God have His way.

"So many folks remind me of the hog that was trying to get into a big cornfield. There was a big, hollow, crooked log in the fence, laid in such a way that both ends of the log were on the same side of the fence. The hog would go into one end of the log expecting that he would get into the cornfield. He would go in, come out, and look all around to see how it was that he was not in the cornfield. There are many folks today just in that place. They crawl through a hollow log of experience and never get anything. Bless God, I would hunt the way. Jesus said, 'I am the Way.' Get into the cornfield. Hunt for the wicket gate and you will get in. Hallelujah! I am in the cornfield."

The above is the testimony of Brother Hill, a Nazarene preacher. He and his wife have both received their personal Pentecost and Bible evidence.

TESTIMONIES OF OUTGOING MISSIONARIES

A company of three missionaries left Los Angeles September 13, and are en route for the west coast of Africa. Sister Hutchins has been preaching the Gospel in the power of the Spirit. She has received the Baptism of the Holy Spirit and the gift of the Uganda language, the language of the people to whom she is sent. A brother who has been in that country understands and has interpreted the language she speaks. Her husband is with her and her niece, who also has been given the African language.

SISTER HUTCHINS' TESTIMONY

I was justified on July 4, 1901, and at that time, I felt that the Lord wanted me in Africa, but I was not then at all willing to go. On July 28, 1903, the Lord sanctified me. Before He sanctified me, He asked me if I would go to Africa. I promised Him I would. From that time on, I have felt the call to Africa, and have been willing to go at any moment, but not knowing just when the Lord would have me leave.

On the sixth of last month, while out in my back yard one afternoon, I heard a voice speaking to me these words: "On the 15th day of September, take your husband and baby and start out for Africa." I looked around and about me to see if there was not someone speaking to me, but I did not see anyone, and I soon recognized that it was the voice of God. I looked up into the heavens and said, "Lord, I will obey." Since then, I have had many tests and temptations from the devil. He has at times told me that I would not even live to see September 15, but I never once doubted God. I knew that He was able to bring everything to pass that He told me to do.

After hearing the voice telling me to leave Los Angeles on the 15th, I went to one of my neighbors and testified to her that the Lord had told me to leave for Africa on September 15. She looked at me with a smile. I asked her what she was smiling about. She said, "Because you have not got street car fare to go to Azusa Street Mission tonight, and talking about going to Africa." I told her I was trusting in a God that could bring all things to pass that He wanted us to do. He has really supplied all my needs in every way, for the work where He has called me.

I want to testify also about my husband. He was a backslider, and the devil tested me, saying: "You are going out to cast the devil out of others, and going to take a devil with you." My husband was not saved, but I held on to God and said, "Lord, I will obey."

I continued to testify and to make preparations to leave on the 15th. The Lord reclaimed my husband, sanctified him wholly, and put the glory and the shout in him. Now, it is my time to laugh. The devil has oppressed and mocked me; but praise the Lord, now I can mock him. Glory to God!

It is now ten minutes to four o'clock in the afternoon on the 15th day of September. I am all ready and down to the Mission with my ticket and everything prepared, waiting to have hands laid on and the prayers of the saints, and expect to leave at eight o'clock from the Santa Fe station en route for Africa. We expect to go to Mt. Coffee, Monrovia, Liberia.

Feeling the need of a real companion in the Gospel that was out and out for God, I prayed to God that He might give me one to go with me. I had my eyes upon one that I wanted to go, but in prayer and humility before God, I found out it was not the one the Lord wanted to go. I said, "Anyone, Lord, that you would have to go will be pleasing to me." To my surprise, He gave me my niece, a girl that I had raised from a child. Now she is nineteen years of age, is saved, sanctified and baptized with the Holy Spirit, and is going with me out into the work of the Lord. Therefore, instead of giving me one companion, He gave me two: my niece and my husband.

Our first stop will be Chattanooga, Tennessee, Harge Row. I want the prayers of the saints that I may stay humble.

Mrs. JW Hutchins; Mt. Coffee, Monrovia, Liberia, Africa

A GIRL'S CONSECRATION FOR AFRICA

I am saved, sanctified and baptized with the Holy Spirit and have the Bible evidence. The Lord showed me that the language I spoke was the language of Africa. My aunt, who has been the same as a mother to me, was going to Africa. I asked the Lord if He wanted me to go, to open a way for me, and the next morning He opened the way for me. I did not have the means and He gave me the fare and supplied all my needs. I am willing to trust Him through to Africa. I know the Lord wants me to go there. I want to testify to those people and teach the children about the blessed Lord, and to work for the Lord. I am willing to forsake all my loved ones for His sake. I want the saints to pray for me for I am young in the Lord.

Leila McKinney

THE ELDER BROTHER

" He was angry and would not go in" (Luke 15:28).

The prodigal son had returned amid great rejoicing to his father's house. There was music and dancing, and perhaps the whole neighborhood was stirred up and came out to see what was happening. "Joy shall be in heaven over one sinner that repenteth." When heaven rejoices, if we are connected up properly, we will catch the refrain and join in.

Father has certainly opened His house on Azusa Street for the return of the prodigals. They are coming in from the north, south, east and west. The fatted calf is daily being killed, and the fine new garments of praise and salvation are being handed out to the poor prodigals who are so lean and weary, and covered with filth and rags. Praise His name!

This causes great rejoicing among Father's servants and such scenes as the weeping prodigal, the Father's kiss of peace, the loving welcome, the whole household welcoming the prodigal, arraying him in the best robe and ring of authority, killing the fatted calf. Sweet strains of heavenly music are being repeated every day and often run far into the night. People that have been good, pious church members for years, and have been noted for their sobriety and level-headedness, are attracted by these things. If they are honest before God, they soon realize that Father is furnishing the music and singing, and supplying the wine of the feast. As the table is spread so freely, they take a small drink of the "new wine." Immediately their eyes begin to light up and heavenly illumination comes into their faces. The prodigal has entered justification, and sanctification, and the Baptism of the Holy Spirit. They have never seen it on this fashion before, but they find it all on the table and all from heaven so they are soon "filled with the Spirit" and begin to speak and sing with new tongues, as the Spirit gives utterance. Business cares are forgotten, while they enjoy the feast.

There was one discordant voice in the parable, as told by Jesus. It was the elder brother's. He is here also. The father called him "son," and he was "in the field." We do not read, however, that he was doing any work. It simply states that he was in the field. He may have worn a long-tailed coat and white necktie and walked around and gave orders. If he had been hard at work all day plowing with a deep plow, with his father's interests at heart, would he not have rejoiced with the household at his brother's return?

Yes, the elder brother is angry and will not come in to the feast. He sits on the fence and finds fault, saying that the "new tongues" and other gifts that Father is handing out to His children are of the devil. He says, "It is spiritualism, hypnotism, and the rankest kind of fanaticism." Father has gone out to him several times, and continues to entreat him to come in. He says that he has not worn gold nor costly array, neither has a feather been seen in his hat, "Lo, these many years," yet he has had no fatted calf killed for him. He does not drink tea, nor coffee, nor eat hog meat; neither does a necktie adorn his shirt. He has done many wonderful works, but here are the drunkard and harlot entering the kingdom before him. He does not understand it and has not recognized his brother as any kin to him. We are praying that he will soften his heart and come in before it is too late. In the meantime, the rejoicing goes on. Father hands out the clean, white raiment, and spreads a feast of fat things. The new wine of the kingdom never runs out, and peace, joy, and heavenly music are flowing like a river, until the sound is heard over the whole land.

TESTIMONY AND PROPHECY

[The following was written down from the lips of a sister, who is unlearned and works and washing and ironing for a living. Sue received the gift of prophecy ten years ago, and though she is not learned in books or affairs of the world, she has been foretelling great events, and her prophecy accord with the Scriptures.]

Years ago there was a Jew holding meetings in Pasadena, and he invited them to come up and receive the Holy Spirit. I had a little baby in my arms and could not get to the altar, but knelt in the aisle. I did not get anything, but I went home and washed my baby and put him to bed, and got down on my knees and said, "Dear Lord, please give me the Holy Spirit, if there is such a thing as the Holy Spirit. Give me what you would like for me to have." that night He called me and anointed me with the Holy Spirit. It was just like an outpouring rain from heaven, and the next day it seemed I was nothing but a feather walking around. He told me I should see, hear and know the wonderful things that should happen, before they occurred.

He told me the Japanese would win against the Russians, and showed me these things before a gun was fired. He said, "The Japanese will win, because the Russians started the war, and they shall die in their own blood and stampede one another." He said, "They wanted blood and they shall have blood to their heart's content."

LABOR AGAINST CAPITAL

The Lord says. "The time is coming when the poor will be oppressed and the Christians can neither buy nor sell, unless they have 'the mark of the beast.'" Then He says: "The time will come when the poor man will say that he has nothing to eat and work will be shut down. The rich man will go and buy up all the sugar, tea, coffee, etc., and hold it in his store, and we cannot get it unless we have the mark of the beast."

"That is going to cause the poor man to go to these places and break in to get food. This will cause the rich man to come out with his gun to make war with the laboring man. They will cause blood to be spilt in the street as it never was before." I saw the blood ankle deep, and they were holding to the horse's bridles with the right hand and cutting and slashing right and left with their swords. The Lord said the blood would be in the streets like an outpouring rain from heaven. He says all these unions are bringing the sword to their own head, to cut their own heads off (I had never heard of unions before the Lord showed me this and I asked my husband what 'labor against capital' meant).

Then He said to me again: "The time is coming when men are going to get desperate and will go into the banks even at noon-time and hew men down, and take out the silver and gold and walk on with it. They will rob the banks in open daytime."

The Lord said the time was coming when men would not regard a man's life any more than that of a dog. Then He says again that there is going to be a war as there never was before. Four nations from the four corners of the earth are coming together for battle, and it is going to be one of the worst wars that ever was in history.

The Lord says: "The time will come when the rich man will bury his silver and gold and return to it no more, and he will floods and pestilence and earthquakes shall weep and howl and his misery shall be great."

EARTHQUAKES

The Lord says that earthquakes will come as they never have before and more often, because of the wickedness of the people. He wants His people to get ready. The only way He can get you ready is to bring disaster. If you do not repent, great many of you will be lost. Not only are earthquakes coming, but death and destruction everywhere. Every day you hear of these things, you are walking into it with your eyes open, and death is overlooking you on the cars and railroads, and in floods and storms.

The Lord says there will be more destruction than there ever has been, because you will not serve God. You will not give God your hearts. He brings these things upon the earth, that you might repent and be drawn nearer to Him. He says wars and floods and pestilence and earthquakes shall come upon us. We must prepare ourselves for it.

The Lord showed me the earthquake in San Francisco just a year before the day it happened. He showed me an earthquake coming to Los Angeles. He showed an eagle flying over Los Angeles and lighting on the highest building, and as it lit, the building began to crumble. I asked the Lord what it meant, and He said, "The eagle means death and the crumbling is an earthquake. There will be a violent shock in the morning and one at night. There will be mangling and tangling with wires, and the street car rails will bend and twist, and the telegraph poles will come down." He showed the mangling of cars and people, and live wires setting fire to the buildings. I asked Him if this was coming to pass, to show it to me again and He showed it to me again. I saw a death angel flying over the city and fire falling on the city. The Lord showed me the land was going to sink and I saw water. Then five weeks after this earthquake, He said that Pasadena would be shaken, and many cities would be destroyed, and Chicago would be one of them.

I fasted two days and asked the Lord when it was coming, and He told me: "It will not come on Sunday," but He did not tell me when it would be. He says: "Be ready and look for it." I believe He will either save us or come and catch us up to heaven. The Lord said to me ten years ago: "If you are faithful, you shall never see death." I said, "Lord, when are you coming?" He said, "Be ready when I come, saith the Lord."

THE REVIVAL IN LOS ANGELES

The Lord showed me that since Brother Seymour came to Los Angeles, there have been more souls converted and sanctified than in all the city of Los Angeles during the last five years. He said there would be more, and they should be as thick as the leaves and twigs on a tree.

Mrs. Mary Galmond 1106 N. Marenge Avenue, Pasadena, CA

THE SECOND CHAPTER OF ACTS

A preacher's wife, who at first opposed Pentecostal truth, went home and read the second chapter of Acts, and while she read, the Spirit fell upon her and she began to speak in tongues. She is a member of the Nazarene church in Vernon. As she was on the way to the church, she met a brother whom she had been instrumental in leading to the Lord. He is a foreigner and as soon as she saw him, she began to pour out her soul in French. He was amazed.

"When did you learn French?"

"What did I say?" she asked.

"You said, "Get ready! Get ready! Jesus is coming soon!"

She went on up to the church, and as they were giving out the Sunday school leaflets she began to speak in tongues again and spoke for some time. They could only listen to this manifestation of the power of God.

AWFUL REALITIES OF HELL

The question is asked: "Do you believe in hell?"

Brother, it makes no difference what you or I believe that does not do away with God's Word. Hell exists in its awful reality, whether you believe it or not, and multitudes are plunging headlong into it. "The wicked shall be turned into hell, and all the nations that forget God" (Psalms 9:17).

Jesus believed in hell, and warned men to flee from it. Why are the pulpits so silent today? It is because we are in the latter day apostasy. Read the words of Jesus:

"The Son of man shall send forth His angels, and they shall gather out of His kingdom all things that offend, and them which do iniquity and shall cast them into a furnace of fire, there shall be wailing and gnashing of teeth" (Matthew 13:41-42).

"So shall it be in the end of the world, the angels shall come forth and sever the wicked from among the just, and shall cast them into the furnace of fire; there shall be wailing and gnashing of teeth" (Matthew 13:49-50).

"But Abraham said, Son, remember that thou in thy lifetime receivest thou good things, and likewise Lazarus evil things, but now he is comforted and thou art tormented" (Luke 16:25).

"But the fearful and unbelieving, and the abominable, and murderers, and whoremongers, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars, shall have their part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone which is the second death," or separation from God (Revelation 21:8).

" The devil that deceived them was cast into the lake of fire and brimstone where the beast and the false prophet are, and shall be tormented day and night forever and ever" (Revelation 20:10).

Beloved, these are the words of Jesus, and when He says "forever and ever" what could be more expressive of eternity?

PENTECOST IN DANVILLE, VIRGINIA

Dear Saints in Los Angeles: God be praised for His power and grace. We are making preparations to go to India as soon as possible. Three of us, with the baby, four in all, will go just as soon as possible, to be on the ocean in the right time.

When we came here from Los Angeles, we found the band to which we had preached while here before, most of them backslidden and fussing among themselves. When they saw that God had really done something wonderful for us, they all came in and began to seek the Lord. Most of them have been baptized with the Holy Spirit and have received the foreign tongue.

One young girl received the Baptism Friday night and she spoke in German. God sent us a German to interpret. He said he could understand everything perfectly. Sister Jennie Eans has also received the German language, and speaks it very fluently.

Sister Garr improves every day in her Tibetan and Chinese. Oh, how I praise God that He ever gave us this wonderful experience of the Baptism of the Holy Spirit.

The folks fall under the power of God, and a great time is on here. The church was packed twice yesterday and the altar was overflowing with seekers. One saved man was sanctified in the afternoon meeting and in the evening meeting received the Baptism of the Holy Spirit and spoke in tongues and magnified God.

A real revival has begun and three Holiness preacher boys have fallen in line. Two of them have received the Baptism and the tongues. The other one is seeking and says he will never stop until he receives it. A good many have received the tongues, we do not know how many.

The sick are being healed. Soon after we arrived, a woman sick with dropsy came to the meeting. She got out of bed to come; had been sick a long time. As she told us how glad she was to see us back in Danville and of her long sick spell, I said, "God will heal you," and took her hand. She immediately shouted that she was healed. I felt the healing power flow into her body. The next day she told us that her limbs were swollen, but that every bit of it was driven out at once. She walked down town and then told her neighbors about the wonderful things the Lord had done for her.

Several have been healed. But, best of all, many are getting the light, and as the Bible opens to us, they rejoice for the precious truths that have been hidden from us for so long by the "traditions of the elders." This is the greatest power I ever saw. Glory to God! I have wanted just this for years, but did not know how to get it. Hallelujah! After all, the great God opened my eyes and let me see the truth, and it liberated me from the bondage of ignorant teachings and the devil in general. I see the Bible now as never before.

Many are tied through fear. Some are afraid of their leaders, some of one another, some are so afraid of the third blessing that they are not quite sure of the second...and so it goes. The world speeds along its way to hell, while the so-called sanctified people are asleep or else arguing that they got it all when they were sanctified. The feebleness of the so-called sanctified is enough to convince any honest soul that they do not have the power. We rejoice daily that we are free from sectarianism. Hallelujah, that God ever showed us that there was a real witness to the Baptism. Why did we not see it sooner?

May God open the eyes of the world, and show the people that He is willing to give them what He gave the disciples on the day of Pentecost.

We are expecting God to give us a good revival in India. Pray for us.

AG Garr and Wife

SERMON FROM A DRESS

The Lord makes His truth so plain that a wayfaring man, though a fool, shall not err therein. You have all seen a dirty dress washed. You never saw a person take a dirty dress and iron it. You never saw them take a dress, wash, and iron it all at once. You never saw a person put on a dress and iron it. You never saw them take a dress, wash, and iron it all at once. You never saw a person put on a dress and iron it.

The dirty dress represents a person in sin. Your righteousness is filthy rags. "Though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow." When you get the dress washed, that represents a justified experience. When the dress is washed and on the line, you rejoice because the washing is through.

The clothes need nothing else before they are ready to wear. What do they need? Why, they need to be ironed. You would be ashamed to take the clothes off the line and wear them without ironing. Jesus would be ashamed to present you before the Father if you were not sanctified, but when you are sanctified, He is not ashamed to call you brethren. Christ gave Himself for His church that He might wash it and present it without spot or wrinkle. We must let Him iron out all the wrinkles.

What is next? You take an ironed garment and there is something lacking yet. What is it? Why you need to put it on and wear it. That is no work. The work was done when you washed and ironed it. Therefore, the Holy Spirit is a gift. It is the promise of the Father to the soul that is sanctified. You do not have to repent to get the Holy Spirit, but you must be washed clean and whiter than snow. Now you have nothing to mourn over, but something to rejoice over. You can know you are baptized. The Holy Spirit will cut your tongue loose and let you praise Him in an unknown language. God will not iron a dirty piece. He will take out the spots and then the wrinkles, and after these two weeks, He will baptize you with His gift, the Holy Spirit.

Ophelia Wiley

MARKS OF FANATICISM

Fanatics are marked by harshness towards those who do not fall in line with them, and Jesus is not held up. Eventually the fruits of the flesh appear in a lack of holy living.

We note these things because some honest souls have feared that this Pentecostal movement was fanaticism. We mark some of the features of the meetings that are the opposite of fanaticism. Divine love to all, especially to the church, the body of Christ, of which every justified soul is a member. Humility: This is a humble work in a humble place and we are glad that it is. We humble ourselves under the mighty hand of God and constantly search the scriptures to know His whole will and plan. Holy lives: these people are living holy lives, separate from the world, the flesh and the devil, and rescuing other souls to a life of purity and holiness. There is a Holy Spirit shine on the faces of the workers. Is this the work of the devil? Friends, if you profess to know the Spirit of God and do not recognize Him when He comes, there is cause for you to be anxious about you own spiritual condition.

WHEN THE HOLY SPIRIT SPEAKS

Brother HM Allen, 3081 E. 6TH Street Los Angeles, who received the gift of tongues, says he wrote down the sounds phonetically and took the standard works on languages and found out what it meant. He says: "I find everything the Holy Spirit speaks to me in the unknown tongues is of profound report. He has not given me liberty to tell all He has shown me in unknown tongues, but they are the most important things that can possibly take our attention, things that are speedily coming on the whole earth. God performed a miracle in speaking to me in unknown tongues. I have taken the dictionary of languages and found out that it was true. It may sound foolish to you to hear people speaking in unknown tongues, but if He speaks only two words they are well worth listening to."

A KNOW-SO SALVATION

If God for Christ's sake has forgiven you your sins, you know it. If you do not know it better than you know anything in this world, you are still in your sins. When you go down in the atonement, in the sacrifice of our Lord Jesus Christ, you are accepted. If you are accepted, and He has given you a clean heart and sanctified your soul, you know it. If you do not know it, the work is not done.

If you are baptized with the Holy Spirit, you know it, and everybody else knows it. You cannot hide that one thing. When you are sanctified, people have to take your testimony and watch your life, but when He comes and covers you over and around and about, people know it. Man may say, it is of the devil and they are drunk, but glory to God, He will shine out Himself, and there is a power back of you that men and women cannot gainsay. It will give you holy boldness to stand up before the world without fear.

SHALL WE REJECT JESUS' LAST WORDS?

Many of the dear Holiness people are rejecting the last words of Jesus in the last chapter of Mark, beginning at the fifteenth verse:

"He said unto them, 'Go ye into all the world and preach the Gospel to every creature. He that believeth and is baptized shall be saved; but he that believeth not shall be damned. These signs shall follow them that believe; in my name shall they cast out devils; they shall speak with new tongues; they shall take up serpents and if they drink any deadly thing, it shall not hurt them; they shall lay hands on the sick and they shall recover.'"

Why do they reject these verses? The reason is that Dr. Godbey, in his commentary and translation, has left them out. Why did he leave them out? Because they were not in the Sianitic manuscript from which he translates. It was a manuscript found in later years in a mission on Mount Sinai. The man, who found the manuscript, a German by the name of Tischendorf, said that some sheets of it had already been thrown into a receptacle for kindling wood. In this or some other way, a part may have been lost from that manuscript.

However this may be, we feel sure that these are the words of Jesus. The writer herself, being a great admirer of Brother Godbey, was for some time influenced by his views concerning the last words of our Lord as given above. Since being in these Holy Spirit meetings, and hearing these same words given repeatedly by the Spirit in unknown tongues and interpreted, all doubt has been swept away concerning them. Besides, they are proved true before our eyes. We have thrown all doubts to the winds and taken to our hearts the whole word of Jesus. Dear friends, do not let any man riddle your Bible for you or cut out any part of it. You need the whole. Hallelujah for the Word!

PRAYING FOR THE HOLY SPIRIT

We are now hearing from individuals, and companies who are definitely waiting on God for their personal Pentecost. Some have been stimulated in seeking by hearing of God's visitation in Los Angeles. We join hands with all such hungry seekers and meet you at the throne. Some are expecting to come this way. We expect the Lord to speedily prepare such to go out into the field. Calls are coming from every direction for workers who are filled with the Spirit and have the Bible evidence. We are expecting the Lord to send out workers all over the country carrying this Gospel.

Before another issue of this paper, we look for Brother Parham in Los Angeles, a brother who is full of divine love and whom the Lord raised up five years ago to spread this truth. He, with other workers, will hold union revival meetings in Los Angeles and then expects to go on to other towns and cities, and will appoint workers to fill the calls that shall come in. So, begin to pray right away for a revival in your neighborhood or town or city. Perhaps you need one in your own closet or at your family altar first. Nevertheless, expect great things from God. Begin to prepare for a revival and a great and deep revival, too, and believe for it. It may cost you money and it may cost you humbling processes, but prepare for the Lord's coming.

LETTER FROM BRO. JOHNSON

New York City, August, 31st

Peace be unto you. I am, God willing, going to leave New York in a few days for Palestine and Jerusalem. I am going via Gibraltar, Spain. God is working mightily. I would like to say good-bye to you before I leave this land; it may be never to return in this life.

I have been working for my Master all the way along, and God's hand is with me. He has saved a few and many have been blessed. Some have received the Holy Spirit. I give all glory to God for it. Please pray for me. I would like God to send me a brother to help me in Palestine. I am still hungry for more of Jesus. He is so good to me. The Lord has been giving me more freedom and power than I ever had before. I now speak eleven or twelve languages.

Sweet peace and love is in my heart toward every man. Pray that God will keep me humble. I want to use the gifts to the glory of God. Tell Brother Seymour that I am one with him and all the other saints in Los Angeles. I love my dear Brother Seymour so much. He has been a good help to me. May God bless him in his work.

My love is sent to all the saints. I want the whole assembly to pray for me that God may have His whole way with me in this life. My heart goes out for the Jews and every lost soul in this world. God is my refuge and He will never leave me nor forsake me.

Andrew Johnson

Address Care of Soldiers' and Sailors' Home, Gibraltar, Spain.

Sister Florence Crawford says: "There is no spot on earth so dear to me as this place, but I must go out and tell this story. Souls are perishing far and near. The Lord told me yesterday to go into the entire world and preach His Gospel. 'The kingdom of heaven is at hand,' and 'Behold, I come quickly. What He says to me, He says to every baptized soul. He wants us to go out into the highways and hedges and declare this Gospel. He has anointed me to tell the story of Jesus and I can go alone for Jesus is with me. Oh, glory to God!"

PENTECOSTAL SCENES

At Brunner, Texas, in August, the Apostolic Faith people held a wonderful meeting. Fifty, seventy-five, and one hundred seekers at a service crowded the altars for two whole weeks. The sixty-foot altar was doubled half way back, then trebled, until the whole front half of the Tabernacle was occupied with the great altar service. Think of one hundred seekers and twice as many faithful Christians assisting, all praying before God. Glory to His great name! Then see them rise with shining faces and Pentecostal power.

CAME THREE HUNDRED MILES

Some have come long distances to see the Pentecost in Los Angeles. An Armenian brother, who came three hundred miles, said, "I am like the queen of Sheba who went to see the wisdom of Solomon, only when I heard about these meetings, I did not come so far, I came only 300 miles to see if this was true. Now I am well satisfied that I see the wonderful works of God. If the people who have only a few drops from God are crazy, what will happen when the shower comes? The shower follows the drops."

UNITED TO JESUS

Jesus says, "Take My yoke upon you and learn of Me." The Lord showed me that this yoke was the covenant of the New Testament in His Blood, and we put the yoke on when we are baptized with the Holy Spirit. This covenant is a marriage covenant. We are married, not for one day, year, or life, but eternally married. When I got married to my wife, it was settled for this life. So, when I got married to Jesus Christ, it was settled forever. Hallelujah! Jesus and I are united. He baptized me with love.

THE WORK IN VIRGINIA

907 Glasken Street, Portsmouth, VA

We had a glorious meeting last night. It was the sixth night and we have six speaking in tongues. It is wonderful to see how the Lord is working with His believing children, but there is much to be done here. There is a band of saints that do not read the Bible, as saints should. They say the Bible is for unbelievers so they do not read it at all. Oh, for some one to help. Won't you come and help if you can, and as soon as you can?

God is making a short work in the earth today. He is soon coming to earth again. He said we should not get over the cities until the Son of Man should come, so we have not much time to lose. Remember me to all of the saints. Tell them to pray for me much. I can't write to all, so you remember me to all as one. Ask them to pray for the work in Virginia. It is much needed. I don't know how long the Lord is going to keep me here. There is so much to be done.

I did not come through Danville, but I am going there as soon as I can get off from this place. I came through New Orleans and changed cars there, and laid hands on two sick and sowed seed on the way from Houston here.

-Lucy Farrow

A later report is that twenty have received the Baptism of the Holy Spirit in Portsmouth.

CHINESE WANT THE GOSPEL OF THE BIBLE

A dear friend went to China as a surgical missionary, preaching the Gospel and cutting up people. She has been in China eight years and only has a little of the language (Cannot God, who confounded the people at the tower of Babel, and caused all nations at Jerusalem to hear in their own tongue, give a language?) She writes that the Chinese are smart people, and some of them had been reading the Bible and came to her with the open Book, saying, "When you do what your God tells you, then we will believe in your God. Here He says, 'These signs shall follow them that believe: they shall lay hands on the sick and they shall recover,' and here you come with your knives cutting us up, and with your pill bags. Why don't you do what your God tells you to do?" What do these things mean? They mean that if we go as representatives of our Lord, we must go with the equipment He gives. The heathen want the whole Gospel.

LITTLE CHILDREN RECEIVE THE HOLY SPIRIT

A number of children have been baptized with the Holy Spirit. A sister at Hermon has been holding a children's meeting daily and three have been baptized with the Holy Spirit. One Sunday night, also at Azusa Street Mission, three little girls, all sisters, were baptized with the Holy Spirit. Each of them spoke in tongues, and different languages. It was touching to see how they went to praying for others at the altar. They had to leave with their mother for Canada and expect to cross the ocean from there. However, before they left, the Lord gave them their Pentecost. A number of children have been clearly saved and sanctified in the Sunday afternoon children's meeting, led by the boy preacher, Clayborn, on Sunday afternoon and some have received the gift of the Holy Spirit, and God is using their testimonies.

Apostolic power will mean apostolic persecution. Hell with all its power will be turned lose. It behooves us to get a spiritual backbone, spiritual stamina and perseverance that will enable us to stand in these last days against all the forces of the enemy. Jesus came to destroy all the works of the devil, and He said He would give us power, the Holy Spirit coming upon us, the same power that He had.

THE POLISHING PROCESS

Several years ago, when I was very hungry, seeking God in all His fullness, I shut myself away in my closet one day, and the Lord gave me a wonderful revelation. As I was kneeling before my Maker, beseeching Him to show me all He expected me to be, right before my eyes I saw this wonderful vision. There appeared a man with a large, long, knotty, but straight log. The man had an axe. Did you ever see anybody score timber? He was scoring the log, and it seemed to me that the axe went clear to the bit. Every time he scored, it hurt me. He scored it on four sides and then took the broad axe and whacked off the knots. Then he took a line and with an adz, he made it smooth. Then he raised it in the air and taking a great plane, turned to me and said, "This is the plane of the Holy Spirit." He ran the plane up and down, until I could see the image of the man perfectly reflected in the face of the log, as in a mirror. He did this to all four sides. Then turning to me, he said, "Thou art all fair, my love; there is no spot in thee."

That is what God wants to do with us. He wants to take all the bumps, all the barnacles off. We have only begun to lay ourselves on the anvil of God's truth. The hammer is being applied to us. He may have to throw us back in the smelter several times. Let us stay in the fire until there is no more dross in us. Sometimes we think God has done all He needs to do; but something comes up that we do not like, and the old man can get up and hobble off on a good shin.

Several weeks ago, I thought surely the last stroke is put in, and now I am dead to the world. However, it was not very long until I found out there was a little self there. I was holding a meeting in a little village. We had to move a kitchen stove, and there was no way but for me to get on top of that cook stove and ride behind an old mule team, and I found Sister Hall had a little life in her yet. Thank God, I am dead to that thing now.

Let us stay on the anvil of God, until we reflect the image of the Master. There is a place where God Almighty will say: "Thou art all fair, my love, there is no spot in thee."

-Mrs. Anna Hall

A MESSAGE CONCERNING HIS COMING

A young sister, Miss Lillian Keyes, daughter of Dr. Keyes, of this city, speaks and singe in tongues as the Spirit gives utterance. She also interprets, and Sister SK Mead corroborated the following interpretation, twenty years a missionary in Africa. Sister Mead arose and said that the language spoken was their dialect in Africa, a beautiful language, but one that is very difficult for English-speaking people to acquire, but the Holy Spirit, through the young woman, had given the perfect accent. The message interpreted was as follows:

"Jesus is coming again,

Coming again so soon,

We shall meet Him then.

"Prepare your hearts now, for the Lord is coming soon, and ye know not the hour. If you are not prepared, you will not go with Jesus. He sees each heart, and wants to prepare them for His coming. Seek Him now, for some day it will be too late.

"The Lord says: 'I will bless all those that seek me with all their hearts, for God is no respecter of persons. The Love of God is so great.' He says. 'Come unto me; come unto me, and I will give you rest. I will baptize you with the Holy Spirit and with fire, and all those that seek me diligently.'

"O, Jesus is such a wonderful Savior. He is coming soon and all must have their hearts ready. Oh, Jesus is so sweet. He says: 'Watch and be ready when I come.' Oh, He is coming so soon."

Our sister also speaks two Chinese dialects. She speaks to the Chinese as she passes them on the street, or as they come to the house, and they listen in astonishment and say she is telling them about God.

ONE CHURCH

At a recent church trial, a brother made the remark that he little thought when he was seeking more of God it would mean for being turned out of the Holiness church. This brings to mind the old woman that was turned out of the church, and as she walked down the hill, she said, "Yonder is the meeting house, here goes the church."

They may turn you out of church houses and organizations of men, but not out of the one church. Thank God, that church book is kept in heaven. Jesus said, "Rejoice that your names are written in heaven."

One of the Holiness leaders said that the church had always taught sanctification as the Baptism of the Holy Spirit, and they could not afford to give it up. Besides, he would have to burn his books and sermons. Brother, on that great Day of Judgment, how much will those books and sermons weigh as compared to God's word?

At first the Holiness leaders approved of the work at the Mission, but at their campmeeting, they decided against the Pentecostal baptism as distinct from sanctification, and the speaking in tongues. These were ruled out and not to be mentioned on the campground. What might not that meeting have been, if they had let the Holy Spirit have right of way? Eternity alone will reveal the great loss to souls through leaders who would not let the hungry sheep enter into this blessed life of power and the Holy Spirit.

"THIS SAME JESUS"

When the Holy Spirit fell on the one hundred and twenty, it was in the morning of the dispensation of the Holy Spirit. Today we are living down in the evening of the dispensation of the Holy Spirit. As it was in the morning, so it shall be in the evening. This is the last evangelistic call of the day. As John the Baptist was the voice of one crying in the wilderness: "Prepare ye the way of the Lord," so the voice of warning is going out through the land today to prepare the world for the second coming of the Lord Jesus Christ. The angels said to His disciples as He was received up into Heaven, and they stood steadfastly gazing upward: "This same Jesus that was taken up from you into Heaven shall so come in like manner as ye have seen Him go into Heaven." This same Jesus is coming back again to sit in the kingdom of His Father. This same Jesus is the one that wore the crown of thorns and was lifted up between heaven and earth. The same Jesus that hung over yonder on Calvary, and now sits at the right hand of God the Father, is coming back to earth. Is not that enough to ravish your souls, dear ones?

BACK TO PENTECOST

What mean these salaried preachers over the land that will not preach unless they get so much salary? People have wandered from the old landmarks. The priests had no land of their own. They were to live on the tithes and offerings. The ministers of today have wandered from the old landmarks; therefore, they are seeking salary over the land. Get back. You have no time to lose. We must all be up and doing something for perishing souls around us. Do you want to be blessed? Do you want the approbation of God? Be a servant to humanity. The loaves and fishes did not multiply in the hands of our blessed Redeemer until He began to give out to the hungry.

God does not need a great theological preacher that can give nothing but theological chips and shavings to people. He can pick up a worm and thrash a mountain. He takes the weak things to confound the mighty. He is picking up pebble stones from the street and polishing them for His work. He is using even the children to preach His Gospel. A young sister, fourteen years old, was saved, sanctified and baptized with the Holy Spirit and went out, taking a band of workers with her, and led a revival in which one hundred and ninety souls were saved. Salaried ministers that are rejecting the Gospel will have to go out of business. He is sending out those who will go without money and without price. Glory to God for this Apostolic day.

VICTORY

Thank God for the means with which to get out this second number of the Apostolic Faith. This large issue is paid for in answer to prayer. The last issue of 5,000 was sent all over the United States and the world and was soon exhausted, so that we had to refuse a good many requests for papers. This time we publish 10,000. We could have used several thousand more last time, to good advantage. We do not find it at all necessary to advertise the paper, because the news of the work has gone everywhere already. The people are rejoicing to hear of this wonderful outpouring of old time Gospel salvation. No wonder, they are starving on theological shavings. Never mind what the preaching say or anyone else, go in for Pentecostal salvation.

"ASK WHAT YE WILL"

Sister M. Eila Judy, a teacher in the Blind School of Columbus, Ohio, came to Los Angeles for her summer vacation. She dropped in the Azusa Street Mission soon after her arrival, and felt that God was there. She had been a great sufferer from insomnia and other troubles and was a very hungry soul. In the past, she had felt that the Lord gave her the promise that she should be one of His Bride. He had said to her. "Ask what ye will," and she had answered: "thy will be done." Then what joy it was for Him to choose so great a gift for her. Afterward her faith failed, but God was true.

About an hour before the train left Los Angeles, on which she was to go, the Lord, in the little upper room at the mission, graciously baptized her with the Holy Spirit and gave her the Bible evidence. She could not speak the English language for some time. It was taken away and she spoke the language of the Spirit, pointing those about her to Jesus. It was a heavenly spot. Our sister was sealed as one of the bride and she was very happy. We expect to see her back in Los Angeles. The Lord has called her to His work. He has used her in winning souls in the past, and now that she has the Pentecostal enduement, we expect her to be much more used of the Lord.

The Lord put His seal of approval up in the departing of the missionaries for Africa, September 15. For about two hours at the depot, the saints sang, while some wept and rejoiced in the Spirit, and some danced before the Lord. While Sister Wiley was preaching the Gospel to the crowd, one of the officials, being angry, tried to break up the meeting, but the saints began to pray, and were allowed to continue undisturbed for some time, till a brother began to speak in tongues. This seemed to stir the devil and Brother Lee was put out into the street that resulted in a meeting there. God has wonderfully supplied the means to send the missionaries.

We are not fighting men or churches, but seeking to displace dead forms and creeds and wild fanaticism with living, practical Christianity. "Love, Faith, Unity' are our watchwords, and "Victory through the Atoning Blood" our battle cry. God's promises are true. He said, "Be thou faithful over a few things, and I will make thee ruler over many." From the little handful of Christians who stood by the Cross when the testing and discouragement came, God has raised a mighty host.

Seeking Healing -He must believe that God is able to heal. -Exodus 15:26: "I am the Lord that heals thee." James 5:14; Psalms 103:3, 2 Kings 20:5; Matthew 8:16-17; Mark 16: 16-18

He must believe God is able to heal. "Behold I am the Lord, the God of all flesh; is there any thing too hard for Me?"-Jeremiah 32:27.

NOTICE

The Lord sends us to preach the Gospel, but not to beg. Anyone soliciting money does not represent the Apostolic Faith, as it is carried on by free-will offerings. Jesus commanded them to give the Gospel freely. "Freely ye have received, freely give."

Nothing less than the whole Gospel of Jesus Christ will suffice in these last days.

We are not divine healers any more than we are divine saviors. Healing is done through the Almighty God.

A woman in San Pedro was very sick, suffering such great agony that she was unconscious and her body rigid. She was almost insane. The saints were called to pray for her, and as one laid her hand upon her she was immediately healed, arose, and cooked dinner that day.

Sister E. Thomas came for the healing of her wrist that had been sprained and the bones so out of place that it was stiff and very painful. As prayer was offered, you could see the Lord working in the wrist, arranging the bones, etc. that were out of place and He did a perfect work, putting the wrist into shape so that she could bend it without pain.

Two dear sisters that we have known years ago, Mrs. May J. Sharps and Mrs. Roba Schoepf, hearing of these meetings through reading the Apostolic Faith, came from Orange county, and before they returned they both received the Holy Spirit and Bible evidence. The Lord is certainly blessing this little paper to many hungry souls.

Sister Lucy M. Leatherman writes from 692 Eighth Avenue, New York city: "Praise God for the gift of the Holy Spirit, the third person in the trinity." We have been receiving letters from those who have been much blessed and have been led into the Pentecost through our sister and the rest of the Palestine Missionary band.

Jesus said, "If a man abide not in me, he is cast forth as a branch and is withered." Now, if you cut off a withered branch, you will find, perhaps, a worm has killed it. When a Christian goes into sin, he is withered and is no longer a branch of Christ. Then the fist thing you know, he is bearing the fruits of the flesh. As soon as the fruits of the flesh appear, everybody knows you are a sinner.

Brother GW Batman and wife are saved, sanctified and baptized with the Holy Spirit and have the gift of languages. They are all packed up for Monrovia, Liberia, Africa. They have three little children, but are willing to trust the Lord. They have had a call to that land for years. Brother Batman said God gave him a vision of a town on the West Coast of Africa, and said he should go there. Brother Meade, a missionary who has been there, said it was a perfect description.

Praise God for a salvation that brings a witness. God gives us a witness that we are justified, the Spirit witnesses that we are sanctified and when we receive the Holy Spirit, He witnesses through us, as recorded in Acts 2:4, the speaking in other tongues. Jesus had a witness for everything. When He was born, the angels sang on Bethlehem's plain, when He was baptized with the Holy Spirit. He had the witness of the heavenly dove and the voice from Heaven, when He arose from the dead, the angels witnessed at the tomb, and when He ascended, the angels witnessed that He would come again. Why not have the Bible witness, a supernatural witness that people will not have to take your word for?

Evangelist Daniel Awrey heard of this Pentecostal revival while in Dudleyville, Arizona, and was led of the Lord to come. He says that about fifteen years ago, when he received the Baptism of the Holy Spirit, he saw a flame of fire come down on his head and the Lord took control of his tongue, making him pray in another language. He did not realize the significance of the new tongue at that time. He is now looking for God to restore it, as He sends him back to hungry souls.

A man who had been using tobacco for twenty-five years was seeking at the altar to have the appetite taken away. He had a plug of tobacco in his pocket. He took it out and gave it to one of the altar workers. Immediately the Lord began to bless his soul, and he got victory over his old enemy. He could get no help until he cleaned up his pockets. Many seekers have some hidden shelf behind the door that needs cleaning out of its idols.

A man said to me: "I would be afraid to get down at the altar and seek the wonderful power that you tell about, the devil might give me something." What! Do you think when I get down covered with the blood of Jesus, and seek Him to baptize me with the Holy Spirit that He is going to give me a serpent? "If a son shall ask bread of any of you that is a father, will he give him a stone, or if he ask a fish will he for a fish give him a serpent? How much more shall your Heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to them that ask Him" (Luke 11:11).

Christians are sleeping in their pews in the churches and hireling preachers are sleeping in their pulpits. We have to have something to wake people up. The tongues are like a bell, ringing the people up. They are waking up to the fact that God is in the land. The priest used to wear bells in the temple, so that the people could know he was alive. If they ceased to ring, they knew he was dead. As long as the Holy Spirit is in us, He will continue to ring out Jesus.

THE WAY INTO THE HOLIEST

A sinner comes to the Lord all wrapped up in sin and darkness. He cannot make any consecration because he is dead. The life has to be put into us before we can present any life to the Lord. Faith must justify him. There is a Lamb without spot and blemish slain before God for him. When he repents toward God for his sins, the Lord has mercy on him for Christ's sake, and put eternal life in his soul, pardoning him of his sins, washing away his guilty pollution, and he stands before God justified as if he had never sinned.

Then there remains that old original sin in him for which he is not responsible until he has the light. He hears that "Jesus, that He might sanctify the people with His own blood, suffered without the gate," and he comes to be sanctified. There is Jesus, the Lamb without blemish, on the altar. Jesus takes that soul that has eternal life in it and presents it to God for thorough purging and cleansing from all original and Adamic sin. Jesus, the Son of God, cleanses him from all sin, and he is made every whit whole, sanctified and holy.

Now he is on the altar ready for the fire of God to fall that is the Baptism of the Holy Spirit. It is a gift upon the sanctified, cleansed heart. The fire remains there continually burning in the Holiness of God. Why? Because he is sanctified and holy and on the altar continually. He stays there and the great shekinah of glory is continually burning and filling with heavenly light.

WJ Seymour

SPREADS THE FIRE

Brother William Pendleton and thirty-five of his members were turned out of the Holiness church and their church doors closed on them. They were then invited by Brother Bartleman and other workers to occupy the church at Eighth street and Maple avenue that had just been opened up for Pentecostal work. God has been using them as never before. When some of the saints were rejected from the Nazarene church at Elysian Heights on account of the Baptism of the Holy Spirit and evidence of tongues, they opened cottage prayer meetings where hungry souls flocked, and in both of the above named places meetings sometimes go on all night. Souls are coming through into Bible experiences. We can do nothing against the truth but for the truth.

Truth crushed to earth will rise again.

The eternal years of God are hers;

But error wounded writhes in pain,

Dies among its worshipers.

In California, where there has been no unity among churches, they are becoming one against this Pentecostal movement. However, thank God, the source is from the skies and cannot be cut off from below. The dear church people know not what they do. Many of them are hungry and coming and saying: "This is just what I have been longing for years." God is drawing His people together and making them one. No new church or division of the body of Christ is being formed. Christ never had but one church. We may be turned out of the big wood and brick structures, but "By one Spirit are ye all baptized into one body."

BROTHER PENDELTON'S TESTIMONY

When my place of worship was taken away from me, I said, "Lord, I trusted you once and you gave me a better place." Praise God, He gave me the best place I ever had in my life. He gave me more people to listen to the Gospel than I ever had before. God will never allow things taken from us but He will give us better than ever before. There is not a veil or shadow between heaven and my soul today. I am getting more from God than ever in my life. My prospects of heaven are getting stronger and stronger. There is no life that gives a man an assurance of heaven as life in the Baptism of the Holy Spirit and fire. God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit can use these members to His own glory.

SPANISH RECEIVE THE PENTECOST

[There are a good many Spanish speaking people in Los Angeles. The Lord has been giving the language, and now a Spanish preacher, who, with his wife, are preaching the Gospel in open-air meetings on the Plaza have received their Pentecost. They are very happy, and God is using them. The following is their testimony and the translation.]

Los Angeles, CA, September 14

Soy testigo de el poder del Espiritu Santo, en perdon, en sanctificacion, y bantismo en fuego. Acts 1:8; Mark 16, 17, 18. Doy gracias a Dios por esta combicsion y poder. Recibibo de Dios comforme a sus promesas el os giara. John 16:13-14. Gracias a Dios por la ordenacion de ir a la Calle de Azusa a la Mission Apostolic Faith. Old time religion Ho y mi Ezpoza el dia, 29th of May 1906.

Por sanctificacion en verdad y gracias a Dios por la dadiba del baptismo del Eptu Santo en fuego, 5th de Junc. 1906. No podemos expresar en nuestros corazones dia tras dia y momento tras momento usandonos el Sr como instrumentos para la salvacion y sanidad de almas y de cuerpos y de cuerpos tomos tes tizo de estas permosas marabillas y miligros, en el Espiritu Santo y son promesas para cada uno de los que a Dios, se lleguen por medio del Sr. J. Cristo, San John 7:37:39; Revelation 22:17; Acts 2:37:39; James 1:5-7. Due Dios os Vendiga a todos. Acts 10, 34, 35; I John 1:1-3; Revelation 1:6, 7.

Abundio L. Lopez and Wife, Rosa de Lopez.

The translation of the above into English is as follows:

We testify to the power of the Holy Spirit in forgiveness, sanctification, and the Baptism of the Holy Spirit and fire. We give thanks to God for the wonderful gift that we have received from Him, according to the promise. Thanks be to God for the Spirit who brought us to the Azusa Street Mission, the Apostolic Faith, old-time religion, my wife, and I on May 29. I came for sanctification, and thank God also for the Baptism of the Holy Spirit and fire that I received on June 5, 1905. We cannot express the gratitude and thanksgiving that we feel moment by moment for what He has done for us, so we want to be used for the salvation and healing of both soul and body. I am a witness of His wonderful promise and marvelous miracles by the Holy Spirit, by faith in the Lord Jesus Christ. May God bless you all.

MISSIONARIES' FAREWELL

New York City

"Grace, mercy and peace be multiplied to you." How wonderfully God has blessed us all the way. Praise His dear name! Hungry souls have flocked to the altar at every service and many have spoken in the tongues. Bless God. How I praise God for leading me to Azusa Street mission and the Baptism of the Holy Spirit and a new tongue He gave me. What a blessed privilege to lift up Jesus to a lost world.

Mrs. Rushnell, an old friend about sixty years old, is with me, and is going to Jerusalem with me. We shall sail, God willing, September 15. I praise God we can meet every day at the throne of grace.

Pray for the peace of Jerusalem. Pray for the dear Jews, and ask all of the dear saints there to pray also.

Asking God to bless and use you more and more for His glory.

Till Jesus comes,

Louisa M. Condit

Jerusalem, Austrian Post; Palestine

STREET MEETINGS

We have been holding our street meetings in front of a saloon at the corner of San Pedro and Second streets. The devil tried at first to drive us away by throwing a lot of water there and heaping it about to make the ground muddy. The workers went on, mud or no mud, and received a wonderful blessing, standing and kneeling in the mud. The Lord has been in the meetings in great power. Street meetings in Pasadena and Whittier have been held also with victory.

HALLELUJAH FOR THE PROSPECT

What do such congregations as this mean here and there over the world? Jesus is coming back to take His bride. How long is it going to take? The way this wonderful power is spreading over the world today, not very long. We are looking for God to separate a company of men and women from Los Angeles that will carry this Gospel over the whole world, people that are willing to forsake all and carry the Gospel. We are only in the ABCs of this wonderful power of God that is to sweep over the world. We have only gotten the soles of our feet wet in the power of God that is to be manifest in these last days.

TO OUR CORRESPONDENTS

We thank you dear brothers and sisters, for your letters of appreciation of the paper, showing that God has made it a blessing. They more than pay us for all the labor of publishing the paper. We thank you for the lists of names you have sent and the offerings that enable us to send the papers to other hungry souls.

Your requests for prayer for healing and salvation and the Baptism of the Holy Spirit are presented before the assembly of God's children. We cannot set dates for prayers, so look up and expect the blessing from heaven at any time. Requests are presented as soon as possible. We shall be glad to hear what the Lord is doing for you. If you do not get the answer right away, perhaps there is something on your part that needs to be gotten out of the way. Let the Spirit search your heart and life.

Send in your lists of addresses for the paper. If there are some that want the paper sent regularly, please let us know and we will put your names on the permanent lists. To the others, we will simply send one or two copies until we hear from them.

We have not time to write to all, so we will let the paper do for a letter. It will be issued as often as the Lord provides the means and will always be paid for before it comes out.

We thank the Lord for this blessed way of publishing the paper, trusting Him for the means. It is a restful way and saves much time. It also enables us to send it everywhere. We pray God to bless its messages to the readers. Most of these messages have been taken down in shorthand in meetings of great power messages that are inspired by the Holy Spirit. To God be all the glory.

HONOR THE HOLY SPIRIT

Let me warn you, dear ones, as a mother in Israel, Don't try to prune one another, Jesus says: "I am the vine and my Father is the husbandman. Every branch in me that beareth not fruit, he purgeth it." Let Him do the pruning and purging. If you see a brother or sister doing anything you do not approve of, instead of blazing it abroad, get down on your knees and say: "My Father, I honor you to bring them out of this fault." Multitudes and great bodies of Christians have gone to the wall for that very same thing. They tried to prune one another, tried to make others believe just as they believed and think just as they thought. If this movement stands for anything, it stands for unity of mind. It was raised up to answer the prayer of Jesus: "That they might be one, as thou Father art in me and I in thee." What is the matter with the world today? Here is a little selfish sect and it is a denomination by itself. They do not love one another, as God would have them. Let us honor every bit of God there is in one another. Let us honor the Holy Spirit to teach men to get them out of their error. Dear ones watch and pray that ye enter not into temptation. Watch that something does not come in to grieve the Holy Spirit. "Grieve not the Holy Spirit of God whereby ye are sealed unto the day of redemption."-Mrs. Anna Hall

HEALED BY THE LORD

A sister who has had hemorrhages of the lungs for years was brought very low lately, having seven hard hemorrhages one after another. She was nearing the river and heard her name called three times by a heavenly messenger, but she answered that she did not feel she could say she had fought a good fight and kept the faith. Then the drawing to the other shore ceased. The saints prayed for her, and she arose, and dressed, being perfectly healed. She went to the table and ate her dinner and afterwards played and sang several hymns. She has received the Baptism of the Holy Spirit and God has raised her up to preach the whole Gospel.

BURIED WITH HIM IN BAPTISM

A wonderful day was spent at the Terminal Island Beach September 11. Four cars packed with people went down from the mission, and singing, praise, prayer and rejoicing, as well as preaching the Gospel made it a continual meeting all the way. Eighty-five were baptized in the ocean. This was the second service. It is a beautiful place for this service as there is a pavilion seating several hundred people and we were given free use of the bathhouse and all its rooms. Two services were held in the pavilion. The power of God rested on the Baptismal service. Heaven and earth certainly came together.

Jesus is searching for a people that will believe the Gospel. He has never changed the Gospel in any way since He commissioned it. Many take sanctification to be the power. They stop when they have original sin taken out, and Christ enthroned in the heart; but God wants us to go on and get filled with the Holy Spirit; that we may be witnesses unto Him to the uttermost parts of the earth. The times of this ignorance God winked at, but now commandeth men everywhere to repent. The Lord is restoring all the gifts to His church. He wants a people who have faith in His word and in the Holy Spirit.

Jesus was not only nailed to the Cross, but also hung there until He died. He did not come down from the Cross as they told Him to do, though He had the power to do so. With us, when we are crucified with Christ, we should not come down and live for self again, but stay on the Cross. A constant death to self is the way to follow our Master.

CHAPTER THREE

Gracious Pentecostal Showers Continue to Fall

The news has spread everywhere that Los Angeles is being visited with a "rushing mighty wind from heaven." The how and why of it is to be found in the very opposite of those conditions that are usually thought necessary for a big revival. No instruments of music are used, and none are needed. No choir-but bands of angels have been heard by some in the spirit and there is a heavenly singing that is inspired by the Holy Spirit. No collections are taken. No bills have been posted to advertise the meetings. No church or organization is back of it. All who are in touch with God realize as soon as they enter the meetings that the Holy Spirit is the leader. One brother stated that even before his train entered the city, he felt the power of the revival.

Travelers from afar wend their way to the headquarters at Azusa Street. As they find their way to the Apostolic Faith Mission, perhaps they are asked, "O, you mean the Holy Rollers," or "It is the Colored Church you mean?" Near a tombstone shop stables and lumber yard (a fortunate vicinity because no one complains of all-night meetings) you find a two-story, white-washed old building. You would hardly expect heavenly visitations there, unless you remember the stable at Bethlehem.

Here you find a mighty Pentecostal revival going on from ten o'clock in the morning until about twelve at night. Yes, Pentecost has come to hundreds of hearts and many homes are made into a sweet paradise below. We remember years ago, when a bright, young missionary was dying in Bombay, India, in his last hours, unconscious with the fever, he kept crying. "Pentecost is coming! Pentecost is coming! It seemed prophetical. Pentecost has come and is coming in India, and thank God in many other places.

A leading Methodist layman of Los Angeles says, "Scenes transpiring here are what Los Angeles churches have been praying for years. I have been a Methodist for twenty-five years. I was a leader of the praying band of the First Methodist Church. We prayed that the Pentecost might come to the city of Los Angeles. We wanted it to start in the First Methodist Church, but God did not start it there. I bless God that it did not start in any church in this city, but out in the barn, so that we might all come and take part in it. If it had started in a fine church, poor colored people and Spanish people would not have got it, but praise God it started here. God Almighty says He will pour out of His Spirit upon all flesh. This is just what is happening here. I want to warn every Methodist in Los Angeles to keep your hands off this work. Tell the people wherever you go that Pentecost has come to Los Angeles."

As soon as it is announced that the altar is open for seekers for pardon, sanctification, the Baptism of the Holy Spirit and healing of the body, the people rise and flock to the altar. There is no urging. What kind of preaching is it that brings them? Why, the simple declaring of the Word of God. There is such power in the preaching of the Word in the Spirit that people are shaken on the benches. Coming to the altar, many fall prostrate under the power of God, and often come out speaking in tongues. Sometimes the power falls on people and they are wrought upon by the Spirit during testimony or preaching and receive Bible experiences.

The testimony meetings, which often precede the preaching, continue for two hours or more and people are standing waiting to testify all the time. Those who have received the Baptism of the Holy Spirit testify that they had a clear evidence of sanctification first. Hundreds testify that they received the Bible evidence of speaking in a new tongue that they never knew before. Some have received the "gift of tongues" or "divers tongues" and the interpretation.

The demonstrations are not the shouting, clapping or jumping so often seen in campmeetings. There is a shaking such as the early Quakers had and which the old Methodists called the "jerks." It is while under the power of the Spirit you see the hands raised and hear speaking in tongues. While one sings a song learned from heaven with a shining face, the tears will be trickling down other faces. Many receive the Spirit through the laying on of hands, as they did through Paul at Ephesus.

Little children from eight years to twelve stand up on the altar bench, testify to the Baptism of the Holy Spirit, and speak in tongues. In the children's meetings little tots get down and seek the Lord.

It is noticeable how free all nationalities feel. If a Mexican or German cannot speak English, he gets up, speaks in his own tongue, and feels quite at home, for the Spirit interprets through the face and people say amen. No instrument that God can use is rejected on account of color, dress, or lack of education. This is why God has so built up the work.

In the testimony meetings, they report from cottage prayer meetings where perhaps a number were baptized with the Holy Spirit or saved or sanctified and those who have been seeking at home report what God has done for them.

The singing is characterized by freedom. "The Comforter has come" is sung every day, also "Heavenly Sunlight" and "Under the Blood." Often one will rise and sing a familiar song in a new tongue.

Seekers for healing are usually taken upstairs and prayed for in the prayer room and many have been healed there. There is a larger room upstairs that is used for Bible study. A brother fittingly describes it in this way; "Upstairs is a long room furnished with chairs and three California redwood planks, laid end to end on backless chairs. This is the Pentecostal upper room where sanctified souls seek Pentecostal fullness and go out speaking in new tongues."

The sweetest thing of all is the loving harmony. Every church where this has gone is like a part of the family. This description is given for the benefit of the many friends who write in and who would like to be present. Many letters are received in the Apostolic Faith office that is in the same building as the mission. We cannot but weep as we read these letters and pray for those who are seeking.

The Lord is saving drunkards and taking the appetite for liquor and tobacco completely away.

Reports come from Denver that forty souls have received the Pentecost and are speaking in tongues.

A young man saved from the morphine habit has no more desire for the stuff and gave up his instruments.

Four workers from Texas, Brother and Sister Oyler and Brother and Sister Quinton have arrived in Los Angeles lately. God has been using them in Whittier.

Brother Tom Qualis from Fresno said, "I came 300 miles to this meeting and I feel heaven in my soul. It seems to me I am getting some of the crumbs that fall from Father's table. I feel the presence of God here."

"Cartoons in the newspapers were my first introduction to this meeting," said a brother, "and I said, this is what I have been praying for years. I was warned by leaders that it was of the devil, but I came and got a touch of heaven in my soul."

A brother had a vision of fires springing up and then gathering together and advancing in a solid wall of flame. A preacher was trying to put it out with a wet gunny sack, but it was evident there was no use fighting it. Our God is marching on. Hallelujah. The man with the wet gunny sack is here also, but his efforts only call attention to the fire.

The blind man who was saved and had his sight restored was saved because of hearing a few praying in tongues in a cottage meeting. He was a sinner; a very profane man, and was convicted because of tongues. Praise God for His marvelous works to the children of men.

Sister Lemon of Whittier, who had been a sufferer for eighteen years, could receive no help from physicians, and had been bed-ridden for fourteen years of that time, has been marvelously healed by the Lord through the laying on of hands and the prayer of faith. She has been walking to meetings. The opposers of the work cannot deny that a notable miracle has been performed through the mighty name of Jesus.

Mother Griffith, who has been matron of a rescue home, has received her Pentecost. She testified, "It seemed to me when I got saved, I got into the ocean; and when I got sanctified, it seemed the ocean got into me. When I was baptized with the Holy Spirit, it seemed I got the life preserve on and began floating on the ocean of salvation. Jesus lives in me, and I live and have my being in Him. Thank God for salvation, sanctification, the Baptism of the Holy Spirit and the witness."

Sister Bridget Welch has been powerfully baptized with the Holy Spirit and is working for the Lord both in laboring for souls and in service with her hands ministering to others. She testifies, "I was a dope fiend and in and out of prisons for twenty years. God Almighty has surely healed my body and given me divine strength. He healed me of cancer of the nose and did not leave a scar. I have no time for a drug store any more. The Lord took me out of an awful pit, set my feet on the solid rock, established my goings, and put a new song in my mouth. He sanctified me and baptized me with the Holy Spirit and gave me the gift of tongues."

A sister who was very hungry for the Pentecost prayed for the Lord to strip her of everything, but give more of Himself. Then shortly afterwards when her house was in flames, she went out and knelt down in the weeds and prayed, "Lord, you said all things work together for good to them that love you. Give me more of God." He answered prayer and gave her a mighty Baptism of the Holy Spirit and fire and she is shining for God.

PENTECOST IN DENVER

1934 E. 18th Avenue

Denver, Colorado.

What I received on that memorable Sunday night in Los Angeles has never left me for one moment. Last night in particular at the meeting, the Holy Spirit magnified the simple Gospel of our Lord in demonstration and power, until about twenty-five crowded the altar and got definite experiences of justification, sanctification, Baptism of the Holy Spirit, and healing. One dear old man, who because of his back, could not straighten up nor stoop down without severe pain, was instantly healed, got up and showed the people how the dear Lord had healed him. He stood as straight as a young man, stooped down, touched the floor with his hands without a bit of pain. Then he knelt down and said, "I want the Baptism of the Holy Spirit," and Glory to God, he got it, and there was great joy.

Dear Brother Seymour, God surely sent me here. These dear, hungry people, when they learned I came from the meeting at Los Angeles, received me with open arms. They gave me the evening, and during the meeting, they embraced me and our joy in the Lord knew no bounds. One dear brother from Los Angeles picked me up and held me as if I were a child. This is but the beginning of a work here such as we knew in Los Angeles. This people have been praying that God would send someone to teach them and give them light and wisdom, and they believe God has answered their prayers, hence their great joy. I feel the need of your prayers. I never saw in all my travels a people so hungry for the truth.

Dear Brother GF Fink, the brother to charge, was coming to Los Angeles to Azusa Street to learn and get a better understanding of the Baptism of the Holy Spirit. While I was talking to the people last night, he arose and embraced me. He was crying, "I love you, I love you, my brother." Surely, God has sent you to us; and the people wept for joy, and shouted praises unto God. These people here were set on fire by the Holy Spirit through Brother Johnson and the two sisters who passed through here, and it is marvelous how the Holy Spirit has led them. You little know how the people have been praying for you and the meetings in Los Angeles in the midst of their own struggles. Give my love in Jesus to all the saints.

-T. Hezmalhach.

VICTORY IN OAKLAND

Brother Harmon Clifford, the young man who was saved, sanctified, and baptized with the Holy Spirit all in an hour and a half at Azusa Street Mission, and who was also healed of consumption, has been increasing in power, and God has bestowed on him many gifts. He writes from Oakland where the Lord sent him:

"How I praise God for ever sending me to Oakland with Brother Rosa. I was never so happy in all my life as I have been this last week. It did seem as though I would go up at any moment, but of course, God has a work for me to do yet. Praise His dear name. There was some trouble about the Bible evidence to the Baptism of the Holy Spirit, but as soon as that was straight, God began to work and has been working ever since. Oh, glory to God! Many have been saved, sanctified, and healed. Six have received Pentecost and spoke in a good, clear language up to Thursday night. People were laid out all over the mission. The people have been very quiet and let the Holy Spirit have right of way, and sometimes before the preaching is over people come to the altar. There are many hungry souls in this city."

336 Ninth Street

Oakland, CA

VISION AND MESSAGE

A sister who has been healed and baptized with the Holy Spirit related the following vision, "Two days ago the power of God came over me and He said. 'Whatsoever ye ask in my name believing, ye shall receive.' I said 'Give wisdom to speak to the people.' Immediately I was in a great hall with tables spread all about, the Lord was the waiter, and I saw His beautiful, smiling face. He spoke to me and said, 'I have called my friends and they did not come, therefore go out and ask everyone you find to come to the wedding.' As I looked around to see something beautiful, the scene changed and I was in a hospital and saw poor creatures dying, looking like skeletons. I thought my call was to the hospital and telephoned to know when it was open for visitors, but the Lord revealed to me that it meant all those who are sick in their souls."

HIS BANQUETING HOUSE

"He took me into his banqueting house, and his banner over me was love." A brother says the Lord gave him a vision of the banqueting house. He passed under the great arches. Each one had a name upon it. The first was love, then there was joy, peace, and among others he saw, "Independence." He asked what that meant. The answer was "Is it not wonderful to be free?" Dear saints, this is one of the sweetest arches in the banqueting house. This bondage to love sets me perfectly free.

UNUSUAL NOISE.

There has been some unusual noise in the town of Whittier, the prayers of those who are burdened for the lost, the sound of praises to God and speaking in new tongues. A few days ago, four workers were arrested while praying in the cottage that had been offered free or rent for the use of the workers. The following letter was received at Azusa Street.

"Brother Seymour in Jesus: We are charged with using boisterous language, unusual noise, or in other words praising God and speaking in tongues. This happened in the cottage this morning. The defendants are Sister May Mayo, Sister Jacobson, Brother and Sister McLain. Trial comes off at 4 P.M. We are standing steadfast, seeing the glory of God. We believe the judge is under conviction. Sunday night nine souls were at the altar. Souls are being saved and sanctified. Power is falling in the audience. People being slain."

When the Word came to Azusa Street, fifteen workers rallied to take the place of the four and meetings have been going on there with victory and power ever since.

The band that were arrested are rejoicing in the Lord that they were permitted to go through the trial. The judge gave them the choice of leaving town or going to jail. They consulted the Lord about it and He said, "When they persecute you in one city, flee ye to another." The sisters obeyed but Brother McLain preferred to stand a few days in jail and working on the chain gang. When the judge gave sentence, Sister Mayo raised her hands to heaven and prayed for him and for Whittier.

PENTECOST IN INDIA

News comes from India that natives who are simply taught of God are receiving the Baptism of the Holy Spirit and gift of tongues there. The India Alliance says, "Some of the gifts which have been scarcely heard of in the church for many centuries, are now being given by the Holy Spirit to simple, unlearned members of the body of Christ, and communities are being stirred and transformed by the wonderful grace of God. Healing, the gift of tongues, visions, and dreams, discernment of spirits, the power to prophecy and to pray the prayer of faith, all have a place in the present revival." Hallelujah! God is sending the Pentecost to India. He is no respecter of persons.

VERNON MISSION

Brother and Sister FE Hill are now conducting meetings at Forty-third and Forty-fourth Streets, 4307 Central avenue. Since they received their Pentecost, they have been holding cottage meetings at their home with seekers every night. Then they told the people God had showed them to start a meeting in that section and in about five minutes the rent was paid for the hall in advance. Brother Hill has dropped his business and is giving all his time to Gospel work. The Nazarene Church forbade speaking in tongues or testifying on the line of the Baptism of the Holy Spirit upon the sanctified life, so they with others have walked out with the Bible and the Spirit, and God is giving them souls. There is room for Spirit filled workers everywhere.

SPREADING THE FULL GOSPEL

A number of Spirit filled workers have been going out of late. Brother Adolph Rosa and Brother Harmon Clifford went to Oakland and God has been using them there. Then a band of seven left on the steamer for the north, for Oakland, Salem and Seattle. They were: Sister Florence Crawford, Brother and Sister GW Evans, Brother and Sister Thomas Junk, Sister Ophelia Wiley and Sister Luiu Miller, Brother Post went to Santa Barbara, Brother T. Hezmalhach to Denver, Sister Potter and Violet Price to Fresno, Brother FW Williams to Alabama, and a Spanish brother, Brigido Perez, to San Diego. Sister Elsie Robinson to Onawa, Michigan. Brother Seymour has been called for a short time to Oakland, but expects soon to return to headquarters at Los Angeles. We wish to keep track of the workers in the field and be united together in prayer for each other and the work in the different fields.

BAPTIZED ON A FRUIT WAGON

Brother G. Zigler, who runs a fruit wagon, driving into Los Angeles early in the morning, says, "I was on my wagon coming down to the market praising God, when the Lord covered me with His power and I began to sing such a sweet song I had never sung anything like before. I was riding along at three o'clock in the morning. All at once, I commenced to talk in a new tongue, and it was the most wonderful blessing I have ever received. What He has done for me, He will do for everybody."

The meetings have been going on now for about six months at Azusa Street day and night. How long are they going to continue? We expect them to keep on until Jesus comes, by the grace of God.

The religion of Jesus Christ is no more popular now than it was when Jesus was here. Many are rejecting the truth and are not going to receive it. The word not only says that signs shall follow them that believe, but that "They that live godly in Christ Jesus shall suffer persecution." This also is being fulfilled.

The Pacific Apostolic Faith Movement stands for the restoration of the faith once delivered unto the saints-the old time religion, campmeeting, revivals, missions, street and prison work and Christian unity everywhere.

We are not fighting men or churches, but seeking to displace dead forms and creeds or wild fanaticism with living, practical Christianity. "Love, Faith, Unity" is out watchword, and "Victory through the Atoning Blood" our battle cry.

Teaching on Repentance-Mark 1:14, 15.

Godly Sorrow for Sins, Example-Matthew 9:13, 2 Corinthians 7:9-11, Acts 3:19, Acts 17:20-31.

Confession of Sins-Luke 15:21 and Luke 18:13.

Forsaking Sinful Ways-Isaiah 55:7, Jonah 3:8, Proverbs 28:13.

Restitution-Ezekiel 33:15, Luke 19:8.

Faith in Jesus Christ.

The blood of Jesus will never blot out any sin between man and man they can make right; but if we can't make wrongs right the Blood graciously covers, (Matthew 5:23-24).

First Work: Justification is that act of God's free grace by which we receive remission of sins. Acts 10:42-43, Romans 3:25.

Second Work: Sanctification is the second work of grace and the last work of grace. Sanctification is that act of God's free grace by which He makes us holy. John 17:15-17. -"Sanctify them through Thy truth; Thy word is truth." 1 Thessalonians 4:3; 1 Thessalonians 5:23; Hebrews 13:12; Hebrews 2:11; Hebrews 12:14.

Sanctification is cleansing to make holy. The Disciples were sanctified before the Day of Pentecost. By a careful study of Scripture, you will find it is so now. "Ye are clean through the Word which I have spoken unto you" (John 15:3; 13:10); and Jesus breathed on them the Holy Spirit (John 20:21, 22). You know that they could not have received the Spirit if they were not clean. Jesus cleaned and got all doubt out of His Church before He went back to glory.

Too many have confused the grace of Sanctification with the enduement of Power, or the Baptism of the Holy Spirit; others have taken "the anointing that abideth" for the Baptism, and failed to reach the glory and power of a true Pentecost.

The Baptism of the Holy Spirit is a gift of power upon the sanctified life; so when we get it we have the same evidence as the Disciples received on the Day of Pentecost (Acts 2:3, 4), in speaking in new tongues. See also Acts 10:45, 46; Acts 19:6; 1 Corinthians 14:21. "For I will work a work in your days which ye will not believe though it be told you."-Habakkuk. 1:5.

Healing: We must believe that God is able to heal. Exodus 15:26, "I am the Lord that heals the." James 5:14; Psalms 103:3; 2 Kings 20:5; Matthew 8:16-17; Mark 16:16-18. "Behold I am the Lord, the God of all flesh; is there any thing too hard for Me?"-Jeremiah 32:27.

God loves the pure in heart, the surrendered will, and the empty vessel. Believe Him and receive Him. He will have His way if you will let Him.

Sister Florence Crawford says she had a vision of a beautiful bouquet of flowers all in the bud and the Lord said to her, "This movement is just in the bud."

Sister J. W. Hutchins writes from Chattanooga, Tennessee, that they are stopping there in a meeting. People are hungry for the truth. They are on their way to Africa.

Interpretation of a message in tongues: "Oh Jesus is such a wonderful God. He will reveal Himself to us in many wonderful ways. Jesus is surely with us. Oh, praise Him."

The brother who was healed of asthma from which he had been suffering twenty years has received the Pentecost. He is rejoicing in the perfect healing of soul and body.

Sister Jennie Jacobson, a Swedish sister who had been only two months in this country, was given the gift of the English language with the understanding of the Words. She also received another tongue.

You who are baptized with the Holy Spirit must die daily that Christ may abide in you. If we begin to get puffed up, God will set us aside, but if we give Him all the glory. He will use us to scatter this light.

Blessed are the pure in heart. We do not get this purity until we are willing to let Him have His way to the fullest extent of the Word. We are clay in the Potter's hands. We must have the self well removed in order to receive Him. As long as we have something to say, "I don't like this or that," we cannot receive the Holy Spirit.

We find some that are superstitious about seeking the Holy Spirit. They are afraid they are going to get the power of the devil instead of God, but men and women that are walking in the light can quickly see that this is of God. It is easy for the Lord to show them that This is that which was spoken by the prophet Joel. We are living in the last days when He is pouring out His Spirit upon all flesh.

RIVER OF LIVING WATER

In John 4, the Words come, "Jesus answered and said unto her, If thou knewest the gift of God and who it is that saith to thee Give me to drink, thou wouldest have asked of Him and He would have given the living water." Praise God for the living waters today that flow freely, for it comes from God to every hungry and thirsty heart. Jesus said, "He that believeth on me, as the Scripture hath said, out of his inmost being shall flow rivers of living waters." Then we are able to go in the mighty name of Jesus to the ends of the earth and water dry places, deserts and solitary places, until these parched, sad, lonely hearts are made to rejoice in the God of their salvation. We want the rivers today. Hallelujah! Glory to God in the highest!

In Jesus Christ we get forgiveness of sin, and we get sanctification of our spirit, soul, and body, and upon that we get the gift of the Holy Spirit that Jesus promised to His disciples, the promise of the Father. All this we get through the atonement. Hallelujah!

The prophet said that he had carried our grief and sorrows. He was wounded for our transgressions, bruised for our iniquities, the chastisement of our peace was upon Him and with His stripes, we are healed. We get healing, health, salvation, joy, and life-everything in Jesus. Glory to God!

There are many wells today, but they are dry. There are many hungry souls today that are empty. Let us come to Jesus and take Him at His word and we will find wells of salvation, and be able to draw waters out of the well of salvation, for Jesus is that well.

At this time, Jesus was weary from a long journey, He sat on the well in Samaria, and a woman came to draw water. He asked her for a drink. She answered, "How is it that thou being a Jew askest drink of me who am a woman of Samaria, for the Jews have no dealings with the Samaritans?" Jesus said, "If thou knewest the gift of God, and who it is that saith to thee, give me to drink, thou wouldst have asked of him and he would have given thee living water."

O, how sweet it was to see Jesus, the Lamb of God that takes away the sin of the world, that great sacrifice that God had given to a lost, dying, and benighted world, sitting on the well and talking with the woman. So gentle, so meek, and so kind that it gave her an appetite to talk further with Him, until He got into her secret and uncovered her life. Then she was pricked in heart, confessed her sins and received pardon, cleansing from fornication and adultery, was washed from stain and guilt of sin and was made a child of God, and above all, received the well of salvation in her heart. It was so sweet, joyful, and good. Her heart was so filled with love that she felt she could take in a whole lost world. She ran away with a well or salvation and left the old water pot on the well. How true it is in this day, when we get the Baptism of the Holy Spirit, we have something to tell, and it is that the Blood of Jesus Christ cleanseth from all sin. The Baptism of the Holy Spirit gives us power to testify to a risen resurrected Savior. Our affections are in Jesus Christ, the Lamb of God that takes away the sin of the world. How I worship Him today! How I praise Him for the all-cleansing blood!

Jesus' promises are true and sure. The woman said to Him, after He had uncovered her secret, "Sir, I perceive that Thou art a prophet." Yes, He was a prophet. He was that great prophet that Moses said the Lord would raise up. He is here today. Will we be taught of that prophet? Will we hear Him? Let us accept Him in all His fullness.

He said, "He that believeth on me, the works that I do shall he do also, and greater works that these shall ye do, because I go unto my Father." These disciples to whom He was speaking, had been saved, sanctified, anointed with the Holy Spirit, their hearts had been opened to understand the Scriptures, and yet Jesus said, "Tarry ye, in the city of Jerusalem, until ye be endued with power from on high." "John truly baptized with water, but ye shall be baptized with the Holy Spirit not many days hence." The same commission comes to us. We find that they obeyed His commission and were all filled with the Holy Spirit on the day of Pentecost, and Peter standing up, said, "This is that which was spoken by the prophet Joel." Dear loved ones; we preach the same sermon. "This is that which was spoken by the prophet Joel: and it shall come to pass in the last days, saith God, I will pour out of my Spirit upon all flesh, and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, and your young men shall see visions, and your old men shall dream dreams; and on my servants and on my handmaidens I will pour out in those days of my Spirit, and they shall prophecy. The promise is unto you, and to your children, and to all that are afar off, even as many as the Lord our God shall call." That means until now and to last until Jerusalem comes.

There are so many people today like the woman. The fathers control them. Our salvation is not in some father or human instrument. It is sad to see people so blinded worshiping the creature more than the Creator. Listen to what the woman said, "Our Fathers worshiped in this mountain, and ye say that in Jerusalem is the place where men ought to worship." many people today are worshiping in the mountains, big churches, stone and frame buildings. Jesus teaches that salvation is not in these stone structures-not in the mountains-not in the hills, but in God. For God is a Spirit. Jesus said unto her, "Woman, believe Me, the hour cometh and now is, when ye shall neither in this mountain nor yet at Jerusalem worship the Father." many people today are controlled by men. Their salvation reaches out no further than the boundary line of human creeds, but praise God for freedom in the Spirit. There are depths, heights, and breadths that we can reach through the power of the blessed Spirit. "Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man the things that God hath prepared for them that love him.

The Jews were the religious leaders at this time, and people had no more light upon salvation than the Jews gave them. The Jews were God's chosen people to evangelize the world. He had entrusted them to give all nations the true knowledge of God, but they went into traditions and doctrines of men, and were blinded and in the dark. Jesus came as the light of the world, and He is that light. "If we walk in the light as he is in the light, we have fellowship one with another, and the Blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanseth us from all sin." Let us honor the Spirit, for Jesus has sent Him to teach and lead us into all truth.

Above all, let us honor the Blood of Jesus Christ every moment of our lives, and we will be sweet in our souls. We will be able to talk of this common salvation to everyone that we meet. God will let His anointing rest upon us in telling them of this precious truth. This truth belongs to God. We have no right to tax anyone for the truth, because God has entrusted us with it to tell it. Freely we receive, and freely we give. The Gospel is to be preached freely, God will bless it and spread it Himself, and we have experienced that He does. We have found Him true to His promise all the way. We have tried Him and proved Him. His promises are sure.

-WJ Seymour

WHISPERINGS OF THE COMFORTER

The Lord had been giving me this passage, burning it into my soul for months, "The fig tree putteth forth her green figs, and the vines with the tender grape give a good smell. Arise, my love, my fair one, and come away." Cant. 2:13. I would always be so blessed when the Lord would give it to me. Finally, I said, Lord, what does it mean? Immediately the thoughts came into my mind, "Why the fig tree in the Bible represents the Jews and the vines represent the ones who are the branches of the vine, Jesus. The Jews are beginning to gather at Jerusalem and beginning to show life. The tender grapes on the vines giving a good smell means that the bride is making herself ready, showing that His coming is near. The vines are laden with fruit and begin to give a sweet smell, ripening for His coming."

At another time, this kept coming to me, "Fear not, for I have redeemed thee, I have called thee by thy name, thou art mine." Isaiah 62:4. It would come with such sweetness and power that finally I said, "Lord, what is my name?" He said, "Hepzi-bah," Isaiah 62:4.

Again the Lord gave me this verse; "Thine head upon thee is like Caramel, and the hair of thine head like purple. The King is held in the chambers." I asked the Lord what that meant. Immediately it was given me, "Thy head like Caramel, that is red under the Blood; and the hair of thine head as purple, means that you belong to the royal family. The King is held in the galleries, that is in the little cells of the brain of my head as well as of my heart."

One evening I went to the restaurant for supper, and I sat there and had commenced my meal, when someone touched me on my shoulder. I looked around, but did not see anyone, so I turned around and commenced eating again. Then something said, "You have not given thanks for your food or asked Him to bless it."

Mrs. Mary P. Perkins

CAME FROM ALASKA

Brother HM Turney, an evangelist who was in Alaska when he heard of the outpouring of God's Spirit in California, struck out immediately for Los Angeles, and he has received the Baptism of the Holy Spirit and gift of tongues. About five minutes before he received the Holy Spirit, while kneeling at the altar, he whispered to Brother Oyler that the devil was tempting him that the speaking in tongues was not for him. Brother Oyler replied, "the devil is a liar from the beginning." immediately the Holy Spirit fell on our brother and he spoke with tongues. Since then, he says the Lord waked him up at night speaking and singing in tongues, as He has so many others.

A brother from Redlands, seventy-nine years old, came for Divine healing. He was deaf and used ear trumpets. The Lord opened his ears immediately. Then as he arose to go, a brother asked him," "Where are you glasses?" He looked around and said with astonishment, "Why, I can see as well as I ever did." He had poor eyesight. The Lord also healed him of rheumatism at the same time. "With his stripes we are healed."

Father LC Ebey, of Hermon, California, has given up his medicine that he had taken for thirty years and took God for healing; the Lord has touched his body. He is in his eightieth year and is earnestly seeking his Pentecost. His testimony is, "I am a believer, I am glad I am alive in Him. I am not afraid of fanaticism. I have been through some things, I believe and look for the true restoration of the apostolic faith, so that the servants of God can go out and lay hands on the sick and they shall recover. This movement is in its infancy. If you keep your hearts pure and open. God will give you the old apostolic power. It depends on whether we keep clear of the entanglements about us."

RECEIVING THE HOLY SPIRIT

God has told His children to be witnesses, and the most convincing evidence is testimony of personal knowledge. To endeavor to help those who are sending in letters of inquiry to the Apostolic Faith office, asking how they may receive the Holy Spirit, the writer will state a little of his personal experience in obtaining this pearl of great price, the Baptism of the Holy Spirit.

I dropped into the meetings on Azusa Street some time in April, having heard that some people were speaking in tongues, as they did on the day of Pentecost. Although I had been trying to preach Pentecost for five years, the speaking in tongues was as strange to me as though it had never been mentioned in God's word. At first, the meeting seemed a very tame affair to me, as I had been along the line of much fleshly demonstration and noise. As I was indoctrinated in the second blessing being the Baptism of the Holy Spirit, I branded the teaching as heretical, not going to the meetings for some time.

In the meantime, Pentecost came to the place, and many began to speak in tongues. I now began to attend regularly. In fact, I could not stay away. My heart began to break up, and soon I was going from one person to another, asking them to for give me for harsh words and criticism. God so melted my heart that I would cry at my work or riding on a street car. How the dear Lord began to teach me that what I needed was His loving, tender Spirit, and that power with God meant deep humility in our dealings with our fellow creatures.

I now began to go to the altar and earnestly seek for the Lord to have His way with me. Soon the power of God began to work with me. The Holy Spirit showed me that I must be clay in the Potter's hands, an empty vessel before the Lord. I laid aside all doctrine, all pre-conceived ideas and teachings and became absolutely empty. The Holy Spirit now settled down on me, and I could feel the power going through me like electric needles. The Spirit taught me that I must not resist the power but give way and become limp as a piece of cloth. When I did this, I fell under the power, and God began to mold me and teach me what it meant to be really surrendered to Him. I was laid out under the power five times before Pentecost really came. Each time I would come out from under the power, I would feel so sweet and clean, as though I had been run through a washing machine.

I now had come to the place where I was completely submitted to the whole will of God. I had been seeking about five weeks, and on a Saturday morning I awoke and stretched my arms toward heaven and asked God to fill me with the Holy Spirit. My arms began to tremble, soon I was shaken violently by a great power, and it seemed as though a large pipe was fitted over my neck, my head apparently being off. I was now filled with the Holy Spirit. I cannot describe the power I felt. The nearest description that could be given would be the action of a pump under terrific pressure, filing me with oil. I could feel the filling in my toes and all parts of my body that seemed to me to swell until I thought I would burst. I do not know how long this continued but it seemed to me a long time. The pressure was now removed and my soul and spirit seemed to leave the body and float in the air just above. My body seemed hard and metallic like iron. This was undoubtedly the Baptism into the death of Christ.

It was now time for me to arise and go to work, so I got up without speaking in tongues. I believe I would have spoken in tongues then, if I had remained in the hands of the Lord long enough. About thirty hours afterwards, while sitting in the meeting on Azusa Street, I felt my throat and tongue begin to move, without any effort on my part. Soon I began to stutter and then out came a distinct language that I could hardly restrain. I talked and laughed with joy far into the night. Praise Him name for such a wonderful experience of power and love and joy.

-GA Cook

God is solving the missionary problem, sending out new-tongued missionaries on the apostolic faith line, without purse or scrip, and the Lord is going before them preparing the way.

O how precious His words are. "Let not your hearts be troubled. Ye believe in God, believe also in me. In my Father's house are many mansions. If it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you, and if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and receive you unto myself, that where I am there ye may be also." Jesus is coming back again, and He wants us, His bride, to be watching and waiting with the garments of righteousness on, ready to enter into the marriage supper. Glory to our God. Hosanna to His omnipotent name, for He has risen in our hearts. Oh, it is so sweet to live this Holy Spirit life.

Many church members are paying their way to hell. They are paying preachers to preach against the Baptism of the Holy Spirit. They are being poisoned against the truth and it is damning their souls. People need the Baptism of the Holy Spirit that they may know God. "It is not by might nor by power, but by my Spirit saith the Lord." If we do not get the Spirit in our hearts, how can we know about the deep things of God? We cannot be His witnesses to the uttermost parts of the earth until we speak in new tongues. He gives us power to lay hands on the sick, and they shall recover, and to speak with new tongues and cast out devils. Dear ones, we need the Baptism of the Holy Spirit.

NEW-TONGUED MISSIONARIES FOR AFRICA

Our dear Brother and Sister Mead, who have spent twenty years in missionary work in Africa have received their Pentecost in Los Angeles, and as the Lord leads and opens the way they will be on their way to the dark continent again with the divine fitness for missionary work.

Brother Mead's Testimony of Pentecost

Many dear ones ask us about our Pentecost. It is beautiful, simple and full of comfort. I went to the meetings when I first heard of the manifestation of the Spirit, speaking in tongues, healing of the body, etc. I was not surprised, for we had been praying and expecting something of this kind to arouse God's people to the reality of the Word of God, and the truth of God Emmanuel. While seeking the closer walk with God in Africa, the Spirit seemed to fall on us, revealing Jesus so real to our souls; a burden seemed to be on my heart, in writing and in conversation, I could but say, Jesus is real.

The first night at the meetings, my heart went out for the Baptism. I went forward to be prayed for, hands were laid on me, and prayer was made, that I might receive the Baptism of the Holy Spirit. I continued praying and fasting, in hope and much comfort. One evening, in complete abnegation of self, it was revealed to me that the same power and persecutions that were in the beginning were now to be repeated for the perfecting of the Church. Would I choose it? My heart cried out, Oh, yes Lord, with your smile. My soul was flooded with Divine love; and I commenced to speak, as I would sing a new song.

It was entirely different from the way Mrs. Mead received her baptism. I was as conscious as I am at this moment, but my heart was full of praises and thanksgiving. I seemed now to have a conception of the mighty efficacy of the Blood of Christ, and His omnipresence in Spirit, as never before.

Many ask, "Do you think these tongues will be used in a foreign field?" As for myself, I cannot say. My God is able, this I know. The Pentecost or baptism of Divine love, that would enable a missionary to say to the poor Africans, as the Spirit did through Peter and John, to the poor cripple at the gate of the Temple, "Silver and gold have I none, but such as I have give I thee. In the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, rise up and walk," would mark a grand epoch in the history of foreign missions. I believe God is about to repeat many of the miracles and wonders wrought in the early history of the church.

SJ Mead

Sister Mead's Baptism

Two years before we left Africa, the Holy Spirit began to speak to us in an especial way. We felt the lack of the power and love in the service of our Master, and we commenced seeking that power from Him; we had no definite light on the Baptism in our sanctified life of twenty years. Praise God, we did have a most wonderful experience when we were justified, and our sins forgiven. Then after we were sanctified, the joy of heaven filled our souls, and we had the wonderful "anointing which abideth." Yet we felt the lack of power in our lives, and this was what we were earnestly seeking, as we waited on God in our little mission home in Africa. It was at this time, that the Book of the Revelation was so wonderfully opened up to our souls, for which we shall never cease to praise God.

Just before our return to America, we believe it was the Spirit of God, who said to us very plainly. "Los Angles, California, is the end of your journey." This seemed strange to us, at the time, as we had no friends in Los Angeles; but we see now it was the Holy Spirit of God, to bring us to Los Angeles to receive our Pentecost.

Our faith was indeed tasted after reaching this city. After three days, I had pneumonia in both lungs, and for days, I realized nothing of this world. Praise God He raised me up in answer to the prayer of faith, and I shall never cease to praise Him, that He spared me for this wonderful day of my Pentecost. While in our home in Los Angeles, at times the Spirit would be wonderfully poured out upon us in our morning worship, and then the enemy would thrust sore at us, knowing that His time was short.

About this time, we met a sister in Christ, who told us of the Azusa Street meetings, and that some were speaking in tongues, so we went at once to see if these things were true. We felt the power of God immediately as we entered the meeting. After two or three days, as the invitation was given for those who wished to seek for the Baptism of the Holy Spirit, I went forward to the little humble altar. While on the way the enemy said to me, "You, a missionary in Africa twenty years, now going forward to the altar," I said, yes. I am going forward, for I want all that God has for me, and immediately I gained a real victory in my soul. Then Brother Seymour, Sister Crawford and another Sister laid their hands upon me that I might receive the Holy Spirit. As they prayed, I felt the power go through my body, but did not receive then the full baptism.

We waited on God daily in our home for three weeks, searching the Scriptures, confessing our faults, and getting everything under the Blood, even forgetting at times to take food. During this time, while attending the meetings one day, the tongues became a stone of stumbling to me, and a rock of offense. I immediately went into darkness that was so great that my dear husband cried to the Lord for me, and I was restored, willing to submit what I did not understand to God. Then the enemy tried to get me discouraged, telling me that this baptism was not for me. I went into my room feeling so discouraged, when the Spirit said to me as plainly as a voice, "How did you receive your justification? How did you receive your sanctification?" I said, Lord, by faith. He then said, "Receive me." I arose, and felt very happy, praising the Lord. This was on Friday evening and we went into our front room and said we would have a meeting to seek the Spirit just as they did at Brother Seymour's. We sang and testified, and then fell on our knees in prayer. As we repeated over and over again, We receive the Holy Spirit, in our simplicity, he came in, and we could not retire until late. Then we asked the Holy Spirit to continue His work in us while we slept.

On Saturday morning at the breakfast table I said something seems to hinder my perfect freedom. My husband said, "It may be in regard to your little neighbor; you know she did not receive the gospel, and left off coming in to see you, and so you have left off going in to see her. You have more light than she, and perhaps have done wrong." The faithful Holy Spirit convicted me, and I said, beginning to cry like a child, "Oh, Lord, I see it," and fell on my knees. Just as I did this crying, "Let it all be under the Blood," the Holy Spirit fell upon me in great sweetness and power. I had a wonderful revelation of the Blood of Christ making me as clean and innocent as a child, and Jesus was real to me.

I was under the power from early morning until about five at night, prophesying in the Scriptures, and then began to speak in tongues, as the Spirit gave me utterance. I spoke most of the afternoon, having some very sweet revelations concerning the precious blood of Christ. I trust they will never be taken away from me, and may, through the Spirit, be used to glorify my Savior.

Since then I have been shown that what I speak is an African dialect, and concerning the Blood of Christ.

Now I follow on to know the Lord more fully and may I be able to comprehend with all saints, what is the breadth, length, depth, and height. I want to know the love of Christ that passes knowledge, and may have the spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of him.

If any sanctified soul is seeking Pentecost, the way is so simple. Believe and receive, and it is His will to fill your precious soul.

Ardell K. Mead

THE HOLY SPIRIT FROM HEAVEN

Brother Burke from Anaheim, who received the Holy Spirit, says, "I told the Lord to search my heart and melt me down, and it seemed to me I grew smaller and smaller until I felt about the size of a grasshopper. I asked the Lord to put the Holy Spirit on me, and it came like the outpouring of water on the crown of my head and it went through my entire body to the very tips of my toes and fingers and my heart seemed to expand ten time larger. Then something rushed through me like I was under a faucet. It was the Holy Spirit, and the next thing I knew something began to get hold of my jaw bones and tongue. I said, Lord whether I ever speak in tongues or not, I want the Baptism of the Holy Spirit as they had it on the day of Pentecost. I went home and it seemed a music band of a thousand instruments was set up within me. The next morning it was singing in my soul, 'The power, the power, the Pentecostal power, is just the same today.' I was singing it in the yard and my wife was singing it in the kitchen. It has not stopped yet. Then it changed to 'The Comforter has come, the Holy Spirit from heaven,' I was so hungry for the Holy Spirit. They told awful stories about this work over there where I live, but I was hungry and thirsty and could not keep away. If you are hungry, come and let God fill you."

PAPERS TO DISTRIBUTE

A brother writes, "I wish in your next number you would state what the papers cost per hundred copies postpaid, to issue and mail them. I want a bundle of each issue."

This is the Lord's paper and is published free, and we are glad for interested friends to distribute them to hungry souls. It costs in the neighborhood of $1 to issue and mail a hundred copies. We have never even asked for a collection for the paper, but the Lord touches hearts to give. He showed us to publish a Pentecostal paper on Pentecostal lines. We honor Him to provide the means, and He is doing it. We keep no account books here; the Lord keeps the records. We do not publish the names of donors, but the Lord knows who they are. He says that those who give in secret He will reward openly.

Our first issue was 5,000. These were taken so eagerly and brought in so many replies from hungry souls, that we made our next issue 10,000. This issue was as eagerly sought as the first, so we have concluded that we will publish 20,000 this issue, the means being provided. The future issues will depend upon how the Lord supplies the means. We would consider it a great honor if God shall supply us with sufficient means to send out as many as 50,000 each issue. This Gospel must go, for the time is short before the appearing of our Lord and Savior in the air with the angelic host. As workers cannot get to the fields fast enough, the Lord is using the paper.

A sister in Pasadena who was living a holy life before God honestly desired all God had for her. She arose in a Pentecostal meeting and said, "I do not ask for tongues but I want to love God with all my heart and soul and my neighbor as myself," and immediately she began to speak with tongues.

IN MONEY MATTERS

There have been teachers who have told all the people to sell out, and many of them have gone into fanaticism. We let the Spirit lead people and tell them what they ought to give. When they are filled with the Spirit, their pocket books are converted and God makes them stewards and if He says, "Sell out," they will do so. Sometimes they have families. God does not tell you to forsake your family. He says if you do not provide for your own you are worse than an infidel. Some are not called to go out and teach. We find some that have no wisdom nor faith, and the devil takes them to disgrace the work. Under false teaching, children have been left to go half naked, women have left their husbands, and husbands leave their wives to wash and scrub, and the Bible says that is worse than infidelity. Then they will go and borrow and cannot pay back. That person ought to go to work. The Bible says, "Let him labor, working with his hands the thing which is good, that he may have to give to him that needeth."

He sent those that were called out to preach the Gospel, to "take no though what ye shall eat or drink." Get down and pray. Make your wants known unto God and He will send it in.

God does not expect all to send out for He says in 1 Corinthians 16:1, "Now concerning the collection for the saints, upon the first day of the week, let everyone of you lay by him in store, as God hath prospered him." It does not mean for you to have great real estate and money banked up while your brothers and sisters are suffering. He means for you to turn loose because all that money is soon going to be thrown to the moles and bats. It is better to spread the Gospel and get stars in your crown than to be holding it. For us to go and tell you to do it, pick out somebody that has money and read the Word to them would not be the Spirit of the Lord. The Spirit will tell you what wakes you up at night and tells you what to do; you cannot sleep until you obey. He says everyone shall be taught of God from the least to the greatest. God wants a free giver.

Annanias wanted to have a reputation that he sold out like the rest, so he plotted that he should give a portion and say he had sold out for the Lord. The Holy Spirit told Peter that Annanias had told a lie. Peter told him the property was his. The Lord allows you to be the steward over it. The property was his and the sin was in lying to the Holy Spirit. It is right for you to have property. However, if the Lord says, take $200, $500, or $1,000 and distribute here or there, you do it.

We must know our calling. We can work when baptized with the Holy Spirit. Some think they have to preach. Well, we do preach in testifying. Some think they must go out because they have the tongues but those are good for Los Angeles or anywhere else. The Lord will lead you by His small voice.

-WJ Seymour

THE LORD LED HER

Sister Malone went to Redlands as a worker from Los Angeles. In a meeting there, a woman eighty-six years of age came in. She had not been taught of man about the Pentecost, but arose and testified that years ago she took her Bible alone and said, "Lord, lead me." He gave her the Baptism of the Holy Spirit and the gift of tongues. Sister Malone asked, "Can you speak with tongues?" Immediately she began to speak with tongues as the Spirit gave utterance and to interpret. This is no new thing. It was begun on the day of Pentecost, but has been hidden for centuries except here and there as some humble soul has been taught of God and received His word without question.

THE FAITH WAY

While Sister Crawford was praying for money to send workers to Oakland, the Lord gave her a vision of three bills she would receive and she received three five-dollar bills. Then when praying about her fare to Salem, Oregon, she saw three gold pieces and sure enough, she received the gold pieces. The Pentecostal way is to make your requests known to God and to God alone, and truly it is a safe way as we have tested and proved it. It is a way that honors God, it is the Bible way, and it is the only safe way to go out that is to walk with the Lord by the light of His word.

EDITORS RECEIVE THE PENTECOST

Rev. TG Attebury, pastor of the People's Church, Sixth and Mateo streets, Los Angeles, and who has for years been the publisher of The Evangelist, has received his Pentecost. His wife and several members of his congregation have also received the Holy Spirit and the church is a center of fire. He says:

"Perhaps no religious movement in the history of this coast has proved of greater interest to the Christian world than that begun and carried on by the Azusa Street Mission of this city under the leadership of Rex WJ Seymour. The special manifestations of the Spirit in the meetings conducted there have deepened. Christian workers of all denominations are interested, so great crowds throng the building at every service to hear and see the things that are being done. The leaders of this movement teach that all the gifts of the Spirit, as enumerated by the Apostle Paul in the twelfth chapter of his first letter to the Corinthian church, are for the church today. These gifts are in the Holy Spirit, and when He comes to dwell in his fullness in a human heart, he brings all these gifts with Him. They contend that only lack of faith will hinder the Spirit from manifesting all of these gifts through every life that is wholly surrendered to the will of God.

"Another teaching peculiar to this movement is that the scriptural evidence that one has been baptized with the Holy Spirit is the gift of tongues, such as the church in Jerusalem received on the day of Pentecost. That large numbers in this mission, and also in other missions and churches of this city and vicinity, have received the gift of tongues cannot be doubled."

Brother Ryan Receives His Pentecost.

Rev. ML Ryan, a Holiness evangelist and editor of Light, Salem, Oregon, hearing the good news from Los Angeles, suddenly dropped in at the Azusa Street publishing office. After a few words of greeting, he went into the upper room meeting and in about two hours after he arrived, he was baptized with the Holy Spirit, spoke, and sang in the power of the Spirit. He has returned to Salem and a band of Spirit-filled workers have gone to Salem to help in a Pentecostal meeting there. Brother Ryan says:

"Little did I think that God had such a rich experience for so unworthy a person as myself. When I arrived in Los Angeles I had my mind made up that I must seek for the Pentecostal Baptism at least one week before receiving it. To my unutterable surprise and joy, the power fell upon me at once. The Holy Spirit prayed and spoke through me in tongues. One of the blessed privileges conferred upon me was a place in that heavenly choir, the songs of which defy all power of human to imitate. Hallelujah for His unspeakable gift."

TESTIMONY OF HEALING

Thirteen years ago, I was brought into the light of divine healing, through the Word of God. I had never heard any teaching from man, but I had been for a long time very greatly afflicted in body. I had taken physicians and medicine until I became discouraged and continued to grow worse until I decided to drop every remedy and take the Lord for my healer.

To this, my people would not give consent. They thought I was losing my mind. One morning, through a nurse, I was chloroformed and taken out of my home to the hospital where they performed an operation. After the physicians had cut, slashed, and found that the seat of the trouble was deeper than they anticipated, they lost courage and said it was impossible for me to recover. It was only a question of how many hours I could possibly live. My husband was away in God's work at the time, and my people became alarmed, and realized what they had done, and decided to take me back to my home to die; but, praise God, He had another plan in store for me.

I did not regain consciousness for many hours; I opened my eyes in my own room and heard them praying around my bed. Then I realized my dreadful situation and in the most excruciating agony, I lifted my eyes to heaven and saw a light streaming down upon me. In a moment, I heard the voice of Jesus telling me to trust Him, that He was my healer. I said, "Yes, Lord, I do trust Thee and will trust Thee, for Thou hast healed me and healed me now." A wonderful joy came into my very being, and I felt the Spirit and the healing power of Christ permeating my whole being, praise God. In three days time I was up and around my room and in less than a week I was able to walk a mile. Never from that time have I doubted the healing power of Jesus. Since then, for thirteen years, I have been in the Lord's work.

Now I wish to relate another instance of His healing power. While in Oakland, California, during last August, through an accident, God permitted the old trouble to come back, and from Saturday evening until Tuesday noon, I suffered intensely. At noon time, we always held our workers' class there, and it was during the saints' meeting, I had a wonderful spirit of prayer, and I tried to say, "Jesus is here," and found I had no utterance, but He was present in my soul. The spirit of prayer continued on me until 2:30. When the Lord permitted me to raise my eyes, I saw a vision of beautiful, rolling clouds, Jesus suspended in the midst, and just then, I realized that He was there for my healing. Sister Crawford and Sister Junk who were with me saw Jesus as well, and God revealed to them that He had come to heal me. I felt the healing work of Jesus. Many of you loved ones have seen the mason lift up his trowel of mortar and throw it upon the wall that he was building, and just so it seemed to me that the Great Physician was rebuilding the temple of my body. Oh, Hallelujah! Praise His name. Oh, I know that He is the only physician that can heal all our diseases. All that afternoon and evening, no matter which way I turned, the form of my Savior was suspended in front of me, and I wish ever to behold the smile of His countenance as I saw Him on that day. My healing was instantaneous, and today I rejoice in a perfect body. --Mrs. May Evans.

UNDER THE BLOOD

We can only have life in our souls as we live under the Blood. We live in the Word, then the Blood flows. The blood is the life. If we stay in Jesus, we have life flowing in us. How watchful we must be to feed on the Word and keep under the Blood, or else we shall become sounding brass and tinkling cymbals. We may retain the gifts for a time but not the life.

Brother JC Mackey, of San Diego, California, says, "I heard of the meetings in Los Angeles and it set me on fire. The Spirit said to me, 'You go.' I said, 'I will.' I got my ticket and came and today I am saved, sanctified, and baptized with the Holy Spirit, and have the witness."

VISIONS OF HELL

A sister who was baptized with the Holy Spirit was at a church, one where the evangelist denounced the works of grace, the Baptism of the Holy Spirit and gift of tongues. That evening she says the Lord showed her a vision of an open hell just back of the pulpit, with the awful, lurid flames coming up, and people sitting around the altar with their feet hanging over into the open hell, unconscious of their condition.

Brother Thomas Junk, while in Oakland, had a vision of hell. He seemed to leave his body and was taken to the top of Knob Hill, in the midst of the ruins of San Francisco. The Savior commanded him, "Son of man, speak." As soon as he spoke, the ground at his feet parted and moved from him, disclosing a liquid fire, like molten iron, with demons and men and women in flames. He says there came to him an awful fume of burning sulfur and he heard the screams of the damned that were heart-rending. All around the edges of the great opening, people were walking, unconscious of the open pit and a continual stream of them were falling into the lake of fire. He beheld them splashing into the fire and heard the laugh of demons as each struck the fire.

While beholding all this, he saw a woman he had known for some time, a professor of Holiness and one who took a prominent part in testimony and prayer, running toward the opening, looking too high to see it. She dashed right over into the flames, and a shout went up from the demons, with such roars of laughter, as he had never heard before.

Brother Junk had been an infidel, and since his conversion could not believe the Scripture statements concerning hell, and had been teaching that the sufferings of the lost would be remorse and spiritual distress, but not fire. As he looked on this scene, Jesus Christ told him to preach a hell of fire, just as it is in the Word of God, and he promised to do so.

The next Sabbath that professor of Holiness was in the meeting as an opposer, insisting that she was filled with the Holy Spirit, but that this work was the work of seducing spirits and the doctrines of devils.

The above incidents are taken from the Household of God and many will remember Brother Junk, who was with us in Los Angeles.

PENTECOSTAL EXPERIENCE

Sister Lucy M. Leatherman writes from 231 Second Avenue, NY, of her work there witnessing to the Pentecost. We have not space for a full report, but her testimony will be of interest to all.

"While seeking for the Baptism of the Holy Spirit in Los Angeles, after Sister Ferrell laid hands on me, I praised and praised God and saw my Savior in the heavens. As I praised, I came closer and closer, and I became so small. By and by, I swept into the wound in His side, and He was not only in me but I in Him, and there I found that rest that passeth all understanding and He said to me, you are in the bosom of the Father. He said I was clothed upon and in the secret place of the Most High. I said, "Father, I want the gift of the Holy Spirit," and the heavens opened and I was overshadowed, and such power came upon me and went through me. He said, Praise Me, and when I did, angels came and ministered unto me. I was passive in His hands, and by the eye of faith I saw angel hands working on my vocal cords, and I realized they were loosing me. I began to praise Him in an unknown language.

"In a few days, while on my way to church, I met a woman and two little children. She was talking to her children in a language that sounded like the Words God had given me. I spoke a sentence to her, and she said, 'What you say means God has given Himself to you.' She is from Beirut, Syria, and speaks Arabic. Eight years ago, in AB Simpson's missionary school at Nyack, New York, I heard the Macedonian cry to go to Jerusalem, but it is to the Arabs. I am told there are more Arabs than Jews there, and God has been speaking to me and asks me if I would be willing to go with Him to the wild Arab of the desert. Anywhere with Jesus I will gladly go.

On land or sea, what matter where,

Where Jesus is 'tis heaven there.

"Pray that God will send a revival to this city and pray for Arabia."

SIGNS FOLLOW

The signs are following in Los Angeles. The eyes of the blind have been opened, the lame made to walk, and those who have accidentally drunk poison have been healed. One suffering from poison was healed instantly. Devils are cast out, and many speak in new tongues. The signs in Mark 16:16-18 have followed except raising the dead, and we believe God will have someone to receive that power. We want all the signs that it may prove that God is true. It will result in the salvation of many souls.

ANOTHER FREE PAPER

Rev. ML Ryan of Salem, OR, who received his Pentecost in Los Angeles, has now put his paper, "Light", on the free subscription line and it is full of Pentecostal news and truth. Send for it if you want to keep in touch with the work being done in the north. Address, "Light," Salem, OR The subscription was 50 cents a year, and though it is free now, we would suggest that those who can will put in an offering for the work there, for he is depending on God alone and they need help in forwarding the work. Brother Ryan is a true man of God and filled with the Holy Spirit.

IN JAIL FOR JESUS' SAKE

When I first went down to Whittier from Los Angeles, as soon as I got on the car to go down, it seemed the power of God came on me. All the time I was there and during the trial in the courtroom, I felt the power of God. I could hardly sit on my chair in the courtroom. I knew it was all in the order of the Lord for me to be arrested and put in jail. The Lord wonderfully used me. I never had such power of God on me as when I was in that jail.

As soon as we would come in after supper, after working on the chain gang during the day shoveling dirt, I would get my Bible and call the men into the big room and the Lord gave me their tongue, the Mexican language. I did not have that tongue, until I went into the jail. As I would talk with them, the tears would run down their faces. There was not one of them but was weeping bitterly. Then when I went into my little cell, after I got done preaching, two or three of them would come in and talk with me a long while. Most of the men were Mexicans. Two or three could talk my language and they could interpret English for the others. I did not know what I was saying in tongues, except as they interpreted for me. When I was preaching to them in tongues, I read the 55th chapter of Isaiah to them in the Mexican language, with my Bible in my hand. I did not know the chapter or that I had read it until they told me. I never had the Lord use me so much before as in jail. It seemed wave after wave of power would run over me. There was hardly a night I would sleep more than an hour or two. The Lord was giving me messages to give them. Bless His holy name.

The men in jail asked me where the mission was, and they were going to come down as soon as they got out. They were anxious for the day to come to get out of there and get to the mission.

My wife and I feel the call of God to go out into the work as the way opens. Our call is first to our old home near Onawa, Michigan. --Henry McLain.

Sister McLain says that when her husband was in jail the presence of the Lord was more precious than ever before in her life. "While I was asking Him to supply my needs. He appeared to me and seemed to enclose a dollar in my hand. All my wants were supplied. Now we are going forth to preach the Gospel. The word keeps coming to me, Go, Go. We have forsaken all for Jesus. We will take our three little children with us and when we get to Michigan, God has provided a home at our daughters for the children. We expect to preach the Word until He comes."

A BLESSED EXPERIENCE

Brother and Sister SK Gibson from Kentucky, who have been in Gospel work for years, have received their Pentecost. Brother Gibson testified, "Night before last, I received the fullness. I have been a Christian over sixty years. I re-consecrated, and God's blessing and word never were so sweet to me as now. Last week in prayer the Lord wonderfully blessed me and came into my room while I was on my face on the floor, and He said, "I will baptize you with the Holy Spirit, and your vile body shall be changed like unto my glorious body, never more to die." It was a revelation in harmony with God's word. What a joy came into my heart at those words. I believe God will work in this old body that has so long been worn out and use it to His glory."

BIBLE SALVATION

The object and end of the entire precious Scripture is that the Holy Spirit may work out a definite work in our hearts. God's design through the ages and through all His work with the children of men has been to implant His own nature-love, in a fallen race. Oh how sweet to feel the tender thrills of that love, going through every part of our being. This is real Bible salvation-not a mere theory or contention over different passages of Scripture.

SANCTIFICATION AND POWER

Have you accepted Jesus? Will you accept Him? Have you accepted Him as your sanctifier? In John 17:15-17, Jesus prayed, "I pray not that thou shouldest take them out of the world, but that thou shouldest keep them from the evil. They are not of the world, even as I am not of the world. Sanctify them through thy truth, thy word is truth. For their sakes I sanctify myself, that they might also be sanctified through the truth." Also in 1 Thessalonians 1:4, "This is the will of God even your sanctification." Bless His dear name. He says, "Behold, I stand at the door and knock. If any man hear my voice and open the door, I will come in unto him and sup with him and He with us. Praises to our God! Hosanna to His omnipotent name!

If we are sanctified and have clean hearts, living pure, holy lives, and having perfect love in our souls...Oh, let us receive the Baptism of the Holy Spirit, the promise of the Father, that we may be able to be His witnesses in Jerusalem, Judea, and Samaria, and unto the uttermost parts of the earth. For Jesus gave this great commission in His resurrection power, after He rose from the dead. "Go, ye, into all the world and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you, and Lo, I am with you always even unto the end of the world."

O, dear loved ones, we must preach and teach and practice all that Jesus has commissioned us. If we have not received all of the fullness of our blessed Christ, let us continue until we shall be filled with all the fullness of God. Let us press forward to the mark of the prize of the high calling in Christ Jesus. Oh, dear loved ones; this means the Baptism of the Holy Spirit and fire upon our souls. It is heaven in our souls here. Oh, let us get down before God and humble ourselves until we can hear Him speak. He desires to speak with His people today as He did in the early morning of the church. The Holy Spirit wants to speak to the people. We praise God for the instruments He has raised up to bring to us light, but far above all, we admire the great Teacher of teachers that never makes a mistake. He loved us even to the throbs of death when He hung on Calvary from the sixth until the ninth hour and there was darkness over the face of the earth, proving to a lost and benighted world that He was the Son of God. Infidels were compelled to confess that this was the Son of God, for they heard His words on the Cross, "Father, forgive them for they know not what they do." His great desire on the Cross was for the salvation of souls.

Dear ones, do we have that burning passion for souls of the lost? When we are persecuted and tried for the Word of God, can we say in our hearts, Lord, forgive them, for they know not what they do? This is the faith that was once delivered unto the saints; faith such as Stephen had when he was being stoned to death. He could look up into heaven and see Jesus at the right hand of God. It seems that He could not feel the stoning. He was so wrapped up in Jesus. There was a smile on His face like an angel when He fell asleep in Jesus.

VISIONS OF JESUS

While Brother GW Evans was with us in Oakland, exhorting the people to come in Christ, we observed he was speaking in verse with great earnestness. The great blessing of salvation and happiness and eternal life was held out to all that would come to Christ and obey Him. After speaking in this manner for probably five minutes he fell backward to the floor, and remained in an unconscious state for probably ten minutes; and then arose.

After meeting a woman in the congregation went to him and requested a copy of the poetry he had spoken, and found he was oblivious to the fact that he had repeated a number of verses.

Later I talked to him about this experience, and he stated that he had never committed any such verses to memory and knew nothing of having repeated them in the meeting.

He then told me that while he was speaking the whole rear end of the Hall became filled with faces of angelic beings from floor to ceiling and from wall to wall. A literal bank of beautiful faces, with Jesus in the center, and all faces turned towards Him.

He says he recognized Peter, James and John, also John Wesley.

During his gaze at this Heavenly host he spoke unconsciously the invitations and exhortations to all to come and receive the rich blessings offered. He knew nothing of his fall, but returned to consciousness on the floor.

The same thing occurred again, about ten days later in the meeting, with this difference he did not recognize any of the faces, except Jesus, standing in the center.

At both times, he says, there were waves of spiritual power and glory coming from Jesus all over him.

I believe every one in the house felt the Divine power present, and the altar was instantly crowded with penitents.

-Household of God

A CATHOLIC THAT RECEIVED PENTECOST

Brother Lee, whom God so wonderfully saved from darkness and a life of sin, and baptized him with the Holy Spirit, testified, "I praise God for this old barn. This is my confession box right here. My priest was Jesus Christ. I praise God for justifying me and sanctifying me wholly, and baptizing me with the Holy Spirit. Jesus Christ is the head of my church. Jesus did the work for me. When the Holy Spirit comes in He speaks for Himself and sings His own songs. Friends, I did not go to college to get this language. The Holy Spirit speaks. He can talk the languages of the nations. It makes no difference what judges or police officers say this Irishman is saved by the grace of God. Glory to God. It settles a man when he gets the Baptism. It gives you a sound mind. This salvation keeps me out of the saloons and jails and red light district. Jesus Christ gave his life for us that we might be saved. Glory to God for a salvation that keeps me night and day. This means persecution. Hallelujah."

PREACHING TO THE SPANISH

Brother and Sister Lopez, Spanish people, who are filled with the Holy Spirit, are being used of God in street meetings and in helping Mexicans at the altar at Azusa Street. Brother Brigido Perez is another young Spanish boy who has received the Pentecost. He is now in San Diego. He writes his testimony in Spanish that being translated reads, "Through the grace of Almighty God and faith in Jesus Christ, I can testify to sanctification and the Baptism of the Holy Spirit and fire of love in my heart. How good He has been to me. On September 3rd, while I was praying, I felt in my heart that Christ our Savior wanted me to go and testify in His precious name in different parts of the country." The Holy Spirit shines out of this brother's face.

THE TEN VIRGINS

I saw a vision of the ten virgins before me: five wise and five foolish. The five foolish virgins had oil in their vessels and their lamps were burning. The five wise virgins also had their lamps burning, and oil in their vessels. This was something more than a clean heart and yet the same nature. The oil in their vessels with their lamps was the Baptism of the Holy Spirit and fire. The five foolish virgins were Holiness people, but they were saying, "There is nothing in it, we got it when we were sanctified and we are satisfied." The Lord showed me that the five foolish virgins, who would not accept the doctrine and seek the double supply of oil, would find that their lamps are beginning to go out, burning low. There is nothing to keep burning. They are burning now just as brightly as they ever will. The time is coming when the oil is going to give out.

Let me warn you, do not oppose the Baptism of the Holy Spirit and fire, for if you oppose it your lamp will go out. You get that vessel filled with oil!

The cry went forth, "The bridegroom cometh, go ye out to meet him!" Then those poor ones, whose lamps were going out, said, "We have not enough oil." As they went to buy or seek the Baptism of the Holy Spirit, (for the time is coming when they will begin to seek) the bridegroom was taken away. Dear ones, do you want to be there when Jesus comes? If you do, seek the Holy Spirit today.

THE CHARACTER OF LOVE

It is sweet to have the promise and character of Jesus wrought out in our lives and hearts by the power of the Blood and the Holy Spirit. Sweeter still it is and to have that same love and that same meekness and humility manifested in our lives, for His character is love. Jesus was a man of love. The people flocked to Him to hear His words. Women lugged their babies in the hot sun and spent days listening to the Words of Jesus. Men got into boats and went across the sea to see Jesus and hear His precious words. While there were many that followed for the loaves and fishes, many followed Him for healing. Yes, He was a man of love. He was the express image of the Father, God manifest in the flesh.

Dear loved ones, we must have that pure love that comes down from heaven, love that is willing to suffer loss, love that is not puffed up, not easily provoked, but gentle, meek, and humble. We are accounted as sheep for the slaughter day by day. We are crucified to self, the world, the flesh and everything, that we may bear about in our body the dying of the Lord Jesus, that our joy may be full even as He is full.

There are three regular Pentecostal missions now in the city, besides a number of cottage prayer meetings in which the Lord is working in power. In Monrovia, Pasadena, Sawtelle, Whittier and other points about here, as fast as workers are ready to go out, meetings are springing up.

A Presbyterian evangelist from Greenfield, IA, hearing the glad tidings from Los Angeles, a Brother Atherton, came 2,500 miles. The first night he was in the meeting he was slain under the power of God and said that one meeting paid for the trip. Afterward he received the Baptism of the Holy Spirit and spoke in tongues. He then started home filled with great joy to spread the good news.

Some who learned of the Pentecost in Los Angeles through reading this paper have come to Los Angeles and received the Baptism of the Holy Spirit and the Bible evidence as received on the day of Pentecost. One received the Holy Spirit and gift of tongues while reading the first number of the paper. May the Lord continue to bless these printed messages to souls. We expect the Spirit to accompany this paper to the heart of each reader.

News comes from Colorado Springs that souls are being saved, sanctified, and baptized with the Holy Spirit. Some are being healed also. A number are speaking in tongues. The Lord is calling some to go as missionaries, and a number are expecting to go to different parts of the world. The gift of singing and playing instruments in the Spirit has been given. A child six years of age has the gift of tongues, also a person eighty years of age. A girl of twelve years preaches and signs in the Indian language.

The Word says: "The wicked shall be turned into hell, and all the nations that forget God." Chicago is going to stand up in the judgment; Los Angeles shall stand before the judgment, New York and Indianapolis shall be brought into judgment. After the white throne judgment, we are going to see men and women who have scorned this Holiness and baptism, and they will be cast down into the burning hell. Today is the day of salvation. Today if ye will hear His voice, harden not your heart. Oh, accept this salvation.

Sister Seeley of Temple Street, Los Angeles had been suffering eight years from rupture. She could not live without her medicine and was subject to sudden spells of great pain. During the last attack, she decided to trust fully in the Lord. She came to Azusa Street and asked prayers and as hands were laid on her and prayer was being offered, Brother Seymour got the witness that she was healed, and at the same moment she felt a thrill of joy through her being, and knew the work was done. She has since taken no medicine and her healing is perfect. She has also received the Baptism of the Holy Spirit and is a joyful witness.

CHAPTER FOUR

Seven Months of Pentecostal Showers Jesus, Our Projector and Great Shepherd

Many are asking how the work in Azusa Mission started and who was the founder. The Lord was the founder and He is the Projector of this movement. A band of humble people in Los Angeles had been praying for a year or more for more power with God for the salvation of lost and suffering humanity. They did not know just what they needed, but one thing they knew, people were not getting saved and healed as they desired to see. They continued to hold cottage prayer meetings for several months.

Then they felt led of the Lord to call Brother Seymour from Houston, Texas to Los Angeles, the saints in Los Angeles sending his fare. It was as truly a call from God as when He sent His holy angel to tell Cornelius to send for Peter. He came and told them about the Baptism with the Spirit, and that every afternoon at three o'clock they would pray for the enduement of power. He told them he did not have the Pentecost but was seeking it and wanted all the saints to pray with him until all received their Pentecost. Some believed they had it, and others believed they did not have it because the signs were not following. Hardly anyone was being saved.

There was a great deal of opposition, but they continued to fast and pray for the Baptism of the Holy Spirit, until on April 9 the fire of God fell in a cottage on Bonnie Brae. Pentecost was poured out upon workers and saints. Three days after that, Brother Seymour received his Pentecost. Two who had been working with him in Houston came to Los Angeles just before Pentecost fell. They came filled with the Holy Spirit and power. One of them had received her personal Pentecost, Sister Lucy Farrow, and said the Lord had sent her to join us in holding up this precious truth. She came with love and power, holding up the Blood of Jesus Christ in all His fullness.

The fire has been falling ever since. Hundreds of souls have received salvation and healing. We can truly say that the revival is still going on. The Lord God is in Los Angeles in different missions and churches in mighty power, in spite of opposition. This revival has spread through the towns about Los Angeles and through.

He gave His Blood for the salvation of our souls and He gave a perfect body for these imperfect bodies of ours.

It is by the stripes of Jesus that we are healed. There was never a whiplash put on Jesus' back until Pilate scourged Him before the judgment bar. The marks that were made on that perfect body of our Savior, the Blood that ran down in Pilate's judgment hall from His stripes, reach our infirmities and cleanse us from all sickness and disease and make us every whit whole.

The Passover lamb was a type of Christ. We find that the Lord commanded the children of Israel, when they were about to come out of Egypt to take a lamb without blemish and kill it and sprinkle the Blood at the doors of their houses and eat the body of the lamb in their houses. The blood stood for salvation to save them from the destroyer. The Blood of Jesus saves us from sin, for Satan is not able to make his way through the Blood. Now they were to eat the body of the lamb in their very own homes that they might have strength and health that night to go out of Egypt, there was not one sick. This was a real type of the atonement of our Lord Jesus Christ for soul and body.

We find the Jews afterward kept the Passover. They looked back to their deliverance and commemorated it every year by eating the lamb's body, the type of our Christ. The body of the lamb pointed to Christ's body broken for us. We look back to Calvary, to our Savior who hung, died, and gave a perfect body for us.

Oh, remember Calvary. He said at the Passover supper, just before He was crucified, "Take, eat, this is my body." What is it for? It is for your health. He gave them the cup and said, "This is my blood of the New Testament that is shed for many, for the remission of sins." Every time we partake of the Lord's supper, we do it in remembrance of this two-told salvation for body and soul.

Many are sickly and fall asleep because they do not discern the Lord's body. They will take a doctor before Jesus. They put a doctor between them and the atonement. Yet they will say, "Lord, Lord," and do not the things that He says: "Is any afflicted, let him pray. Is any sick among you, let him call for the elders of the church and let them pray over him, anointing him with oil in the name of the Lord and the prayer of faith shall save the sick." James 5: 13, 15. The doctor gives you poison and you die because you dishonor the atonement. You are sickly and you fall asleep. You come to the Lord's table and yet you do not believe in full salvation for soul and body. You take the cup and eat the bread, yet deny the body of the Lord for health and salvation. You are sick because you do not discern the body of the Lord Jesus.

"Except ye eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink His Blood, ye have no life in you."

Dear beloved, this means that we must honor the atonement of our Lord Jesus Christ in all its fullness, as David said, "Bless the Lord, Oh, my soul, and forget not all His benefits, who forgives all thine iniquities, who heals all thy diseases." Let us take the Lamb's body, through faith in our Lord for salvation and healing of these bodies as we honor His Blood for saving and sanctifying our soul and spirit. Amen.

We can be rather hasty, especially when we are very young in the power of the Holy Spirit. We are just like a baby-full of love-and we were willing to accept anyone that had the Baptism of the Holy Spirit as our leader. The Lord commenced settling us down, and we saw that the Lord should be our leader. We honor Jesus as the great Shepherd of the sheep. He is our model.

The Lord adds here daily such as should be saved, and plants them in the body to suit Himself, and all work together in harmony under the power of the Holy Spirit. There is no pope, Dualism, or Sanfordism, but we are all little children knowing only Jesus and Him crucified. This work is carried on by the people of Los Angeles that God has united by the precious blood of our Lord Jesus Christ and the power of the Holy Spirit.

Brother Seymour is simply a humble pastor of the flock over which the Holy Spirit has made him overseer. According to Acts 20:28, "Take heed therefore, unto yourself and to the flock over which the Holy Spirit hath made you overseer, to feed the church of God which He hath purchased with His own blood." As missionary workers and teachers go out from this place, they have the same privilege of being pastors over the people the Lord puts them over by the Holy Spirit, and of feeding them with the pure Word of God. Each mission will be united in harmony, having its own pastor simply that the Holy Spirit shall appoint.

We believe in old time repentance, old time conversion, old time sanctification, healing of our bodies and the Baptism of the Holy Spirit. We believe that God made Adam in His own image, according to Genesis 5:1; Psalms 8:4; and Matthew 19:4. We do not believe in any eighth day creation, as some have taught, and we do not believe in the annihilation of the wicked.

We stand on Bible truth without compromise. We recognize every man that honors the Blood of Jesus Christ to be our brother, regardless of denomination, creed, or doctrine. We are not willing to accept any errors, it matters not how charming and sweet they may seem to be. If they do not tally with the Word of God, we reject them.

This is the year of jubilee when God is sending the latter rain, and the refreshing times have come. He has raised up a nation in these last days for a witness. Jesus died for us-not the Holy Spirit. Praise our God. They were not to tarry in Jerusalem until He should pour out His Blood upon them, but tarry for the promise of the Father. John truly baptized with water, but the Lord Jesus was coming to baptize with the Holy Spirit and fire. Jesus said, "Ye shall be baptized with the Holy Spirit not many days hence," and "ye shall receive power after that the Holy Spirit is come upon you."

The Baptism of the Holy Spirit is not a work of grace but a gift of power. Sanctification is the second and last work of grace, but the Baptism of the Holy Spirit is a gift of power. It is a gift without repentance. No consecration to be made in receiving the Holy Spirit. Consecration is made in sanctification. The Lord Jesus is dwelling within, and you have unction from the Holy One that teaches you all things. The Baptism of the Holy Spirit makes you a witness unto the uttermost parts of the earth. It gives you power to speak in the languages of the nations. Everyone that is really sanctified with a clean heart, and seeks the Baptism of the Holy Spirit according to Acts 2, receives the witness of speaking in tongues as the Spirit gives utterance. You may not receive the gift of tongues when you receive the Baptism of the Holy Spirit, but you receive the witness of tongues, that is to say, you will speak in tongues when you are baptized with the Holy Spirit.

In seeking the Baptism of the Holy Spirit, do not ask the Lord for tongues. Just pray the Lord to give you the Baptism of the Holy Spirit as He gave his disciples, according to the second chapter of Acts, and wait before Him until the Lord verifies His promise in your precious soul.

It is one thing to be filled with the Holy Spirit, and it is another thing to be baptized with the Holy Spirit. It is one thing to fill a glass with water that is to hide it out of sight. John the Baptist was filled with the Holy Spirit from his mother's womb but not baptized. The Holy Spirit had been in the world all the time. "Holy men of old spoke as they were moved by the Holy Spirit." He was with Moses, Samuel, Elijah, Enoch and many other men of God, but He was not poured out upon all flesh until the day of Pentecost.

"Wherefore, Jesus also, that He might sanctify the people with His own blood, suffered without the gate. Let us go forth therefore, unto Him without the gate bearing His reproach. Dear loved ones, in order to get sanctification, we have to go without the gate. We must leave the beautiful city, the precious temples, fame, honor, position, and go out of the gate. There we will find Jesus, the despised one, hanging between two thieves. It is so sweet to live this sanctified life. Very few people have sanctification in its fullness that means crucifixion to self according to Galatians 5:24:25. "And they that are Christ's have crucified the flesh with the affections and lusts. If we live in the Spirit, let us also walk in the Spirit." Hallelujah!

A Pentecostal revival has commenced in the Altamont Bible Institute of South Carolina and one girl received the gift of tongues.

PENTECOST IN WOODLAND

Brother GW Evans, who has just come from Woodland, California, reports a Pentecostal revival in that place. Thirty-two have been baptized with the Holy Spirit, thirty-one sanctified, and twenty saved. Seventeen members out of the Baptist Church are filled with the Holy Spirit including the superintendent of the Sunday school and his wife. The Sunday school superintendent of the Methodist Church is also baptized with the Holy Spirit, and the difficulty now on hand is the need of a larger building to accommodate the crowds. Fourteen were healed at one meeting. God's word is made so clear and plain that the crowds are pressing in spiritual hunger for the living truth. Sister Sophie and Sister Reece from Oakland, whom God has been using, are at present in charge.

A man that had been possessed with a mad demon and had been in the asylum was delivered. The Lord cast out this demon, clothed him in his right mind and completed the work, baptizing him with the Holy Spirit. In another remarkable instance, a party was under sentence of court that decision was suspended and the defendant saved, sanctified, and filled with the Holy Spirit and became a good citizen.

PENTECOST IN SAN DIEGO

San Diego, CA, November 28th

We are praising God for victory in San Diego. Brother Love and I came down here last Thursday to see if the Lord was preparing to take out a people for Himself in this city by the sea. On arriving in the city, we were not long in finding my old friend and brother, George Reilly, who was earnestly tarrying for the Pentecost. We appointed a meeting at his house the same night and he was gloriously baptized with the Holy Spirit and spoke with tongues. We met again the next evening and two more received their Pentecost with Bible evidence. Hallelujah! The Lord had already laid it upon Brother Reilly to open a mission on this line. He had secured the building and we had it ready for service by Saturday night. The people came out and nearly filled the seating capacity and we had a most wonderful meeting. Some were justified, sanctified, and blessedly anointed. Interest is increasing. Some are falling under the power of the Holy Spirit and under mighty conviction of the people. We believe the Lord wants Azusa Street Mission duplicated to this city. We expect to stay here until the Lord says, "Flee ye to another." He has showed us that He has many people in this city. Hallelujah! Pray for San Diego and us. -FE Hill

PENTECOST IN SAN JOSE

They are having a real old time Pentecostal revival in San Jose, California. The devil is stirred and doing his best to put out the fire, but they ignore him and continue to fellowship with the Holy Spirit. God is raising up the workers.

People are coming and making their confessions and giving up all, to get ready for the coming of Jesus. Never in the history of this work has there been so much confession and restitution. -Apostolic Light

It is every believer's birthright to be baptized with the Holy Spirit.

Two bands of Apostolic Faith workers have been arrested in Whittier, but it has only increased the interest and deepened the work.

An anointed handkerchief was sent to Elizabeth Smith, Brunswick, GA, and as soon as she opened the letter, she was instantly healed.

We have heard the funeral of the Gospel preached, the power of nobody unto anything, now we are preaching the power of God unto salvation.

One came here that had been suffering for years in body, and was healed by the power of God while in the meeting without even asking for prayers.

A young woman was contemplating suicide came to the meeting and was saved, then sanctified and baptized with the Holy Spirit. She is very happy in the Lord.

When the conditions are just right, the Lord is just as responsible for the healing of our body as of our souls. The reason many are sick is that they trust in the arm of flesh instead of God.

A brother testified, "Last week I came in a backslider and half drunk and the Lord forgave my backsliding right in my soul, and a few days afterward, He sanctified me and baptized me with the Holy Spirit."

The gift of tongues is the glory of God flooding your soul and the Spirit taking possession. You will never know what it means to be clay in the hands of the Potter until you receive the Pentecostal baptism.

Pentecost has fallen in Long Beach, CA Souls are slain under the power of God and meetings cannot close. A number have received the Baptism of the Holy Spirit. The Lord is using Brother E. McCauley to push the work there.

God's eternal purpose was that Jesus should be born in a humble place. No place is too humble for Jesus to dwell in. He poured out His Spirit in the humblest meeting place in Los Angeles, that no flesh should glory in His presence.

Interpreted message spoken in tongues: "Open your heart and receive the Spirit. I will give good gifts to My children. The Lord used us to His glory in Chattanooga. He set that town on fire. Praise His name. The dear ones did not want to see us leave, but the will of God must be done. The last meeting we had with the people was beside the train that brought us away. The Lord used me under the shed last in that city. He sang and preached through me, some confessed their sins, and asked, what shall I do to be saved? Some promised to live a better life. Oh, glory to Jesus. While on the train, we preached the Word and some received it with joy. We hope to set sail for Africa soon. Pray that God may use us on the boat to the salvation of souls. Love to all the dear saints."

A passage of Scripture that has been spoken in many unknown tongues and interpreted is that beautiful text, "Come unto Me all ye that labor and are heavy laden and I will give you rest." The following texts were interpreted messages, "Now is the accepted time, now is the day of salvation." "He that believeth and is baptized shall be saved; but he that believeth not shall be damned. These sings shall follow thee that believe; In my name shall they cast out devils; they shall speak with new tongues; they shall take up serpents; and if they drink any deadly thing it shall not hurt them; they shall lay hands on the sick and they shall recover."

Sister Ida Ritchie of 1147 Sheridan Road, Chicago, has received her Pentecost. She writes, "I shall never forget that night, I was about two hours receiving words in different languages and songs in the Spirit. Oh, what a great joy it is to me to know that I can go with the language and songs and the love of God to the dying, famishing heathen. How I treasure the privileges and gifts. Oh, how precious to be born in this age."

Brother GW Batman writes from New York City, "We have been having great meetings in the little mission here. Many souls have received the Baptism and talk in tongues. To my surprise, Stephen Merritt requested me to speak last Sunday forenoon in his large tabernacle, the Lord helped me in a wonderful way, and some souls were seeking the Baptism. Praise God. I am stronger in the Lord since we came here than in Los Angeles. We expect a few more days that are wonderful. We sail for Monrovia, Liberia Africa December 8. That will be our future address."

A late report from Brother Junk of Seattle, Washington, says, "We have been greatly blessed here. About 24 or 26 souls have been baptized, among them are about eight children from seven to fourteen years of age. The devil is raging terribly."

We are so glad to hear that dear Sister Shiply, Brother Ryan's mother in Salem OR, has received the Pentecost. Last Sunday she received many languages, one of them being that of the Kalamath Indians and sang in some of the Indian chanting songs. She also gave prophecies and messages to the people and interpreted. People are stirred and amazed at the miracles God is doing. A preacher who has been on the investigation order, heard a sister from Washington speak in Hindu that he was enough acquainted with to understand some of the Words and it convinced him of the genuineness of the work.

The Lord has been working in Chattanooga, Tennessee, where a band of Africa missionaries stopped on their way. Souls have been saved, a number have been baptized with the Holy Spirit and received the Bible evidence. Brother and Sister Hutchins and Sister McKinney have now gone on to New York. Their destination is Monrovia, Liberia, Africa.

A little girl, who knows the Lord as her healer, was suffering from fever. After different ones had prayed for her, she said, "Now maybe the Lord wants me to pray, so she said, "Dear Jesus, you have heard all these people's prayers, now heal me for Jesus sake." Then she lay down and went to sleep. God heals many times in answer to children's prayers.

The devil says he has no lake of fire, though sinners, skeptics, and ungodly preachers all are trying to find consolation in the doctrine of no hell, annihilation, and Universalism. God says in Revelation 20:14 that there is a lake of fire. Jesus warned us of hell. Hades in Greek and Gehenna in Hebrew mean "lake of fire." What can we do but believe the Word?

We can truly say that Pentecost has come, for all the signs are following. God is pouring out His Spirit upon His sons and daughters and giving dreams and visions, speaking in tongues. A woman who had been an invalid for 18 years is walking, shouting, and praising God. The blind have received their sight. Missionaries are going out without purse or scrip. Everything is pointing toward the coming of the Lord.

The great shekinah glory is still resting upon us as a pillar of fire by night and a pillar of cloud by day, where hundreds and thousands of souls have come and been blessed through the mighty power of our blessed Lord. Hungry and thirsty souls are coming from hundreds and thousands of miles to get their personal Pentecost, and receiving and taking the glad tidings back home to hungry and thirsty souls that are waiting their arrival.

People from thousands of miles have been coming to Los Angeles to get into the rivers of salvation. John saw a river proceeding out of the throne of God and the Lamb and on either side of that river was the tree of life. We can get the fruit on either side of the river, but we have to swim to get it. If you want this great blessing, you must launch out by faith into the river. It is a very sweet thing to be where the rivers are flowing.

It is such a blessing to be sanctified, cleansed, crucified, nailed to the Cross of Christ. Old things have passed away, the old man is crucified, slain, and Jesus Christ is enthroned and crowned within. When I came from San Jose here last May, I heard of these meetings and came down to see. I had not been in the house an hour before I knew God's Spirit was here, and I commenced seeking the Baptism of the Holy Spirit. , Glory to God, He came and completely deluged my soul and body, until I hardly knew whether I was in the body or out. As the Holy Spirit came upon me, I saw Jesus sitting upon a cloud looking at me and at the congregation, and He said He was coming soon. My tongue commenced to move, and I spoke in an unknown tongue as the Spirit gave utterance. In prayer, I often speak in a foreign tongue and at home or in meeting, I often am moved to speak in tongues. Bless God! Glory! -Mrs. P. Perkins

If you are not healed the fault in either in you or in Jesus Christ. Which is it? Be honest with yourself and get the fault out of the way. Get rid of the cause. There is nothing can stop my healing but me. God is not a moment behind in doing His work.

Brother GB Cashwell, who came from North Carolina for his Pentecost, has returned on his way rejoicing to carry the good news of the Pentecost to the hungry souls there. He had faith in God that the money would be provided for his fare to return, and the Lord provided it. He trusted the Lord for a suit of clothes and the Lord gave him a suit. The trip was one of faith and the Lord made it a great blessing.

A little girl in Whittier lately received her Pentecost while the people in the room were silently praying and she began to sing in an unknown tongue, "Where He leads me, I will follow." Then she was filled with great joy and said her name was written in heaven and she was sealed unto the day of redemption.

Sister Lucy Farrow wrote from New York that she had started for Africa. About two hundred souls had been saved in Portsmouth and most of them were speaking in tongues. She sends love to the saints and asks your prayers.

We are receiving letters from all over the world, requesting prayers that they might receive their Pentecost and healing. Almost every day we are getting returns that prayer has been heard. Handkerchiefs are sent in letters to be anointed and blessed for healing, and we do so and bless God, He hears and answers prayer. One instance comes to our mind now of a little baby about a year old, who was very sick with a high fever. The parents sent a handkerchief to be prayed over. It was blessed and sent back, and when it was laid on the child's face, almost immediately the fever left her, and in a half hour it was playing around and well. Praise our Christ for His matchless power.

Every child is born with inherited sin in its heart like a little plant. When a sinner comes to Christ and is saved, the fruits of sin are cut off and the fruits of the Spirit appear. The stump of the sin plants is still there and will give us trouble. The best thing to do is to get the old stump out. Then we have a pure heart like Adam before he went into sin. Then we can pray for the Baptism of the Holy Spirit that is a gift from God.

The Lord showed us before starting this paper that it was to be free. We were not to tax the people or put ourselves in debt to the people and in bondage, by selling it a year ahead. It was to be a Holy Spirit paper and it was to be free indeed. No subscription price. There was to be no begging for money in it or through it. It costs a cent a copy to send it anywhere in the world, and the Lord can afford that. We pay book postage on the rolls, because we cannot enter it as second-class matter in the mails.

We have no advertisements-nothing to advertise but the wonderful salvation that is free to all. The writers and workers in the office live by faith outside of what comes for the paper, and we publish no names of editors. All work for the honor and glory of God. This we believe will be a real protection to the paper to keep it pure, for unless one is filled with the love of God; they do not covet to work without honor or money.

We get out the paper when the means comes in and not before. No debt will be formed. The Lord can stop it at any time He chooses. We will not be getting letters saying, "My paper did not come on time," because it is the Lord's paper. He supplies the means.

We are so glad to be able, through offerings sent in, to send this paper to thousands of hungry souls. Many cannot afford to subscribe for a paper, and even 25 cents is a real tax on some poor widow or Christian worker. We do not make any charge. We preach and publish this Gospel freely. "Freely ye have received, freely give."

We praise the Lord for enabling us to publish and send out 5,000 of No. 1; 10,000 of NO. 2; 30,000 of No. 3; again of this issue. Some have received their Pentecost through reading the paper, and we send out every one with a prayer.

SALVATION AND HEALING

Through Jesus, we are entitled to health and sanctification of soul and body. Brother Paul said to the church, 1 Thessalonians 8:23. "And the very God of peace sanctify you wholly, and I pray God your whole spirit and soul and body be preserved blameless unto the coming of the Lord." The Holy Spirit is praying that prayer for us today. Jesus prayed that the Father would keep us from evil that means sickness and all the works of the devil. All sickness is the work of Satan, and we have just as much right to look to Jesus for the health of these bodies as for the saving and sanctifying of our souls.

The sacrifice on Calvary was a two fold sacrifice. When we receive the atonement in all its fullness, we have health and salvation to the uttermost. The prophet said, "He was wounded for our transgressions, He was bruised for our iniquities." He gave His Blood for the salvation of our souls and He gave a perfect body for these imperfect bodies of ours.

It is by the stripes of Jesus that we are healed. There was never a whiplash put on Jesus' back until Pilate scourged Him before the judgment bar. The marks that were made on that perfect body of our Savior, the Blood that ran down in Pilate's judgment hall from His stripes, reach our infirmities and cleanse us from all sickness and disease and make us every whit whole.

The Passover lamb was a type of Christ. We find that the Lord commanded the children of Israel, when they were about to come out of Egypt to take a lamb without blemish and kill it and sprinkle the Blood at the doors of their houses and eat the body of the lamb in their houses. The blood stood for salvation to save them from the destroyer. The Blood of Jesus saves us from sin, for Satan is not able to make his way through the Blood. Now they were to eat the body of the lamb in their very own homes that they might have strength and health that night to go out of Egypt. Out of three million that went out of Egypt, there was not one sick. This was a real type of the atonement of our Lord Jesus Christ for soul and body.

We find the Jews afterward kept the Passover. They looked back to their deliverance and commemorated it every year by eating the lamb's body, the type of our Christ. The body of the lamb pointed to Christ's body broken for us. We look back to Calvary, to our Savior who hung, died, and gave a perfect body for us.

Oh, remember Calvary. He said at the Passover supper, just before He was crucified, "Take, eat, this is my body." What is it for? It is for health. He gave them the cup and said, "This is my blood of the New Testament that is shed for many, for the remission of sins." every time we partake of the Lord's supper, we do it in remembrance of this two-fold salvation for body and soul.

Many are sickly and fall asleep because they do not discern the Lord's body. They will take a doctor before Jesus. They put a doctor between them and the atonement. Yet they will say, "Lord, Lord," and do not the things that He says: "Is any afflicted, let him pray. Is any sick among you, let him call for the elders of the church, and let them pray over him, anointing him with oil in the name of the Lord, and the prayer of faith shall save the sick." James 5: 13, 15. The doctor gives you poison and you die because you dishonor the atonement. You are sickly, and you fall asleep. You come to the Lord's table and yet you do not believe in full salvation for soul and body. You take the cup and eat the bread, yet deny the body of the Lord for health and salvation. You are sick because you do not discern the body of the Lord Jesus.

"Except ye eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink His Blood, ye have no life in you." John 6: 53. Dear beloved, this means that we must honor the atonement of our Lord Jesus Christ in all its fullness, as David said, "Bless the Lord, Oh, my soul, and forget not all His benefits, who forgives all thine iniquities, who heals all thy diseases." Let us take the Lamb's body through faith in our Lord for salvation and healing of these bodies as we honor His Blood for saving and sanctifying our soul and spirit. Amen.

BAPTIZED WITH THE HOLY SPIRIT

By FE Hill

Do you long to be full of joy and free?

To be strong in God and his glory see?

Then obey His word and you shall be,

Baptized with the Holy Spirit.

CHORUS

"Ye shall be baptized," Jesus said.

Baptized with the Holy Spirit.

Tarry then until with the power endued,

Baptized with the Holy Spirit.

Yes I'll be baptized with His power,

Baptized with the Holy Spirit.

'Tis the gift I see, Father's promise to me,

Baptized with the Holy Spirit.

Will you consecrate to Him now your all?

Let Him have his way while to Him you call,

As in faith you wait the power will fall,

Baptized with the Holy Spirit.

"This is that" which fell at Pentecost,

To prepare the church to redeem the lost,

We must then be filled at any cost,

Baptized with the Holy Spirit.

'Tis the gift of God to the sanctified,

He will comfort, lead and will be our guide,

And will dwell in us, coming to abide,

Baptized with the Holy Spirit.

Will you gladly fall at the Savior's feet?

Give your doubting over, and be made complete,

There to dwell in peace, and communion sweet,

Baptized with the Holy Spirit.

You can sing God's praise now, and by and by,

Ye shall speak with tongues, and shall prophesy,

In the power of God ye shall testify,

Baptized by the Holy Spirit.

THE ENDUEMENT OF POWER

The first thing in order to receive this precious and wonderful baptism is to have a clear knowledge of justification by faith, according to Romans. 5:1, "Therefore, being justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ. We know that all our sins guilt and pollution are washed away. Old things are passed away, behold all things are become new. The Holy Spirit sheds the love of God abroad in our hearts. We have eternal life in our souls and the Spirit witnesses with our Spirit that we are the children of God.

Now since we are justified by faith, we have access, through the precious blood, to present ourselves to God as a living sacrifice for sanctification that is the second work of grace that cleanses us from inbred sin, inbred disobedience and rebellion. The old man is crucified, the body of sin destroyed. Romans 6:6, "Knowing this, that our old man is crucified, that the body of sin might be destroyed, that henceforth we should not serve sin. We are made holy by the Blood of Jesus, for we have a witness by the Holy Spirit, Hebrews 10: 14, 15, "For by one offering He hath perfected forever them that are sanctified, whereof the Holy Spirit also is a witness to us."

This is not the Baptism of the Holy Spirit. Many people have taken the promise of the Father to be sanctification, but if we carefully read our Bibles and our references in our Bibles, we will find that sanctification and the Baptism of the Holy Spirit are altogether different. We are sanctified through the precious blood of our crucified Lord. Jesus died for us-not the Holy Spirit. Praise our God. They were not to tarry in Jerusalem until He should pour out His Blood upon them, but tarry for the promise of the Father. John truly baptized with water, but the Lord Jesus was coming to baptize with the Holy Spirit and fire. Jesus said, "Ye shall be baptized with the Holy Spirit not many days hence," and "ye shall receive power after that the Holy Spirit is come upon you."

The Baptism of the Holy Spirit is not a work of grace but a gift of power. Sanctification is the second and last work of grace, but the Baptism of the Holy Spirit is a gift of power. It is a gift without repentance. NO consecration to be made in receiving the Holy Spirit. Consecration is made in sanctification. The Lord Jesus is dwelling within, and you have unction from the Holy One that teaches you all things. The Baptism of the Holy Spirit makes you a witness unto the uttermost parts of the earth. It gives you power to speak in the languages of the nations. Everyone that is really sanctified with a clean heart, and seeks the Baptism of the Holy Spirit according to the Acts 2, receives the witness of speaking in tongues as the Spirit gives utterance. You may not receive the gift of tongues when you receive the Baptism of the Holy Spirit, but you receive the witness of tongues, that is to say-you will speak in tongues when you are baptized with the Holy Spirit.

In seeking the Baptism of the Holy Spirit, do not ask the Lord for tongues. Just pray the Lord to give you the Baptism of the Holy Spirit as He gave his disciples, according to the second chapter of Acts, and wait before Him until the Lord verifies His promise in your precious soul.

It is one thing to be filled with the Holy Spirit, and it is another thing to be baptized with the Holy Spirit. It is one thing to fill a glass with water, and another thing to baptize it with water, that is to hide it out of sight, John the Baptist was filled with the Holy Spirit from his mother's womb but not baptized. The Holy Spirit had been in the world all the time. "Holy men of old spoke as they were moved by the Holy Spirit." He was with Moses, Samuel, Elijah, Enoch and many other men of God, but He was not poured out upon all flesh until the day of Pentecost.

"Wherefore, Jesus also, that He might sanctify the people with His own blood, suffered without the gate. Let us go forth therefore, unto Him without the gate bearing His reproach. Dear loved ones, in order to get sanctification, we have to go without the gate. We must leave the beautiful city, the precious temples, fame, honor, position, and go out of the gate. There we will find Jesus, the despised one, hanging between two thieves. It is so sweet to live this sanctified life. Very few people have sanctification in its fullness that means crucifixion to self according to Galatians 5:24:25. "And they that are Christ's have crucified the flesh with the affection's and lusts. If we live in the Spirit, let us also walk in the Spirit." Hallelujah.

A Pentecostal revival has commenced in the Altamont Bible Institute of South Carolina and one girl received the gift of tongues.

REPENTANCE

You cannot get this salvation unless you repent and confess your sins. There are so many that cannot get this salvation because they will not make restitution, and God cannot enter into any heart that will hide its sins. "Bring forth therefore fruits meet for repentance." You must have Godly sorrow for sins if you want Jesus Christ to come into your heart. You cannot get the Blood of Jesus Christ applied to a heart without repentance. God commands men everywhere to repent. Men have robbed, cheated and stolen and yet they do not want to make restitution. They come from time to time to get salvation and God will not hear them. "If I regard iniquity in my heart, the Lord will not hear me." God will never hear a man until he repents.

God heard the man that came and said, "God be merciful to me a sinner," and he went away justified. God pardoned because he repented. When you come to God, you must have the foundation of repentance. Confess your sins and He is faithful and just to forgive you. He will not accept anybody that will cloak his or her sin. Be honest with your own heart today, get the devil exposed, and accept Christ.

THE BAPTISM WITH THE HOLY SPIRIT FORESHADOWED

We read in Exodus 25:8-9 that God spoke to Moses and said, "Let them make me a sanctuary that I may dwell among them, according to all that show thee, after the pattern of the tabernacle and the pattern of all the instruments thereof, even so shall ye make it."

Dear loved ones; the Lord Jesus is the true tabernacle that God pitched and not man. The tabernacle in the wilderness was made after the pattern of the heavenly tabernacle that God showed Moses in the holy mount. We now have the true pattern that is the Lord Jesus Christ, the Son of the living God.

We first come to the court of the tabernacle where we find the brazen altar, where whole burn offerings are made. When we first came, we were dead in trespasses and sins and could make no offering for we had no life in our souls. We found Jesus as a sacrifice upon that altar. He pardons us of our sins and plants the new birth in our souls. We are justified and saved and our names written in the Lamb's book of life.

Then we go on to the Holy Place to consecrate ourselves. There we find the believer's altar that is the golden altar. We sanctify ourselves and consecrate ourselves to God as a living sacrifice, and we find the precious blood in the Holy Place that sanctifies and cleanses us from all sin, crucifies the old man, the body of sin and carnality, and makes us holy. We had to have eternal life in our souls in order to consecrate ourselves. Here we feed upon Christ, for the breed in the Holy Palace typifies the bread of life. "Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God." Here also is the golden candlestick that sheds its light continually day and night, supplied by the holy oil. We are now the sons and daughters of God and entitled to the earnest of our inheritance that is the Baptism of the Holy Spirit.

Then we enter into the Holiest by the Blood of Jesus. There is the ark of the covenant overshadowed by the wings of the cherubim, and over the ark the great cloud of glory and a holy fire by night. This is a picture of the Baptism with the Holy Spirit. There is no altar in the Holy of Holies for our consecration is all made in the Holy Place when we are sanctified. We find the ark of the covenant covered with pure gold and within Aaron's rod that budded that stands for justification in Christ Jesus. There is also the pot of hidden manna that Moses took and hid in the ark that represents sanctification. The tables of stone are there on which God wrote Himself in the mount that stands for the Baptism of the Holy Spirit, for when we are baptized with the Holy Spirit we are sealed in the forehead until His coming.

Here the great Shekinah glory rests upon us day and night, and we are filled and thrilled with the power of the Holy Spirit. The incense is going up continually from our souls. In the Holy Place, the oil was renewed from day to day, but when we get the Baptism of the Holy Spirit, it oils us up continually, from the throne of God. In the Holy Place, we had the streams of salvation, but in the Holy of Holies, we have the rivers. Jesus said, "Out of your innermost being shall flow rivers of living water, and this spoke He of the Spirit for the Holy Spirit was not yet given, because Jesus was not yet glorified."

There are two works of grace plainly shown in the tabernacle by the two altars-the brazen altar and the golden altar, the Holy of Holies, is the gift of power upon the sanctified, cleansed life. Glory to our God. The ark of the covenant represents our Lord Jesus Christ and in Him dwells all the fullness of the Godhead bodily. In the Lord Jesus, we receive all of these gifts and graces. We must build according to the divine plan.

SANCTIFIED BEFORE PENTECOST

By reading the Bible carefully, you can see that the disciples were saved and sanctified men and had received the unction of the Holy Spirit, before the day of Pentecost.

Jesus said in John 15:3, before He was crucified, "Now are ye clean through the Word that I have spoken unto you." In John 17:15-17, "I pray not that thou shouldest take them out of the world but that thou shouldest keep them from the evil. They are not of the world, even as I am not of the world. Sanctify them through thy truth, thy word is truth." Jesus is the world and the truth, so they were sanctified through the truth that very night that He prayed for them.

He told Peter that Satan desired to sift him as wheat, but He had prayed the Father for him that his faith fall not. Satan could not go beyond the Lord's prayer. "And when thou art converted, strengthen thy brethren." This did not mean that Peter was not converted, but Jesus knew the great temptation that Peter was to be confronted with, and He meant when he should have been delivered, to strengthen the brethren.

Peter did deny the Lord Jesus, but as soon as he denied him, he went out and wept bitterly, and God pardoned him when our Lord Jesus rose. He told the angel to tell the disciples to meet Him in Galilee, "and Peter." When Peter heard that he was very happy to know that the Lord had taken him back.

We find in John 20:21-22 that Jesus said to the disciples, "Peace be unto you, as my Father hath sent me, even so send I you. When He had said this, He breathed on them and said, "Receive ye the Holy Spirit. Whosoever sins ye remit they are remitted, and whosoever sins ye retain, the are retained." This was the power the Lord Jesus gave the disciples before they received their personal Pentecost.

We find by a careful study of the Word, that they had all eight of the nine gifts of the Spirit before Pentecost, except the gift of tongues. They had the gifts of healing, discernment, wisdom, prophesy, etc. The gift of tongues was reserved for the day of Pentecost to be a sign and evidence of the Baptism of the Holy Spirit.

The disciples were filled with the unction of the Holy Spirit, the anointing, before the day of Pentecost when Jesus breathed on them. This sustained them until they were endued with power from on high.

In the first chapter of Acts, Jesus taught His disciples to wait for the promise of the Father. This was not to wait for sanctification. His Blood had been split on Calvary's cross. He was not going to send His Blood to cleanse them from carnality but His Spirit to endue them with power. They went up to Jerusalem praising and blessing God with great joy. They all continued with one accord in prayer and supplication. They had perfect faith and perfect obedience to Jesus' command and no divisions among them. They were not on their knees but sitting when the Holy Spirit fell upon them, simply waiting for the gift of power.

"And suddenly there came a sound from heaven as of a rushing mighty wind and it filled all the house where they were sitting. There appeared unto them cloven tongues like as of fire and it sat upon each of them. They were all filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak with other tongues as the Spirit gave utterance."

Then Peter arose and said to the multitude that came running together. "This is that which was spoken by the prophet Joel. It shall come to pass in the last days, saith God, I will pour out of my Spirit upon all flesh." He did not say God would cleanse their hearts by His Blood from carnality, but pour out His Spirit. Amen. That is what He is doing in Los Angeles, pouring out His Spirit upon sanctified souls and the same signs are following.

COUNTERFEITS

God has told us in His precious word that we should know a tree by its fruit. Wherever we find the real, we find the counterfeit also. Praise God for the real! We find in the time of Peter, when men and women were receiving the power of the Holy Spirit, the counterfeit appeared in Annanias and Sapphira. God's power was mightier than all the forces of hell, so their sin found them out. Be careful, dear loved ones for your sin will surely find you out. "But if we walk in the light as He is in the light, we have fellowship one with another and the Blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanseth us from all sin."

In our meetings, we have had people to come and claim that they had received the Baptism of the Holy Spirit, but when they were put to the test by the Holy Spirit, they were found wanting. They got down and were saved, sanctified and baptized with the Holy Spirit and spoke in tongues by the Holy Spirit. Again people have imitated the gift of tongues, but how quickly the Holy Spirit would reveal to every one of the true children that had the Pentecostal baptism, until the counterfeits were silenced and condemned. God's promises are true and sure.

People are trying to imitate the work of the Holy Spirit these days. It is just as they did when the Lord sent Moses to Pharaoh in Exodus 7:8, and gave him a miracle or sign to show before Pharaoh, that when Aaron should cast his rod before Pharaoh, it should become a serpent. When Pharaoh saw that Aaron's rod had become a serpent, he called for his wise men and the counterfeit sorcerers and magicians of Egypt. They also did in like manner with their enchantments, for they cast down every man his rod, and they became serpents, but Aaron's rod swallowed up their rods. The power of the Holy Spirit in God's people today condemns and swallows up the counterfeit. It digs up and exposes all the power of Satan: Christian Science, Theosophy, and Spiritualism. All are uncovered before the Son of God. Glory to God.

Spiritualists have come to our meetings and had the demons cast out of them and have been saved and sanctified. Christian Scientists have come to the meetings and had the Christian Science demons cast out of them and have accepted the Blood. Every plant that my heavenly Father hath not planted shall be rooted up.

People have come to this place full of demons. God has cast them out, and they have gone out crying with loud voices. Then when all the demons were cast out, the people were saved, sanctified, and baptized with the Holy Spirit, clothed in their right minds and filled with glory and power.

Dear loved ones, it is not by might nor by power but by my Spirit, saith the Lord. "Tarry ye in the city of Jerusalem, until ye be endued with power from on high. John truly baptized with water, but ye shall be baptized with the Holy Spirit not many days hence." These were Jesus departing words. May you tarry until you receive your personal Pentecost. Amen.

-WJ Seymour

"SIGNS SHALL FOLLOW"

Jesus said in Mark 16:17-18, "These signs shall follow them that believe; In my name shall they cast out devils. They shall speak with new tongues. They shall take up serpents, and if they drink any deadly thing, it shall not hurt them. They shall lay hands on the sick and they shall recover." He told them to, "Go ye therefore and teach all nations, teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you." What did this mean? It meant to preach healing, preach casting out of devils, preach that these signs shall follow them that believe, preach all the doctrine of Jesus. If they had preached only a part of the Gospel, would the signs have followed? These signs shall follow them that believe-not them that doubt or believe a part but those that are simple enough and honest enough to believe every word of Jesus. We must believe it all, for if only a part is true or if anything is changed in His commission of the Gospel to the world. It would not be a perfect Gospel. A return to the full Gospel brings a return of the signs following them that believe.

Mother Wheaton, who has visited and worked for souls in the prisons of the United States and Europe, has been with us in Los Angeles tarrying for her Pentecost, also Brother AS Worrell, editor of the Gospel Witness, and translator of the New Testament.

THE TRUE PENTECOST

In Acts 2:4; we have the Bible standard and sample of what Pentecost is. It was the first Pentecost that ever came to the world. "They were all filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak with other tongues as the Spirit gave them utterance." this is the Bible standard until Jesus comes.

Then we have another example of Pentecost when Peter preached the first sermon to a Gentile congregation at the house of Cornelius. It was like the first Pentecost. "While Peter yet spoke these words, the Holy Spirit fell on all them that heard the Word. They of the circumcision that believed were astonished, as many as came with Peter, because that on the Gentiles also was poured out the gift of the Holy Spirit. For they heard them speak with tongues and magnify God." Acts 10. 15-17.

Again we have the account of Pentecost being poured out at Ephesus and again it was like the first Pentecost. "And when Paul had laid his hands upon them the Holy Spirit came on them; and they spoke with tongues and prophesied" (Acts 19:6).

In all three cases of the outpouring of Pentecost above mentioned the same evidence was manifest, the speaking in tongues. The Holy Spirit gave us these three incidents, of companies that received the Holy Spirit all at once, and besides this we know that the Apostle Paul had the gift and that others in the Corinthian the gift and that others in the Corinthian church had the gift.

Now the question is, why did not all in the Corinthian church speak with tongues?

Paul in the 1 Corinthians 12 was setting the church in order, that there should be no schism in the body of Christ. Here is a brother who is justified and there is a brother who is sanctified. Now neither of them speak in tongues. In our body here, we have some justified who have just been saved. The next thing we do is to teach him he needs a clean heart, to be sanctified in the precious blood of Jesus Christ. He goes on and gets that. Then we show him he needs his Pentecostal baptism and speaking in tongues as the Spirit gives utterance. When he receives his Pentecost, he will speak in tongues.

So concerning prophesying, Paul says, "Greater is he that prophesieth than he that speaketh with tongues." We can have all the nine gifts as well as the nine fruits of the Spirit, for in Christ Jesus, dwells all the fullness of the Godhead bodily. Paul is simply teaching the church to be in unity and not to be confused because all have not the same gifts. We are not confused because one has his Pentecost and another has not been sanctified. We do not say that we do not need the justified or the sanctified brother simply because he does not speak with tongues or does not prophesy; but we realize that it takes the justified, the sanctified and the Pentecost brother all to make up the body of Christ. You may have the gift of wisdom, healing, prophesy, etc. when you get the Pentecost, the Lord God will speak through you in tongues.

"He that prophesieth is greater than he that speaks with tongues, except he interpret." The brother that prophesies is no greater than the brother that speaks in tongues is, if the brother interprets as he speaks. We have several here that interpret as they speak and it is edifying. The gift in you will only ask the Lord for them.

In 1 Corinthians 14 Paul is setting us in order that have the Baptism of the Holy Spirit and the speaking in tongues. We should not get puffed up and think because one is justified or sanctified and does not speak with tongues he has not as much religion as we have. People in getting into deep spiritual things, and into the hidden mysteries of God, have to keep very humble at the feet of the Lord Jesus, for these precious gifts can easily puff us up, if we do not keep under the Blood.

Paul is speaking to people that had been carried away with dumb idols, but now the Holy Spirit was being poured out upon them, and it was so sweet to their souls that they almost commenced worshiping the gift instead of the Giver. Instead of magnifying the Blood, they were all after the gifts. The Lord wants us to seek the Giver and the Blesser instead of the gift and the blessing.

We can truly say that we believe that everyone that receives their Pentecost has a witness in speaking in tongues as the Spirit gives them utterance, as the 120 received on the day of Pentecost. That was a lesson to the church and a sample to the church what the Baptism of the Holy Spirit means to prepare us to be witnesses to the entire world. Glory to our God. Amen.

When we receive the Baptism of the Holy Spirit, we may sing in tongues, because the Lord drops down sweet anthems from the paradise of God, electrifying every heart. Many times we do not need these song books of earth, but the Lord simply touches us by His mighty Spirit. We have no need of organs or pianos, for the Holy Spirit plays the piano in all our hearts, and then gives the interpretation of the song and sings it in the English language. It is so sweet. It is heaven below.

HE BORE OUR SICKNESS

Can a man have salvation and yet his body be afflicted that is the work of demons? Yes, we may have salvation and yet disease of the body for, "though our outward man perisheth, the inward man is renewed day by day." Job said when Satan had afflicted his body, "I know that my Redeemer liveth." "And though after my skin worms shall destroy this body, yet in my flesh shall I see God" (Job 19:26, 27). Though demons were in his flesh, he had Christ within his soul. The demons had afflicted his body with sickness, but yet his soul was free from sin. Did he send for a doctor? No, his trust was in his God, and God delivered him and gave him twice as much as he had before. God has always been the healer of His people, for He says, "I am the Lord, thy God that heals thee."

Having therefore these promises, dearly beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from all filthiness of the flesh and spirit, perfecting Holiness in the fear of God. What would Christ's body look like if a mass of cancers and sickness? On the Cross, He carried our grief and bore our sickness. We have healing for our bodies as well as salvation for our souls in the atonement of Jesus. When we receive this light, it is our duty to seek for healing of our bodies.

OTHER PENTECOSTAL SAINTS

A message was sent us from a people in New England states who received the Pentecost before we did. As Brother A.J. Rawson an evangelist of 15 Eliott St, Swampscott, MA, received one of the Apostolic Faith papers and was reading it to his wife who is also an evangelist and has the gift of tongues, she broke out in tongues and interpreted. Her husband wrote the interpretation in English, and sent it to us, and we feel it is of God for His people. The message is as follows:

"This work is of God that you are reading of. Let no one put his hand on it. Let all press in and have their part. God has many richer blessings for His faithful children. Seek Him earnestly and pray for His gifts which are a witness of the Spirit."

They also write, "We are with you in the Spirit in this last work of God. We are rejoiced to hear of those having the gifts of the Spirit according to 1 Corinthians 12. There have been a few of God's children in New England, in Pennsylvania and Virginia who have believed for years that all these gifts were for the church, and they have been nicknamed the "Gift People." They have had all the gifts including tongues, but it seems but a few drops preceding the rain and now the work seems to fulfill the "latter rain." There are a godly number of people here in the east ready to fellowship this work. We believe it is a token of the soon coming of the Lord. Amen."

The Lord also has some Pentecostal saints in Minnesota whom we have just heard of and we rejoice to hear from these witnesses.

Audobon, Minneapolis.

Grace and peace unto you be multiplied. A copy of the Apostolic Faith has been sent to us, and we were much blessed when we read and saw that God baptized His children with the Holy Spirit exactly the same way as He has done here. It is two years ago since God began to baptize His children in this place and some are talking with tongues, some have the gift of prophecy, etc. Others fall under the power of God and He shows them wonderful things that all seem to come unto these words, 'Get ready, I am coming soon.' Glory to God. It is few that believe it is from God. The world's people and church members and preachers say it is of the devil, so we are well separated from the world, and soon we will be separated forever and be together with Jesus and His holy people."

Snowflake, Manitoba

"I am in sympathy with your work, am baptized with the Holy Spirit and fire, and have received the gift of some as yet unknown tongue or tongues. It first came two years ago, and is proving more distinct and real. Believe God is preparing me for some special work in some part of His vineyard."

-John Loney

God has been working thus in different parts of the world pouring out His Spirit upon others with signs following even as on us in Los Angeles. We realize that we are in the time of the "latter rain" preceding His coming.

ALASKA BROTHER PROVES ACTS 1:8.

I was born at Louisville, Kentucky, on May 17, 1850. My parents were Irish Catholics so of course I was brought up in that faith. I followed the occupation of a drummer for 17 years, representing different houses during that time. Jesus found me on the dock in Ohio, friendless, homeless, Godless, a confirmed drunkard without hope. I went into the Floating Bethel and there heard that Jesus Christ came into the world to save the lost. I was the black sheep of a family of ten children. I was lost in the mountains of sin, but, thank God, that day I heard the Shepherd's voice calling for me. I dropped on my knees, an ungodly drummer, and arose to my feet a new creature in Christ Jesus, and immediately began telling the story of God's grace; and I have been at it ever since and expect to stick to it until Jesus comes.

The 30th day of October 1897, I was wholly sanctified through faith in the Blood of Jesus Christ, God's Son. Yet there was at times a great hungering in my soul for something, I scarcely knew what. I would plead the promise of Jesus in Acts 1, 8, "Ye shall receive power after that the Holy Spirit is come upon you." Yet I stuck to the teaching that when we were sanctified, we were baptized with the Holy Spirit. Still that hunger and feeling of lack of power was always with me.

About three years ago, God began to talk to me and show me there was more for me. I would fast and pray and examine myself by the Word of God to see if I was wholly sanctified. The Holy Spirit would witness that my heart was clean. Hallelujah! Yet, there was that longing in my soul. While in Alaska last summer, I would arise at two o'clock in the morning, go away alone in the mountains and spend hours in prayer for the power of God to come on me in greater measure. I would be wonderfully blessed, but would be back at it again the next morning, praying for God to give me the dynamite from heaven.

Thank God, I have received Him. Two months ago, a paper was given me, telling of the wonderful outpouring of the Holy Spirit in Los Angeles. Just as soon as I could, I packed my grip and left Alaska for Los Angeles, arriving there Oct. 5th. The night following found me at the altar seeking the Baptism of the Holy Spirit and fire, (Matthew 2:11) Praise God, before I left the altar I received my Pentecost and the gift of tongues, and am speaking in many different languages. I am soon expecting to start around the world preaching full salvation as I go, trusting my heavenly Father to supply all my needs. I am saved, sanctified, healed, and baptized with the Holy Spirit. Glory to God.

-HM Turney

San Jose, CA

Genesis Del

CAME 3,000 MILES FOR HIS PENTECOST

About two months ago, I began to read in the Way of Faith the reports of the meetings in Azusa Mission, Los Angeles. I had been preaching Holiness for nine years, but my soul began to hunger and thirst for the fullness of God. The Spirit led me more and more to seek my Pentecost. After praying and weeping before God for many days. He put it into my heart to go to Los Angeles to seek the Baptism of the Holy Spirit. My wife prayed and wept with me until we both got the witness that it was the will of God for me to go. The devil fought me and laid the hand of affliction on my wife, and I felt it almost impossible for me to come. The night I left home, wife and I prayed and wept before the Lord and God gave the victory, and we both consented on our knees that if we died we would be in the order of the Lord and that God would take us home. I immediately rose and took my valise in hand, went to the depot, and started for Los Angeles. Glory to God. I was six days on the road, was fasting and praying to the Lord continually. As soon as I reached Azusa Mission, a new crucifixion began in my life and I had to die to many things, but God gave me the victory.

The first altar call I went forward in earnest for my Pentecost. I struggled from Sunday until Thursday. While seeking in an upstairs room in the Mission, the Lord opened the windows of heaven and the light of God began to flow over me in such power as never before. I then went into the room where the service was held, and while Sister Lum was reading of how the Holy Spirit was falling in other places, before I knew it, I began to speak in tongues and praise God. A brother interpreted some of the Words to be "I love God with all my soul." He filled me with His Spirit and love, and I am now feasting and drinking at the fountain continually and speak as the Spirit gives utterance, both in my own language and in the unknown language. I find that all has to be surrendered to God, our own language and all, and He speaks through us English, German, Greek or any other tongue in His own will and way.

The Lord also healed my body. I had been afflicted with rheumatism for years, and at a healing service held here, I was anointed and prayed for and was immediately healed of rheumatism and catarrh, and have a sound body and clothed in my right mind.

-GB Cashwell, Dunn, NC

BAPTIZED WITH THE HOLY SPIRIT

When I first attended these Apostolic Faith meetings, I was very much puzzled because I tried to understand it with my head only, and was in doubt as to its being of God. At the same time, the desire in my heart which had been there for years for something beyond sanctification, became more intense and gave me no rest until I inquired further into the teaching. The Spirit opened my eyes and understanding and helped me to see that this was the very thing for which I had been hungering. When my own understanding and my notions got out of the way, God in His mercy baptized me with the Holy Spirit on the 15th of last September. No one had his hands on me at the time. I was meeting God alone and the Holy Spirit fell on me like balls of fire, and went through me from the crown of my head to the soles of my feet. The Spirit flooded my whole being and enlarged my heart until I was afraid the vessel might not hold the glory and power that seemed to rush into me like water poured out. Before I realized it, the Spirit got hold of my tongue and used it for the glory of God in speaking in an unknown tongue.

Concerning the languages given here, I can testify that they are real languages, because I have interpreted not less than five messages given by different persons, spoken in languages of British, India that languages I know personally, having lived in India.

GEORGE E. BERG

1350 Channing Street

Los Angeles

BAPTIZED IN NEW YORK

Brother GB Barratt, 150 Fifth avenue, New York City, who is an Methodist-Episcopal minister in charge of mission work in Norway and Sweden and came to this country to prepare to establish a line of missions in his country, and who obtained his personal Pentecost. He writes as follows:

"Dear Friends in Los Angeles: Glory to God! Tongues of fire have descended and His wondrous power has been displayed. The fire fell on the 7th of October. Since then I have been seeking the full Bible evidence, the gift of tongues, and have prayed up to twelve hours a day. It is over a month since the fire fell the first time, and often since then the Lord has been filling, filling, and filling the vessel. Oh, Glory! I have felt the strange workings at my jaws and tongue several times, and at last I was able to claim that these signs were God's answer to me. The gift was for me and that I had it already and that it would soon work by the power of God.

"The Lord was going to make this a public testimony of His power. I was not therefore to have it in my little room but among friends. It was at a meeting in a little hall. The power was very great. We could not close and I determined to stay, God helping, until the victory was won. What a scene we had. Some were seeking sanctification and others the Baptism with fire, and I the gift of tongues or any other the Lord saw fit to send me.

"Sister Maud Williams who got the blessing in Ontario, Canada and has the gift of tongues, laid her hands on my head and after that I had no more strength in me, although I am physically very strong now. I lay on the floor by the platform in a reclining position. At about half past twelve I asked a brother there and Sister Leatherman to lay their hands on my head again. Just then she says she saw a crown of fire and cloven tongues over my head. The brother saw a supernatural light.

"Immediately I was filled with light and such a power that I began to shout as loud as I could in a foreign language. Between that and four o'clock in the morning I must have spoken seven or eight languages, to judge from the various sounds and forms of speech used. I stood erect at times preaching in one foreign tongue after another, and I know from the strength of my voice that 10,000 might easily have heard all I said. Nine persons remained until three o'clock and are witnesses of the whole scene. The most wonderful moment though was when I burst into a beautiful baritone solo, using one of the most pure and delightful languages I have ever heard. The tune and words were entirely new to me, and the rhythm and cadence of the verses and chorus seemed to be perfect. I sang several times later on. Some of the languages spoken produced a nasal sound and some a Jeep guttural sound. Oh it was wonderful. Glory! Hallelujah!

"That night will never be forgotten by any who were there. Now and then after a slight pause, the Words would rush forth like a cataract. At times I had seasons of prayer in the Spirit when all New York, the United States, Norway, all Scandinavia and Europe, my loved ones and friends lay like an intense burden on my soul. Oh, what power was given in prayer! My whole being was at times as if it were on fire inside, and then I would quiet down into sweet songs in a foreign language. Oh what praises to God arose from my soul for His mercy. I felt strong as a lion and know now where David and Sampson got their strength. Today I have been speaking and singing in tongues wherever I have been. Glory to God. Go on praying."

MIRACLES IN SALEM

Our hearts are full of joy and the Holy Spirit. Wife is very happy, sings, prays, and talks to God all the day long, sometimes in tongues for hours while about her work. God is doing wonders here. Father and Mother Slipley have received their Pentecost. While at service yesterday, father sang, prayed and preached for over an hour in tongues. The power was on him mightily, with hunger and wonder on the people. Some of those who have received their Pentecost are now receiving other new tongues, myself including. Remarkable singing came upon me one Sunday night in far greater power than when I was in Los Angeles.

Sister Margie Downing has been healed of a cancer which had eaten her femur bone entirely in two and four physicians pronounced her incurable and that she might die at any time. They said her entire abdominal parts were a mass of cancer. The hole eaten by the cancer was deep enough to hold a quart of water. This hole, eaten by the cancer, is nearly filled up with new flesh and healed over. God is confounding the people.

People from a distance are here seeking the Pentecost. Prominent officials and state officers attend regularly, also many university students and professors. The country about here is stirred. People in Portland and preachers are beginning to pray that this movement may not come to Portland. I predict that it will strike there with terrific force. Oh, pray, pray for us mightily. The great battle is now on. I am sending you clippings to let you know how the devil is advertising the meetings. The country is ripe for the harvest.

All the Lord's, ML Ryan, Salem, OR

ARRESTED FOR JESUS' SAKE

I came from Frisco to Los Angeles five days after the earthquake and heard about these Pentecostal people. I visited their meetings and looked on rather critically. At first I opposed and openly fought them and said it was the devil. The result was I backslid altogether and had to go back and ask forgiveness and do my first works over again, even down to having the devils cast out of me. Afterward I received pardon and the cleansing blood again through fasting and prayer and much study of the Word. Eight weeks ago, I received the Baptism of the Holy Spirit and spoke with new tongues.

Four days after I received the Baptism, while in secret prayer at my bedside I was led of the Spirit to pray in an unknown language for nearly all the world. When I got through the Spirit led me to go down and see a sister and her husband, Brother and Sister Turner, a blessedly sanctified man and wife. I obeyed and found them both sitting out in their back yard, and as I came in they all commenced to praise the Lord with weeping and crying, as I was speaking in an unknown tongue. The Lord then led me to lay hands on them both and on a young sister that was there visiting them (Acts 19.6) and all three of them spoke in new tongues and glorified God.

I then got on the car to attend our Bible school up at Azusa Street Mission. I got off close to our mission and saw two colored police officers with which I was slightly acquainted, and felt led to speak to them of what the Lord had done for my soul. I commenced speaking in an unknown language and they said I was crazy and carried me to the station. While waiting for the patrol wagon at the corner, I was enabled to preach to quite a crowd of people. I also preached up at the police headquarters in both English and in unknown language. They put me in among the prisoners. I continued to preach and they quickly took me out of there, carried me into the emergency hospital, and kept me in there all night. I preached a good part of the night to them and they listened very attentively. Before morning, they were all my friends. One of the attendants interpreted one of the languages that I spoke as the Kru language, a tribe in Africa that he was acquainted with.

Of course a charge of insanity was filed against me by the officers the day before, and I had to be taken before the superior court judge for commitment until the board of insanity sat for the following day upon my case. My trial was set for the following day. I was then taken to the County Hospital over night and had a blessed time with the Lord in my cell there. The superintendent came in, had quite a talk with me, and assured me that he saw nothing crazy about me and that I need not have any fears about being released. At my trial the next morning, the Lord permitted me to speak in the Italian language and one of the judges understood it, and I was discharged without having to call a single witness, though there were a number in the court that wanted to testify in my behalf.

A few days after my trial I felt the Lord wanted me to go down to Whittier, one of the little suburban towns near Los Angeles where some of our people had already started a meeting with considerable persecution. The band had just been arrested for praying in their home, charged with making an unusual noise and disturbing the peace of the neighborhood. One of our brothers was given thirty days in jail for this offense. Five other brothers and I have continued the meeting ever since, in the face of many threats.

A couple of weeks ago, they arrested us for disturbing the peace while holding a street meeting. We praised the Lord and the marshal and his deputies put their hands over our mouths and choked us quite severely without avail. One brother was handcuffed. We had trial by jury and took no counsel but the Lord. We plead the case and the Lord was with us. The court was full of people. During the trial, we all broke out in the unknown language and made quite a commotion in the court. We were then threatened by the court at the suggestion of the city attorney, to fine or imprisonment for contempt of court, if we attempted it again. The trial went on, the attorney made his plea, and we made answer in the name of the Lord. The court and jury were moved to tears. The city attorney then got up and spoke evil of us. He said that we had those tongues all fixed up to suit ourselves and that we all know just when to break out. He called the attention of the court to the fact of how quiet we had all kept. Since the court for contempt threatened us, he used that as evidence that we were afraid to do it again. He scarcely had the Words out of his mouth before the Lord gave him a heavy rebuke in unknown tongues. He was so confounded and confused that he could say no more and sat down. The jury went out, stayed from 3 P.M. to 11:30, disagreed, and were discharged. The city attorney set another trial for November 23rd. Since that time, he has lost his position. Another judge has been elected. The case was dropped.

We are continuing to hold meetings and the Lord is blessing, saving, sanctifying and baptizing with the Holy Spirit giving new tongues.

-A Worker

Some people drove 500 miles by wagon to Los Angeles to seek the Pentecost.

Letters to workers and foreign missionaries will be forwarded on to them from the Apostolic Faith office; also we will send on any offerings for workers or missionaries.

Dear loved ones, if you are seeking your personal Pentecost, do not get discouraged, but pray until you are filled to the uttermost. For the Lord Jesus says, "Men ought always to pray and not to faint." Do not stop because you do not receive the Baptism of the Holy Spirit the first time you pray, but continue until you are filled. The Lord Jesus told His disciples to "tarry ye in the city of Jerusalem until ye be endued with power from on high." He did not say how long they were to tarry, but He did say, "until ye be endued." Many are willing to tarry just so long. They give up and fail to receive their Pentecost that would measure up with the Bible.

A sister in Pueblo, Colorado who has the gift of tongues was on her way to the mission when she met a man and invited him to the mission. He said, "What is the use of speaking in tongues, when you do not know what you are saying?" Immediately she began speaking in a tongue she had never spoken in before. The man turned white, and seeing a street car coming, he left her and caught the car, endangering himself by so doing. They learned afterward that the Holy Spirit was telling him in a language that he understood the wicked life he was living and crimes he had committed. He found out one use of the gift of tongues. Several incidents of this kind have come to our knowledge.

If we ask our Father for bread, He will not give us a stone; if we ask Him for a fish, He will not give us a serpent; if we ask for an egg, He will not give us a scorpion. We would not treat our children that way, and how much more will our Father in heaven give good things to them that ask Him. Never let the hosts of hell make you believe that while you live under the Blood, honoring the Blood, and pleading through the Blood for blessings from the throne, that God will let Satan get through the Blood and put a serpent into you. There is no way for Satan to make his way through the Blood. "And they overcome him by the Blood of the Lamb and by the Word of their testimony." The devil cannot act through you and talk through you, if you are God's child and baptized with the Holy Spirit.

Many endorse Jesus, they fancy Him, but they cannot believe His doctrine. To them Jesus says, "Why call ye me, Lord, Lord and do not the things which I say?" He has gone to prepare a place for us and He is coming again to receive us unto Himself, that where He is there we may be also. The only way to meet Him and be with Him is to believe His doctrine. We that are not sanctified, if we hear the truth and reject it, will not be able to be with Him and reign with Him.

Sister Hutchins wrote from New York on the way to Monrovia, Liberia, Africa: the Lord used us to His glory in Chattanooga. He set that town on fire. Praise His name. The dear ones did not want to see us leave, but the will of God must be down. The last meeting we had with the people was beside the train that brought us away. Under the shed there was where the Lord used me last in that city. He sang and preached through me, some confessed their sins, and asked, what shall I do to be saved? Some promised to live a better life. Oh, glory to Jesus. While on the train, we preached the Word and some received it with joy. We hope to set sail for Africa soon. Pray that God may use us on the boat to the salvation of souls. Love to all the dear saints."

A passage of Scripture that has been spoken in many unknown tongues and interpreted is that beautiful text, "Come unto Me all ye that labor and are heavy laden and I will give you rest." In addition, the following tests were interpreted messages, "Now is the accepted time, now is the day of salvation." "He that believeth and is baptized shall be saved; but he that believeth not shall be damned. These sings shall follow thee that believe; In my name shall they cast out devils; they shall speak with new tongues; they shall take up serpents; and if they drink any deadly thing it shall not hurt them; they shall lay hands on the sick and they shall recover."

Sister Ida Ritchie of 1147 Sheridan Road, Chicago, has received her Pentecost. She writes, "I shall never forget that night. I was about two hours receiving words in different languages and songs in the Spirit. Oh, what a great joy it is to me to know that I can go with the language and songs and the love of God to the dying, famishing heathen. How I treasure the privileges and gifts. Oh, how precious to be born in this age."

Brother GW Batman writes from New York City, "We have been having great meetings in the little mission here. Many souls have received the Baptism and talk in tongues. To my surprise, Stephen Merritt requested me to speak last Sunday forenoon in his large tabernacle, the Lord helped me in a wonderful way, and some souls were seeking the Baptism. Praise God. I am stronger in the Lord since we came here than in Los Angeles. We expect a few more wonderful days before we sail for Monrovia, Liberia, Africa December 8. That will be our future address."

A late report from Brother Junk of Seattle, Washington, says, "We have been greatly blessed here. About 24 or 26 souls have been baptized, among them are about eight children from seven to fourteen years of age. The devil is raging terribly."

We are so glad to hear that dear Sister Shiply, Brother Ryan's mother in Salem OR, has received the Pentecost. Last Sunday she received many languages, one of them being that of the Kalamath Indians, and sang in some of the Indian chanting songs. She also gave prophesies and messages to the people and interpreted. People are stirred and amazed at the miracles God is doing. A preacher who has been on the investigation order, heard a sister from Washington speak in Hindu that he was enough acquainted with to understand some of the Words and it convinced him of the genuineness of the work.

Brother FM Cook writes that he had a call to Africa three years ago. In obedience to the Lord he went to New York and there unexpectedly he found some of the Los Angeles saints and Sister Farrow and Brother Batman laid their hands upon him and he received his Pentecost and spoke in an African dialect. Now he is one of the Apostolic Faith band for the West coast of Africa.

Brother O. Adams of Monrovia, CA, reports from 782 Queen street, Toronto, Canada, that a number there are seeking the Pentecostal baptism, and one sister has been baptized with the Holy Spirit and to her great surprise began speaking in tongues.

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Let us praise God for this wonderful day of grace. Jesus said to Nathaniel, "Because I said unto thee, I saw thee under the fig tree, believest thou? Thou shalt see greater things than these." We are going to see greater things. Oh, let us trust Him and yield to Him. Let us wait very earnestly upon Him. Take time to wait on God and pray. If we all keep low down at the feet of Jesus and give Him all the honor and glory, all the power and signs of Pentecost will be restored.

It is a blessed place at the feet of Jesus, looking up into the Master's face. Mary found her place at His feet. She did not seek to touch His head or His shoulders, but was content with a place at His feet looking up into His face. It pleased Jesus, and He said, "Martha, thou art careful and troubled about many things, but one thing is needful; and Mary hath chosen that good part which shall not be taken away from her." Our highest place is low at His feet.

Sister ME Judy writes from Columbus, Ohio, that they have a tarrying meeting there and others in different towns are tarrying with them in Spirit. She says, "Last Sunday a burden of prayer came upon the people in our humble little church in such power that our minister had no opportunity to preach, just said a few words on, "This is that" and closed.

Brother AH Post, who has charge of the work in Pasadena is being much used of God. The Lord has been working with them in great power there. Brother Post comes into the meetings in Los Angeles and encourages us with his messages from the throne and with the unction and divine love with which God fills Him. This is a little message that the Spirit spoke through him and interpreted, "Our blessed Lord is in our midst. Hallelujah! He is anointing His dear ones to go forth to the ends of the earth with the old time Gospel to set men free and give them power to do His holy will. Our Christ is just at the very gates ready to pour forth His grace and power. Go ye forth into all the world and preach this Gospel."

Sister Mary Perkins, who works in the Apostolic Faith says, "When I first came here last May, I heard of these meetings and came down to see. I had not been in the house an hour before I knew God's Spirit was here, and I commenced seeking the Baptism of the Holy Spirit. , Glory to God, He came and completely deluged my soul and body, until I hardly knew whether I was in the body or out. As the Holy Spirit came upon me, I saw Jesus sitting upon a cloud looking at me and at the congregation, and He said He was coming soon. My tongue commenced to move, and I spoke in an unknown tongue as the Spirit gave utterance. In prayer I often speak in a foreign tongue and at home or in meeting, I often am moved to speak in tongues. Bless God! Glory!

-Mrs. Mary P. Perkins.

If you are not healed the fault in either in you or in Jesus Christ. Which is it? Be honest with yourself and get the fault out of the way. Get rid of the cause. There is nothing can stop my healing by myself. God is not a moment behind in doing His work.

Brother GB Cashwell, who came from North Carolina for his Pentecost, has returned on his way rejoicing to carry the good news of the Pentecost to the hungry souls there. He had faith in God that the money would be provided for his fare to return, and the Lord provided it. He trusted the Lord for a suit of clothes and the Lord gave him a suit. The trip was one of faith and the Lord made it a great blessing.

A little girl in Whittier lately received her Pentecost while the people in the room were silently praying and she began to sing in an unknown tongue, "Where He leads me, I will follow." Then she was filled with great joy and said her name was written in heaven and she was sealed unto the day of redemption.

Sister Lucy Farrow wrote from New York that she had started for Africa. About two hundred souls had been saved in Portsmouth and most of them were speaking in tongues. She sends love to the saints and asks your prayers.

We are receiving letters from all over the world, requesting prayers that they might receive their Pentecost and also healing. Almost every day we are getting returns that prayer has been heard. Handkerchiefs are sent in letters to be anointed and blessed for healing, and we do so, and bless God, He hears and answers prayer. One instance comes to our mind now of a little baby about a year old, who was very sick with a high fever. The parents sent a handkerchief to be prayed over. It was blessed and sent back, and when it was laid on the child's face, almost immediately the fever left her, and in a half hour it was playing around and well. Praise our Christ for His matchless power.

Every child is born with inherited sin in its heart like a little plant. When a sinner comes to Christ and is saved, the fruits of sin are cut off and the fruits of the Spirit appear. The stump of the sin plant is still there and will give us trouble. The best thing to do is to get the old stump out. Then we have a pure heart like Adam before he went into sin. Then we can pray for the Baptism of the Holy Spirit that is a gift from God.

FROM LOS ANGELES TO HOME AND FOREIGN FIELDS

Workers are constantly going out trusting God alone for their support. A Band of six missionaries left for Africa. They are Brother and Sister SJ Mead, Brother and Sister Robert Shideler, and Brother and Sister GW Batman. Address them at Longs Temperance Hotel, Liverpool, England, Lime Street. They are going to two points in Africa. God bless them and make them a great blessing. We must keep them on our hearts in prayer for they are our brothers and sisters.

Some who have left for home fields are: HM Turney for San Jose; JG Wilkin for points north; Brother G. Zigler, Swanton, Ohio; F.E. Hill, J.C. Mackey, Brother and Sister Lopez for San Diego; Ivy Campbell, T.W. Sargent, and Brother and Sister WH Miller for points in Ohio; and Brother and Sister Eric Hollingsworth en route to Sweden. The Lord is sending revivals everywhere that workers have gone that are baptized with the Holy Spirit and fire. Many more are being fitted up and called for the field, for the fields are white ready for the harvest.

EN ROUTE TO AFRICA

Brother and Sister GW Batman who last wrote from New York on their way to Monrovia, Liberia, Africa, are tried and true workers and have the enduement of power from on high and the fitness of the gift of tongues. Their faith was severely tested as to their fare. A brother who paid the most of their fare was praying the night before they left that the Lord would give him some revelation. That night the Lord showed him a lamb that was tied and told him to loose it and as he did so, a great shekinah glory shone in the room. The Lord showed him later that it meant the missionaries he was to be the means of sending on their way. They started with faith in God though they were taking their three little children and their destination is called the "white man's graveyard." They did not have more than their fare to New York. They have the gift of healing and we believe God will wonderfully use them among those darkened souls.

Brother GW Batman's Testimony.

I was converted nine years ago, and got a know-so salvation-no guess work about it. I repented of my sins and forsook them, accepting the Lord as my Savior. Praise God. A few years later, I fasted and prayed for about three days and during that time I put off the old man Adam in the form of labored sin and God came in and destroyed the devil's workshop by casting his tools on the outside. Praise God I got a real evidence that I was sanctified and the Blood applied. After that, I received the Baptism of the Holy Spirit and fire. Now I feel the presence of the Holy Spirit. It is not only in my heart but also in my lungs, my hands, and my arms and all through my body. At times I am shaken like a locomotive steamed up and prepared for a long journey. Oh, it is blessed to let the Lord have His way with you. I also speak in six foreign tongues given me at God's command. God has called me to Africa as a missionary, and told me to go to Monrovia, Liberia. He showed me the town that is on the west coast. I described the town and country to Brother Mead, a missionary that had been there and he said it was a perfect description. Saints, pray much. Fast and pray.

Mrs. Daisy Batman's Testimony.

At the age of fourteen, the Lord saved me from my sins. Last April He sanctified my soul, took all inbred sin out and gave me a clean heart fit for the Lord's use. Hallelujah! Still I hungered for more, so when the Pentecost came to Los Angeles, I found that was just what I wanted. I was working every day and could not be at the meeting much. One day the Lord told me to stop everything and go to the meeting. I said, Lord, I have three small children and no way to support them. He said, I will supply your needs. Glory to God, He has supplied all our needs. We have never needed for anything and have never asked anybody but the blessed Lord for a penny. Three years ago last April, the Lord gave us the call to Africa. At first I thought I would stay and let my husband go, but He said, "No, you must go too." I thought He wanted us to go right away, but when He saw I was willing to spend my life in Africa for precious souls, He revealed to us that He would tell us when to go. Three months after we received our baptism, He said, "Now go to Africa." Oh, glory to God, I am so glad I got to the place where the blessed Lord's will is my will."

BAPTIZED IN MINNEAPOLIS

Brother Otto Braulin of 2112 Fourth Avenue, Minneapolis, MN writes that he has received his Pentecost through reading the paper and personal correspondence. He speaks in two unknown tongues. He says, "I laid the paper to one side, went aside into a room and asked God if I was really and truly cleansed by the Word, and I got the mighty answer of God through my whole being that I was. Does the Blood cleanse me? I got the same very powerful witness. Then I said to my Father, I have not the Baptism of the Holy Spirit because I have not the gift of tongues, the evidence of Pentecost, and the power began to work on peculiarly and forcibly as never before. That very night I got the evidence, as the Holy Spirit gave utterance in two unknown tongues. I could distinguish the difference between the two. Since then the power becomes stronger and the Spirit speaks plainer and more mightily. The power of God streams through my whole body, (I suppose the healing power). I have fallen on the floor through the mighty power coming upon me. I was in a mission last Sunday, in the afternoon the Spirit came on me, and the Spirit fell on the clean souls. They said showers of power came upon them and they were set free. In the evening the leaders set themselves against the speaking in tongues because I cannot interpret, but the power was so mighty upon me they could see it was not man's but God's."

JAPANESE HEAR IN THEIR OWN TONGUE

Pueblo, CO is a city of many nationalities. In the steel works alone that employs 500 men, seventeen languages are spoken. There are Greeks, Chinese, Japanese and many others. This is a wonderful field. The Lord had opened a mission there when the Pentecostal Gospel came. The woman in charge of the mission went right to seeking, received the Baptism, and before she got off her knees, was speaking in Chinese. One day when she was speaking, the Spirit began to speak another language through her. Nobody understood until they saw some uneasiness manifested in the back of the room where some Japanese were sitting. They began to wring their hands and cry and bury their face in their hands. Someone went and said to the uneasy, "Talk my tongue. Tell me all about my God how He died for the Japanese." They had never heard anything like that before.

REVIVAL IN INDIA

Wonderful Pouring Out of God's Spirit Among the Natives of the Khassia Hills.

The great revival still continues, and wonderful manifestations of the power of God are surely among these nations. An article in the Herald of Light says: it was a grand and inspiring sight to see these people marching in parties to the Assembly, and along the way would halt and have prayer and praise meetings, and their conversations were continually about the wonderful works of God. The assembly is held in a small village called Mairang, and many thousands of people have come up to this assembly, and God has shown himself in power and blessings. Many other portions of India are being awakened by true spirit. The glorious and awful scenes portrayed are only the fulfillment of prophecy, and doubtless the outgrowth of years of toil and prayers.

In another station in India, in a service in a mission, about two hundred were under conviction for sin, and crying for mercy, and the meeting continued for six hours. A report from another locality says that men, women and children were heard at daybreak singing hymns which the missionaries had been trying for months to teach them. The Holy Spirit was working mightily, and soon there was an outburst of prayer and praise of new-born souls. Men, women and children called on the Lord day and night, and there was no cessation of the meetings."

Those who receive the Baptism of the Holy Spirit, speak in tongues, and backslide from this state may retain the speaking in tongues for a while after divine love is gone, but gradually this gift also will melt away. A very little harshness or a critical suspicious statement about a brother will grieve the tender, sensitive Spirit. A careful and constant guard must be made, lest the flesh arise and destroy the fragrance and sweetness of this Spirit walk. Preachers often go too far and try to emphasis in fleshly vehemence a good point made by the Spirit. All such conduct will receive a gentle rebuke of the Spirit, and if heartily repented of, will soon be overcome, and result in greater confirmation of God's power in the life.

-Apostolic Light

QUESTION OF MEATS

We are asked if the Pentecostal people here eat pork?

We are a free people. We are not under the law. We are just as free as the air we breathe for salvation is not in meat, drink, and clothing, but it is righteousness and peace and joy in the Holy Spirit. It is the Blood of Jesus that cleanses from all sin. It is not meat, drink, and dress, it is living under the Blood.

Jesus has given us authority to eat and drink anything that we desire, without hurting us. Before Jesus came, there were certain meats we could not eat such at catfish, rabbits, pork, and other meats. If we study the Old Testament, we will see many things that we were not allowed to eat. Since the Lord Jesus came, He has let down the sheet of four corners, and we see the four-footed beasts and creeping things of the earth, and a voice comes to us, "Rise, slay and eat." we said, clean have we ever put into our mouth." He says, "What God hath cleansed, that call not thou common."

Now this means not only that we should not call any man common or unclean, but we find that through the Blood of Jesus Christ, we are permitted to eat swine's flesh if we like it and it is good for us. However, anything that will hurt these bodies or make us sick, we ought not to eat. For we should be temperate in all things, in eating, drinking and wearing clothes. These bodies are the Lord's and we do not want to destroy them by meat and drink. "Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you. If any man defile the temple of God, him shall God destroy."

In 1 Timothy 4-6, Paul was instructing the people about meats and drinks. He says, "For every creature of God is good and nothing to be refused, if it be received with thanksgiving, for it is sanctified by the Word of God and prayer. If thou put the brethren in remembrance of these things, thou shalt be a good minister of Jesus Christ, nourished up in the Words of faith and good doctrine."

"Happy is he that condemneth not himself in that thing which he alloweth. He that doubteth is damned if he eat." If eating pork brings condemnation upon you for eating it, do not eat it, for the Lord is the one that puts it upon you. If the Lord does not condemn him, because he eats in faith, and the meat is not able to destroy him if he eats in faith.

THE SPOTLESS LAMB OF GOD

We had a perfect Savior. Never was any guile in His mouth. Never was carnality in Him. You know under the Old Testament, the lamb for a sin offering was to be without spot and blemish. This was a real type of our blessed Jesus that was to come. Praise God, He has come and there was no carnality at all in Him. He was a Lamb without blemish, holy, harmless, undefiled, the great sacrifice that God gave to take away the sin of the world.

Many people today are teaching that Christ had self and carnality in Him. No, the character of the Lamb of God, our Redeemer, was sinless. Because if His precious blood had not flowed from a Lamb without blemish and without spot, but had carnality and corruption from self, from the manger to the Cross, then it is only the Blood of a martyr, and its atoning merits are void. If there is any point in the Gospel that is fundamentally absolute, it is the purity of the person of Jesus Christ, God's Son. He has power to take away our sins and save us to the uttermost, for our blessed Lord said, "Thou shalt call His name Jesus, for He shall save His people from their sins" (Matthew 1:21).

It cost our Savior His life on Calvary to cleanse us from sin. Thank God. He is risen again. He never would have risen if there had been any carnality in Him. He would have been no Savior. Praise God, He is a Savior to the uttermost. The angelic host sang on Bethlehem's plain, "For unto you is born this day in the city of David, a Savior that is Christ the Lord."

SAN FRANCISCO AND OAKLAND

I have been holding cottage meetings in San Francisco. God has been working in a wonderful way in the little house, so few could get in. Last Saturday we had a blessed time. Two advent preachers were there and fought the work bitterly. The meeting went on in mighty power and the Lord gave me a message from heaven. They were convinced the work was of God. Praise God for it. There is a great field there, but I feel I must go on to Salem.

I know now what it is to travel in soul for this Gospel. God has called every baptized believer to a noble high calling and given us a trust. If we are unfaithful, we shall surely die. Oh, God, keep us true.

Mildred composed a piece of music and sat down to play it yesterday. It took my soul almost out of this land, while she played it, and the power came on Sister Reece and she began to sing words, Oh, so sweet and in such harmony with the music. How God flooded our souls as she sang. She could not remember them, but yesterday afternoon the power came on her again and she wrote them down. Oh, you could hardly stay here, when they sing and play that piece. It is from the Paradise of God. If nothing else had happened but this, it ought to convince people.

A brother who has been seeking his Pentecost asked prayers for his healing. He was threatened with pneumonia. I laid hands on him and he was healed and received his Pentecost at the same time, and his children are coming to the Lord. His daughter was very sick. He prayed and she was healed. The power came on him in his office to pray for her. The people, he said, looked at him so strangely. Oh, glory to our God.

People are begging for workers to carry this Gospel to them. The calls are many. Pray for me, my dear loved ones in Los Angeles.

LATER-December 6th

I was in San Francisco last night, and such a meeting we had. I never saw such sweet unity of the Spirit-testimony, healing, singing in the Holy Spirit, praying for the sick, and some receiving their Pentecost at the same time, and no confusion. Oh, it was glorious and surely the Holy Spirit led the meeting. As I read the text or lesson about bridling the tongue, a dear brother that has been a power in mission work, healing the sick and preaching, said, "Pray for me now that my tongue may be bridled." The power came for prayer, I laid hands on him and he was baptized and spoke in such a clear language. Another preacher was baptized soon after. Oh, God is working mightily!

A man was completely healed of rupture of nine years' standing, last night. Oh, how can we praise Him enough? The first time a young sister was in the meeting was healed and anointed. She went home and got her Pentecost the same night. God is working where He has a chance. Oh, for closer walk with Him. I don't know when I shall get home, but where Jesus is 'tis heaven. Oh, how my full heart does praise Him.

-Florence Crawford

Sister Florence Crawford is now in Oakland expecting soon to go on to Salem. The Lord called her back to Los Angeles for a short time and all the saints were refreshed to see her. The Lord gave her a very sweet object lesson on the fruits of the Spirit. She says, "One night as I was weary in body, I asked the Lord to give me sleep, and He gave me a vision. He took me over some beautiful hills and down by a river running clear as crystal, and there was a tree standing by that river with the loveliest fruit on it I ever saw-great red apples. There were many apples hanging on the tree and all bore names that were so plain I could read them. They were love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, meekness, etc. These are the fruits of the Spirit. If we have the Spirit of Christ, these applies are hanging on our tree. We are known by our fruits and it is the Father's will that we should bring forth much fruit, and that our fruit should remain. Dear ones, let us cease professing so much and examine ourselves to see if this fruit is on our tree."

The message spoken in tongues in Azusa Mission, as far as have been interpreted, have always been spiritual and according to the Word, Scripture passages, praises to God, exaltation of Christ, warning, etc. Never anything of a foolish or irreverent character and often of a highly exalted and intensely practical import and tremendous meaning, especially for the individual for whom the message was intended.

While Brother SJ Mead was with us in Los Angeles) he was a witness to the gift of tongues being spoken in African dialects of which the persons had no knowledge. He is now on his way to Africa where he has labored for 20 years and where he is able to speak native languages. A colored woman spoke at length in tongues, as the Spirit was pleased to use her. Immediately after she had spoken, Brother Mead arose and interpreted the message given by the girl, giving the name of the tribe in Africa to which the language belonged and then repeated the same message in the same tongue.

WONDERS IN HEAVEN ABOVE

"And I will show wonders in heaven above, and signs in the earth beneath: blood and fire and vapor of smoke (Acts 2:19).

E. Taylor is a conductor on the sleeping cars on the Southern Pacific Railway in California. He is a member of the Household of God in Oakland, CA, having been born of the Spirit and sanctified. His wife and daughter have been baptized with the Holy Spirit and speak in tongues.

He says, "While on the train between Mojave and Barstow, on the night of October 4th, about 11 P.M., the moon shining very brightly and no cloud in sight, and no wind, I was sitting by the car window looking out. My eye fell on the moon that was as clear as I ever saw it. Right across the face of the moon was a large cross, as plain as my hand before me. I rubbed my eyes, looked again, and saw it as before. I then raised both windows, put my head out and saw not only the Cross but a man on the Cross with arms extended, and the lower part of the Cross dripping with fresh blood, very red. I then called for the porter, a colored man and an unbeliever, and asked him to look at the moon and tell me what he saw. He replied, describing the Cross with a man on it and the Blood dripping from it and asked, "What are them things flying about with wings?"

Brother Taylor looked out again, and the air between him and the moon was filled with moving objects in the distance, like a multitude of butterflies. The porter inquired, "What does this mean?" and opened a window for a woman from Chicago, who gazed in astonishment and described the same objects. Then they heard singing surpassing anything they had ever heard on earth that could be distinctly heard above the rumbling of the train.

This scene lasted for nearly an hour, these three persons watching and describing what they saw and heard. Brother Taylor says he broke out in a profuse perspiration, until his clothing was wet. He became so filled with joy that he wanted to shout aloud, but refrained as the car was filled with sleeping passengers.

In the course of nearly an hour, the scene gradually faded away. The lower part of the Cross was the last of the scene, but the singing continued for some time longer.

This same brother, who had never seen a vision before, was retiring for the night in a hotel. After having prayed, he was sitting on his bed when he saw the floor open at his feet, revealing a lake like molten lead, with living creatures plunging and moving in it, and men continually falling in. Above his head, seemingly up in the air, there seemed to be something like a very large bird cage, full of people, and as he gazed he saw occasionally a person ascending from the earth and joining the company.

-The Household of God

A LITTLE GIRL'S VISION.

Edna Slingerland, a child of eleven years living in Portland, Oregon has been in communion with Jesus for three years, and her parents write that she has had many visions given her. Saturday evening, November 24th after an hour spent in reading the Bible and talking to Jesus, the Lord gave her this vision. She saw a great dark ball, black as could be, and as it rolled slowly, a large gray surface came in sight, and the Words came to her, "Pacific Ocean." As it rolled on, she saw a large bright spot, bright as an electric light, and the Words "Los Angeles" came. Then in the brightness of it, Jesus' face showed and a throng of angels dancing and rejoicing. Then scattered over the black ball, she saw here and there, a very small bright spot and in each of them, the face of Jesus showed only partly. The parents, who live at 178 E. 48TH Street, are in harmony with the Pentecostal work and believe God was showing through their little girl that He is in the work in Los Angeles.

THE SIN AGAINST THE HOLY SPIRIT.

The sin against the Holy Spirit cannot be forgiven. For the Lord Jesus said, "Verily I say unto you, all sins shall be forgiven unto men and blasphemies wherewith whosoever they shall blaspheme. However, he that shall blaspheme against the Holy Spirit hath never forgiveness, but is in danger of eternal damnation because they said He hath an unclean spirit. Mark 3. 28-30.

There are some people that have a real knowledge of the Holy Spirit in their hearts, and then go and say this work is of the devil. Others are speaking in tongues by the devil, after they have the knowledge of the truth. Such people are in danger of sinning against the Holy Spirit.

"Whosoever shall speak a word against the Son of Man, it shall be forgiven him; but unto him that blasphemeth against the Holy Spirit, it is not forgiven" (Luke 12:10).

When men sin against the Father, they are forgiven, when men sin against the Son, they are forgiven, but if they sin against God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit, they have sinned against them all, so there is no more forgiveness. There is no fourth person to do any interceding for them. People can harden their hearts until God will leave them as He did Ephraim of old.

The devil may tell people that they have sinned against the Holy Spirit when they have not sinned willfully. They have not sinned against the Holy Spirit unless they have willfully denied the Blood of Jesus Christ and trampled it under their feet, "for if we sin willfully, after that we have received the knowledge of the truth, there remaineth no more sacrifice for sins," Hebrews 10.26. Some have been ensnared by the enemy and have lost the Pentecost, lost sanctification, lost justification, it has brought sadness, and they can repent because they did not do it willfully. The enemy overpowered them, and not understanding, they yielded to it. They may be tempted to despair because the devil may tell them that they have sinned against the Holy Spirit, but the Bible says, "If we sin willfully." we have not committed the unpardonable sin, if we have not sinned willfully. We still have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous.

However, it is a very dangerous thing for us to go back after we have received light. Paul warned the Hebrew church, those that had come to Christ and had a real knowledge of the Spirit and then were turning back to the old sacrifices and fought against the Spirit of God. He says, "It is impossible for those who were once enlightened, and have tasted of the heavenly gift, and were made partakers of the Holy Spirit, and have tasted the good word of God, and the powers of the world to come, if they shall fall away, to renew them again to repentance; seeing they crucify to themselves the Son of God afresh and put Him to an open shame" (Hebrews 6:4-6).

After we have been made a gazing stock for Christ and took part in the reproaches and afflictions of Christ, and after we have tasted of the heavenly gift and are made partakers of the Holy Spirit, we cannot afford to go back. If we really deny the power of God and turn back into the world, there is no possible way for us to get back. "He that despised Moses' law, died without mercy under two or three witnesses; of how much sorer punishment suppose ye, shall he be thought worthy, who hath trodden under foot the Son of God, and hath counted the Blood of the covenant, wherewith he was sanctified, an unholy thing, and hath done despite unto the Spirit of grace?" (Hebrews 10:28-29).

HEALED AND BAPTIZED

I am praising God for His healing power and the gift of the Holy Spirit. I wrote you a few weeks ago requesting your prayers for the healing of my body from two large abscesses in the hips and back. God immediately answered and I began to recover, and am at present here at Brother Ryan's having received the Holy Spirit and speaking in tongues and chanting. Hallelujah.

ES Hanson

Salem, OR

We do not have to try to convince the people that this work is of God. Just preach Jesus Christ and Him crucified and God will take care of convincing the people.

A MESSAGE CONCERNING CHRIST'S COMING

Jesus is coming, coming soon,

Coming to earth again,

And all who have their hearts prepared,

Will gladly meet Him then.

Behold the Lord now soon will come,

The hour ye do not know,

And you, if found then unprepared,

With Jesus will not go.

He knows each heart, and seeks each heart

For His coming to prepare,

For some day it will be too late,

To seek those joys to share.

All those that seek me I will bless,

From heaven cries the Lord,

All those that seek with all their hearts,

And hearken to this word.

For there is no respect with God,

Of person or estate,

The mercy, grace and love of God,

For all men is so great.

"Awake," He cries, "Get ready now,"

For me makes urgent quest;

"Come unto me; come unto me,

And I will give you rest."

And with the Holy Spirit and fire,

I will baptize you all,

And all who seek with diligence,

That on my name shall call.

All must their hearts make ready now,

With Him to have a home,

The Savior sweet, so wonderful,

For He so soon will come.

"O watch, be ready if I come,

At midnight, morn, or noon,

O be ye ready when I come,"

O He will come so soon.

The above poem written by David Kilbeun 53 Howard Street, Akron, Ohio was composed from reading the interpretation of a message given by sister Lillian Keyes of Los Angeles. It was spoken and sung in an African dialect that was understood and corroborated by our dear Sister Mead now on her way back to Africa.

IN THE UPPER ROOM

Salem, OR, November 24

The work here is progressing gloriously, although the opposition is deep and bitter. Two days ago in the preliminary service in the prayer tower, the "upper room," Sister Ryan received her personal Pentecost. She spoke in tongues for nearly three quarters of an hour without intermission. It was the most astonishing case we have had yet in this city. Everyone that saw it was amazed and strengthened in their faith. She spoke in at least seven languages. Glory to Jesus.

The whole city and country round about are being shaken. There are those here from Portland, The Dailes, and from near Astoria seeking their Pentecost. Sister Glassco among the rest. My wife and myself have received our Pentecost and speak in tongues.

PENTECOST IN NEW YORK

A band of missionaries from Los Angeles expected to sail for Africa on December 8th. They write that Pentecost has surely fallen in New York in a mission there. A number have been baptized with the Holy Spirit and are speaking in new tongues. One man that was a backslider and was paralyzed on one side was helped to the altar and was soon down under the power, and in about thirty minutes he was reclaimed, sanctified, baptized with the Holy Spirit, healed, speaking in tongues, and leaping and praising God. Amid the shouting, weeping and singing, the work went on until the morning hours.

Brother Barratt, the Norwegian brother who received his Pentecost expected to sail for Norway, leaving New York on the same ship with the Africa missionaries. Brother Mead says of him, "He is like Brother Paul, gifted in arts, books, etc., a leader of the people, and has been a power for good for many years. Now with his full Pentecost, he is so sweet and gentle, I know you would all love him. We must pray for him as he goes to his home in Norway to open the work there. With all him gentleness, he speaks at times with a voice of thunder the convincing truths of the Master."

The other sisters are all well and are being used of the Lord. Brother and Sister Batman's fare was all made up. The people gladly gave their offerings and quickly made up what was needed. Sister Ehideler has received her Pentecost. We all rejoice with her.

The missionaries sail on the "Campania." Will stop in Liverpool and may have an opportunity to work for the Lord there.

SJ Mead

Longs Tempe Hotel

Lime Street, Liverpool, England

CHAPTER FIVE

We are expecting wonderful things from the Lord for 1907. The closing up of the old year and beginning of the new found us on our knees at Azusa Mission. As the new year was announced, such a wave of glory, and divine love and unity came over us. The meeting went on until morning and all the next day. It is a jubilee year. May we all spend it at His feet, learning of Him.

The Lord did great things in 1906. Pentecost first fell in Los Angeles on April 9th. Since then the good tidings has spread in two hemispheres. Many are rejoicing in pardon, purity, and the power of the Holy Spirit. Wherever the work goes, souls are saved, and not only saved from hell but through and through, and prepared to meet the Lord at His coming. Hundreds have been baptized with the Holy Spirit. Many of them are now out in the field, and some in foreign lands, and God is working with them, granting signs and wonders to follow the preaching of the full Gospel.

People all over the land have heard that the oil of the Spirit is being poured out in Los Angeles, and they are coming for oil-coming thousands of miles. They are being filled with the holy oil, the Baptism of the Holy Spirit, and wherever they go, it is being poured out.

From the little mustard seed faith that was given to a little company of people waiting on God in a cottage prayer meeting, a great tree has grown, so that people from all parts of the country are coming like birds to lodge in the branches thereof, (Matthew 13:31-32). The faith is still growing, and we are still just in the beginning earnestly contending for the faith once delivered unto the saints.

It is a continual upper room tarrying at Azusa Street. It is like a continual campmeeting or convention. All classes and nationalities meet on a common level. One who came for the first time said, "The thing that impressed me most was the humility of the people, and I went to my room and got down on my knees and asked God to give me humility."

The altars are filled with seekers. Sometimes the meetings go on all night. People are slain under the power of God and sanctified or rise up speaking in new tongues. In the meetings, you see the holy joy of the Lord in the countenances, and people are melted in the presence of the Lord, filled with His praise.

The Lord is graciously healing many sick bodies. People are healed at the Mission almost every day. Requests come in for prayer from all over. They are presented in the meeting and the Spirit witnesses in many cases that prayer is answered, and when we hear from them they are healed. Handkerchiefs are sent in to be blessed, and are returned to the sick and they are healed in many cases. One day nine handkerchiefs were blessed, another day sixteen. A man came with a broken arm and was healed. The mission people never take medicine. They do not want it. They have taken Jesus for their healer and He always heals.

There is a very sweet spirit of unity among Pentecostal missions in Los Angeles and workers in suburban towns. Every Monday morning, the misiners and workers from these different points meet together for prayer and counsel. The missions in Los Angeles are at 327 1/2 S. Spring, of which Brother Fisher is pastor; 8th and Maple Avenue, of which Brother Pendleton is pastor; and 1321 E. 51st Street, where Brother and Sister Kent have charge. Workers from Long Beach, Pasadena, Clearwater, Anaheim, and other nearby places also come in. All are in one accord. In our first meeting several messages were given in tongues through our Brother Post, and interpreted as follows:

"We acknowledge Christ only, His truth, His Word. We must tarry much before Him. We must acknowledge that He is in our midst, walking among the golden candlesticks, pruning, purging. He, who moved among the golden candlesticks, is moving in our midst now. We must recognize Him alone as Head over all, and know no man after the flesh. The Spirit of God will teach us, if we keep low in love and humility before Him. Our Lord says, "I smile upon you, when you are seeking My will, My glory only. There must be no glorying in names or orders or systems, only in Myself alone. All fullness is in me, all power is in My Gospel."

We must give God all the glory in this work. We must keep very humble at His feet. He recognizes no flesh, no color, and no names. We must not glory in Azusa Mission, nor in anything but the Lord Jesus Christ by whom the world is crucified unto us and we unto the world.

We stand as assemblies and missions all in perfect harmony. Azusa Mission stands for the unity of God's people everywhere. God is uniting His people baptizing them by one Spirit into one body.

PENTECOST RESTORED

Written after his Pentecostal anointing on the train, by JW Ellison, Des Moines, IA

O glorious promise of heaven!

Fulfilled to His people at last;

The tongues of fire have descended,

And sealed us as those in the past.

The Pentecost power is now spreading,

The Bible rings clear as a bell;

The finished work of the Savior,

We now are commissioned to tell.

The touch of the hand brings conviction,

The look of the eye startles sin,

The flood gates of heaven are opened,

And souls are now entering in.

All fear is banished forever,

And sickness and pain flee away,

The touch of Jesus is as powerful,

As it was in that wonderful day.

The union of hearts is like magic,

And bodies are molded like clay;

Souls that are sealed by His Spirit

Have entered the heavenlies to stay,

Sinners who once have been careless

Have wakened to a sense of their need;

Pentecost surely is spreading,

Regardless of doctrine or creed.

Then glory to Jesus who loved me,

And glory to Jesus who came,

And glory to Jesus who fills me,

And seals with His own precious name.

PENTECOSTAL POWER IN SAN DIEGO

San Diego, CA, January 5

Dear Saints, Greeting!

Grace and peace be multiplied unto you all, through our Lord Jesus Christ, who always causeth us to triumph in every place, and maketh manifest through us the savor of His knowledge.

The dear Lord has favored us with continuous victory, reclaimed, sanctified and some baptized with the Holy Spirit every week. The interest is increasing notwithstanding the continuous wet weather. The altar is filled with seekers at most every service.

We have had some marvelous cases where those possessed by the devil have been wonderfully and completely delivered and clothed in their right minds. We wish to note one case in particular for the glory of God and the power of our Lord Jesus Christ.

A man of German birth came in the meetings, a master in Theology and Spiritualism, who claimed he was Christ incarnate --that he was immortal, and had all wisdom and knowledge. The blessed Holy Spirit gave the saints the discerning of Spirits, and they rebuked the devils in him. The man fell to the floor, trembling from head to foot. The devils were commanded to come out of him in Jesus' name. Immediately he began to confess his sins and crimes, too awful to mention. He continued to pray and call upon God for mercy, and in a few days he found peace. He has since gone on to the cleansing Blood and has received his Pentecost, and in humility is owning Jesus as his perfect Savior, clothed in his right mind, joyful and happy.

About twelve have received their Pentecost and a number are still seeking. We are praying that the Lord will establish this work as in Los Angeles. This is an open field with virgin soil, and the work is taking deep and firm hold upon the people. Our hearts are burdened for salvation of the people of San Diego.

FE Hill

AKRON VISITED WITH PENTECOST

Akron, Ohio, December 24th

Since I first heard of the wonderful way God was working in Los Angeles, my heart got hungry. The dear saints in Akron kept up a steady cry to God day and night for Him to send it this way, before we hardly knew it. Akron was visited. Glory to God! He sent dear Ivy Campbell here in answer to prayer, and many have received their Pentecost. The altar is more than filled nearly every service. In fact there is hardly a break in the meeting. Some people bring lunches and don't stop to eat them. Some sisters sing in tongues like voices from heaven and also interpret some. Oh, it is wonderful! Many demons have been cast out and the sick are being healed. Glory to Jesus! He is also selecting His missionaries. The meeting runs day and night--sometimes all night.

People come from miles around here and are receiving their personal Pentecost. Brother McKinney is sending out invitations far and near, and telling how God is visiting Akron, and it brings in the hungry ones. His church doors were opened wide to welcome dear Sisters Evy Campbell and Hudson from East Liverpool. The meetings have been running over three weeks. The Holy Spirit is the only leader. Praise God!

While some of the prominent ministers are opposing it, yet their hungry members jump over the fence and get to the little mission church and get saved, sanctified, and then receive their personal Pentecost. We are glad God had one humble preacher in Akron who opened wide the door to receive this "latter rain". We are likely just getting the first sprinkling of the great shower that is to come. Praise God!

The burden of everyone that has received his personal Pentecost is "Jesus is coming soon."

January 21-The fire has broken out in Pittsburgh too. God is visiting every hungry town and city that will receive Him. The fire is spreading here, in spite of all the water the devil pours on. It seems to act like oil instead of water. Glory to our conquering King!

One of our mothers in Israel has her personal Pentecost and the Hawaiian language. Three Hawaiian boys from Honolulu came to Akron to get work, and God sent them to the Mission, and they said Mother Davis had the Hawaiian language perfectly and interpreted two messages she gave out that were, "God is love," and "Jesus is coming soon."

Yours in Jesus,

Mrs. Pearl Bowen

PORTLAND IS STIRRED

Portland, OR December 31st

Peace from God the Father be unto you and all the saints.

Well, God has stirred up this North until every devil in hell is stirred also.

I finished my work in Salem: was there two weeks. Seven received Pentecost. The saints are in perfect harmony. Students, city officials and the first people of the place heard the Gospel, but as far as we can see now, they have rejected the Gospel. Must of the ones that received their Pentecost are from the little places around, and they have gone home to spread the glad tidings of this precious Gospel. Oh, my heart is so full this morning. Glory! Glory! Glory!

Well, Sister Glassco and three of her children got their Pentecost in Salem. Before they got home, on Christmas day, while Brother Glassco was preaching. Pentecost fell on the meeting and two spoke with tongues. We had planned to come on Saturday and this was Tuesday. When we got here, three more had received the Baptism. We arrived here at noon and went into the meeting at three. The power fell before the meeting was half through and two received Pentecost at night, two more. Last night Mildred received her Pentecost. The slain of the Lord lay so you can't move about the altar. The altar is full before the meeting is half over. The house is just packed. Oh, if we only had a larger hall. I cannot tell how God is working here.

Now I must tell you about Nildred. She spoke in four tongues, sang so sweetly, and interpreted every word. The interpretation of the song was.

"Jesus is calling Oh, sinner come home.

Glory to His name, Oh, sinner, come home."

Then she arose and the crowd was silenced like death. She began to wave her arms, preach in tongues, and interpret. Here is part of it: "He that comes unto me, I will in no way cast out" (Tongues). "The Lord has prepared me to preach His Gospel" (Tongues). "Jesus is coming soon" (Tongues). "He will take away His bride, one will be taken and the other left."

January 8-The crowds throng the hall. We have to have a police officer to keep the aisles clear. They tell us throngs of people come and are turned away. The Zion people held a mass meeting Sunday and decided to come in a body for their Pentecost.

O I am so glad He has chosen me. The Lord has healed some bad cases. One woman had epileptic fits. When the devil went out of her, she was so weak she could not stand. A man's hand that was helpless was healed. A woman with her mind almost gone was healed in the hall last night before the sinners' eyes.

Pentecost falls on people when they come the second time to the meeting, sitting in their seats.

I stay in the mission. It is humble quarters, but Jesus is here. Every minute of my time is given to God. I get tired sometimes. Once, I was sent for to pray for a man with a high fever. I prayed before I went, was so tired. Jesus said, "I do the healing." When I got there, Jesus healed him before I laid hands on him. He got up and came to meeting. Oh, I am learning the wondrous secret; it is letting Jesus do the work and carry all the load. Oh, I am so happy in His love and service.

People from all over are coming. A young woman came from Albany. She was a sinner and got all, all the way to her Pentecost, yesterday, in one day. There are 38 now that have received the Baptism, eight since Saturday, and this is Tuesday morning.

I hear the work in San Francisco is fine. Souls saved, sanctified and baptized, and the church people coming in. Oh, God is spreading this Gospel in spite of the devil. How glad I am I ever found my way into the dear old mission on Azusa Street Love to all the saints.

-Florence Crawford.

215 2nd Avenue

BLESSED

1617 7th Avenue, Seattle, Washington, December 21.

May the peace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you.

We are having some good times, and so far there are about forty-five baptized souls. We had a wonderful service out on Peugeot Sound and I baptized about thirty, young and old. It was raining and somewhat cold, but the Lord was with us. A little girl about twelve years of age, who had been seeking her Pentecost, got it right there the minute her feet touched the water. The Lord cut her tongue loose, and she spoke all the while going out and coming in. The Lord was with us in wonderful power. Oh, He is a wonderful Savior. We have been praying for power for two weeks now.

The weather is very rainy here. It rains about six days of every week, but our Father's smile is upon us, and that is better than anything else is.

January 7-In the last few days, the Lord has poured out His Spirit here, and there must be in the neighborhood of about seventy souls that are baptized now.

Yours in Him,

-Thomas Junk and wife

APOSTOLIC FAITH MISSION IN SAN JOSE

San Jose, CA, January 24

Dear Apostolic Faith:

God our Father has been doing great things for us since we last wrote. We are now worshiping in our own hall. We have a very nicely furnished mission, for which we praise the Lord.

The fire is still falling. Last Sunday we had a wonderful all-day meeting. The slaying power was manifest in a remarkable manner. One lay for hours under the power. A young girl took God at His Word, opened her mouth wide, and the Lord filled it with praises in new tongues.

A Mrs. Williamson brought her daughter to the meetings for healing for her eyes that were very bad. The power was present to heal and the child went home completely recovered. Many others have been healed since the meeting opened. Sister Williamson has received her Pentecost and God has put her in His heavenly choir, to sing the heavenly songs for His glory. She also writes in many languages. She interprets most of the songs that she sings, and when she speaks in tongues, she also interprets.

Several of those who have received their Pentecost have been called to the foreign field to labor for Him. One young woman is making preparations to leave for Hawaii very soon.

I am just holding the fort until my Father sends someone to take charge of the work here, when I expect to leave for a trip around the world, sounding the golden trumpet, heralding the year of jubilee. For the coming of the Lord is near, even at the door. He wants the heathen nations to hear the glad tidings and be ready for His coming.

I believe this movement is the last call that the world will receive before He comes for His bride. Revelation 19. 7, 8. These are the days of preparation. Nahum 2. 1-5. The chariots that Nahum saw are the automobiles which we see running in our streets today.

I am anxious to be on the go, for I feel that the time is short. What we do we must do while it is day.

-HM Turney

PENTECOST IN NORTH CAROLINA

Dunn, NC January 2

To the Saints in Azusa Mission, and through all California, greeting in Jesus Name!

O praise Him! It is wonderful. Last week I held a few services in the country in one of the Holiness churches, and two received their Pentecost and spoke in tongues. The languages were as perfect as I ever heard. One was a Sunday school superintendent and the other an elder of the church. I had to leave that meeting to fill my appointment here, but the meeting is still going on there.

This is only the third day, here, and already about ten have received their Pentecost. Five preachers received the Baptism and some of them have two or three languages already and can preach sermons and pray in the tongues. The church is filled to overflow and people come from all over the country. Sinners are being converted and others repenting. This town of about 2,500 has never seen Pentecost before, but praise God, it has come and the town is stirred from center to circumference. People have laid aside eating and business to a great extent and are going down before God in earnest. How I praise God for this wonderful salvation. All the signs follow me since I received Pentecost. Oh, let us trust only to the still, sweet voice of Jesus. He does it all. Oh, how I praise God for sending me to Los Angeles, and for you all.

January 17-Our God is fulfilling His promise and His Spirit is being poured out here in Dunn as never before. Many have come from South Carolina and Georgia and have received their Pentecost and returned and some there have received the Baptism. The fire is spreading. The meeting continues here in greater interest. Nearly every service, someone receives their Pentecost and speaks in tongues. Some of our preachers have preached, sung and prayed in unknown tongues, and without speaking a word of English, have awakened sinners.

Several colored people have received their real Pentecost and speak in tongues. God has wonderfully blessed some of the people with the gift of song. One colored sister, a school teacher, received the Pentecost the other night and spoke in tongues for some time. She has manifested a call to foreign fields. All the people of God are one here.

I prayed much that God would give me access to my brethren, and thus I might convince them of His blessed truths. Not one of them has taken issue against me as yet, but come forward, have received their real Pentecost, and are going forth in the power of the Lord. Some of the people are getting ready for the foreign fields now. Oh, how I praise God!

Brothers, pray, and spread the tidings around wherever man is found. I may never see you in the flesh any more. Many are getting their Pentecost at home and abroad. I go from here to High Point, NC Have more calls than I can fill in six months.

Your brother and servant of God,

-GB Cashwell

PENTECOST IN LAMONT, OK

January 17th

Dear Saints, Greeting!

Left Los Angeles December 4, and arrived in Oklahoma just one week later, making a few stops on the way. Quite a number were tarrying and waiting for Pentecost when I arrived, but much had to be done before God could pour out His Spirit. The people had been in much bondage. Eating pork, wearing neckties, drinking coffee, and wearing a moustache were taught to be very sinful, and except you were circumcised to these you were lost.

After about ten days of prayer and holding up the Blood, God begin to break them up and they began to beg pardon of one another and their neighbors. In a short time, in a cottage prayer meeting, God poured out His Spirit in slaying power and nearly all went down, one woman coming through speaking in tongues. God now began to work and souls were saved, backsliders reclaimed, and believers sanctified at nearly every service. The country was stirred for miles around. Some came 100 miles to get Pentecost and healing.

One woman who had been a Free Methodist was reclaimed, sanctified, and baptized with the Holy Spirit. She speaks and sings in tongues. She began to sing at home in tongues, and her husband got under such conviction he could scarcely do his work, and in a few days came to the altar and was beautifully saved. 'Tis so sweet to trust in Jesus.

The Lord told me to move on, last Sunday. Meeting closed Sunday night with many seekers at the altar. The saints will go right on and push the battle.

January 21-Arrived here Friday morning after spending two days in Chicago. Quite a number here are seeking the Baptism. We expect great things here. Pray much for me. I can feel it when they pray for me in public. Some time ago in a prayer service, the Lord showed me Brother Seymour praying for me, and I seemed to be carried away in the Spirit. Under the Blood,

-GA Cook,

612 Terrace Avenue

Indianapolis, Indiana

Several have already received the Baptism of the Holy Spirit in Des Moines, IA. It was not through anyone sent there, but they were tarrying before God and Pentecost fell.

In Toronto, a number have received the Baptism. Brother O. Adams went there from Los Angeles. He had not yet received his Pentecost, but told them about what God had done in Azusa Mission and other places. They went right to tarrying before God. A company stayed after meeting to pray through, the Spirit fell, and three were filled with the Holy Spirit.

We are receiving hundreds of names and addresses for the paper. Please write very plainly. Those who ask for it regularly are enrolled on the books. We are sending out thousands of sample copies to friends whose names are sent in by others. If we do not hear from these. We send only two are three numbers. Please notify us of any mistakes.

If you want to keep fat and filled with the power of the Holy Spirit, live off the Word.

The Lord is enabling us to publish another issue of 30,000 papers for the fifth number of the Apostolic Faith. He has greatly blessed in getting it out. Though it is somewhat late, we trust it will be the greater blessing.

When you were poor and ugly in your own sight, then was the time God exalted and used you, but when you get to be some great Nebuchadnezzar, then God turns you out to eat grass like an ox. Keep little and God will use you.

A baby that accidentally took poison that it found in a bottle in a closet was healed in answer to prayer. The mother held on to God in agonizing prayer, "Lord, save my baby." The little thing was cold, but the Lord healed it completely.

"The Holy Spirit is blessing us daily, but we must have a great outpouring of the Holy Spirit, for there are people in our midst that are praying night and day for a great awakening among the people." -Mrs. C. A. Roll, 1005 Edwards Street, Fort Worth, Texas, January9.

Sickness is all the work of Satan. Sometimes we bring it upon ourselves by overexertion. Sometimes it is permitted of the Lord because of sins of omission or commission. Satan cannot afflict us unless God permits. He has no power over us unless we get on his territory.

Souls are getting the Baptism in Clearwater, CA. Mother Wheaton went down to tarry with them and was baptized with the Holy Spirit and spoke in two languages. She is very happy and filled with the Holy Spirit and God is using her. Brother McLain writes that there are many hungry souls there and the devil is stirred.

Several have written and asked if we received the offerings sent. We can answer that they all came safely, even to some letters that came through the fire in a train wreck and were scorched on the edges and stained by water, but they came safely and money in them. We see how the Lord takes care of consecrated offerings.

"I received my Pentecost last Saturday morning, 1:15 A.M. Praise God! I am wholly given up to His will. Words cannot express the blessed peace I have in my soul. My soul is filled with His glory. Hallelujah! Praise God for His wonderful Gift to men. We are praying for and expecting 120 Spirit baptized souls to take San Diego for God." -H. G. San Diego, CA

"The Scandinavian people here are receiving their Pentecost. I was with them in their watch night meeting. Oh, how God poured out His Spirit on all flesh. Many spoke in tongues and sang the songs of heaven, a heavenly choir. Some fell under the power of God. My soul doth magnify the Lord. He thrills my spirit, soul and body."

-Mrs. SC Magie

710 Times Street

Ballard, WA

A sanctified body is one in perfect health, through faith in God. It does not mean we could not get sick, but we are maintained in health by faith. We do not want to teach people they can not get sick, because they would think they were infallible creatures. "As the branch cannot bear fruit except it abide in the vine, no more can ye accept ye abide in Me." we must abide in church for health.

In Akron, Ohio, a young man went to the Pentecost meetings and got under conviction through the preaching. He went to the pastor of the First Congregational Church and returned to him $10 that he had stolen about 14 years ago, and promised to pay the rest. The pastor was very much surprised, for the man had been under his preaching for years and never got under conviction. He said, "That kind of religion is loaded with good shot. There are no blank cartridges in it."

Brother Tom Hezmalhalch has been home to Los Angeles on a visit and we have been feasting together on the good things of Father's table. On his way back to Colorado, the Spirit directed him to stop off at the Needles. Taking the train on Tuesday morning to resume his journey, at four o'clock he passed the train he had taken at Los Angeles for Denver, every car laid in the ditch. By some means they had left the rails. If he had not obeyed the Spirit, he would have been in the ditch and precious souls would have suffered. It pays to know the Lord and obey Him.

How will you miss hell if you stumble over this precious Gospel, if you ignore the Gospel that God has granted signs and wonders to follow? If you grieve the Holy Spirit, and trample upon the Blood of Jesus Christ, how will you miss hell? There is no way for you to escape hell if you reject the Gospel of Jesus Christ. God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth on Him, should not perish but have everlasting life. Oh, my friends, the precious Blood is flowing for you. If you come to Him, He will wash away your sin, cleanse you from all unrighteousness and carnality, and set you up His throne in your heart.

One who received the Holy Spirit baptism in Clearwater, testified, "It was in morning worship. We read a chapter and I wanted to pray but the Lord tied my mouth. The power began to come in waves. The Lord took full possession. I fell over like a dead man. I was dead to the world. I tried to pray while lying on the floor, but when my tongue was loosened, it was in a different languages. Oh, the joy that came into my soul no human tongue can tell. It seemed as if human joys vanished. I talked about half an hour. This is something I never had before. It seemed as if the whole world and the people looked a different color. Jesus had come to me. I can never sing His praises or tell His praises while eternity rolls."

WHEN JESUS COMES

Oh the bliss of that glad moment

When Jesus cleaves the sky!

Then tears, strife, and pain shall cease,

Our sorrow turn to joy.

The graves of righteous dead shall break,

And living saints shall rise;

Together we shall mount the air,

And throng the waiting skies.

Clouds of angels shall come with Him.

Oh the rapturous sight!

As Christ descends to earth again

In heaven's effulgent light.

He who came from heaven before

To suffer, bleed, and die,

Now comes in majesty to reign,

The Lord of earth and sky.

The bloodwashed saints in robes of light

With bodies glorified,

With glad hosannas on their lips

Shall then be Jesus' Bride.

The cross laid down, our burdens gone,

The crown of life we'll wear,

And standing close by Jesus' side,

His glory we shall share.

The marriage supper shall begin,

The marriage bells shall ring;

Angels and archangels shout,

And help the saints to sing.

The praises of Emmanuel

Who died for Adam's race,

Who purchased such ecstatic joys

For sinners saved by grace.

O God, how wonderful it seems

That Thou shouldst deign to call

From out of earth's dark race of men

A bride for Thy dear Son.

Our hearts rejoice to think, dear Lord,

That Thou wilt soon appear,

We read the signs in earth and sky,

And know that Thou art near.

Amen, even so, dear Lord, we say,

Come Jesus, quickly come,

And end the awful conflict here,

And take Thy loved ones home.

My brothers, we may hear the cry,

Before this meeting end,

"Jesus is here!" "Arise, my love,

And to thy Lord ascend."

Our prayers shall then be turned to praise,

And faith shall end in sight;

What bliss to see His blessed face!

What infinite delight!

-Brother Alfred Beck.

"BEHOLD THE BRIDEGROOM COMETH!"

"Then shall the kingdom of heaven be likened unto ten virgins that took their lamps, and went forth to meet the bridegroom. Five of them were wise and five were foolish. They that were foolish took their lamps and took no oil with them; but the wise took oil in their vessels with their lamps.

"While the bridegroom tarried, they all slumbered and slept. At midnight, there was a cry made, Behold the bridegroom, go ye out to meet him.

"Then all those virgins arose and trimmed their lamps. The foolish said unto the wise, Give us of your oil, for our lamps are gone out (Revised Version- Going Out). The wise answered saying, Not so; lest there be not enough for us and you; but go ye rather to them that sell, and buy for yourselves.

"And while they went to buy the bridegroom came; and they that were ready went in with him to the marriage; and the door was shut. Afterward came also the other virgins saying, Lord, Lord, open to us. He answered and said Verily I say unto you, I know you not.

"Watch therefore, for ye know neither the day nor the hour wherein the Son of Man cometh" (Matthew 25:1-13).

You know virgin in the Scripture is a type of purity. Christ is speaking in this parable about the church and its condition at His coming. Many precious souls today are not looking for the return of their Lord, and they will be found in the same condition as the five foolish virgins. They started out to meet the bridegroom, and had some oil in their lamps but none in their vessels with their lamps. When the cry was made to go forth, they were found wanting in oil that is the real type of the Holy Spirit. Many of God's children are cleansed from sin and yet fight against getting more oil. They think they have enough. They have some of God's love in their souls, but they have not the double portion of it. The thing they need is oil in their vessels with their lamps. It is just as plain as can be.

Dearly beloved, the Scripture says, "Blessed are they which are called to the marriage supper of the Lamb." Revelation 19, 9. They are blessed that have the call. Those that will be permitted to enter in are those who are justified, sanctified, and baptized with the Holy Spirit-sealed unto the day of redemption. Oh, may God stir up His waiting bride everywhere to get oil in their vessels with their lamps that they may enter into the marriage supper. The Holy Spirit is sifting out a people that are getting on the robes of righteousness and the seal in their foreheads. The angel is holding the winds now until all the children of God are sealed in their foreheads with the Father's name. Then the wrath of God is going to be poured out.

"Behold the Bridegroom cometh!" Oh, the time is very near. All the testimonies of His coming that have been going on for months are a witness that He is coming soon. When the trumpet sounds, it will be too late to prepare. Those that are not ready at the rapture will be left to go through the awful tribulation that is coming upon the earth. The wise virgins will be at the marriage supper and spend the time of the great tribulation with the Lord Jesus. They will have glorified bodies. For we who remain unto the coming of the Lord will be changed in the twinkling of an eye.

Many precious souls believe today that in sanctification they have it all, that they have already the Baptism of the Holy Spirit or enduement of power; but in that day, they will find they are mistaken. They say, Away with this third work. What is the difference, dear ones, if it takes 300 works? We want to be ready to meet the bridegroom. The foolish virgins said to the wise, "Give us of your oil." This thing is going to happen. Many that are saying they have enough and are opposing, will find their lamps going out and ask the prayers of God's people. God is warning you through His servants and handmaidens to get ready; but many are going to come back to get the oil from others. Dear ones, we cannot get more than enough for ourselves. You can grasp the saints' hands but you cannot squeeze any oil out. You have to get the vessel filled for yourself. Many are going to be marrying and giving in marriage, buying and selling, and the cares of this world are going to get in the way. Above all, we want to get the oil, the Holy Spirit. Every Christian must be baptized with the Holy Spirit for himself. Many poor souls in that day will be very disappointed. May we seek Him today, the Baptism of the Holy Spirit and fire. Now is the time to buy the oil; that is by tarrying at the feet of the Lord Jesus and receiving the Baptism of the Holy Spirit.

It seems that people will be able to buy oil during the rapture. It seems that the Spirit will still be here on earth and that they could get it, but it will be too late for the marriage supper. The Lord warns us to be ready, for we know not the day or the hour.

Those that are left in the rapture, still prove faithful to God, and do not receive the mark of the beast, though they will have to suffer martyrdom, will be raised to reign with Christ. Antichrist will reign during the tribulation and everything will be controlled by him and by the false prophet, when they have succeeded in uniting the whole world in acknowledging the antichrist. Those that acknowledge him will be permitted to buy and sell, but those that stand faithful to the Lord Jesus and testify to the Blood will be killed for the Word of their testimony. By proving faithful to death, they will be raised during the millennium and reign with Christ. We that are caught up to the marriage supper of the Lamb will escape the plagues that are coming on the earth.

May God fit everyone of us for the coming of the Lord, that we may come back with him on white horses and help Him to execute judgment on the earth and make way for the millennial kingdom. In that day He shall reign from shore to shore, and righteousness shall cover the earth as waters cover the sea.

That is the time that Enoch prophesied of, "Behold the Lord cometh with ten thousand of His saints," Jude 14. "Then shall the Lord go forth and fight against these nations, as when He fought in the day of battle. His feet shall stand in that day upon the mount of Olives," (Zechariah 14:3-4). The mountain shall be parted in two. Then shall the antichrist and the false prophet be cast into the lake of fire and brimstone and Satan shall be bound a thousand years (Revelation 19:20 and 20:2).

We shall be priests and kings unto God, reigning with Him a thousand years in a jubilee of peace. Our Christ will be King of kings and Lord of lords over the whole earth. We shall reign with Him over unglorified humanity. Some will be appointed over ten cities and some over two. "To him that overcometh will I grant to sit with me in my throne, even as I also overcame and am set down with my Father in His throne" (Revelation 3:21-22).

WJ Seymour

THE CHURCH QUESTION

You cannot win people by abusing their church or pastor. As long as you preach Christ, you feed souls; but as soon as you jump on the preacher, you grieve the Spirit. Preach Christ, and you will feed the flock and have fat sheep. But if you get to preaching against churches, you will find that sweet spirit of Christ that envieth not, vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up, thinketh no evil, suffereth long and is kind, is lacking and a harsh judging spirit takes its place. If you feed them from Christ, you will find the same Spirit burning in their hearts.

The main thing is, Are you of Christ? It is to late in the day for us to go to work and tear down some other man's building and build up one of our own. The thing to do is to get the truth into the people. The churches are not to be blamed for divisions. People were hunting for light. They built up denominations because they did not know a better way. Now if they want to live in families, let them get the truth. Jesus will settle the rest when He comes. He wants people feeding on Christ and letting the Spirit be their leader. We follow human leaders as far as they follow Christ, but we keep our eyes on the great Shepherd.

We do not have time to preach anything else but Christ. The Holy Spirit has not time to magnify anything else but the Blood of our Lord Jesus Christ. Standing between the living and the dead, we need to so bear the dying body of our Lord that people will only see Christ in us, and never get a chance to see self. We are simply a voice shouting, "Behold the Lamb of God!" When we commence shouting something, else, then Christ will die in us. If Christ be lifted up, He will draw all men unto Him.

When people run out of the love of God, they get to preaching dress, and meats, and doctrines of men, and preaching against churches. All these denominations are our brethren. The Spirit is not going to drive them out and send them to hell. We are to recognize every man that honors the Blood. Let us seek peace and not confusion. We that have the truth should handle it very carefully. The moment we feel we have all the truth, or more than anyone else does, then we will drop.

We must deal patiently with the Lord's people. The Lord shows us in the parable of the ninety and nine, that we should not take the little lamb and beat it over the head; but lift it up into our bosom, just as the Shepherd did. We do not want to stamp out the little spark of life in one of God's weak ones, who has the Blood of Jesus Christ in their heart.

It is wonderfully blessed to receive the Baptism of the Holy Spirit and fire. He sings through you His own songs. It is so sweet when you are lying down on your bed, and the Lord drops a song from Paradise into your heart, a song you knew nothing about, and puts an organ of sweet music into your soul.

ANNIHILATION OF THE WICKED

Many people today do not believe in an everlasting hell; but we read in the precious Word of God that the Lord Jesus taught it. Luke 16:19, "There was a certain rich man that was clothed in purple and fine linen, and fared sumptuously every day. There was a certain beggar named Lazarus that was laid at his gate full of sores, and desiring to be fed with the crumbs that fell from the rich man's table. Moreover the dogs came and licked his sores. It happened that the beggar died and was carried by the angels into Abraham's bosom. The rich man also died and was buried. In hell he lift up his eyes being in torments, and seeth Abraham afar off, and Lazarus in his bosom. He cried and said, Father Abraham, have mercy on me and send Lazarus that he may dip the tip of his finger in water, and cool my tongue; for I am tormented in this flame."

We can see that there is no annihilation in God's Word for the wicked, but there is a blazing and burning hell awaiting them. Their home will be in everlasting flames, where they will be tormented day and night forever and ever. Revelation 20, 10.

The Lord says in Matthew 18:8, "It is better for thee to enter into life halt or maimed, rather than having two hands or two feet to be cast into everlasting fire."

Dear loved ones; there is an awful hell. God teaches us in Psalms 9:17, "The wicked shall be turned into hell, and all the nations that forget God." We find the punishment of the wicked taught us from the closed gates of Eden all the way down. He sent fire and brimstone from heaven upon wicked Sodom and Gomorrah that are "set forth as an example, suffering the vengeance of eternal fire," Jude 7. May God help men everywhere to repent of their sins and accept the precious Blood of Jesus Christ that cleanses from all sin and unrighteousness that we may enter into heaven where the Lord Jesus has prepared us a home (He is coming back again, praise His holy name!)

Hell, no doubt, is millions of miles from heaven, but yet the rich man, we find, had good clear eyesight. He had the sense of hearing, taste, feeling, and his memory was perfect. He could recognize Lazarus, talk with Abraham, and beg him to let Lazarus come with a drop of water for his tongue. If the doctrine of annihilation were true, then this rich man would have been burned into ashes, and there would be no more of him. We see in the Word of God, that Jesus taught a burning hell. We see the rich man that had gold and silver and raiment and sumptuous food, tormented in hell, and his heart's cry was that his brothers might not come to that place of torment.

Many who have preached a no-hell Gospel will find out better when they die and come to the judgment, just as this man died, and in hell lifted up his eyes.

May God help us to turn from sin and wickedness and not try to wrest the Scriptures, but take them just as they are written. This rich man was now a poor beggar in hell. Abraham said, "Son, remember that thou in thy lifetime receives thy good things, and likewise evil things; but now he is comforted-thou art tormented."

How we ought to obey the precious words of our Lord when He preached that wonderful sermon on the mount, "Seek ye first the kingdom of God and his righteousness and all these things shall be added unto you." "For what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world and lose his own soul; or what shall a man give in exchange for his soul?" This man had all the good things of life, and lost his own soul,-a beggar in hell. It is with those that lay up treasures on earth and are not rich toward God. God's words are true and we must receive them.

I am so glad that the Lord has a boundary line between hell and heaven. Abraham said to Divea, "Between us and you, there is a great gulf fixed; so that they which would pass from hence to you cannot; neither can they pass to us that would come from thence." There is no visitor from hell to heaven or from heaven to hell.

This man may have been like many today that do not believe in everlasting hell, but in the annihilation of the wicked; but he now sees that there is a burning hell. He begged for Lazarus to be sent to his father's house to warn his brethren from coming to that place of torment. Abraham said, "They have Moses and the prophets; let them hear them." He said, "Nay, Father Abraham; but if one went unto them from the dead, they will repent." He said unto him, "If they hear not Moses and the prophets, neither will they be persuaded, though one rose from the dead."

Dearly beloved, we have God's Holy Spirit preachers that are testifying to the Blood that cleanses from sin and warning of an everlasting hell. If we will not hear them and accept the Words from them, we will ever be lost. The Scriptures teach, "He that believeth and is baptized not shall be damned."

HARK! THE MOMENTS THEY ARE PASSING!

Hark, the moments they are passing,

Each one counts a brother lost;

Beauty, youth, and age possessing;

Few but seem to count the cost.

All contentment-all are viewing

Sinners straying from the Blood;

Toward death and hell their feet are pressing,

Fighting with a pardoning God.

Oh! how dreadful is their station!

Oh! how low in sin they lie!

Come, my brother, have compassion,

Look upon with pitying eye!

Tell them of a Savior given,

Teach them on the Lamb to gaze,

Turn their thoughts from earth to heaven,

And their lips to speak His praise.

Then arouse, my brother, pray thee!

Let no virtue be at peace;

Come, arouse, we still implore thee,

Let their souls our zeal increase;

Cease from idle contemplation,

Never let the tempter be;

Rest not, in full salvation

They, unveiled, our Savior see.

-T. Hezmalhach

We have seen missions and churches banded together to stop what they call a "tongues" salvation. However, dear ones, this is not a salvation of tongues. It is in the Blood of Jesus Christ that cleanses from all sin.

HOLY SPIRIT BE MY QUEST.

Holy Spirit, by my guest,

This my soul's one deep request;

My heart's throne to Thee I give,

Holy Spirit, with me live.

Holy Spirit, this my plea,

Stay forever more with me;

From this hungry heart of mine.

Ne'er withdraw Thy light divine.

Thus for aye my heart would be,

Constant dwelling place for Thee;

Holy Spirit, while I pray,

Come to 'bide with me always.

-Sarah J. Stew

"RECEIVE YE THE HOLY SPIRIT"

1. The first step in seeking the Baptism of the Holy Spirit, is to have a clear knowledge of the new birth in our souls that is the first work of grace and brings everlasting life to our souls. "Therefore being justified by faith, we have peace with God." Every one of us that repents of our sins and turns to the Lord Jesus with faith in Him, receives forgiveness of sins. Justification and regeneration are simultaneous. The pardoned sinner becomes a child of God in justification.

2. The next step for us is to have a clear knowledge, by the Holy Spirit, of the second work of grace wrought in our hearts by the power of the Blood and the Holy Spirit. Hebrews 10:14-15, "For by one offering, He hath perfected forever them that are sanctified, whereof the Holy Spirit also is a witness to us." The Scripture also teaches (Hebrews 2:11), "For both He that sanctifies and they who are sanctified are all of one; for which cause He is not ashamed to call them brethren." we have Christ crowned and enthroned in our hearts, the tree of life." We have the brooks and streams of salvation flowing in our souls, but praise God, we can have the rivers. For the Lord Jesus says, "He that believeth on me, as the Scripture hath said, out of his innermost being shall flow rivers of living water. This spoke He of the Spirit, for the Holy Spirit was not yet given." However, praise our God, He is now given and being poured out upon all flesh. All races, nations, and tongues are receiving the Baptism of the Holy Spirit and fire, according to the prophecy of Joel.

3. When we have a clear knowledge of justification and sanctification, through the precious Blood of Jesus Christ in our hearts, then we can be a recipient of the Baptism of the Holy Spirit. Many people today are sanctified, cleansed from all sin, and perfectly consecrated to God, but they have never obeyed the Lord according to Acts 1:4,5,8 and Luke 24:39, for their real personal Pentecost, the enduement of power for service and work and for sealing unto the day of redemption. The Baptism of the Holy Spirit is a gift without repentance, upon the sanctified, cleansed vessel. 2 Corinthians 1:21-22, "Now He which established us with you in Christ, and hath anointed us, is God, who hath also sealed us, and given the earnest of the Spirit in our hearts." Praise our God for the sealing of the Holy Spirit unto the day of redemption.

Dearly beloved, the only people that will meet our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ and go with Him into the marriage supper of the Lamb, are the wise virgins-not only saved and sanctified, with pure and clean hearts, but having the Baptism of the Holy Spirit. The others we find will not be prepared. They have some oil in their lamps but they have not the double portion of His Holy Spirit.

The disciples were filled with the unction of the Holy Spirit before Pentecost, which sustained them until they received the Holy Spirit baptism. Many people today are filled with joy and gladness, but they are far from the enduement of power. Sanctification brings rest, sweetness, and quietness to our souls. We are one with the Lord Jesus and are able to obey His precious Word, that "Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God," and we are feeding upon Christ.

However, let us wait for the promise of the Father upon our souls. According to Jesus' Word, "John truly baptized with water, but ye shall be baptized with the Holy Spirit not many days hence Ye shall receive power after that the Holy Spirit is come upon you; and ye shall be witnesses unto me, both in Jerusalem and in all Judea, and in Samaria, and unto the uttermost part of the earth" (Acts 1:5-8). Glory! Glory! Hallelujah! Oh, worship, get down on your knees and ask the Holy Spirit to come in, and you will find Him right at your heart's door, and He will come in. Prove Him now. Amen.

-WJE

GIFTS OF THE SPIRIT

"Now concerning spiritual gifts brethren, I would not have you ignorant."

Paul was speaking to the Corinthian Church at this time. They were like Christ's people everywhere today. Many of His people do not know their privileges in this blessed Gospel. The Gospel of Christ is the power of God unto salvation to everyone that believeth. in order that we might know His power, we must forever abide in the Word of God that we may have the precious fruits of the Spirit, and not only the fruits but the precious gifts that Father has for His little ones.

Dearly beloved, may we search the Scriptures and see for ourselves whether we are measuring up to every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God. If we will remain in the Scriptures and follow the blessed Holy Spirit all the way, we will be able to measure up to the Word of God in all of its fullness. Paul prayed in Ephesians 3:16, "That He would grant you, according to the riches of His glory, to be strengthened with might by His Spirit in the inner man; that Christ may dwell in your hearts by faith; that ye being rooted and grounded in love, may be able to comprehend with all saints, what is the breadth, and length, and depth, and height, and to know the love of Christ which passeth knowledge; that ye might be filled with all the fullness of God. Now unto Him that is able to do exceeding abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that worketh in us."

Many people say today that tongues are the least gift of any that the Lord can give, and they do not need it, and ask, "What good is it to us?" By careful study of the Word, we see in the 14th of Corinthians, Paul telling the church to "follow after charity and desire spiritual gifts." Charity means Divine love without which we will never be able to enter heaven. Gifts all will fall, but Divine love will last through all eternity. right in the same verse he says, "Desire spiritual gifts, but rather that ye may prophesy," that is to say, preach in your own tongue that will build up the saints and the church.

But he says in the next verse, "For he that speaketh in an unknown tongue, speaketh not unto men, but unto God, for no man understandeth him, howbeit in the Spirit, he speaketh mysteries," (Revised Version-hidden truth). he that prophesieth speaketh unto man to edification, exhortation and comfort." He that prophesies in his own tongue edifies the church; but he that speaks in unknown tongues edifies himself. His spirit is being edified, while the church is not edified, because they do not understand what he says unless the Lord gives somebody the interpretation of the tongue.

Here is where many stumble that have not this blessed gift to use in the Spirit. They say, What good is it when you do not know what you are talking about?

Praise God, every gift He gives is a good gift. It is very blessed, for when the Lord gets ready, He can speak in any language He chooses to speak. You ask, "Is not prophecy the best gift?" Prophecy is the best gift to the church, for it build up the saints and edifies them and exalts them to higher things in the Lord Jesus. If a brother or sister is speaking in tongues, cannot speak any English, but preaches altogether in tongues, and has no interpretation, they are less than he that prophesies is. However, if they interpret they are just as great.

May God help all of His precious people to read 1 Corinthians 14 and give them the real interpretation of the Word. May we all use our gift to the glory of God and not worship the gift. The Lord gives us power to use it to His own glory and honor.

Many times, when we were receiving this blessed Pentecost, we all used to break out in tongues; but we have learned to be quieter with the gift. Often when God sends a blessed wave upon us, we all may speak in tongues for awhile, but we will not keep it up while preaching service is going on. We want to be obedient to the Word, that everything may be done decently and in order and without confusion. Amen.

-WJH

"BEARING HIS REPROACH"

"Wherefore Jesus also that He might sanctify the people with His own Blood, suffered without the gate. Let us go forth therefore unto Him without the camp, bearing His reproach" Hebrews 13:12-13.

Many Christians have never been nailed to the Cross outside of the city. They know what it is to be born in the city, but they have never gone outside the gate bearing His reproach. We see the need of a crucified, sanctified, holy life that we might be one with Christ Jesus; but we will never get it in the city, that is, without crucifixion. In the city, there is pride, fame, and honor; but outside the gate, on the Cross, hangs our Savior, who is despised and dishonored, rejected of men. It was there that He suffered to sanctify His people. The crown of thorns was put upon Him in Pilate's judgment hall and His back marked with the stripes, and the Blood dripped all the way to the Cross, so His Blood marks the way for us.

In the city, we find people with conversion. you must come out of the worldly church today, into some little cottage prayer meeting or mission to be sanctified. There are few church members that will stand up straight for sanctification. There were few synagogues that would receive Jesus. He preached from to the crowds that went out into the mountain.

The old man of sin must be slain and Christ must be enthroned in our hearts. Then we are prepared to receive the precious gift of the Spirit. The reason so many cannot see it is that it is so plain and simple. It takes a simple person to believe the Word and stand on it, and look up into Father's face and claim His promise through Jesus Christ. The way is so plain that a wayfaring man, though a fool, need not err therein.

GOD IS HIS OWN INTERPRETER.

People may say it is no language the Spirit is speaking through you. It matters not what they say. They do not know, any more than Belshazzar knew about that hand writing on the wall. It took God to interpret that. The natural man cannot understand the secrets of God. It takes a born child from heaven to understand. Bless God. He has taken this out of the king's hands. The devil is shut out of the mysteries of God. He can be a clairvoyant, a Spiritualist, a hypnotist and understand all the works of darkness, but in Divine miracles he is a fool. It took Daniel to receive the interpretation of the writing on the wall. The wise men were dumb.

It took one who walked with Jehovah to interpret Nebudchednezzar's dream. The astrologers said that no one could show the king's matter but "the gods whose dwelling is not with flesh." Daniel's God could interpret. He is His own interpreter today. Leave it with him. The Lord is giving many the interpretation of what they speak.

You do not have to strain to interpret. You do not use your mind at all. The Lord God uses your vocal organs and the Words come out without your having anything to do with it. When God is speaking, no flesh can take a part in it. Often the Lord sends someone that understands the tongue to verify the interpretation.

When we are speaking in unknown tongues and no one comprehends or interprets, it is speaking in communion with the Lord our God and it is joy and happiness to our soul. Others cannot understand but in the Spirit we speak mysteries. when we interpret, it is edifying to the whole body. "Wherefore let him that speaketh in an unknown tongue, pray that he may interpret" (1 Corinthians 14:13).

Someone says that it takes little "thimble-brained" people to accept this Gospel. We have so much unbelief-been fed upon it and saturated in it-that we must be emptied out before we can be filled. The one that does not know any more than just to believe God, gets down and takes Him at His Word. The witness comes that the Blood of Jesus does save, and sanctify from all sin; and he takes the promise of the Father, the Baptism of the Holy Spirit and receives the Bible evidence of that. It is now as in the time of Christ,"the common people heard Him gladly." The Greeks required knowledge and the Jews a sign, but the simple hearted people just believed Jesus. The Lord has such people today that are following the Lamb wherever He goes. May God help us to humble ourselves. "Whosoever shall humble himself as this little child, the same is greatest in the kingdom of heaven."

LATEST REPORT FROM OUR MISSION. ARIES TO AFRICA.

Brother and Sister Batman, Brother and Sister Hutchins and sister Lucy Farrow sailed from England for Monrovia, Liberia, Africa the latter part of December. The rest of the party were bound for a station further south, so they were to take the steamer "Guelph" a few days later. They are Brother and Sister SJ Mead and Brother and Sister Shideler. Their address is Lincoln Station, Caconda, Bengue is, Africa. They were so busy packing and getting off that they had not much time to write. They expected to be about three weeks on the way. We are looking for regular reports from them.

They write, "Pray for us, dear ones, as we reach our field of labor. We overcome through the precious Blood. Many we all keep humble and filled with the Spirit. We must now say goodbye, but we are not far separated in Christ."

We must not forget the dear ones that are one with us and a part of the body in dark Africa. We must pray for them. Offerings will be gladly forwarded them from Azusa Mission or you can send post office money orders direct. Be sure to put five cents in stamps on letters to them, or ten cents if they weigh over half an ounce.

SPEEDING TO FOREIGN LANDS

Liverpool, England, December 16

I write to let you know something of the way the Lord has been dealing with us on the way.

We held a meeting in New York lasting almost two weeks and had the pleasure of seeing many sanctified and quite a number receive their Pentecost. One dear sister who had been seeking for a number of days began to sing and sang almost an hour and her husband spoke in a tongue that sounded like Hebrew. Another brother was hugging him, he began to speak in the tongues, and they conversed in this tongue for a while.

A wealthy woman was sanctified and received her Pentecost in a short time, her servant was seeking, and just as her mistress jumped up, she too was on her feet and the two began to praise God together and speak in tongues, bless God forever. The same night, a friend of this woman went to her home, during a night of prayer, she laid hands on the brother, and he received his Pentecost and began to speak with tongues and glorify God.

When we went to the steamer, a large number of the saints gathered and we had quite a time saying good-bye to all the dear ones. We realized we were blessed by meeting them. May God continue to use them in the future as He has in the past.

We arrived here yesterday morning safely and shall stay until the steamer sails for Africa next Saturday. We have held a service for natives of Africa. He cares for us faithfully day by day.

Yours in Christ,

-Mrs. J.W. Hutchins,

Monrovia, Liberia, Africa

RECEIVED HER PENTECOST

Testimony of Mrs. Myrtie K. Shideler written in New York on her way to Africa. Her address now is Monrovia, Liberia, Africa.

I felt led to write out my full testimony to leave before we go on our way. I have been quite well known on the coast in Christian work, in Peniel Mission and church work, so I believe it will glorify God if some of it goes into print. As you think best, however. It is principally for the saints there that they may know that Pentecost has really come to my soul, as we step out for dark Africa.

About one year ago, God began showing me Africa and the great need of her perishing millions, and my heart burned with the desire to go (Since God for Christ's sake cleansed my heart from all sin nearly twelve years ago, I have never been comfortable when out of active service for God).

We came in touch with Brother and Sister Mead about this time. They were able to tell us all we asked about Africa, as they had spent 21 years there, and expected to return, and were praying to God for a young couple to take back with them to the work there. We were very much united with them in spirit from the first. They lived in Los Angeles, were able to attend the meetings at Azusa Street, and wrote us of them at our home in San Diego. We had been warned against the meetings as wildfire and fanaticism; but when we saw for ourselves, we recognized the work of God, and our hearts began to hunger and seek. We both received much light and blessing at that time. However, our work hurried us away and we went without having received the full Pentecost.

Shortly before we arrived in Kansas City, when I was having a season of quiet, the Lord revealed very clearly to me that pride was not all out of my heart, and let me get something of a view of Jesus' meekness and humility. Then my heart was so filled with sorrow, and I cried out for forgiveness. I could feel the warm flow as of blood, trickling down inside. This lasted for some moments and I was melted in love, meekness, and humility from Jesus, and could truly cry, "I am willing to be counted as filth and off-scouring for Him."

After we arrived in New York City, I felt led to give my testimony in a little mission meeting at 351 N. 40th Street, and speak of this blessing. The meeting had been planned by man, and I did not see how I should be given an opportunity, but promised God if He would make an opening and give me power to tell it to His glory, I would do it.

We were on our knees in the opening prayer, as God was speaking to me, and as I said I would, the vision of Jesus came upon me with four-fold power, and the little chorus went ringing through my heart; "Jesus' blood covers me,

I was blind but, hallelujah, now I see."

I was tremblingly looking for an opportunity. A brother had been appointed to read the Scripture and preach after the prayer; but as we rose to our feet, someone started to sing a chorus and I felt it was my time, so got to my feet, thinking I would take just as much time as possible. By the time the chorus ended, the power of God was so heavy upon me, I could scarcely open my mouth, and every fiber of my being was trembling. Yet my feet felt glued to the floor and my knees stiff, so I could not sit down. I only got out a few broken sentences that I remember (I never fainted in my life and was never unconscious, but God certainly took me out of myself). He showed me things that there are not words enough in the English language to express. I do not wonder we need to cry " for a thousand tongues to sing my great Redeemer's praise." The room and the people were hid from my senses and vision, Jesus walked in regal majesty, and His whole being was inexpressible and unutterable LOVE. Oh, His walk! His Kingly brow!! Yet such sorrow and love. It seemed I was not worthy to so much as stoop and touch the hem of His beautiful garment, and yet I knew that He would clasp me to His bosom.

He seemed to change His countenance from time to time. Sometimes it was as He went up the rough path to Calvary, marred with the thorn crown, and such marvelous pity and sorrow on His face. Then it was the calm, majestic face of Him who conquers. My soul could only cry, "See how He walks and Oh, how He loves." I can never explain it-words fall. I know all the dear ones know, who have their Pentecost.

I do not know how long I stood and praises to God just burst from me. They tell me I sang in a tongue. I was not conscious of singing at all. From seeing others under the power, I had thought it must be a terrible nervous tension, but it was the perfect surrender and relaxation. The leaders of the mission had not seen the power of God in this way. An interruption was allowed to come in that grieved the Spirit so He did not have His way fully after that, though I was under the power the remainder of the meeting, and for three days was as one drunken, and had no sense of either hunger or thirst.

Since then, such waves of power roll over me from time to time. I can scarcely keep my feet, and I am sure if my old friends in California could see me, they would think I was indeed insane. Bless God! How I would love to shout the praises of my God and King among them! Night before last, a whole sentence in an unknown language came spontaneously from my lips, as I was dressing for the meeting. It came after a season of deep abasement of soul-a sense of such great unworthiness. I never dreamed that human beings could have such blessings as this Pentecost brings. Jesus promised it all, but I was so blind. His precious Blood bought all for my soul. Glory! Glory! Glory! to my God and King!

-Myrtie K. Shideler

FROM OUR BROTHER IN SWEDEN

48 Skofde, Sweden, December 15th, 1906

Grace be unto you and peace from God our Father and from the Lord Jesus Christ. I thank my God upon every remembrance of you.

I am longing to be with you all but God is still the same here. Praise His name! I am kept by His mighty power, and I am growing in grace every day. I have been testifying in houses, so you can see that the door is open and people are hungry for more of God. Glory to His name!

I like to see sinners saved from their sins, but these Christians must be right first and filled with the Spirit. I think God will grant us an outpouring of the Spirit in Sweden soon.

My heart is still burning and the Lord has been teaching me many things, even giving me more holy boldness. I do not know how to give praises unto God for His goodness and mercy to me. Glory to Jesus for evermore!

I am stirred in my spirit to see so many play Christian. I am tempted very hard sometimes of Satan, but God is giving me grace to stand. I have full victory and I know He is able to take me through. I am praying every day for the Lord's work in Los Angeles and other places, and I am thinking much about you all. I would like to be in California, but the Spirit says that I have some more work on the other side of the sea. I hope you are praying for me. This is not Azusa Street Mission here, but I am praying that the Lord would grant us fire from heaven and give life to half-dead Christians. Bless the Lord forever.

I have something to tell you. The Lord's Holy Spirit says that the evil one, or Satan, is trying to get in among you in the meetings very hard, and that the saints of the Lord have to pray him out now before it is too late. Payer is victory. I am waiting for something wonderful to come, a world-wide revival soon, beginning from west and going east.

Please tell the saints of the Lord that Christ is coming soon and that the time is very short. Jesus is looking for His bride, a few out from the body, the church, the chosen ones, the first fruits to God and unto the Lamb, the wise virgins who have oil in their vessels with their lamps.

I am waiting on the Lord. I have need of more of Him. My mother and many others do not understand me at all. bless the Lord, I have found a few on the Lord's side, and the Lord knows me and is with me every day, glory to His name. I was praying one day upon my face, my mother looked in at the window of my room, and she got almost afraid for me and asked me what I was doing so far.

Remember, dear ones; we are servants to a great Master and have very much to do in a short time. May the Lord of heaven give me boldness to stand up for our King wherever we go. We have nothing to be afraid of, so let us get a new hold in faith in God, and get on our faces. Tell all the dear saints the same. It is of no use at all to look upon one another or wait upon somebody. It is now that we must fight for our King, because we are not of this worldly kingdom but of the heavenly. Praise God!

The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you all in Christ Jesus. Amen.

Yours in Christ,

-A.G. Johnson

It was not until Jesus received His baptism that He met His greatest temptations. The more spiritual we get the more subtle are the temptations of the enemy, so the greater need we have to get deeper into the Word of God. Some have thought that the people who get the Holy Spirit baptism do not need the Bible, but that is the greatest He of the devil. Always keep in the Word. The deeper we get into the mysteries of God, the more we need the Word. The way people get into fanaticism is to put aside the Word and go to following the Spirit. If you do this, you will get full of spirits-you will get into Spiritualism. if we keep close to the Word of God, there is no danger of going into fanaticism.

the devil hates the spiritual body of Christ as much as he hated the literal body. He thought he had killed Christ when he killed His body, but, hallelujah, he did not do it. Christ arose on the other side of the Cross and we affirm that He is alive and does save, sanctify, and baptize with the Holy Spirit. We are also seeing His promise fulfilled in some of the persecutions that attend the preaching of the full Gospel.

This Bible becomes a new book to those baptized with the Holy Spirit. You absolutely lose your own judgment concerning the Word of God. You cut it down without trimming or cutting, right from the mouth of God. You live by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God.

AMONG THE INDIANS AT NEEDLES, CALIFORNIA

January 8th

I taught the Needles on Saturday, January 1. Found dear old friends there, working in their beautiful little mission house among the Mojave Indians for our dear Master. God is acknowledging their efforts and saving precious souls.

I went with our dear brother to visit the Indians in their homes. The Mojave tribe is fast dying out. No wonder. Because of an old superstitious practice, they have no desire to improve their condition. When they are converted, they at once begin to clean up and build themselves homes, and cease from the evil practices and habits of the tribe life.

When a relative dies, they burn everything that belongs to that house as well. They used to kill the relatives' horses and cattle, roast them, and have a great feast; but the government stopped that. They do not bury their dead, but burn them, and dig their ashes into the ground.

When they become Christians, they are true to God, for they despise hypocrisy. If they fall from grace, they acknowledge it, and usually confess it openly.

On Sunday afternoon, we had over thirty Indians in the Mission besides the white people. It was a blessed time. While the Indians were testifying in their own language, and some in English, the dear Lord wonderfully blessed our souls, and the Holy Spirit witnessed with power through all who took part. The interpretation by some of the Indians is as marvelous as the Holy Spirit speaking through others in tongues.

The evening meeting was a wonderful demonstration of the Holy Spirit's leading to all present. The converted Indians have a better knowledge of what the Baptism of the Holy Spirit is, than their teachers do. Our Indian brother George rose and interpreted into his own language what we had said. It was a wonderful manifestation of the Holy Spirit. The correct continuance of thought given, was too correct to be simply the work of a retentive memory.

While another Indian brother was preaching in the Mojave language, a sister asked me if I understood it. I told her I did. She said she thought so, for God had revealed to her the truth that the Spirit had given me a most wonderful understanding of what they all said. Their language is fully two thirds demonstrative, mostly in the features and pointing with the fingers or hands, one being as significant as the other is. The simple knowledge of what a word means is not enough. The pointing of the finger or movement of the body or features, gives the same word an entirely different meaning. This is because their language contains very few words. when they speak the Words, God, Jesus, or Holy Spirit, it is with such reverence that would put many a white person to shame.

The Indian preacher in his own language said, "When God-Father forgive you all your wrong doing, through God-Jesus, you have first make Indian (yourself) all naked from wrong. Then God-Father forgive. you no naked in heart. God-Holy Spirit no occupy until Jesus make naked in heart, (pointing to a picture of Jesus on the wall, every time he mentioned His name). Then (going through an imaginary performance of stripping himself naked, beginning at the head and ending with his feet), he said, "As you make naked outside, God-Jesus make Indian naked inside from the devil, (slapping his side with the hand fist and fingers spread apart. God-Holy Spirit no live where devil live. God-Holy Spirit talk through us to all the Indians in the mountains, like Holy Spirit talk through that brother, (for the Holy Spirit had spoken through me in three languages, giving the interpretation after each one). And God-Jesus make all Indians in mountains, and us, and these, and these all big Holy Spirit tribe."

There are thousands of Indians of different tribes in the mountains, and he meant they, and themselves, and the white people, and a colored brother, pointing to each of us, would, by the Blood of Jesus Christ, be made one great spiritual family. Tell me, my brother, can you have a better understanding of the two works of grace and the Baptism of the Holy Spirit? I ask, who taught this people the truth? For all the ministers here are teaching that you receive the Baptism of the Holy Spirit when you are justified. It is none other than the Holy Spirit Himself who came for that very purpose, and will not let the true and innocent be deceived.

One of the Indians came to me and said, "Brother Tom, we understand you, and we want you to pray for us every day, that we may have the Baptism of the Holy Spirit, as God wants us to have Him." They do not call the Baptism a blessing or "it" but express it in their own tongue as "God-Father, God-Jesus and God-Holy Spirit coming to occupy your own heart forever."

I told their teachers, if God had given them the same power to understand what they were saying as He gave me, they would hang their head with shame, for the Indians knew more about the truth than they did. One dear, honest soul with tears said she knew it and did not know what to do. I told her if she would only keep her covenant with God that she made that night after the meeting, He would not only baptize her with the Holy Spirit, but would witness through her of the wonderful works of God in Christ Jesus to every tribe, in their own language. If she did not, God would remove their bishopric, and give it to one who knew Him in His fullness. For the cry for help from these different tribes among the mountains has gone up to our Heavenly Father, and He will answer it, for someone will obey Him and go. God will satisfy the longing of these precious souls, and they shall be filled with the knowledge and love of God as it is in Jesus Christ.

Dear saints, pray with us for God to equip some one or more to go into this most wonderful field at our own door. It is foolishness to think God cannot fit up those He sends out to preach His Gospel, with every material and ability to accomplish His will.

Yours, T. Hezmalhach

Many people claim to be saved from hell but not from sin. A good many are preaching that kind of salvation. They preach the fire all out of hell, but it is still there. We preach it is a lake burning with fire and brimstone, "And whosoever was not found written in the book of life was cast into the lake of fire." The only salvation is through the Blood of Jesus that cleanses from all sin. It will save you throughout eternity. Christ has conquered death and hell.

THE HEAVENLY ANTHEM

One of the most remarkable features of this Apostolic Faith movement is what is rightly termed the heavenly anthem. No one but those who are baptized with the Holy Spirit are able to join in-or better, the Holy Spirit only sings through such in that manner. Hallelujah!

"I have heard and understood both in the Gujerathi and Hindu languages, the singing of different psalms and other portions of the holy scriptures. The singing is done in various foreign languages."-George E. Berg, Hermon, CA, former missionary to India.

On Sunday night, December 9, a sister sang in the Gujerathi language of India, the first four verses of the 8th chapter of Solomon's Songs. It was a song such as a bride might sing of the bridegroom. "Awake not my beloved." It was most blessed and beautiful to notice us the Holy Spirit sang through the dear sister; it brought a great wave of heavenly fire and blessing to those present.

Again a beautiful song was sung in tongues: "Hosanna to the Son of David; Blessed is He that cometh in the name of the Lord; Hosanna in the highest" (Matthew 21:9). This was the greeting given our Savior at His triumphal entry into Jerusalem. The brother who understood the language said that in the foreign tongue it was the most sublime poetry. At the same time, the room was filled with the glory of God.

We afterward learned of a remarkable coincidence. The same song was being sung at the Pentecostal Mission at 327 1/2 S. Spring St. was interpreted there the same. The saints worshiping in these two places were in perfect harmony of spirit, and the Holy Spirit witnessed to it.

At the all-day meeting on Christmas, a day never to be forgotten, we had a Christmas carol in tongues. It began with one voice, just as on Bethlehem's plains, and a chorus of voices joined in. One who knew the language interpreted it: "Glory to God in the highest and on earth peace, good will to men." This was very sweet and heavenly. It followed the reading of the Scripture.

People are melted to tears in hearing this singing. It is the harmony of heaven and the Holy Spirit puts music in the voices that are untrained.

A LITTLE GIRL'S VISION OF HEAVEN

Our little girl Myrtie was recently taken with a severe cold and sore throat and had every symptom of scarlet fever. She knows the Lord, having been saved three years ago, has received the Baptism of the Holy Spirit, and speaks in tongues.

During a season of prayer on Tuesday evening, December 18th, all the family, papa, mamma, Herman, and four-year-old Ruth laid our hands on her head and each one prayed for her healing. A wonderful spirit of song came upon us. The Spirit sang the songs of Zion through our lips. During this season of song, my little girl sat on a chair with her eyes closed; and when the song stopped, she said, "O papa, I have seen Jesus." She then told the following vision:

"I came to a city of many streets. There seemed to be a division in the city, there was a narrow street that separated. On one side the streets were clean and paved, the buildings were of marble and strong, and there was a car there with the Words on the front, TO ZION. On the side of the car was TO THE BEAUTIFUL CITY OF GOD. On the dirty street was a dirty car, and on the front was TO HELL. On the side was GOING DOWN.

"After I got on the clean car, I went to the conductor and asked him if I could go over to the unclean car, and the car was stopped and I went across with others, and we took five apiece off from Satan's car. when they came across the line from the unclean street to the clean, their garments and faces became clean. When we came to the white car, the car expanded to make room for all that came.

"I saw the car the devil was on, go down into a dark abyss. Then our car stopped and we all went over to where this car disappeared. Jesus spoke, a great grate of iron came, and then a great stone, and stopped up the mouth of the abyss so that Satan could come out no more.

"As the car went on, I saw that everything was beautiful. The mists rolled away. Beautiful flowers appeared.

"When we arrived at the beautiful city of God, there were lovely homes given to us. After we were there long enough to be adjusted, we went to visit the Palace of the King. I saw Jesus on a throne made of diamonds and pearls. He was dressed in shining raiment, sparkling in every color.

"A beautiful Christmas feast was spread on tables. The cloth on the tables and the food was beautiful. The walls of the room and the carpet on the floor shone with beautiful colors. I looked in a mirror and saw I was clad like the angels. I saw my father, mother, brother, and sister coming in, and their clothes were transformed like the rest. The molding around the room was decorated with holly, most beautiful to behold. Jesus called attention to me and said, 'Do you see that little girl down there?' Their eyes seemed to look clear through me. Then he said, 'This girl was very sick and had faith and I healed her.' All the host sang a most beautiful song of praise. Then Jesus took us and showed us all around. When we came out, He had a beautiful chariot ready to take us all back to earth."

-E.K. Fisher, Glendale, CA

Lock Box 145

(Brother Fisher is one of the pastors of Pentecostal Missions in Los Angeles, at 327 1/2 S. Spring St).

BIBLE TEACHING ON MARRIAGE AND DIVORCE

We hear in the Word of God, Ephesians 5:25-32, "Husbands love your wives, as Christ also loved the church, and gave Himself for it, that He might sanctify and cleanse it with the washing of water by the Word; that He might present it to Himself a glorious church, not having spot, or wrinkle, or any such thing; but that it should be holy and without blemish. Ought men to love their wives as their own bodies. He that loveth his wife, loveth himself. For no man yet hateth his own flesh, but nourisheth and cherisheth it, even as the Lord the church. For we are members of His body, of His flesh and of His bones. For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall be joined unto his wife, and they two shall be one flesh."

The Lord says, "What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder." Concerning the divorce question and remarriage, we believe simply what the Scripture teaches all through the Bible. "Thou shall not commit adultery." According to Romans 7:2-3, "For the woman which hath a husband is bound to the husband so long as he liveth; but if the husband be dead, she is loosed from the saw of her husband; so that if while her husband liveth, she shall be married to another man, she shall be called an adulteress; but if her husband be dead, she shall be free from the law of her husband, so that she is no adulteress though she be married to another man."

1 Corinthians 7:39, "The wife is bound by the law as long as her husband liveth, but if her husband be dead, she is at liberty to be married to whom she will, only in the Lord."

Now this is to the church that are under the Blood. People that are not under the Blood, go to the law and get divorces, because they are under the law. They are living after the flesh, but we are under grace.

1 Corinthians 7:10, shows that if there should be any separation with any of God's people, they are not entitled to marry again, so long as the man or wife lives. "And unto the married I command, yet not I but the Lord, let not the wife depart from her husband; but and if she depart, let her remain unmarried or be reconciled to her husband, and let not the husband put away his wife." that is the Scripture.

O how careful we ought to be in homes, among families to teach plain Bible doctrine. Many homes today have been wrecked and brought to naught through false teaching. Wives have left husbands and gone off, claiming that the Lord has called her to do mission work, and to leave the little children at home to fare the best they can. They will take this Scripture to back it up, Luke 14:26, "If any man come to me and hate not his father and mother, and wife, and children, and brethren, and sister, yea, and his own life also, he cannot be my disciple." They will stand upon that Scripture and say God means for them to hate their children and husband, and go off and try to save somebody else's home, or the heathen, when their own home needs to be saved. May God help us and give us wisdom, for He is not the author of confusion but of peace.

Many precious husbands have left their wives and children at home, and their wives are working hard to support the little children, washing, ironing, scrubbing, and farming, while their husband is claiming to be doing missionary work, and saying the Lord gave him that same Scripture in regard to forsaking. They take it for granted that the Lord does not want them to be bothered with their families. in the Bible we read, "A bishop then must be blameless, the husband of one wife, vigilant, sober, of good behavior, given to hospitality, apt to teach. One that ruleth well his own house, having his children in subjection with all gravity. For if a man know not how to rule his own house, how shall he take care of the church of God?" How can such a man teach a family and bring peace in homes, when he himself is not at peace in his own home? How can he train other people's children to love God, when his poor little children are looking out for papa, and he never sends anything home to the little ones? Oh, may God give us wisdom and understanding in His precious Word. Please read 1 Timothy 3, all the way through, also 1 Timothy 5. This does not mean to the man only but also to the woman, for they are both one in the Lord.

Dearly beloved, let us respect homes and families. There are many precious souls today just ready to run away from their homes. They do not want to make home tidy and care for the children, and prepare for their husbands. May God help us to obey all His Word. Wives, love your husbands. Luke 14:26 is not teaching desertion. We husbands, Husbands, love your wives. Jesus, are not to desert our dear children and precious wives and precious husbands; but to let nothing get between our Christ and us. Many who have had a beautiful experience of sanctification, have allowed their baby or husband to become an idol between them and their God, and have hindered the blessed Holy Spirit, so the Lord is teaching us to Love Him with all our heart. Many believe the Lord taught desertion. Praise God, He never did come as Christ and God to break up homes and families. When we are saved, sanctified and baptized with the Holy Spirit, then our mission station begins at home and with family prayer, until one by one the members of the family receive the Lord Jesus. We have seen this so much since God has poured out His Spirit. many sons and daughters respect father and mother. Bless His holy name.

It is no sin to marry. "Marriage is honorable and the bed undefiled, but whoremongers and adulterers God will judge" (Hebrews 13:4). There are those today in the marriage life, since they have received sanctification and some the Baptism of the Holy Spirit, who have come to think that it is a sin for them to live as husband and wife. Jesus said, in Matthew 19:5-6, "For this cause shall a man leave father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife, and they twain shall be one flesh. Wherefore they are no more twain but one flesh." Dearly beloved, we cannot get outside of the Word. Paul writes a letter to the church on this subject in 1 Corinthians 7. It is a letter that teaches husbands and wives how to live. Many precious souls are in great bondage and need the precious Word to unloose them. If His Word governs us, there will be peace, joy, and happiness in our homes, and they will be heaven on earth. We find in the Corinthian Church, when the Spirit of God was being poured out, many thought it was a sin to live with their husbands and with their wives. Paul had to teach them in 1 Corinthians 7:11, "I say therefore to the unmarried and the widows: it is good for them that they abide even as I. To the married I command, yet not I but the Lord, let not the wife depart from her husband."

Dearly beloved, we that are preparing to meet our Lord, to be His bride, the Lamb's wife, ought to live in the Scriptures, cleansing ourselves from all filthiness of the flesh and spirit, perfecting Holiness in the fear of God.

The Lord not only sanctifies the soul but the body. Every sanctified soul may have a sanctified body. The blood can be purified from hereditary diseases and your body made a pure, holy temple for the in-dwelling of the Holy Spirit. We do not need to die of disease or sickness. You cannot find it in the lids of the Bible that the Lord has to go to the devil to help take His children to glory. He sanctifies from inherited disease. God never put the poison into the child in inherited sickness. No, it was never God that did that. It comes under the head of works of the devil that Jesus came to destroy.

A SONG OF PRAYER

(music to which this song is sung, was composed by little Mildred Crawford, and as she played the piece on the piano, Sister Rees sang the Words to it for her, composing as she sang in the Spirit)

Oh! my Heavenly Father,

Till life's storms are past,

Guard and guide Thy little one

Through each dreary blast;

Trials and strife do toss me,

And dark does seem the road,

Without my loving, Savior,

Who'll carry all my load.

Chorus-Blessed, blessed Savior,

Hear me while I pray;

Ever keep me near Thee;

Lead me all the way.

If I'm true and steadfast,

And put my trust in Thee,

Thou art faithful who hath promised

Thou art all in all to me.

By Thy Holy Spirit,

Thou dost make me free;

I'll ever love and serve Thee,

Through grace in liberty.

Precious Lord, I thank Thee

In fullness of my heart,

For the peace, the joy, the gladness

Thy Spirit doth impart

Oh! may I never falter,

But ever faithful be.

Obedient to Thy mandates,

Who gave Thy life for me.

Accept me oh! my Savior,

And now in me fulfill,

Thy needful preparation

To do Thy holy will;

And when at Thy appearing,

to claim Thy bride to be,

Oh! may I reign with Thee, Lord,

Throughout eternity.

-Casuntila Rees,

1374 5th Avenue, Oakland, CA, December 2

PENTECOST IN PUEBLO, COLORADO

January 16th

Our hearts rejoice beyond measure for the privilege of witnessing the marvelous outpouring of God's love and power at Pueblo. The people were very much bound by the adversary, but Monday night was the most glorious time the dear souls ever saw for liberty and victory.

All felt the power and presence of God in the very first hymn. Before singing the second verse, I said, Let us now tell the Lord, "We will give Thee full liberty of our hearts." We did it, and after a few minutes upon our knees, the blessed Holy Spirit descended upon us and took us. The meeting was completely under His control. It is simply impossible to describe what followed. Liberty and victory was the shout of triumph over and over again, until several received the Baptism of the Holy Spirit, and others who were seeking for sanctification and baptism and did not get through, were encouraged to go on until they had the victory.

The Holy Spirit was pleased to work through a little girl, pleading in a strange tongue for every soul in the hall. The tears streamed down her face, portraying great agony of soul. As I went toward her, I shall never forget the power I felt when just two feet from the child. I felt as if batteries of mighty power had seized my body and the whole was one great reservoir of electric forces. The sympathy for others that was in that child's soul came into mine, and the tears gushed from my eyes, and my soul began to cry out for others. Others had the same experience, especially Brother Thomas, who said it was the great day of his life. The song of praise and victory was everywhere in the room, going from heart to heart, until the whole was one "Bethel" of praise to Him who hath bought us and washed us from our sins in His own precious Blood.

I am persuaded, beloved, these are but the droppings of what we shall witness and experience, if we will only keep out of sight and let God, through Jesus Christ, by the power of the Holy Spirit, be honored and exalted and be all and in all.

Your brother and fellow laborer in the cause of Jesus Christ.

-T. Hezmalhach.

1900 Lincoln Avenue

Denver, Colorado

Brother ML Ryan has moved the "Apostolic Light" office to Portland. The address is 215 Second St. He writes, "The glory still abides."

A sister testified in tongues in the language of India that was interpreted: "I am feasting of the living bread. Why will you not feast with me?" This was the sweet Spirit of Jesus, an unselfish Spirit, longing for others to come.

The "Pentecostal Wonders" published by the Union Gospel Mission, Akron, Ohio, is one with us in this movement. It is in the center of a great awakening in Ohio where workers went from Los Angeles. It is a blessed sweet spirited paper, published free. God bless and use it.

The Lord will hold you just as responsible for believing a lie as He did Adam. False doctrine kills the soul. If we get out of the Word of God and believe a lie, we lose the Blood and lose the life out of our souls. Let no one, not even if he comes as an angel of light, nor your own church or pastor, it may be, get you to doubt the Word of God and believe a lie.

If you want to see God work in power, see a people that are living in love and unity and harmony; but if the devil can get in and divide the people of God and sow dissension among them, then God cannot work. I have five fingers on my hand. One is a little one, but if I cut this little one, it will hurt the whole body. The least member in the body is just as necessary as the greatest (The greatest member is the most humble one). Every Blood-washed soul is a member of the body. We cannot reject one without hurting the whole body. If you cut the little finger, it goes right to the heart and every member suffers.

We had an error in the last paper, to which friends have kindly called our attention: "Hades in Greek and Gehenna in Hebrew mean "lake of fire." A brother handed in this statement, and not being Greek and Hebrew scholars and not having time to study it up, we let it pass. We do not expect to smooth over any errors in this paper, but we will make them right. The words above mentioned are translated "hell" but not "lake of fire" which is the final abode of the wicked. After the great white throne judgment, death and hell and whosoever is not found written in the book of life will be "cast into the lake of fire" (Revelation 20:15-17).

PENTECOST IN WASHINGTON

Asheville, Pacific Co., Washington

December 24th

I was converted when a mere child. I was sanctified two years ago, and since then have been hungering and praying for Pentecost, though I had no idea what to call it.

The Lord drew me to Salem, OR, and after tarrying six days, I received the same enduement of power that Jesus promised to His disciples.

The Lord set me apart for His service and soon gave me a commission. He is using me as a worm of the dust. Glory to His holy name! He says in His Word, He can use a worm to thrash mountains, I have spoken in many languages and have had sentences interpreted at different times as follows: "This is Jesus," "God is with us," "Jesus is your teacher," "Joy in the Lord," "Jesus is coming." Once while under the power I sang three stanzas of the hymn that commences, "Holy, holy, holy," in a beautiful language. It is so sweet to be acquainted with God. I am determined to be faithful and meet you all in the skies.

In my house last Tuesday the Lord opened meetings that appear to have no end in sight. Thursday He showed me to take the meeting into a hall. The Lord sent my brother to help. Saturday night there were four seekers for Pentecost at the altar. Conviction fell upon the people. Many went home, as we supposed to bed; but when we had tarried until midnight, in came three young girls who had been backslidden, proclaiming victory, with shining faces. They had gone home, prayed through and returned. They soon dug deeper and are now among the seekers for Pentecost.

Sunday morning the Free Methodist pastor having a regular appointment there, opened the meeting with a hymn and prayer, then made a few remarks in a sweet, Christ-like spirit-said he was open to conviction but wanted God to lead him. He then turned the meeting over to us, sat down, and he was blessed. Hallelujah! The Lord took full possession and we closed with twelve seekers at the altar. At night, again the Spirit took control.

People were there from neighboring towns. Men were there who have attended church but once or twice in their lives. The Lord is working on old people and little tots. One boy of seven received a heart cleansing. The above mentioned pastor felt the power working among his flock, and is now a seeker himself. Oh, hallelujah to our King! This is multiplying and increasing upon our hands until we feel it is but the first drops before the great shower. To God be all the glory!

-Mrs. FE Rews

TESTIMONY OF A MINISTER

For more than thirty years, I was a minister in one of the leading denominations, and by the grace of God sought to walk in all the light as God revealed it to me. In common with many honest hearts among God's children, for many months past, I had been seeking for a deeper fullness of God's love. I was conscious that, however much God had blessed His church, yet for the time now upon us, we needed a greater anointing in order to be made adequate to the work to be done. With this conscious need, a cry went up to God for a Pentecost. Surely He heard and answered according to His own perfect will.

Early in this year, God sent three humble saints from Texas to Los Angeles, and on their arrival, with a very few others, they met to seek for the Baptism of the Holy Spirit. Daily searching His Word, they sought earnestly to know God's will, yielding to Him for His fullness for service. Few were favorable to what they called new teachings, so this little band had to move their place of meeting; but with the one purpose in view, they unceasingly sought the Lord for the promise of the Father. This little band became earnest that, with much fasting they continued almost day and night for some days, until, indeed, their day had fully come. As suddenly as on the day of Pentecost, the Spirit and filled them, and all began to speak in other tongues as the Spirit gave utterance. This speaking in other languages was not all, for, indeed, they were filled with all the fullness of God, and all the characteristics of the first Pentecost were manifest. Can any unbiased man doubt as to the source of this strange power, when these humble children of God were waiting only upon Him, seeking for Himself? This was, indeed, the day of small things. The promise is that the latter rain is to be much more abundant than the former.

About this time, as indicated above, the writer was led of the Lord to go to Pasadena, some twelve miles from Los Angeles, to assist in tent work. I was living in a small tent that gave much quiet opportunity to yet wait more fully upon God, little knowing himself what God was preparing him for. I heard frequently of the Pentecost in Los Angeles, as I was quite often down to my home in the city. These reports were quite conflicting, but God kept me quiet by resting in Himself, giving me the assurance that He was His own interpreter and would in due time make plain.

About the middle of June, without any planning of my own, I was led for the first time into those meetings at Azusa Street, Los Angeles, in an attitude of entire dependence upon God, knowing that He would protect me from error and show me the truth. I was soon convinced that God was indeed working in ways that I had never witnessed, and the fulfillment of Scripture was plainly manifested. In the altar service, I quietly presented myself before the Lord. On the second day, while at the altar, as distinct to my inner consciousness as a clear voice to my ear, Jesus said, "receive ye the Holy Spirit," and as a hungry person would readily take food, I did eagerly accept the gift of my Lord. This was on Saturday afternoon. I did not feel any overflow of joy or emotion, but rather a deeper calm and quiet, and in my mission work on the Lord's Day following, I had more liberty and a clear knowledge of my Lord's presence.

On the Monday following I returned to Los Angeles and was in the meetings all day. My whole being seemed to be in one accord with all God was doing. The meeting at night seemed indeed remarkable, as the large room was crowded, and God's presence so very manifest. Earnest was the spirit of testimony that Brother Seymour could not begin his message from the Lord until after nine. As he preached, God's power seemed to be increasing in me, but I thought of nothing more. Just about the close of the sermon, a little after ten, as suddenly as on the day of Pentecost, while I was sitting some twelve feet right in front of the preacher, the Holy Spirit fell upon me and filled me literally. It seemed to lift me up, for, indeed, I was in the air in an instant, shouting, praise God, and instantly I began to speak in another language. Two of the saints quite a distance apart saw the Spirit fall upon me. One of them sprang towards me, also talking in an unknown language. Oh, how God did indeed fill my whole being in a way indescribable. I could not have been more surprised if at the same moment some one had handed me a million dollars. I had not been seeking the gift of tongues, or any other gift; but, oh how I did long for God Himself to completely fill me, and in His great love, surely He did.

As you see, this Pentecost is not the gift of tongues, but, as on that Pentecost recorded in 2nd of Acts, the gift of tongues was a sign and a powerful and a practical witnessing agency. I fully believe this latter rain will be in its full development. "They spoke as the Spirit gave utterance," and all that knew me before bear witness, that not simply in some other tongue, but in my own mother tongue, the Spirit does give another utterance. In an experience of over thirty-five years God has kept me from fanaticism, and I am sure that in no time in my life was I more fully surrendered to God and free from all desire aside from just His will only. What I received as described above, I call the Baptism of the Holy Spirit, for, as you see, it was just like that recorded in the Acts 2. Do you ask, guard what of the night? After four months of prayerful seeking only the will of God, now in this Pentecost, I am sure, "this is that." This was the beginning of the early and latter rain. This is surely of God, not that all about and around is of God, by no means. It isn't that mistakes have been made. We are still in the flesh. This I do know, that God has come into my life, in a fuller and more profound sense than ever before, He makes all things spiritual much more real, and His love completely permeates my whole being. In addition, just what Jesus said the Baptism would give, it gives witnessing power. I know this power is manifestly more in me and all that have received the like gift.

In these few months from the time the praying, fasting few received the longboat reading of the heavens, and Jesus did baptize them with His Spirit, up until now, this work has spread until its influence has reached half round the world. Many of all ages and races, from varied conditions and abilities, from the very young to the octogenarian, those learned, and of no education, each alike has received a definite baptism of the Spirit. Surely, the glorious coming of our blessed Lord is very near, and all this supernatural work of God is needed for the work to be completed. This is only the beginning of the gracious latter rain that our risen Lord will pour out upon all flesh, and as the Holy Spirit shall temper each vessel meet for service, He will fully restore all the gifts, or rather manifest each as needed. For all is inherent in Him, and all thus baptized will indeed be one. The Holy Spirit is now leading us into much prayerful study of His Word. He makes Christ increasingly, all in all, the flesh nothing, God's children one, and the coming of Jesus intensely real. Beloved in the Lord, don't criticize, but join us in prayer.

Yours in Jesus,

-AH Post

Pasadena, CA - The Way of Faith

THREW AWAY HIS CRUTCHES

Report of a Case of Healing in Oakland.

The Man was a Sinner on whom This Miracle Was Shown.

Oakland, CA, December 18

A wonderful miracle of healing took place at the tent yesterday afternoon. Brother Manley's lesson was on divine healing and he emphasized the statement that God healed sinners. As if to corroborate his testimony, when he had closed, a rough-looking man arose with a crutch under one arm and a cane in the other hand. He said in substance, "I am a bad man. I have had a university education-practiced law for seven years-went wrong and became a tramp-an outcast-the drunken hobo you see. Two days ago I was going to jump into the bay, when this friend, (pointing to a roughly dressed young man) told me of this place and that people got healed here. Now I am here to be healed of this leg, and I know it will be done."

A horse had kicked him last May and the bone had healed in a lapped position instead of being joined end to end, leaving him very lame.

Well, Brother Manley and the saints went right back to the chair where the man was sitting, and Brother Manley prayed the prayer of faith, laying his hands on the man's head. In a few moments, the man jumped to his feet, looked amazed and said, "It is done! It is done!" He threw away his crutch and cane, then went all over the tent, walking as good as anybody.

The most profound sensation was produced by this exhibition of the power of God, and nearly everybody was in tears and praising God.

Oh what a wonderful God we are serving. The man sought for salvation all the afternoon, and late at night was converted.

"A cancer and a rupture of seven years standing have been healed in Salem since we got here. The cancer came out in three days, roots and all. Jesus is healing the sick. Many other healings are taking place."-Florence Crawford, Salem, OR, December 20.

The Missionary Faith Home at Alliance has received the Pentecost. A number there have been baptized with the Holy Spirit, and it has become a center of power. People are going there for their Pentecost. Brother Levi Lupton who is at the head of the work there and has a paper called the "New Act," is a returned missionary from Africa. He saw the need of the gift of tongues while there. He now speaks in four tongues, and other Christian workers are receiving the Baptism and gift of tongues that means much for the missionary cause.

"I am glad I received my Pentecost, for it is the best thing I ever had. My sin is to win souls for Jesus. I have not been bothered with opium any more. I have no desire to go back. I have squared the $10 with that man, and by paying it, the Lord has blessed me. The Lord has been giving me the gift of healing and singing through me in unknown tongues, and has been wonderfully using me in His work. I was holding a street meeting in Martinez and some of them had me arrested; but the Lord's grace is enough. I have had heavenly sunlight even in jail."-Harry Gerke, 10 Commercial Street, San Francisco (This dear brother was saved from opium only a short time ago in Azusa Mission. He had a hard fight with the devil, but God has established him. Praise God!)

A BUSINESS MAN'S TESTIMONY OF PENTECOST

(We take the privilege of publishing this testimony from a private letter written to Sister Florence Crawford).

When I first went into that Ninth Street Mission, I was as nearly an infidel as it was possible for one raised as I had been to be. I had persuaded myself that the Bible was not to be taken literally, but figuratively, and had rejected the idea of everlasting punishment, and tried to disbelieve the providence of God; that is, that He interested Himself in us personally.

I thought I was as good as the average church member. Notwithstanding, I had not been attending church for about five years. I had belonged to a church in Chicago until five years ago. I went into the church in good faith, but it dawned upon me that what was preached had no expectation of being practiced. I just concluded we had been 'gold-bricked,' and quit. I had been too indifferent to go to any church again, until I heard of the coming of the Los Angeles Pentecostal people, and I was at the first meeting at 9th Street Mission, out of pure curiosity, expecting to see a fake.

I shall never forget how it made me squirm and writhe in the very depths of my soul when you held up the mirror-the Word of God-with all the dust and cobwebs brushed off, and I got a clear view of myself as I really was. How all the excuses I had piled up to justify myself slipped from under me, and how mean I appeared as I thought of myself as an outcast from God. After I had quit going to church, I had begun going to theaters, and eventually even took an occasional drink with my office companions, and had gambled a little in mining stock "bucket shop." There had been a constant unrest of soul, for somehow my conscious would never allow me to get any enjoyment out of sin.

That was my condition when I happened into the Mission. I say happened in. I should say when I was led there, for I now know that the Spirit of the living God led me there. Bless His Holy Name forever! For the first time, I realized that to be a true, sincere Christian meant to live without sin at all. It meant in my case even the giving up of tobacco, before I could so much as ask God to have mercy on me.

There is no need of going into the details of the struggle I went through before I surrendered. What I thought I could never do, God did for me. He took away all appetite for tobacco instantly, a habit to which I was a perfect slave, for which I never cease to thank Him.

On August 12, God made known to me that my past sins were all forgiven, and that I was His child.

Then I heard sanctification explained, saw my need of it, and sought for that experience. I had a fearful struggle with self, doubt, and pride, before I finally got all upon the altar, and just gave up that I did September 21. The instant I really let go of everything and said to God, "I can't do another thing," He just laid hold of me and flooded my soul with such joy and peace and a sense of cleanness. It really was some time before I could see how it was possible for me to get anything more and contain it.

I became hungry for the Baptism of the Holy Spirit and power, and began seeking for that precious gift of God. Sure enough, a battle royal commenced. It seemed that all the powers of darkness were determined to prevent me from obtaining the priceless blessing. When the devil would get me cornered where it seemed as though God had forsaken me, I would always beat him back with this, "Well, one thing I do know, I have been cleansed from all sin and have no desire whatever to sin, and that is a grand thing for me." Then I would find the most precious Scripture just when needed to exactly fit my case, and again take courage.

The battle went on for over two months until November 25. That you will remember was the night you laid your hands on me for my healing. I received both healing for my lungs and the infilling of God's Holy Spirit. Glory to His Holy Name forevermore!

I shall never forget that night. Why, I was raised from despair to the very throne of our God (Right here the Spirit stopped me and sang through me praises to my blessed Redeemer and King, my Master whom to serve is my greatest joy).

As long as the memory of that blessed night (November 25) remains with me, I shall ever say, "God bless Sister Crawford abundantly and use her to encourage many, many others in similar need."

Now all these blessings have been a gift to me. I have not a single mark to my credit. God had a stubborn, unbelieving, thankless child to deal with when He picked me up, and He just had to have wonderful love and patience to bear with me. He did. Now I am eternally His, sealed unto the day of redemption. Praise His name. Hallelujah! I feel a burning desire to see others possess the same blessing. I could tell you of wonderful victory and blessed seasons since my baptism. When I think of what Jesus has done for me, I feel as though I could go through fire for Him, but of myself, I can do nothing. He has put an abiding love in my heart for Him and for my fellow man.

Your brother in Christ,

-J.G. Bourman

490 Twenty-Fourth Street, Oakland

Our office at 312 Azusa Street has been almost snowed under by letters, sometimes as many as fifty a day. Many are hungry for the Baptism of the Holy Spirit; many want healing for their sick bodies or for friends, and others want salvation. Dear ones, if we have not been able to answer your letters, please take this paper for an answer. If you send in questions, we may answer them in the next paper.

"The Lord is using we boys more than I ever dared to think of before I came into the work. I would not change my position for the best in the country, including the President's job. We have more to be thankful for, I believe, than any man in the country. It is just heaven wherever we go. It is just a heaven to go to heaven in. We hold meetings on the streetcars and railway trains and praise the Lord! He just fills and thrills us with glory all the time; and interprets tongues through us at times, and we sing in unknown tongues. He has given me some very beautiful songs in unknown tongues. Praise His holy name! Praise God! He just piles gifts and glory on me until I think all I need is more strength to stand it and more humility to keep me from getting puffed up. Pray that God will keep me humble and keep me under the Blood."-William Millson, 312 Azusa Street, Los Angeles.

PENTECOST IN TORONTO

On December 8, the writer came to Toronto, Canada, to assist in two mission meetings. The first is in the northwest part of the city and closes tomorrow night. There the Lord has met us in full salvation power. We praise Him!

But we wish to write especially of what our eyes have seen and our ears have heard of Gods' work elsewhere in this city, particularly at 651 Queen East, Brother and Sister Heben being in charge. Here is a three-story building all separated unto the Lord. A public assembly room, not large, is on the first floor. The superintendents of the work occupy the second floor. The third floor is for rest for those who need help from the Lord. Now, it cost about $73 a month to cover all expenses. No collections are taken and no help asked for, except for old clothes for the poor. God supplies all the needs. Of course He does.

Here there are held three services on Sunday, a Bible reading on Monday evening, an all-day prayer meeting on Wednesday, and divine healing on Friday evening. It was my privilege to attend two of these all-day meetings, save at night. Here God is pouring out His spirit. Several have been definitely baptized with the Holy Spirit and speak with tongues. It all came about in this way:

Mr. & Mrs. Hebden began praying for power to heal the sick and cast out demons. The Lord said to Mrs. Hebden, "Tongues, tongues." She answered, "No, Lord, not tongues, but power, power." The Spirit was grieved. Then she replied, "Anything, Lord, tongues or anything." Soon after this, the power came upon this yielded woman and she began to speak in an unknown language. Now the Holy Spirit speaks and prays in a tongue through her. She sings, writes, and makes sketches that appear like landscapes. Paul exhorts, "Let him pray that he may interpret." She has prayed and now interprets. One of the sketches was as clouds rolling up from the earth. Two days after this was given, it was interpreted to her to mean...a resurrection of the saints. I heard Mrs. Hebden speak yesterday interpreting what she said. It was this: "God's people should pray for more humility." Another sentence was "On the 17th of November, the Lord baptized me with the Holy Spirit and gave me the Bible evidence."

Brother Hebden received his Pentecost last Sabbath morning, while quietly meditating on the Word of the Lord, not thinking of the Baptism. He praised Jesus, and the Holy Spirit fell upon him. He prayed in a tongue yesterday in my hearing. The meetings are heavenly. They are conducted informally. A stranger could scarcely discover who is in the lead. Christ is the Head. The Holy Spirit leads.

There is a divine hush in the home. There is seriousness without rigidity, quietness without death and formality, joy and much praise without flippancy, liberty without license. How anyone not right with God can come into these meetings and not get under deep conviction, and how a believer can fall to enjoy them, are conundrums. Pentecost has begun in Toronto.

One young woman who was very nice and precise in the world was marvelously saved. She had been under deep conviction for days. When once surrendered, she seemed to sweep with one bound from the altar of burnt offering into the most holy place, from the Cross to the Pentecostal chamber, sealed with the Bible evidence (Act. 10:46). She laughed incessantly for hours and hours. Sometimes she speaks in a tongue while at her work.

May the dear Lord hasten to get us humble enough to trust us with His gifts, and simple enough to receive all He so freely offers, for His own glory. Going on with the Lord, I remain,

Your unworthy servant,

AS Copley, Cambridge, OH

-From "Way of Faith."

Missionaries to Sweden from San Pedro, CA, Brother and Sister Eric Hollingsworth have arrived safely after a very blessed time on the way. Their address is Kristinelund, Tumba, Sweden.

In Akron, Ohio, there is a general awakening. People carry their Bibles to the shop with them. The revival is going on without preachers. People travel hundreds of miles to attend the meetings. Many have gone from the meeting starting others.

"Oh praise the King of Kings for His goodness to us these last days! I am so glad that the wonderful power is not only in the mission in cities, but also among the cowboys and farmers in the country. Oh, praise His name! We have the Pentecost here and it is glorious. We are contending for the faith once delivered unto the saints, and are looking for the soon coming of our Lord and King, Jesus of Nazareth."-Arthur E. Grimshaw, Box 267, Pawhuska, OK January 16.

A sister came to the mission for the first time, very sick. As she took her seat and saw how God was working, she said, "Lord, I am not worthy to have what these people have, but let me eat of the crumbs." she was very hungry for the Lord. Right while she was sitting in her seat, the Lord saved her, sanctified her, and baptized her with the Holy Spirit, giving her the gift of tongues. She began saying in a foreign tongue, "The Lord has made me every whit whole." One who understood the language she was speaking told what she was saying. The Spirit had told her what it was, and now, though she had hardly been able to drag herself into the Mission, she was perfectly healed. This was all in about half an hour, and she was the happiest creature you ever saw. She could not keep still but kept praising God while others were speaking, and when we last saw her she was still praising Him.

"When I knelt seeking the Baptism of the Holy Spirit, the Spirit spoke through one man most beautifully in a language of India a precious message, and I believe God sent it for my own benefit. I was looking up to God and doing business with Him. He spoke a language that is spoken 15,000 miles from here, and I looked and one glance was sufficient to show me that the Holy Spirit was speaking through that man. There are very few that get the native accent by study, but this man spoke the beautiful accent of that country. I want to repeat the Words that he spoke, 'O Lord God, thou art my Redeemer. Thou art the great King of Kings. I adore and magnify thee in my inner soul.' That convinced me that the Holy Spirit was giving languages in this place. I have interpreted at least seven messages in the languages of British India; therefore, I know what I am talking about. Be very careful that you do not put your hands on the ark of God."

-George E. Berg

Hermon, CA

CHAPTER SIX

God is still manifesting His power in Los Angeles.

The Pentecost has crossed the water on both sides to the Hawaiian Islands on the west, and England, Norway, Sweden, and India on the east.

A brother in Honolulu received the Pentecost, by hearing of God's work through the paper. He said when he got down to seeking in earnest, the Lord baptized him with the Holy Spirit and he spoke in two languages.

We rejoice to hear that Pentecost has fallen in Calcutta, India, over ten thousand miles away on the other side of the world: Praise God. We have letters from China, Germany, Switzerland, Norway, Sweden, England, Ireland, Australia, and other countries from hungry souls that want their Pentecost. Some of these letters are in foreign languages. Missionaries write that they are hungry for this outpouring of the Spirit that they believe to be the real Pentecost. The world seems ripe for the Pentecost in all lands and God is sending it. Amen.

One of the missionaries from Los Angeles in Liberia, Africa, had been able to speak to the people in the new tongue. Another sister there wrote in an unknown language under the power of the Spirit, and it was understood and read by one of the native kings there.

Requests for prayer from hungry souls are coming in from all over. They want salvation from sin, and sanctification, and the Baptism of the Holy Spirit, and healing of their bodies. The requests are presented and handkerchiefs are blessed and the power of God comes upon us in praying for them; and we receive letters saying that they are receiving their Pentecost and being healed. Praise God.

March 19th was a wonderful day at the Mission on Azusa Street Three ministers from Tennessee received the enduement of power from on high and the glory of God filled the upper room. Others received the anointing of the Spirit and some were slain under the power of God.

Brother Stewart from Phoenix, Arizona, came to Azusa Mission and sought the Baptism of the Holy Spirit, and God laid him out under the power of the Spirit and took complete control of him, speaking through him in tongues. He was filled and overflowing with the Holy Spirit when he returned to Arizona. Mother Griffith, also from Phoenix, has come and received her baptism.

The work at Azusa Mission is growing deeper and more powerful than ever. Praise God. Meetings continue every day with seekers at every service, and the three meetings run very near together. We have all day meetings on Sunday. Three other Apostolic Faith Missions continue in the city and God's blessing is upon them. The workers from these missions and from suburban towns meet together for conference on Mondays to study the Scriptures and get deeper into the things of God and for conference in the work of the Lord. The spirit of unity, love and power is manifest. Other like missions are being established in a number of towns.

Brother Andrews and wife, Gospel workers from Tennessee, came to Azusa Mission for the express purpose of receiving their Pentecost and Brother Andrews has been baptized with the Holy Spirit and is filled and overflowing with the Spirit. He and his wife were so hungry and had such faith that the Lord wanted them to come, that, not having the means, they started and walked quite a distance, until the Lord gave them the fare, and He is abundantly rewarding them.

Brother WH Durham of 943 North Avenue, Chicago, IL, and Brother HL Blake of Ruthton, MN, who are both preachers of the Gospel, came to Los Angeles to see and investigate what God was doing. They both were baptized with the Holy Spirit and went back filled and saturated with the power of God, speaking in tongues and magnifying God. We were greatly blessed to have them with us and to see what great things the Lord did for them. That blessing overflowed upon all God's children. They are members of the World's Faith Missionary Association.

Sister Rees from Oakland visited Azusa Mission recently. She brought a report from the saints in Oakland that a leader was needed there in the work, one called and prepared of the Lord. We prayed God to call someone. Brother Irwin received the call and went with his wife. His report comes just as the paper is going to press: Oakland, CA, March 21,"God is undertaking for us here. Two received their Pentecost last night with Bible evidence. Others are seeking pardon, sanctification, the promise of the Father."

-BH Irwin

A number from Winnipeg, Canada, have come to Los Angeles and are now rejoicing in the Baptism of the Holy Spirit. Others have come from the Atlantic coast and from Colorado and different states and they have received a Bible Pentecost, evidenced by speaking in tongues, and from other centers workers are going out to the ends of the earth, until we cannot keep track of them. The Lord is speedily preparing His people for His coming.

We cannot give a report of all that have gone out into the work since the last paper, for they are going almost every day. Brother and Sister H. McLain have gone to San Jose, CA, to take charge of the work there and Sister Agnes Jacobson and Brother Harmon Clifford are in the work in San Jose. See report from there of how God is working. Brother Turney and wife who were at San Jose are now in Honolulu. Brother and Sister EW Vinton from near Boston, MA, who received their Pentecost in Los Angeles, have returned to tell the glad tidings. Their address is 12 Leyden Street, Medford, MA. Brother CE Marsh expects to join them there in preaching this. Gospel bands of workers have gone out to other places and started the work.

Since the last paper, Brother Seymour visited San Francisco and San Jose and reported that God had some of the most precious saints there filled with the Holy Spirit and shining for God that he had ever seen and that the power of God was wonderfully manifest.

There are a number of apostolic papers springing up. We cannot tell how many there are, because we hear of new ones we have not seen. There are three clean cut papers besides Apostolic Faith, out and out for a Bible Pentecost according to Acts 2:4 and with subscription free. They are the Apostolic Light, Portland, OR, The New Acts, Alliance, Ohio (which now includes Pentecostal Wonders) and The Apostolic Evangel, Royston, GA (formerly Live Coals). These papers are all about the size of the January number of this paper and they are filled with the wonderful works of God, and are spreading the glad tidings of another Pentecost all over the world. They are all supported entirely by free will offerings.

PENTECOST IN OTHER LANDS

In London

23 Gairloch Road, Camberwell, SE London

January 20-A little band of Christians have been waiting here about nine months for their Pentecost and am glad to say that one sister has received her Pentecost with tongues. Praise Him! Will you continue to pray that all may receive, the writer included. I feel very hungry.

Yours in Jesus Christ,

CH Hook

In Stockholm

Stockholm, Sweden, March --Please, dear ones, help us to praise the Lord. The first soul came through tonight receiving the Baptism of the Holy Spirit and Bible evidence. Bless God!

-Eric Hollingsworth and wife

This message was just received from our brother and sister who have gone to Sweden with this precious Gospel. They wrote of the salvation and sanctification of souls and now we rejoice with them that Pentecost has fallen in Sweden's capitol.

In Sweden

We are having a wonderful time in Sweden. Hundreds have been saved and sanctified. Over a hundred baptized with the Holy Spirit. Praise God! Glory! Glory! Glory! The dear Lord has healed many. Signs as on the day of Pentecost are following, talking and singing in tongues. I cannot tell you all now that God has been doing. The work is spreading fast. Many are seeking for a clean heart and there is oneness among God's people. God shall have all the glory.

I am still talking and writing in tongues. A missionary interpreted what I have been writing in Syriac and Armenian. I was singing Chinese one night, a missionary said. I am busy every day and going from place to place. Strong opposition from many, but God gives the victory. Glory!

Andrew G. Johnson

48 Skofde, Sweden

In Honolulu

Honolulu, Hawaii, March 11-Immediately upon our arrival here, we found two wholly consecrated souls, hungering for more of God. Brother Mayfield threw his mission open to us and told us to go to work. We opened fire upon the enemy the first night of our arrival here. God owned and blessed the truth. Nine have received their Pentecost, and in every case, they have spoken in new tongues. Sister Mayfield has received her Pentecost and healing for lung trouble. My wife and I have both spoken in the Korean language, Koreans present testifying to the same. We believe that will be our next field of labor.

-HM Turney and wife

In Calcutta, India

February 21-The Lord has led Sister Nelson and me here to Calcutta to behold the wonderful works of God. He has sent three of His witnesses from America, all filled with the Holy Spirit, to show forth His power and proclaim the wonderful Gospel that many others and we have been hungering for so long. Praise His dear name! God is working in mighty power in our midst. Several have received the Baptism of the Holy Spirit and speak with tongues, and many have been saved. We have meetings every day beginning about 4 P.M. and go on as long as the Lord leads. We are so hungry and do believe that God will soon satisfy our longing souls.

Mary Johnson

Dehiwala, Court Lodge, Ceylon, India

In Norway

Solfies, Pl. 2, Christiania, Norway

January 29-God is wonderfully demonstrating His power here in the Norwegian capital. It is about ten days since I held the first meeting in the large gymnasium that will take when crowded from 1,500 to 2,000 people. People from all denominations are rushing to the meetings. Over twenty have received their Pentecost and are speaking in tongues. Several have been in trances and had heavenly visions. Some have seen Jesus at our meetings, including a freethinker, who became convinced of the power of God after seeing tongues of fire over my head. Many are seeking salvation and souls are being gloriously saved. Hundreds are seeking a clean heart, and the fire is falling on the purified sacrifice. The fire is spreading very rapidly. Glory to God! I received word from the country districts that the fire is falling there. People who have attended the meetings are taking the fire with them to the towns around about. The account of God's work for my soul has been inserted in many religious papers, and has caused a stir. All can see it is the work of God's Holy Spirit. Hallelujah! Some of the languages spoken are European. A preacher was thrown on his back last Sunday morning in the Student's Hall. When he rose, he spoke in four languages; one of these was English. He could speak none of them before. After that, he prophesied and invited sinners to come to Christ. Numbers threw themselves down and cried for salvation, cleansing, and the fiery baptism with the Spirit. Praised be God! Several preachers are seeking their Pentecost. Go on praying for the advancement of the Kingdom of our Lord and King. Fraternal greetings from those baptized with the power and fire from on high.

Yours in Christ Jesus,

TB Barratt

If you get the light on your soul, you will go forward or else backslide.

The more of the Holy Spirit you have, the more love, the more humility, the more praises.

This is not a "do, do" religion, but it is the religion of the Lord Jesus Christ. Man has to be born again. You cannot get it through moral culture, refinement, or giving up, but you must be born into it. It is through God's beloved Son who washes you, cleanses you, and makes you a fit subject for heaven.

Every sanctified person has the abiding anointing in their soul, and they know His Blood cleanses every moment, but you need the Baptism of the Holy Spirit which is the enduement of power, that will make you a witness to the uttermost parts of the earth.

This Gospel cost us too much to run off into fanaticism and be led by visions and dreams. When we get spiritual, there is greater temptation to get puffed up. We must put all visions and dreams on the square of God's Word and try them. The Word must prove all things. When we throw down God's truth, the plummet of His Word, is shows up the counterfeit.

People receive the Baptism of the Holy Spirit while about their work. One sister in Whittier received hers while she was baking a cake.

The Holy Spirit is a living Person that comes down upon you in great and mighty power. Dear loved ones; when He comes upon you, you know it. When He comes in, He comes talking. Your jaws will be unloosed, and He will commence speaking through you.

We are Christ's spiritual bride now, but there is to be a real wedding take place and a real marriage supper. Those that sit down to this supper will be His queen, the ones that have made their robes white and have the seal of God in their foreheads. Oh, let us not miss this supper. We are listening now for the sound of His chariot wheels.

The Lord has taken Spiritualism and Christian Science out of people in this mission, and filled them with the Spirit, and they are sitting at the feet of Jesus. We teach against Theosophy, Christian Science, Magnetic Healing, Spiritualism, Hypnotism and all works of the devil.

NEW SCANDINAVIAN REVIVAL

The Witness of Tongues Manifested in Christiania

The following report of the Pentecostal revival in Norway is published in the North Mail, Edinburgh, England. It is a letter from the Vicar of All Saints, Sunderland, England, Brother AA Body. He had been to Christiania, Norway, visiting Brother Barratt's meeting.

My four days in Christiania cannot easily be forgotten. I remember well the scenes two years ago, when I stood with Evan Roberts in the pulpit at Ton-y-Pandy, but, wonderful as such scenes in Wales were, the scenes in the Torvegadon Mission Room and other places were more supernatural. I believe that very soon we shall witness the same in England.

Warmly welcomed by the pastor and his co-workers, I sat, of necessity, on the low, large platform, with its table and four forms. The room was an upper chamber, down a court out of a busy street. It was very bare, with forms without any backs. The enthusiastic congregation did not think of comfort.

Boys and girls around me, from seven to twelve years of age, were seeing visions and speaking in tongues-as well as older folk.

A bright-faced lad cried out with intense vehemence (eyes closed, right hand on heart, left hand stretched out)-"Oh, I see the house of Satan thrust down and down. Now the host are entering Heaven. Oh! They are going to shut the door, and some will be too late! Oh, Jesus, Jesus!" Then he commenced to shout in a rapid unknown tongue, and a few minutes later he was just a simple, lovable Norwegian boy again.

Then a university student (under the power of the Spirit) cries with great vehemence (to the "Djarvlen"), "Go! Will you go? Will you go?" All this time perhaps a dozen are speaking or praying in Tongues, or prophesying, and prayer and praise "In the Spirit" is going on all over. Then suddenly, a high-pitched musical voice is heard cutting into everything, prolonged, and then dying away. It is a woman praising Christ in the Spirit.

A brother on my left breaks out into tongues. Three times he did the same in that meeting. First it seems to be in English, very rapidly spoken: "Come, come, come, come now to the Savior," etc. Then it seems to be like Chinese, "Chung, chow, chow," etc. Then he changes into a chattering sort of Tongue. I am assured that all there are Holy Spirit people. "The flesh may get in a little," says the good pastor, "but not much."

Tongues at Keswick

People of course, ridicule; but those meetings go on every day, and twice a day, and not in one place of meeting only nor in one single town. At Christiansand, Frederickshaldt, and many other places the same is going on, and it spreads quickly from each person who receives the Gift!

A Christian merchant in a high position in Denmark came with others to see and hear, and he told me that he was convinced it is of God. The working people chiefly fill the meetings, and the difficulty is to get them to leave when the time comes to close.

It must be added, practical results follow these strange meetings.

Pastor Barratt (of whom more below) said that until recently it was difficult to attract to religious meetings. A Salvation Army officer advertised that a man would rise from his coffin and preach the Gospel, but even this did not effectively draw. Now twice a day everyday, week after week enthusiastic crowds throng these meetings. They go out to spread the strange flame that they are convinced is Pentecostal and Heavenly and Scriptural.

The meetings are liable at any moment to be swept by a wave of spiritual power sweeping through all human arrangements. At times the noise is strangely awesome, almost appalling to an "outsider."

Some of us ask ourselves the question, how will this affect the Keswick Convention meetings and other gatherings this year? Those who have "Tongues" will be present, and unable and unwilling to control them when moved by the Spirit.

The Rev. Thomas Ball Barratt, the leader of this movement, is almost a Norwegian. He was four years old when his Cornish parents brought him to Hardanger. Eventually he became a missionary of the Methodist Episcopal Church, but he has practically detached himself from any church ties, and the world he feels is his parish.

He was in New York last autumn when influences from the Los Angeles movement began to reach him, and he received a mighty "Pentecost," witnessed to by "Tongues." A letter he wrote home stirred up the spirit of expectancy, and on his arrival the work immediately began, and on New Year's Day in Norway the revival commenced, and has continued ever since, and is spreading all the time.

Of my own inner experiences whilst in these meetings I must refrain from writing at this point, but I reverently thank God for the privilege of being present.

"He will guide you into all truth." We ought to take the Holy Spirit before any other teacher. We should have no teacher between the Holy Spirit and us.

Please write very plainly in sending in your address for the paper. Some letters have to go into the waste basket, because the addresses are illegible or incomplete. If any fail to get the paper, please let us know.

We send out papers free, but free will offerings have come in to enable us to publish and send to all that ask for them.

We have been publishing 30,000 papers at an issue, and of this issue, 40,000 have been printed.

Anyone desiring to distribute papers, has only to drop us a card saying how many you can use to advantage, giving your address very plainly, and we will send by return mail or as quickly as possible.

A convention of Prayer is to be held at Alliance, OH. The saints from Akron, Cleveland, Canton, and East Liverpool will meet there, and it will no doubt be a time of great power and blessing. The date is March 30.

TWO PAPERS IN ONE

This number six of the Apostolic Faith has been enlarged. It is a double paper, the February-March number. We have no stated time of publication but expect to get it out every month, the Lord willing. This time it has been unavoidably delayed. Many have been looking for it and wondering why it did not come before. We praise God for the privilege of sending it out now to hungry souls, and pray God that it will be a double blessing.

The Lord has been greatly enlarging the work. Stacks of letters come in which we have not been able to answer, but may our correspondents take this paper as an answer, as our hands are so full of the precious work. We have received many blessed reports and testimonies that it has been hard to condense into this paper. Many precious letters had to be left out for lack of space.

THE PURCHASE OF THE AZUSA MISSION

The Apostolic Faith Mission has purchased the lot and buildings at 312 Azusa Street. Holy Spirit men have been elected as trustees, who hold the property.

We believe the Lord chose this spot for His work, for He has wonderfully poured out His Spirit in the mission that started about a year ago from cottage prayer meetings where the Pentecost first fell. Now, through Spirit baptized ones who have gone out, and through papers published here, there has been raised up a mighty host. Praise God!

The property was purchased for $15,000, and $4,000 has already been paid down on it. Any friends wishing to have a share in buying this Mission for the Lord may send offerings to Brother Reuben Clark, who is secretary of the board of trustees.

It was necessary to buy this mission as a headquarters for the work, in order to hold it, as it would soon have been sold for other purposes. The situation is favorable, being centrally located and in surroundings where no one will be disturbed by prayers or shouts going up sometimes all night. Praise God! The Mission building was formerly a place of worship where souls had been saved years ago, and the spot thus made sacred; and during the past year, hundreds have been saved, sanctified, healed, and baptized with the Holy Spirit.

APRIL NINTH A JUBILEE DAY

To the Apostolic Faith People, Saints, and Friends: April 9 is the birthday of Pentecost to us, for the Pentecost fell here on April 9, 1906. May all that have received this precious gift, the Baptism of the Holy Spirit, honor that day as a jubilee feast, in praise and thanks to God for sending the old time Pentecost back to earth again.

We pray God that a great revival of salvation may flow in all missions on that day, and that we may all get in one accord. We believe that the fire of God will fall in every mission, and that many will receive the Baptism just as they received it on the day of Pentecost, according to the second chapter of Acts Praise God! We have much to praise God for; in a year's time, He has spread this work over the earth. Hallelujah to His holy name!

God is still working here in Los Angeles. Souls are receiving their personal Pentecost. Bless His holy name! We expect to hear from all the missions where this wonderful Gospel is preached, great victory on that memorable day.

The Spirit takes the Word of God to reprove the world of sin, righteousness and judgment. He shows the sinner that he needs to be saved from a burning hell of fire and brimstone. You may say you do not believe it, but yet you read in the Bible where the rich man was "tormented in this flame" and called for Lazarus to bring a drop of water to cool his parched tongue. If the doctrine of annihilation were true, why was not the rich man burned up?

VIRTUE IN THE PERFECT BODY OF JESUS

Jesus gave His perfect eyes for us, perfect hearing, perfect smelling, tasting and feeling: for Jesus gave a perfect body, that laid in the tomb three days and three nights and was raised by the power of the Holy Spirit. Those eyes that had slept in the tomb under the great power of death were quickened and brought to life again by the power of the Holy Spirit. Therefore, through the perfect body of our Lord Jesus Christ, we can receive perfect healing of sight, hearing, tasting, and smelling.

We read in the precious Word of God (Acts 2:26) where David is speaking of the Lord Jesus, "My heart rejoiced and my tongue was glad, moreover also my flesh shall rest in hope: because Thou wilt not leave My soul in hell, neither wilt Thou suffer Thine Holy One to see corruption." We find that Jesus' body was one without carnality. It was a body that God prepared from heaven by the Holy Spirit and sent down into this world to be the Bread of Life. Therefore, Jesus could speak with the authority in John 6:51 saying, "I am the living bread which came down from heaven." If any man eat of this bread, he shall live forever; and the bread that I will give is my flesh which I will give for the life of the world."

The Jews could not understand this. They said," How can this man give us His flesh to eat?" Then Jesus said unto them, "Verily, verily, I say unto you, except ye eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink His Blood, ye have no life in you." Oh, how true this is. May we drink His Blood daily and eat His flesh, through faith in His word for salvation, health, and healing. If His flesh had seen corruption, then we could not have healing for the body or look for an immortal body from heaven. Dear beloved, we get healing for our body, soul, and spirit and an immortal body from heaven at His coming, through the perfect body of Jesus. Praise our God!

DIGGING FOR OIL

I once asked a man who was digging oil wells, how he found the oil. He said, "We bore down six to eight hundred feet, then we strike the rock. Then we bore through that rock about five feet, and on down to the second rock, about three feet thinner than the first. Then we strike a lake of oil."

It reminded me of salvation. Digging down to the rock represents repentance. When you get through the dirt and mud, then strike the rock, that represents salvation in Christ, for Christ is the rock. When we get upon the rock, we have to build.

The man said they had to bore through two rocks before they struck the lake of oil. It reminded me of the two weeks of grace. We cross the Red Sea, then Jordan, and then we receive our inheritance. Elijah crossed Jordan and looked up into heaven as Elijah was caught up in the chariot of fire, and the mantle of Elijah fell upon Elisha. This is a type of receiving the Baptism of the Holy Spirit, for Elisha prayed for a double portion of the spirit of Elijah.

The second rock represents the second work of grace, sanctification. You go down through that rock and strike the lake of oil and it gushes out in plenty. The oil represents the Baptism of the Holy Spirit. Some get the anointing, and then are filled with holy laughter, taking that to be the Baptism. However, if we go on through that other rock, we will get to where the lake of oil is.

When we have the Baptism of the Spirit, we have an experience according to Deuteronomy 32:13, "He made him ride on the high places of the earth, that he might eat the increase of the fields: and he made him to suck honey out of the rock, and oil out of the flinty rock; butter of kine and milk of sheep; with fat of lambs, and rams of the bread of Basin, and goats, with the fat of kidneys of wheat; and thou midst drink the pure blood of the grape." Praise our God! We find that before people receive the Pentecost, they have hardly enough for themselves. But when they got over into Canaan, the promised land that is the very type of our entering into the promise of the Father, they become rich and are able to lend and able to give, for they have fruit in abundance, everything plentiful. The Baptism of the Holy Spirit gives us the rivers of salvation. Praise God! Oh, may children of God seek all that He has for them.

NO EXCUSE FOR SIN

In justification, we can overcome all the power of the enemy. We have no right to live in sin at any time. Who the Son makes free is 'free indeed.' What is he free from? He is free from sin. Dear ones, we want to honor the Blood of Jesus. The Blood has never lost its saving efficacy. Just one drop of His Blood overcomes Satan. Someone, who is justified with the Blood in his heart, if he will obey the Spirit, will always live from sin.

Every justified soul is being drawn of the Spirit to sanctification, though he may not know it. He is conscious of a hungering for more of God, and the Spirit continues to show him there is higher ground for him. If he continues to walk in the light, he will he led right into the fountain for sin and uncleanness, the Blood will cleanse him from all sin, the old man the body of sin will be hung on Calvary's cross and Christ enthroned in his heart. Bless God, when Christ is enthroned and crowned within, then old Ishmael, the bond woman's son. Which is the old Adam and carnality, is put out. The soul is delivered from the warfare within. He does not have to live in the same house tormented by the inward forces of doubts and fears. The free child rules that is Christ.

HEAVENLY VISIONS

Thirteen saints met in a cottage prayer meeting in Los Angeles and all were in the Spirit and of one accord. They knelt in prayer expecting the Lord to manifest Him. The power of God fell and every one was caught up in the Spirit and saw visions from God. Brother McLain says he saw a beautiful white dove for some time on the back of his chair. One sister saw an angel come into their midst with a golden harp in her hand. Several had the same vision of the Savior. He held a book in His hand. They saw the nail print and the Blood trickling down while He wrote their names in the book with His finger with the Blood that ran from His pierced hand. He stood on the other side of a river. The waters of the river looked bloody. An angel about the size of a child twelve years of age stood in front of the Savior. It went about the room and hovered over the heads of all in the room. One brother had not yet received his Pentecost, and a star was seen to come and light on his forehead, while he was testifying. The brother that was healed of blindness by the power of God some time ago saw an angel with a golden candle stick about three feet high. Praise God. He is wonderfully fulfilling His Word in His children (Acts 2:17).

REBECCA; TYPE OF THE BRIDE OF CHRIST-Genesis 24

"I pray thee is there room in thy father's house for us to lodge in?" Eliezer, Abraham's eldest servant and steward of his house spoke these words, to Rebecca when he had found her at the well in answer to his prayer. Eliezer (meaning "God's Helper") is a type of the Holy Spirit, and Isaac is a type of Christ. Now as Eliezer was seeking a bride for Isaac, the won of Abraham, so the Holy Spirit today is seeking a bride for the Lord Jesus, God's only begotten Son.

Eliezer was sent to Abraham's country and to his kindred to take a wife for Isaac. God our Father has sent the Holy Spirit from the glory land down into this world, and He, the Spirit of truth, is convicting the world of sin, righteousness, and judgment, and is selecting out of the body of Christ His bride. He is seeking among His kindred, the sanctified, and Jesus is baptizing them with the Holy Spirit a