It was distributed without charge to thousands of ministers and lay people. Gary McGee, Assembly of God historian, states that 5, copies of the first edition September were printed, and by the press run reached 40, Because of the conflict, his disavowal of the initial evidence teaching, and racial conflicts within Pentecostalism, Seymour largely fell into obscurity by Seymour, William J. Seymour, and its unique features and legacy. Expectancy of revival intensified in Los Angeles, California, when believers there heard about the remarkable revival in Wales, where from September to June , , people were converted to Christ.
For the evangelicals around the world who had been praying for the outpouring of the latter rain of the Spirit as promised by the Old Testament prophet Joel —29 , the spectacular results in Wales suggested that the great end-times revival had begun.
The world could now be evangelized in the power of the Spirit before the imminent return of Christ and the impending judgment on the wicked. He traveled to Wales to see the revival firsthand. Church members then sought earnestly for the power of the Holy Spirit and His gifts. But after a week diet of this preaching, the church board complained and Smale left to found First New Testament Church. Hutchinson—an African-American—and several other members embraced the holiness belief that a second work of grace following conversion would purify the soul of its sinful nature.
These new groups of believers, however, continued to pray for the outpouring of the Holy Spirit. William J. Believing that they were living in the twilight of human history, these Christians believed that the Spirit's outpouring would precede the rapture of the Church. They deeply impressed the young Seymour. Farrow, a former governess in the household of Charles F. Parham led the midwestern Apostolic Faith movement, the original name of the Pentecostal movement, that had begun in his Bethel Bible School in Topeka, Kansas, in January By , he had relocated his base of operations to the Houston area where he conducted revivals and started another Bible school.
Farrow arranged for Seymour to attend classes. Seymour accepted Parham's view of baptism in the Holy Spirit—the belief that in every instance, God would give intelligible languages—speaking in tongues to believers for missionary evangelism. Neeley Terry, an African-American and member of the new congregation led by Hutchinson in Los Angeles, visited Houston in and was impressed when she heard Seymour preach. Returning home, she recommended him to Hutchinson, since the church was seeking a pastor.
As a result, Seymour accepted the invitation to shepherd the small flock. With some financial assistance from Parham, he traveled by train westward and arrived in Los Angeles in February Seymour immediately encountered resistance when, just 2 days after arriving, he began preaching to his new congregation that speaking in tongues was the Bible evidence of the baptism in the Holy Spirit.
On the following Sunday, March 4, he returned to the mission and found that Hutchinson had padlocked the door. Condemnation also came from the Holiness Church Association of Southern California with which the church had affiliation.
Not everyone in the congregation, however, was troubled by Seymour's teaching. Undaunted, Seymour, staying at the home of church member Edward S. Lee, accepted Lee's invitation to hold Bible studies and prayer meetings there. Five weeks later, Lee became the first to speak in tongues.
Seymour then shared Lee's testimony at a gathering on North Bonnie Brae and soon many began to speak in tongues. Word of these events traveled quickly in both the African-American and white communities. For several nights, speakers preached on the porch to the crowds on the street below. Believers from Hutchinson's mission, First New Testament Church, and various holiness congregations began to pray for the Pentecostal baptism.
Hutchinson herself was eventually baptized in the Spirit as was Seymour himself. Discarded lumber and plaster littered the large, barn-like room on the ground floor.
No church organization is back of it. All who are in touch with God realize as soon as they enter the meetings that the Holy Ghost is the leader. Meetings are held in a tumble-down shack on Azusa Street, and the devotees of the weird doctrine practice the most fanatical rites, preach the wildest theories and work themselves into a state of mad excitement in their peculiar zeal.
Colored people and a sprinkling of whites compose the congregation, and night is made hideous in the neighborhood by the howlings of the worshippers, who spend hours swaying forth and back in a nerve racking attitude of prayer and supplication.
They claim to have the "gift of tongues" and be able to understand the babel. Men and women, white and blacks, knelt together or fell across one another; a white woman, perhaps of wealth and culture, could be seen thrown back in the arms of a big 'buck nigger,' and held tightly thus as she shivered and shook in freak imitation of Pentecost.
Horrible, awful shame! Proud, well-dressed preachers came to 'investigate'. Soon their high looks were 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. About Us. Executive Board. Guest Book. Book Store. Audio CD Catalog.
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