312 Azusa Street

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312 AZUSA STREET

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Everyone knew another meeting place had to be found quickly. The Asbery home could no longer accommodate the crowds. So on April 14, 1906, Seymour and his elders set out to find the perfect place. They wandered around the city near their area until they came upon a dead-end street that was about a half a mile long. It was there, in the industrial business section of Los Angeles, that Seymour found what had once been an old Methodist church. 

After its use by the Methodists, the building had been remodeled for a different purpose. It had been divided in half, the top section having been turned into apartments. But a fire had destroyed the floor, and the cathedral-shaped roof had been flattened and covered with tar.

When Seymour acquired the building, the top floor was being used for storage, while the bottom floor had been converted into a horse stable. The windows were broken, and bare electric light bulbs hung from the ceiling. Seymour was offered the building for eight dollars a month.

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As the word got out, people came from everywhere to help restore the building. A. G. Osterburg, the pastor of the local Full Gospel Church, paid several men to help renovate the building. Volunteers swept the floors and whitewashed the walls. J. V. McNeil, a devout Catholic and owner of the largest lumber company in Los Angeles, donated lumber for the cause. Sawdust was placed on the floor, and planks were nailed to wooden barrels for use as pews. Two empty crates were nailed on top of each other to act as Seymour’s pulpit.

It was in this humble, skidrow-like setting that Azusa Street prepared themselves for international revival.

- God’s Generals ( William J. Seymour )

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William James Roop

Hospice Care and Dying

The Trucking Tango

William Seymour's Powerful Services

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JOHN G LAKE TALKS ABOUT WILLIAM SEYMOUR'S POWERFUL SERVICES IN LOS ANGELS.

"I was in a meeting in Los Angeles on one occasion. An old black man was conducting the services'. He had the funniest vocabulary. But I want to tell you, there were doctors, lawyers, and professors listening to marvelous things coming from his lips.

It was not what he said in words; it was what he said from his spirit to my heart that showed me he had more of God in his life than any man I had ever met up to that time. It was God in him who was attracting people.

One man insisted on getting up and talking every little while. Some people have a mania for talking. The old black brother endured it for a long time. Finally, the fellow got up again, and the old man stuck his finger out and said, "In the Name of Jesus Christ, sit down!" The man did not sit down. He fell down. And his friends carried him out. That is only one of the living facts of what Christianity is: the divine power of Jesus Christ by the Holy Spirit, filling a man's soul and body, flashing through his nature like holy flame, accomplishing the will of God."

William James Roop

Hospice Care and Dying

The Trucking Tango

Holy Ghost Meetings

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“Azusa Street Holy Ghost Meetings” by Frank Bartleman.

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Brother Seymour generally sat behind two empty shoe boxes, one on top of the other. He usually kept his head inside the top one during the meeting, in prayer. There was no pride there. The services ran almost continuously.

Seeking souls could be found under the power almost any hour, night and day. The place was never closed nor empty. The people came to meet God. He was always there. Hence a continuous meeting. The meeting did not depend on the human leader. God’s presence became more and more wonderful.

In that old building, with its low rafters and bare floors, God took strong men and women to pieces, and put them together again, for His glory. It was a tremendous overhauling process: Pride and self-assertion, self importance and self-esteem, could not survive there. The religious ego preached its own funeral sermon quickly.

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No subjects or sermons were announced ahead of time, and no special speakers for such an hour. No one knew what might be coming, what God would do. All was spontaneous, ordered of the Spirit. We wanted to hear from God, through whoever He might speak. We had no “respect of persons.” The rich and educated were the same as the poor and ignorant, and found a much harder death to die. We only recognized God: All were equal. No flesh might glory in His presence.

He could not use the self-opinionated. Those were Holy Ghost meetings, led of the Lord. It had to start in poor surroundings, to keep out the selfish, human element. All came down in humility together, at His feet.

They all looked alike, and had all things in common in that sense at least.

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Frank Bartleman in “How Pentecost Came to Los Angeles (1925)

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William James Roop

Hospice Care and Dying

The Trucking Tango

Brother Roop teaches the Bible

A Song In Tongues

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Both of these songs were sung in tongues as reported by the Azusa street revival in 1906, in Los Angeles, California, in William J. Seymour's book called, "The Azusa Street Papers."

"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."

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.". (Matt. 21:9).  This was the greeting given our Savior at His triumphal entry into Jerusalem.  The brother who understood the language said in the foreign tongue it was the sublimest poetry.  That 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 3271/2 South spring Street, And was interpreted there the same. The saints worshiping in those two places were in perfect harmony of spirit, And the Holy Ghost witnessed to it.

At the all day meeting on Christmas, a day never to be forgotten, we had a Christmas Carol and tongues. It began with one voice, just as on Bethlehem's plains, and a chorus of voices joined in.  It was interpreted by one who knew the language:. "Glory to God in the highest and on earth peace, Goodwill to men.". This was very sweet and heavenly. Then followed the reading of the Scripture.  People are melted to tears and hearing the singing.  It is the Harmony of heaven and the Holy Ghost that puts music in the voices that are untrained.


William James Roop, MABS


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