Spreads The Fire

Hello everyone. Praise the Lord!

This was a testimony provided by William J. Seymour, in his Azusa Street Mission newsletter printed in 1906 in Los Angeles, California.

When 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 invited by Brother Bartelman and other workers to occupy the church at eighth Street in Maple Avenue that had just been opened up for Pentecostal work, And God has been using them as never before. And when some of the saints were rejected from the Nazarene Church Elysian Heights on account of the baptism of the Holy Ghost and evidence of tongues, They opened cottage prayer meetings where hungry souls flocked, And in both of the above name places meetings sometimes go on all night and souls are coming through into Bible experiences.  We can do nothing against the truth but for the truth.

"Truth crush to Earth will rise again.

The eternal years of God are her's;

But error wounded writhes and pain,

And dies among its worshipers."

In California, we're there has been no unity among churches, They are becoming one against this Pentecostal movement. But, thank God, The source is from the skies and cannot be cut off from below. The deer 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, for years." God is drawing his people together and making them one. No new church our 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 you all baptized into one body."

William James Roop, M.A.B.S.

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