Editors Receive The Pentecost

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This is a testimony recorded by William J Seymour, and his newsletter of the Azusa Street Mission, in Los Angeles, California, in 1906.

Rev. T. G. 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 a number of his congregation have also received the Holy Ghost, 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 Reverend W. J. Seymour.  The special manifestations of the Spirit in the meetings conducted there have deeply interested the Christian workers of all denominations, so that 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 that these gifts are in the Holy Spirit and that 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 receive in 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 doubted."

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The Promise Still Good

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The hundred and twenty on the day of Pentecost were baptized with the Holy Ghost according to promise.  The converts of Philip in the Samaritan revival were baptized with the Holy Ghost, when Peter and John came from Jerusalem and preached the doctrine to them.  The household of Cornelius received the same endowment and power, showing that the promise was also extended to the Gentiles. Again to the Corinthian church is the record 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.  How about it's fulfillment?

But did not Paul prophesy that these things should  should be done away?  Let us see. 1 Cor. 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. But 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. So when he comes these other things shall fail.  God's promises must last till by God's own word they are withdrawn.

William James Roop, MABS

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