Sister Hutchins' Testimony

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This is a testimony of Mrs. J.W. Hutchins who received her salvation and became a missionary to Africa.  The story was recorded by William J Seymour in his book called, "The Azusa Street Papers," in 1906.

I was justified on the 4th of July, 1901, and at that time, I felt that the Lord wanted me in Africa, but I was not then at all willing to go. But on the 28th of July, 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 backyard 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." And 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 recognize that it was the voice of God.  I looked up into the heavens and said: "Lord, I will obey." Since then I have many tests and temptations from the devil.  He has at times told me that I would not even live to see the 15th of September, 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 the 15th of September.  She looked at me with a smile.  I asked her what she was smiling about.  She said: "because you have not got street car fair to go to the street mission tonight, And talking about going to Africa." But I told her I was trusting in a God that could bring all things the past that he wanted us to do.  He is 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 how the devil did test 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 and sanctified him wholly and put the glory and shout in him.  So 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 already 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 in route for Africa.  We expect to go to Mt. Coffee, Monrovia, Liberia.

Feeling the need for a real companion in the gospel that was out and out for God, I pray 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. So I said: "Anyone, Lord, that you would have to go will be pleasing to me." And, 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 Ghost, and is going with me out into the work of the Lord.  So instead of giving me one companion, He gave me two-My niece and my husband.

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

Mrs. J. W. Hutchins

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Get Into The Cornfield

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This is a testimony recorded by William J Seymour in his book called, "The Azusa Street Papers" published in 1906.

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

"It is an awful hard thing to get a holiness preacher that has been indoctrinated for years to see that he is 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 for him to 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. I 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 Revelations to see that these things were so.  Any fellow that will get down on his knees and pray through and read through, we'll find that the Holy Ghost 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 clog 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 and come out, And look all around to see how it was that he was not in the cornfield. Is there a lot of 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."

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

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Adolph Rosa's Testimony

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This is a testimony of Adolph Rosa's salvation story, as recorded by William J. Seymour in his book called, "The Azusa Street Papers," published in 1906 in Los Angeles, CA.

When Reverend 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 went 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 Ghost.  I went home and began to study my Bible, I 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 with the Holy Ghost and fire that the disciples received in the day of Pentecost, before they are prepared to preach the Gospel.  I was teaching that when we received sanctification, we received the Holy Ghost, as most of the preachers are teaching.  But 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 Ghost until the day of Pentecost.

The second day that I went to the meeting, The Lord put a real hunger in my soul and go forward, but I was too proud as a minister of the Gospel to humble myself in a lowly mission and let ladies pray over me for the gift of the Holy Ghost, And I had in my mind but people would think of me. But 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 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 Ghost and spake 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 Ghost, or without the Holy Ghost it is almost impossible for us to convince the world of sin, of righteousness, and the judgment.

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

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A Portuguese Minister Receives His Pentecost

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This is a story recorded by William J. Seymour in his book called, "The Azusa Street Papers, in 1906.

Rev. Adolph Rosa, a Portuguese brother from Cape Verde Islands, was baptized with the Holy Ghost 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 Massachusetts, and enter the ministry of the Methodist Church as a missionary to the Portuguese in the state of California. He was sanctified about 4 years ago, And is now conducting Pentecostal meetings in the People's Church in Los Angeles.

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

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Fire Still Falling

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This was written by William J Seymour in his book called, "The Azusa Street Papers," in October, 1906, in Los Angeles, California.

The waves of Pentecostal salvation are still rolling in at Azusa Street Mission.  From morning till 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 Ghost, but a brother said last week he counted about fifty in all that had been baptized with the Holy Ghost 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 with the Holy Ghost, 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 heavily 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 Ghost.

Her fire is spreading.  People are writing from different points to know about this Pentecost, In our beginning to wait on God for their Pentecost. He has no respect or a person's and places. We expect to see a way of salvation go over this world.  Well this work has been going on for five years,. What 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 the 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 the 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 in Los Angeles a few months ago.  About thirty workers have gone out into the field.

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

In the City of Oakland, during the 5 weeks but the band from Los Angeles was there, Brother and Sister Evans and Sister Florence Crawford, sixty-five souls received the baptism with the Holy Ghost, thirty we're sanctified in nineteen converted.

A man who was twice in the insane asylum, an infidel then has been going from place to place denying the name of Jesus Christ, Is now safe, sanctified and baptized with the Holy Ghost, and working to win others.

Sometimes, among officers of the law, we find a King judgment in regard to 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 a 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 a wonderful equipment.

Mrs. J. King was healed with cancer of the lungs on August 8, after the doctors had given her up.  What long was entirely closed up. When she was prayed for, The Lord immediately touched her body and healed her. She shot it 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 was about twenty-one years old and has been suffering for years, like the boy that was brought to Jesus whom 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 a demon power out of him and give complete healing. The boy rose up from the floor and witnessed that the work was done and went home rejoicing.

My 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 who she was to give it, And the Lord showed her to give it to Sister Sallie Trainor.  She immediately took it upstairs and she knelt before the Lord, The Spirit came upon her and great power as 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.

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

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Missionaries To Jerusalem

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This was a testimony given to, and recorded in the Azusa Street Mission newsletter in 1906, in Los Angeles, California.

A band of three missionaries, Bro. Andrew Johnson and Sisters Louisa Condit and Lucy M. Leatherman, who have been baptized with the Holy Ghost 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 receive 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 and wonder and asked what college she had attended, saying she spoke the most perfect Turkish tongue he had ever heard spoken by foreigner.  He was an educated man from a Turkish college in Constantinople.  She told him the Holy Ghost gave her the language which she did not understand herself and he was the first person that had interpreted for her.

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

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Messages From God

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This was a message from God spoken in tongues, as recorded by William J. Seymour in his book called,  "The Azusa Street Papers," published in 1906.

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."

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."

Brother Roop

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