A Witness

Hello everyone.  Praise the Lord!

This was written by William J. Seymour, in his Azusa Street Mission newsletter, in 1906, in Los Angeles, California.

Praise God for a salvation that brings a witness.  God gives us a witness that we are justified, The Spirit witnesses that we are sanctified and when we receive the Holy Ghost, He witnesses through us, as recorded in Acts 2:4, the speaking in other tongues. 

Jesus had a witness for everything. When He was born, the angels saying on Bethlehem's plain, when He was baptized with the Holy Ghost, He had the witness of the heavenly dove and the voice from Heaven, when He arose from the dead, The angels witnessed at the tomb, And when he ascended, the angels witness that He would come again. Why not have the Bible witness, A supernatural witness that people will not have to take your word for?

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

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Spreads The Fire

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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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Ask What Ye Will

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This is a story told by William J Seymour in his newsletter from the Azusa Street Mission, in 1906.

Sister Ella Judy, a teacher in the Blind School of Columbus, Ohio, came to Los Angeles for her summer vacation.  She dropped in the Azusa Street Mission soon after her arrival, and felt that God was there.  She had been a great sufferer from insomnia and other troubles and was a very hungry soul.  In the past she had felt that the Lord gave her the promise that she should be one of His bride.  He had said to her, "Ask what ye will," and she had answered:. "Thy will be done.". Then what joy it was for Him to choose so great a gift for her.  Afterward her faith failed, but God was true.

About an hour before the train left Los Angeles on which she was to go, the Lord, in the little upper room at the mission, graciously baptized her with the Holy Ghost and gave her the Bible evidence. She could not speak to English language for some time. It was taken away and she spoke the language of the Spirit, pointing those about her to Jesus. It was a heavily spot. Her sister was sealed as one of the bride and she was very happy. We expect to see her back in Los Angeles. The Lord has called her to His work. He has used her in winning souls in the past, And now that she has the Pentecostal enduement, we expect her to be much more used to the Lord.

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

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Back To Pentecost

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This is a story taken from the newsletter of the Azusa Street Mission, in Los Angeles California, in 1906.

What mean these salaried preachers over the land that will not preach unless they get so much salary?  People have wondered from the old landmarks.  The priests had no land of their own.  They were to live on a tithes and offerings.  The ministers of the day have wandered from the old landmarks, therefore they are seeking salary over the land.  Get back.  You have no time to lose.  We must all be up and doing something for perishing souls around us.  Do you want to be blessed?  Do you want the approbation of God?  Be a servant to humanity.  The loaves and fishes did not multiply in the hands of our blessed Redeemer till He began to give out to the hungry.

God does not need a great theological creature that can give nothing but theological chips and shavings to people.  He can pick up a worm and thrash a mountain. He takes the weak things to confound the mighty. He is picking up pebble stones from the street and polishing them for His work.  He is using even the children to preach His Gospel.  Hey young sister, fourteen years old, was saved, sanctified and baptized with the Holy Ghost and went out, taking a band of workers with her, And let a revival in which one-hundred ninety souls were saved. Salaried ministers that are rejecting the Gospel will have to go out of business.  He is sending out those who will go without money and without price.  Glory to God for this Apostolic day.

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

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This Same Jesus

Hello everyone.  Praise the Lord!

This story was published in the Azusa Street Mission newsletter, by William J Seymour in 1906, and Los Angeles, California.

When the Holy Ghost spell on the one-hundred and twenty it was in the morning of the dispensation of the Holy Ghost.  Today we are living down in the evening of a dispensation of the Holy Ghost. And as it was in the morning, so it shall be an evening. This is the last evangelistic call of the day. As John the Baptist was the voice of one crying in the wilderness: "Prepare ye the way of the Lord," so the voice of warning is going out through the land today to prepare the world for the second coming of the Lord Jesus Christ.  The angel said to His disciples as He was received up into Heaven, And they stood steadfastly gazing upward:

"This same Jesus that was taken up from you into Heaven shall so come in like manner as ye have seen Him go into Heaven.".

This same Jesus is coming back again to sit in the Kingdom of His Father. 

This same Jesus that wore the crown of thorns and was lifted up between heaven and earth. 

This same Jesus that hung over yonder on Calvary, And now sits at the right hand of God the Father, is coming back to earth.  It's not that enough to ravish your souls, dear ones?

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

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One Church

Hello everyone.  Praise the Lord!

This story was originally published in the Azusa Street Mission newsletter, In 1906, by William J. Seymour.

At a recent church trial, hey brother made the remark that he little thought when he was seeking more of God it would mean for him to be turned out of the Holiness church. This brings to mind the old lady who was turned out of the church, And as she walked down the hill, she said: "Yonder is the meeting house, here goes the church."

They may turn you out of the church houses and organizations of men, but not out of the one church. Thank God, that church book is kept in heaven. Jesus said: "Rejoice that your names are written in heaven."

One of the Holiness leaders said that the church had always taught sanctification as the baptism with the Holy Ghost, And they could not afford to give it up.  Besides he would have to burn his books and sermons.  Brother, on that great day of judgment, how much will those books and sermons weigh as compared to God's word?

At first the Holiness leaders approved of the work at the mission, but after camp meeting, They decided against the Pentecostal baptism as distinct from sanctification, And also the speaking in tongues.  These were rule out and not to be mentioned on the camp ground.  What might not that meeting have been, if they had left the Holy Ghost have right away? Eternity alone will reveal the great loss to souls through leaders who would not let the hungry sheep enter into this blessed life of power and the Holy Ghost.

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

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The Polishing Process

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This was a testimony written to the Azusa Street Mission in 1906. It was published by William J Seymour and his book called, "The Azusa Street Papers."

Several years ago, when I was very hungry, seeking God and all His fullness, I shut myself away in my closet one day, and the Lord gave me a wonderful revelation.  As I was kneeling before my Maker, beseeching Him to show me all he expected me to be, Right before my eyes I saw this wonderful vision.  They're appeared a man with a large, long, knotty, but straight log.  The man had an axe.  Did you ever see anybody score timber? He was scoring the log, And it seemed to me the axe went clear to the bit.  And every time he scored, it hurt me.  He scored it on four sides and then took the broad axe and whacked off the knots. Then he took a line and with an adz he made it pretty smooth. Then he raised it in the air, and taking a great plane, turn to me and said: "this is the plane of the Holy Ghost," And he ran the plane up and down, till I could see the image of the man perfectly reflected in the face of the log, as in a mirror.  He did this to all four sides.  Then turning to me, he said: "thou art all fair, my love; there is no spot in thee."

That is what God wants to do with us.  He wants to take all the bumps, all the barnacles off. We have only begun to lay ourselves on the anvil of God's truth. The hammer is being applied to us. He may have to throw us back in the smelter several times.  Let us stay in the fire till there is no more dross in us.  Sometimes we think God has done all He needs to do; but something comes up that we do not like, And the old man can get up and hobble off on a pretty good shin.

Several weeks ago, I thought surely the last stroke is put in, And now I am dead to the world. But it was not very long till I found out there was a little self there. I was holding a meeting in a little village. We had to move a kitchen stove, And there was no way for me to get on top of that cook stove and ride behind an old mule team, And I found Sister Hall had a little life in her yet. Thank God, I am dead to that thing now.

Let us stay on the anvil of God, till we reflect the image of the Master.  There is a place where we can get, thank God Almighty will say: "Thou art all fair, my love, there is no spot in thee."

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

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