99 results for year: 1906
Los Angeles Church Federation meets
The Los Angeles Church Federation meets to determine what it can do to meet the challenges being leveled at them by the burgeoning movement begun at the Azusa Street Mission and to respond to Pastor Smale. They agree to add an evening prayer meeting to their weekly services, to call their people to make commitments to pray for revival, to begin cooperative street meetings one night each week in front of different downtown churches, followed by an evangelistic service, to initiate a regular process of canvassing neighborhoods for new immigrants and sharing their names with member pastors, and to move toward a citywide evangelistic meeting in 1907.
Media Confused by Speaking in Tongues
The Evening News publishes a cartoon at the top of page 1, entitled, "Summer Solstice Sees Strenuous Sects Sashaying." It is a tongue twister. People are attracted to the Azusa Street Mission by this cartoon. The Los Angeles Daily Times runs an article on First New Testament Church entitled, "Queer 'Gift' Given Many," in which attention is called to the actions of Lillian Keyes, the 16-year-old daughter of a prominent surgeon, Dr. Henry S. Keyes. Pastor Smale writes a letter to the Los Angeles Church Federation, challenging them to take some positive action.
$25 worth of Streetcar Tickets
In Monrovia, California, Pastor Owen Adams of the Holiness Church is so taken with the Azusa Street revival, he purchases $25 worth of streetcar tickets so the people of his congregation can go back and forth between Monrovia and Los Angeles.
Glenn Cook Preaches in Monrovia
On the 16th and 17th, Glenn Cook travels from the Azusa Street Mission to begin a series of meetings at the Monrovia Holiness Church. He preaches on Abraham's willingness to offer up Isaac as a sacrafice to God. The local people are horrified the Apostolic Faith people are going to start sacrificing their babies and children. They pressure the local marshal to put an end to the meetings. He attends, but finds nothing wrong.
Police Investigate the Excitement
City Prosecutor George B. Beebe visits the Azusa Street Mission at the insistence of the Los Angeles Police Department. He declares there is no need to file charges against the group. In Pasadena, California, Post finds another building and the process begins again. Neighbors complain to the city. The landlord is pressured to break the lease. They will move again.
Speaking in Tongues Spreads
Seymour writes to W.F. Carothers, now the state director of the Apostolic Faith Movement in Texas, and asks him to forward his credentials with the Apostolic Faith. Pastor Pendleton is summoned before the board of elders of the Holiness Church that oversees the congregations in Southern California. They try to persuade him that he is wrong and pass a resolition on what they call the Azusa Street teaching of "a third work of grace." In Pasadena, california, in the middle of his evening srevice, A.H. Post is arrested for disturning the peace. The Los Angeles Times sends a reporter to Burbank Hall. Smale is away, but an evangelist named John Boyd ...
Pastor Franklin E. Hill is Baptized
Franklin E. Hill, pastor of the Second Nazarene Church, is baptized in the Spirit at the Azusa Street Mission. Much of his congregation joins him as he establishes an Apostolic Faith congregation at 51st and Central. In Pasadena, California, the city council revokes Post's permit to hold the tent meeting under duress from his neighbors because of the noise from his meetings. Post refuses to move. Apostolic Faith services begin in the Monrovia Holiness Church.
Curfew in Pasadena
Driven by a complaint to the city council, the city of Pasadena, California, assigns a police officer to enforce a curfew of 10 p.m. and to make sure Ansel H. Post's tent services are not too noisy. Still upset, Mrs. West, a local rooming house owner, begins to circulate a petition to get rid of Post.
A.G. and Lillian Garr Are Called to India
At the Azusa Street Mission, A.G. and Lillian Garr announce God has called them to be missionaries in India. Within 15 minutes, they have been given $1,200 toward their expenses. After Seymour prays over them, they travel to Chicago and on to Danville, Virginia, to hold meetings, finish some personal business , and arrive in India in January 1907.
Ansel H. Post is Baptized
Ansel H. Post, an evangelist with Francis Manley's Household of God, is holding meetings in Pasadena, California. He attends the Azusa Street Mission this afternoon and is baptized in the Spirit in a public display of emotion. He will begin preaching the Apostolic Faith the next day in his Pasadena tent.