INSIDE Assemblies of God FEATURES ON

• Alice Belle Garrigus • John Alexander Dowie • S. A. Jamieson • Charles Ramsay • Persecution-A 1911

Letter from F. F. Bosworth

VOL. 6, NO. 2, SUMMER 1986

Cm'u: l>ellleco.~/(J/ I"'fi.\·sio" Camp Meetillg, Green Lake, Scattle. 1919. The Northwest /)iWric/ oj the Assemblies of God /Qrmhl here. Frank Gra» superintendent. alld J.S. Secri~'f, secretary. For oilIer early camp meelillt: pholo.~ see page /5.

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THE HERITAGE LETTER Way"" Warn ..

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It .... ,h my 'llCuaJ delight cnmutc to .. j ... u 'om!.! ';lInt' .... hn,c 1Il1ll"lru:, ha ... e made mar~' around till.' .... orld I ",,,nl 10 lell yOU ,lOtH!! '\lIIle 01 ,he'e ne .... fnem.h.

\1) lir,' ,lOp I\a' m S."e,ton. \11,· ,ouri, \.\here I 'rent ;Ill aHerTlnon .... llh LI;m),:eh,t CO'I)-Ie Jar.:""111 We caplured un tare hi, ,tor) 01 pIOneering III 1\1,,· ,oun ,lIldlenne"ee rtll!n I found nut .... h.11 It ..... 1' li"e tn preat'h under one uf the hlgge't lent" 111 the ""I\';Jtl(lI1·heallllg mo\emenl 01 the 19-"0, 10 hear Brother J<ll"'On tell II. you halen', prear.:hed unl.1 )ou'le prc;I(,:hed under'l "hlg top," I.(lok mag aline Icatu rcd hlln 111 one of their l"lIe, 111 19 'i0

In Allant;1 I 'pcm ;1 \\edend wllh 1';1,, ­lor .:nd Mr, _ Ralph Byrd Although they arc I1\1W r~'llred, their pa\coral 11111l1,lr}, in Atl.Hlla trom 19167-" " ;Ippreciated h} thou'illuh 'Illey Itlul1ded 1:,lIth Memorial A{, \Ihir.:h i, no .... p,l\lored by Jllnmy R S .... tile).

Brother B) rd and I kept a Idpe recorder gOll1g fnr 'i hour,. ,md he 'em me <1\\;1)' \.\ Ilh man} ot hi' reL'o rdcd ,crlllon, . photograph" and puhli,hed materi.ll,

h,lIowl1lg the I)"tril'l Counl:11 at Iyn . I mct Grant W.K"er 111 Charlotte tor a day long rc,cardl tflp . I'll!, mduded Inter\IC\\' "ilh I\lr' A G (i 'UT. Jr. ill ('h.lrJotte·, Garr Melllorial Chun.:h; i' let­er.1Il PCnteC(N;11 Hulme', mmi,ter at hll · con. \\ Eddie Morri,; ;lIld Ilcrbcrt ('arta at Dunn. ,uperllltendent 01 the Pemec(l'.Ial

IVll\'lle E, W(Irtlrr's Dlrecf(Jr of /li e AlG Ardl/I'es

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Staff Members Busy in the Archives Malbl' Hili 1111\'1' 1(I/Ii.('(1 ,,1111 IIII'm 111/ II", /I'h'plWII(' fir ('orre.\fHmde,1 ""1111 them No" Will 1111' £,11(1'"

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h ee Will Bapt"t' Other \top, enroute 10 PTL m:,t!c the

trip very profi table for the ArL'hilt:' \ 1) 'pkndld hn'h, of cour'>C. hat! a tot 10 do wi lh thm

H el p! The Archive, I ' III need of a good u\cd recl to reel tape recorder

that will handle up tn T' fCe"_ 1)0 you have one .... hich you .... nu ld he willing t(l donate" Plca'e ",nte or cittl the Archi le' before ,hippll1g .!~

LETTERS FROM

OUR READERS

Appreciated Recent Issue

Ynur artiele on Mother Mary Moise and Mother Barne~, (Spring 1986). two grand ladie ... of the G(l"PCI. \\'a, '>0 very intere,t­IIlg, It w:" a great "lOry. well-wrinen, of a life commilled to H i~ cau~e .. , May our heart, be <'cmitive to the need ... of othe r .... Chri\t Je,u, ca me to save .-.. inner<;

Calvin L. Rigdon. Director Hi.-..torie:,l Center United Pemecoslat Chu rch Int.

Help Net:!dcd to Identif) Azus4t Veteran

Wh ite reading o f some of the out ­pouring~ of the SpIrit in our hi ... tory. I recalled an incident which look place. I believe. in 1937 at the Lighlhou~ Church in Brookl yn, New York., ,The occasion was a monthl y sec ti o nal fellow s hip meeting.

The guest speaker for the day was an elderly gentleman who had received his Baptism in the Holy Spi rit at the Az.usa Street Mi ss ion, .. He ca ll ed him se lf

"Uncle Tom" Liddecotc. I alll not cena in of the 'pelling of hi~ last name . bUI a~ I recall he pronounced it "Liddy-coat." Ilave you ever heard or read anything about hlln".' A~ we were caught up in a po",erfu[

'pirit of pra ise. our pa'lor's wife. Ida Evan, Shevcl. went 10 the pi:lIlo and beg:lIlto play "i n the Spirit." She wa~ our church piani.-..!. but I can hone~ tJy ~ay ,he had never played the piano as ~he did that day. Her hands literally flew up and down the keyboard .. We all ,en'>Cd ",hat wa, happening a~ a definite manifestation of the Spirit. The atmo ... ph c re wa\ "chargcd!" I .... as only a }'oungster of II but ~hall nevcr forget that experience,

Gordon E Prei <,er Lancaster. Penn ,

Pl'rlwps 0111' of o llr re(UJers call .\'I/l'd mor t! fIght all Uncle Jbm Liddt.'COfe.

\ SSI-: \IlILlt:s OF GOI) IIERITA(;E

!lrmag/' i~ puhtbhed quarterl) b.1 the A!>."'n1blles of God \rchhes. t"'-'5 Boonlillc AII' .. Sprinj:' fi~ld, MO b5801. Phon!' (4 171lk)2·27S I . This papt"r b fr«' to members of tht \ s.-'iemhli("i of God lI ('rillll:(' Soci~t). Ynrl) nK'mbeMip!> lin alllil. ablt for $10; liMime m~mberships arc $ tOO.

l'to.on5 ... i~hing to donate historical matcrials such as correspondenct. pho toltraph~, tapes. fitms, maga/.ines. book.~. minutes, t iC .. aN' u~ed to ... rile to Ihe \rchhrlS allhe abOlt addr~.

Wayne E. Warner, EdHor

ARCHIVES ADVISORY BOARD Joseph R. Flower, Chalnnan

Everett Stenhouae Thomas F. Hamson

Bartlett Paterson

Copyrtght 1986 by the General Council ot the Aaaembllea ot God, Springfield, MO 65802, PutMlahed In the United Stataa of America.

Walking in the King's Highway Alice Belle Garrigus and the Pentecostal Movement ill Newfoundland

L aic III 1910 a diminUli\c American woman prepared to board the fCIT) that

operated between Canada and the l~[and ot Newfoundland. a ~mal l BritIsh colon) C;hl

of Canada. The ,>tep from [he pIer to the ferry would be a ~h()rt -albeit nlOIl1CnlOU~ --(me

Pa~~ing through cu'>tom ..... "he WlI\ <i ... i-..cd her reason fOTtfavcling 10 the i ... land

"To preach th e go,>pcL"' ,he 1111',wcrcd.

The ,>urpri",cd clI'>tom", official suggcqcd there I11ml have been a miStake. The pa.,"p0r! \I,lIed the woman wa~ 52 year .. of age. hardl) the age for a change in C;lTccr-.­

especially for a woman III 1910. The woman replied that "he 100

would have con~ idcrcd the trip a mistake had nOI God c'llIed her for Ihh very purpose.

We know this diminutive woman as Alice Belle Garrigu~1 0858-1949). the human in~trul11cnt God used to begin the I\:nteco\tnl movement in Newfoundland. Today thi1> movement comprj-;el> 167 as­semblies :md a constiluency III e x­cel>S of 37.000.

A ilhOUgh she is vi rtually a for­gotten Pentecoslal pioneer Oul­

side her lIdopled land. Alice Belle Garrigus' life is;1I1 il1l>piring .<.tory of fait h in God ,md determination to fulfill H i~ plan for her at an age when o lherl> mi ghl hllve l>ough! 11 less l>lrenUOll 1> life.

Of French ances try and a de­sccndenl o f Ihe Iluglienotl>, 2 Gar­riglll> was born into an Episcopalian family in Rockville, Connecticut. AI 15 l>he began leachi ng in rural schools. One student. referring 10 his leacher, sllid , "She is a dreadful little Ihing, but there Il> something in her eyes which tells me Ihal I guess il wouldn'l do 10 go too far!"

Desiring fllnhcr education . Gar­rigus returned 10 Normal School and lhen spent Ihree years (1878-81) at Mou nl Ho lyoke Female Seminary, ' a t South Hadley. Massachu~lIs, where she wal> "brought under hallowed influcnces." However, she later relllized Ihal shc had

Tire lilli' of Ihi.l· (lJ"/icil' h"(IS I(Ik('1I from Alice IJl'lle Carrigus' life s/On- whieh ""(IS l"l'I"i(lIi:('(/ from 193810 19-12 ill Good Tiding~. the o.f1kial II/aga;illl' of {he' 1'1'lIIl'C'OSUlI A~.'il'm"'it'l of N{·lIjoll/l{J/(llld.

never heen con\cncd Lea\ing the ~el1linar} <I ~c;lr helnrl'

gradual IOn, ~hc rcQllllcd Il'al'hln~

Through lhe I1lflllen~'c \11 a n\lkaguc, Ga­lrudc \\-hcder. Garrigu' ~a, hom "g,l1n In IRKS txlth womctl lefl nn ,I IO-monlh c\cur-;ion in Eumpe. Returning 10 the St;ltes. Garrigu, agalll laught but "a'

"Fromlhe hOllr God called lIle,

my heart was ill Newfoundlalld. " - Alice Garrigus

By Burton K. Janes

'plTltu'lll~ r~,tk" She IMd t'ocen rc.ldll1~ II,mn.lh \\llIt.11I

Smith', Ill/' ('''ril/I//II', Sn.r.'1of II ""/'1" rife • ]"hl~ I rcad," ,Ik.' ~r\II~. ,·"ttl'n Oil rn~ I..n~~, pra~ rn~ kT\l'nll~ 'Oh (i.lo.l. II 11k.'rc t'oc ,udl ,Ill l'\rll.'rll'n~·~. \\\111'1 ~ou hnng mc I1It\1 11." ,

Garrlgll' and \\ht· .. ·kr th~n 1111Il~rJ Ih~

(\1I1~tq:!'llliln,d Churdl (J.lrngu, hcllC\ cd Ihc II111C \1 '" r"""lnn!! ",\ Ill'n Gi'lll \1 ,I' ~\lln.!! III ,111'\\ a Ilk.' l:tIC' lIt ~~"r' till a \ 1l:ltIn.1U, hk SIl\ml~ alkr ,I'k.' I"l"]l('tllkJ til an aNlo..'al at a ~thl'k:l h .. 11 '"The l:llIl, .. 'd.l!ltllI \\'" deep ;lIld thtlTl\uch ;Iml Illl' Splnl \lllnl.'''l.'d til II •. {"

A hout IX91 Garrll!u, I!a\~ lip her dlll\l'n prok"IZIll 1;1 Ilor).. In ;l

htlllll' lor dl'\tIIUll' dliJdrl'n and \\11111CII Ikr tril.'lId (il.'rtrud~

\\·llI.'l'Ier \\I.'nl til :\Inl',l .1' a 11\1\

,mllar) alld dl!'"d Ih~r\' Ih: n\ll\ IOlld) (i'lrriglh llHl\l.'rJ ttl t\\'\\

I-Iamp,hlr~ \\llI.'rl' ,Ill' l"allll' III .:on

[;rct \llIh Ih~ 1-11"'1 1·n.1II 1I;IT\I.'\I .. 'r, A\\OCl;llilH1 ,II RUlllnc~" rhe a\ \tlClaliPn h;.d hel.'n Orl!ani/l'rJ In Ix97 h) Jocl Adam' ~\\flghl. 10

",tr.:nl!lhen the churche, anti 'end IllI\\it;rKlrie\ 10 Iht: l'ntl olllll' ~arlh " Garrigu, \1 a' II ;Ih I-nlll }Iaflc,tcr, !x'lwcen Ix97 and 11)().1. ,ert ing ;1' an illnerant ]lrt.'adk.'r_

The )car 19{}6 \1 ;1\ a I;nll' ilt "deep humhling'" for (i;lrrigu, She rc­re;IJ loc Bible. plc;rd;n~ \1 ith God tor help III und!'"Nand;ng tlk.' p'I'­~;rgc' \~hlch pro1111'C Illlller to the hcli.:\cr A qunl;on conllllued 10 haunt her: Whdl 111ddc k,u~' dl'­cl plc~ '>0 dit lcrcnt follll\\ Illg thc Day of l\:nll'cO\I"'

Meanwhitc. Ihc Penlcco,I;1I movement was ~preadl1lg Itl..c \~ rld­fire Garrigu,. hearrng iltxllJ! Ihl' A/lha Street l\li',rull re\'\\;11 in 1.0\

Angelc\. "hcgan IlH"l c;rT1leql), \\;Ih pr;.ycr and Ll\ling. 10 'ccl.. tor Ihe e\l>cr;ence (Gtll!! I\a~ gl\ ing 111'

peoplt:.·· Ihe }\:llIeCll\I;.1 bapli,m 7

In 1907. al a Chri'lian and MI\\101Hlry Alliance camp rneetHlg ,1\ Old Orchard. ~bl1le, Garrigu~ Illet Fran].. Bankm:lI1. a veleran of Ihe A/lI,a Sireet TC\il al and an unofficial c hronicler of Ihe Pentccmtal mOVC111ent B:lrtkman h:ld received no official welco1l1c al Ihe meeting bUI \Ia, w;rrml) received b) Iho,e "ailing for Ihe

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lioly Spirit bapli~m. B,1I1!cm;ln'~tond for hOur".,·· wrote (,arrigu,. ·tdlmg u~ the deeper thmg .. 01 God

I·ollnwln!? Bart!cm,m·, delMrture. tlk' ,eckcr. mdUlllng Millnie [)raper. v.hn hW.:r ",,"a~ one of the founder". , )j Bethel BillIe- Training. Sr.:hool In ~l·wark. !\;c .... Jcr".cy me t in a dil"pldated ham ··What a gat~ring It ",,",I'''· G"rng u, remcmht:rt:d

II WJ' un I1ldi"I\Ju.IIITlJUer. ':'I(;h ,,1I1·r hili lull mhcntalll·c !\ks~"1=cs In llI,my Jan!!u<lge, .... crc gncn .... lth ml<'rprc 1,lIum, holy IJu~hter and ,hnu" "I liU

tory hlended In I>IlC hJnnlll1l{lU' "'\II!! 01

prai'>C '. Garrigu,. ,Ifter re(eivlIIg Ilk! l\:ntccll'Ii.l1

c xpenenee, contmued prc;lchlllg at Rum­ney. and Grafton. \ 1"",-u: hu-.cth

Laler , Ile relurned to Bridgeport. ('nn ne(t1(UI. where , he had taught earlier. One Sunda) ~he allended a <'cni(c (ondu(tcd h) ('harle, Per<,oneu<, . .,upcrinlemlent o f the John Strect Mls<,inn

··When MI" (j;lrrigu<, v. a' wllh me in the John Street MI"II)n,,· Pcr'oncll'. wrote recently . .. , reo.:ivcd the bapli'1l1 of the Holy Spi rit. and Ih"t c hanged the mi!.,jon 10 h r" I\:nteco,t;ll ~i"ion."·1tJ Garrigu<, 'tayed with lhe I\:r,nneu<,\!, for 6 monlh" In 1917 the Per,()neu.,c~ went to Junci.lu. Ala,ka. under the ;lu .. pit·c, of the 1\,­,e l11b l ie~ of God

11/ 1910 at the age of 52 Miss Alice Garrigus

had a dramatic career chal/ge. She foullded what became the Pel/lecoslal Assemblies

of Newfoul/dlalld.

Onc day while Garrigu .. \\a~ , tayi ng with fri end~ at Rumney. a woman she

did nOI k now- M a ude Gr i ffit h­approaciled her.

I ~n cw God had a Illc'~'<lge for me. There fo llowed a Ille,~agc in t o n guc~ a nd the word. ··NEW­I'OUNDLANO:· came forth Al thai word. I bounded fwm my chair and went Ie,lrlng ilnd dancing and prai\ing Goc.I lI

Nl' lIiOlllldlmu/.' Wh"t and whe re wa~ it? WliS it II r.:ountry? An i~ la nd·' A colony'! A prov ince'!

"From the hour God called ,"' she later co nfe,scd . ·· my he Mt was in Ne w­foundlllnd ."12

On December I. 1910. the 52-year-old Garri g us , accompani ed by the W. O . Fowler.:<. who m &hc had known since 1889 . arri ved at S1. John ·s. the capital c ity o f Newfoundland . S he was a veritabl e Chri stmas g ift for the island !

A building in the downto wn area was rented and reno vated . On Ea'ter Sunday.

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\ bOl·e, Ille !ir.11 S,mday school ill Belhesda .\1;\\1(111,\1. Jolm'l. UOOUI /9/5. Alice Helle (;urri/<:lIs call be l eell ill tile back rQM' ullder Ihe arrow. Rif;:ltt, ,\1il~ (;(JrriI:US M'iIIl IM'O gell' erlJl ~llper;tJletJdellh; Oil Ille lefl i~· Eugene Hllen (i'A o.V) I/Ild Geo'l:e A. Chambers (I'A OC).

April 16. 1911. the fir<,t Pentecostal service ·'for gencral gmpc1 work·' was conducted al the church wh ich wa,> n:nned Bethesda Ml,sion.

Garrigus' p reach i ng at Bet hesda centered on the fo ur ba~ ic doctrine!.­conver<.ion. adult water bapti!.m. lhe bap­tism in tIle Holy Spi rit with tile physica l evidence of ~pcaking in tongues. and the imminent retum of Chrhl. And it rei>ulted in numerou~ changed li ves.

After a litt le more than a year. the bu ild­ing was purchll '>Cd and paid fo r in fu ll by 1918. 3 year), before the mongage dead­line Much o f the fund .. carne to Garrigus fro m Amcrican fricnd~.

Bcthcsdll wa~ enlarged " bout 2 year.; ,Ifter tIle church wai> fou nded to accommo­date the incrc:lsing number of people who were attcndi ng the ~ervices. Garrigus af­fec tio nately called the mission " Ihe tree God pl'lllted.··

The Pentecostal work in Newfo undland W:lS for a dozen years confined to SI. l ohn ·s. fro m where the movemcnt evcntu­ally ),pread througho ut the island and into La b rad o r . a d e pe nd e ncy o f Ne w ­fo undland . On Dece mber 8. 1925. the movement was offi cially incorporated as the Bethesda Pe ntecostal Assemblies o f Ncwfoundland .

As the second deCade ofthc 20th century ended . the denomination requested recog­nition by the I\:nteeosta l Assemblies of Canada (PAOC) as a district council. The deno minatio n 's name was sho nened in 1930 to the Pentecostal Asse mblies o f Newfoundl and (PAON).

Garrigus's ncarly 40 years in New­fo undland were very busy. She served as an

evangct ist in charge of Bethesda Missio n and lleld a number of executive positions. She tr:lve led frequcml y to assemblies . re­port ing on their progress and offering en­eouragemcnt. And she wrote a corpus of anicles. sermo ns. and me moirs.1) In 1942. when she was 84 years old. she moved to Clarke's Beac h. a scenic spot aboul 50 miles fro m SI. John 's. Here she lived in a modest dwell ing she namcd "Reho both" (a biblical name meaning wide places) . She li ved there until her death in 1949 at the age of91 .

In 1949 the people of Ne wfo undland voted to become Canada' s newest pro­vincc. Thc PAON continued operating under its former constitution but in close fellowship with the PAOC. the Assemblies o f God . and other deno minations within the Pe nt ecos tal Fellowship of North America . By 1971 Newfo undland had the hi ghest percent o f Pentecostals of any province or territory in Canada. Ten years later Pentecostals in Newfoundland and

Continued on pllge t4

Beatmg in Texas Fallows Ministry to Blacks F. F. Bosworth's 1911 Letter to H is Mother

Dallas, Tex., Aug. 21. 1911

Dear Mother and All: We were so glad to get yours, Bert's a.nd Bertha's letters this morning and

will answer at once to save you the unnecessary worry about me. When I wrote you from Calvert on my wcw home from Hearne, Tex., I started a letter telling you all about. the mobbing and then th1nk1ng how it might WOTry you, r tore up the first letter and wrote you the other one, not mentioning the pounding I got.

I did this only to save you from worrying. I have never seen any paper with the account of this mobbing so I don't know wha.t the paper said, wish you would send me the paper. I heard dlW before yesterruw it was in one of the papers here and went and looked over the files but failed to find it.

At the annual State Encampment (Pen­tecostal) of the CoL people at Hearne, the Col. people built a brush arbor, (con­tinuing from the end of their tent) to

"They pounded

me wilh heavy

hardwood clubs. "

accommodate the white people of Hearne who wanted to attend the camp meeting. This full gospel had never been preached to the white people at Hearne and besides filling this brush arbor, automobiles and carriages and many white people standing surrounded the tent to listen to the preaching and testimonies of the Col. people. Many of the white citizens became deeply interested in the teaching and not wanting to seek the Baptism at a colored altar. The white people urged the Col. leaders to send for some white Pen­tecostal teacher to come and help them into the Baptism. And so to accom­modate these white citizens, I was sent for and of course went to the campground and on Saturda,y night preached to two large audiences, one white and one black. God gave me unusual liberty and bleSSing in teaching and explaining the truths for which this movement stands, both audiences receiving the truth with great enthusiasm.

I was tired and thought I wouldn't preach that night but the people wanted me to and then God anointed me for it. As I was on my wa,y to spend the night with another white preacher who had also come that da,y, we were attacked by several roughs, one of whom had a revolver with which (as he and the others cursed us for coming there as they said to put them on a level with the d- niggers) they seemed determined to shoot us both down at once.

God was wonderfully with me and with perfect coolness, I told them that I was dOing God's will the very best I knew how, was ready to die and would offer no resistance to anything God permitted them to do, (these are not the exact words), but if they had no objections I would like to speak a few words of explanation before they shot us. At first they refused me this privtledge, but finally said I could sa,y what I wanted to. I then told them that I came with no thought or desire of pushing them on a level with anyone but that it was the white people who wanted me to come to help them, that I had done the very best I knew and was w1lling to take anything God permitted.

With this explanation, they decided not to kill, but insisted that we should take the next train, and so we went to the depot and I bought my ticket to Dallas and the other Bro. went to his room for his suitcase; and while he

f:."tlilO"·~· Note. P('''.reclllioll lit Ihe ell,./)' yell,..)' of lire p('II/('('us/(l1 IIWI'ellJelll 1I"1I.f ("0111111011. Ii I·. BOSII'(lrlh's desaiplil'e 11'111''' 10 his mother: (I copr ufwlticlt WliS dUlUlled to III(' A,.clliI·es by hi, JOII

Bob. is ,.eprillled here. The /I.v mobs which wwcked him (lid so beC(JIHe he milliSI('r(·tl at 1I blad;. churc/r camp meelillg lIear Hi'(If/II'. Te,ms. Bo.m'f)rtirfollll(/etl wlrat iJ IIOIt Finl AS.H'mbh ill /)a/lll.\ E(l,./ier 111;' /rad "('I'll (USOCiall'f/ wilir 1011/1 A/ex(IIlder Do ... ie alld Zioll Cil'.; I/Iill(li.'. ,.hl' {II"("OIllIIlIl/I­illg poem W(lS ",,.illl'lI !ilwrtlv afta lire bt'll/lIIg by (III earl\" ASJemblie.\ of God mim"-'tt"r ami .lOIl!(

wriler: Fretl A. Gml't'S.

Pra,Yer for Pcrseclllor~ (SI'(" 1t"lII'r U(llit.'

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Ik ro:a\'hed hi' dc'lmatioll .111 \',I~cr CHII\d "-ii' lhere To Ik:ar the hk,....:!.! 111e~,age

ThaI (i,1\..I hdpt:d hlln d!!d;tn: Th<.' ~n~1J1\ "-a' I\allhifl~ ,mll angT)' .:le0 htlUr ~ To he;lr Ih.lt l1le ... ,a!!l' ),'tlcn In ,pint ,lI1d Illth pt;,"cr

TIlt:fl "- IIh hi, l')~' upt;ln him Ill' hllln"-eJ up IIX' wad J)\.·t!!nnitll'J ther~ to !..ill hUll hl' hc r~adX'd hi, aill.xk SlllIll' II it·!..l'd m~n nO\I ... wppt;.'J him TI"k:~ dill n(lt lin!! hi, Lnrll :'\IJr did Ihl'~ lIl\e the me"age !'rom (ind', tmn 1I1lly \\tlnl

Th~y thrcat!!llcd II"k!rc to ,lu"II.1I hUll

and 1 • .I,c hi' llli: 'I\~a) BUI vlxl did mIl pemlll them To do Ih;tl dc~d thilt day rhen told to kavc the cilY IIr! wcnl 10 1;I"e till: lrain Bul 0 Ill! had III ,utkr at la,t ,ueh a'l ful pain

A ... c!!ond moh now too" hUll and thT\:"- him 10 the ground They kicked, ;Ibuscd & ,tm!!!.. 111111 He uttered not iI ,-ound But like his ble"cd Ma'lcr He would not chem reYrie But like a ,hecp al shearing W:I~ ~ilr!nl all lhe \\hilc

AI lasl they did relea~e him i1nd ri,ing in hi., pain He :.taned back to Dallas To his dear home ag.ain l ie "new to follow 1e,u, Meant suffering 'long thc way Those cmeL hard IOmlerltOrS ~or them could weep, pray

o glory be to Jesus. He gives us such a love, Wc weep for tho:.e who hate us It·, surely from abovc. So on we'J! go rejoicing with failh both ,>Irong and clear So glad Hc eounl'> us worthy To do ,nllle ,>utTering hcre

~RED 1\ GRAVES

A G HERITAGE, SUMMER 1986 [SJ

[!] AfG HERITAGE, SUMMER 1986

ZION CITY NTHETURN OF THE CENTURY tert , John Alexander Dowie in his high priestly robes. Abo\'e. Dowie's weekly Leaw~}j' of /leafillg had an international circulation. Right, the Zion Lace Industries was designed 10 furnish employment for the residents and revenue for the city. Below, an artist's drawing of the utopian city.

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The adl'ertisements claimed Zioll was free of intoxicating liquors, tobacco, gamblillg delis, (/emlly drugs, forbidden foods, theaters, brothels, professiol/al politicians, fraudulent assessors alld spenders of taxes.

Part 1

The 24th of Sept~mber 1905 ,wrted a' a typical Sunday in Zion Cit). [illnoi\.

Promptly :It 2 p.m. John Alexander Dowie :J\cended the platform of $11I1oh Tabernacle. robed in the bnghtl} embroider~d garm~nt~ of an Old T~,+ tament high priest. lie wa, acknowled!,!ed by the 7.000 souh who ~at befon! him <I'>

the mc,>sengcr of the ,·OVCI1;Inl. the third lind final incarnation of the prophct Elijah. and the general o\er,>eer and first apostlc of the Chri,ti:m C:ltholic Apo ... -tolic Church in Zion. The 6.600 acre, of f:lTIl1S. homes. factorie,>. and bu.,ine~,>e~ su rrounding the tabernacle were exctu­<,ively his. And for all practic,,1 pllrp(he~. ,0 were the people. One contemporary journali~t judg~d that Dowie had come to possess the ··most autocratic power it is possible 10 wield in thi., republic .. · while another concluded that ··no man . . of our time h:ls ever secured :lI1ything like the pe rsonal follow ing he has:· Ncar the end of the 5-hour service the prophet ch:mged into his white expi:ltion robes and. as he had done o n coullllcss Sundays in the paM. prepared to blcss and di~tribute the holy sacraments. But thb time. 111 the se mi -darkness of the early evening. he seemed to s tagger and sl ump to the 1100r. The people soon learned that Dowie had suffered a crippling stroke. They also knew Ilw t their effort to build a biblical Zion on the ··!.ky-skirted prairie·· north of Chic:lgo W:l~ in shambles. I

The aim, of this aniele arc twofold. T he first is simply to tell the story of John Alexander Dowie :md the founding of

johl1 Afe.wllda D olt'ie·s Ziol1 Cit:.; Iffillois. ~holffd hi' of 1II0re Iha/1 passinK ill/ert'S! to Pelllefo~tafs. D olt'ie·s Slr Ollg INlellIlIK (III

dil·illt' helllillK It·os lIdo{Jled hy Pel1lt'coswls; (llId IIIl1l1)" of Ihe food. dres.l. lIlId ell/erwill-1I11·1l/ restrictiOlls which DOh;I' enforced lI"ere also pr{lClicer/ bl· ('(ldl· Pelll(xo.H£J/S. A IOIlR 1i.11 of eur/I" Pe/!/('{:os/(l/r IraC(' Iheir r()()I.~ fO

Zioll. ;lIefl/(ling Fred Gml'es, F.f BOSlmrlh . Fred \/oK/el; RaYlllond 1: Richey. I). c. o. O"I)('rlll(lII. M(lr/ I' Burgess 8 rowll. John G. {.,lIke. Wiflillllr Piper. (/Ild IIIIWI oliras.

Adapted from ··Marching co Zion: Re ligion in a Modern Ucopian CommuniIY:' Chardl His-10(1' 54 (1985 ): 496·511 Used by pcrmi~~ion.

The aUlhor wishes 10 cxprc~~ :tpprccialion 10 Edi th Blumhofcr. 1canclic Scholer. and Waync Warner for cri l ical suggestio ns and bibli ­ographic as~islancc.

ING 1D ZION The Story of John Alexander Dowie's 20th Cel1tury Utopial1 City - Ziol1, fIIil10is 0 by Grant Wacker

Zion Cit}. lIIinoi' In II}~S the Ix)pular hi"orian Gilhert Seide .. dall1icJ th;Lt ··,illc~ tl\\! time of Brigham )()ung th..:rc h" .. heen no pn..:norncnon lik thl.' gnmth or the Chri~tlan C'athnlir Apo ... tolir Church in Zion .. Sc1 .. Ie, c"(agg~ratcd. }~t thl..'re i .. ample e\idence th;lt tl\\! tOl\n. which numbl..'rcd 7 .sfK) r~'ldcnh <It the tl111e Dowie \\<I~ strid.en. ranh atllont! the largest and 1110,t gr"ndl~ conceived utopian cotlltllunitie\ in modern Amer iClUl hi'>tor). Even '0. student, of Amer· iCiIl1 rcJigimt<- history for the 1110'1 part ha\e o\'ertook~d it Zion Cit) rarel} is menlioned 111 the standard sune\, of the field. and even in monograph~ deating with ~arly Pcnteco,tali,m. where it ought 10 loom large. the ,ettkment u,uall~ receives only brief and grudging atten­tion. The s~cond and larger aim of the essay i'> to sugge'>t that the Impuhe," that uitilllalcly undergirded the cOll1mulHty cannot be translated read il y II1t() theories of \ocial d i ... organi/ation. cul tu ral depri­vation. or personal malaelJusllm.:nt. All of Ihe,>e factors were undeniably pre"cllt. but they do not expJ:lin pJ:lU~ibly th.; abrupt emergence. nor even the long. drawn-out demise. of the endeavor. Succinctly stated. no part of the ,tor} of Zion Cit} l11akc~ much sense tlnle~s one appreciatc, the central and irreducible role of religious moti vatlon,_ 2

Do wie was born in Edmburgh. Scot-1:1I1e1 in 1847. As a lad he eITHgrated

with hi'> parents to Adelaide, South Au\­tralia, but he latcr ret urned to Scotland to enroll in the Free Church $rhool of the Uni versity of Edi nburgh. There he seems to have acquired the rudiments of a classi­cal theological educat ion . but he dropped out before completing a degr~e. In 1872 Dowie moved b:tck to Adelaide, wher~ he was ordained to the Congregational 111111-

i\lry. Despite a measure of succes .. u\ a suburban p:lstor. a growing conviClion that the mainline churches were ··ovcr­laden wilh worldliness and apathy"· eventually prompted him to withdr,1\\ from the Congregational Un ion and to turn to independent urban rev ivalism. Satisfaction still proved elusive. however. as he contended with public resistance. mounting debts. recurring marital diffi ­culties. the death of :1 d:lUghter, and a hum il iatin g defeat in -a bid for p:1rJiament. ~

T he turn ing point cmne in 1882 when Dowie moved to Melbourne . Building 11

hig r~\I\ all;lhernack mIlle .... entr;11 p<ln 01 the l"lt~ was the !IN .. tl.'p; mal..ing Ji\ in~ 1'II:'lllllg the .... enterplcn .. ()I hI, mll1l'tr~ \\ a ... the '-'Cnmd In Il~Sh hI.' nrgalH/~d Ihr.: International On 111~ 11c;lllIlg '\''''I'II.:lall(1I1. wllh hr.lm:h..:, 111 \;ll"iou .. p"rh 01 .·\u.,· tralla and N~w Zealand. ,LnJ he 'oon hlrged lie ... with hlilinc,>~ and hIgher-ilk healer. In 13rit<l1l1 and tl1l..' Lmtcd St;Jt~ ... 1'

well

L ik w;" grH.x1 in .\ustr;lil'l, hut 0) thc end {lltl\\! dec<tde. Dl)\\I""'·~ l'\"'" w;t<­

nn higger thing' [n" pm\crfu( \1"lon ~'pcrielK"c in 1888. he reported. the Ll)rd lI1,tnlct~d him III carn tl'll: ··IC;I\CS (Ji' h\..';11 mg frllm tl1l..' Tree ()f I~ik to e\ery natmn . Shortl\ aft~rw<trd Dowie emicratcd to San Fr~mcN':o w Ilh hi, \\ ik and two ,nMII children Although Caliloml<1 pnn Illcd a ne\\ following of ardent ,uppon~r. ,md hH.;~. he ,tIll \\ a, r~,tlc,.,. In IWK) ))\lW Ie n111\'~d to E\an~IIH1. Illinois. \\hll.:h

/" /888 Dowie IIad 1I l ' I SIOII "'

which the Lord told him to cllrry tile "Iem'es of healillg from 'he Tree of Life to el'ery llatiOIl. "

~erved a .. a b'l,e for r~vi\al meeting' HI

the ~ll1allcr I:ltie~ of the Mld"~ ... t and East AI each location I\\! .,et up nc\\ brand\\! .. of the Int ernatIO na l Din lle I·killing A,.,ociallon. hoping to ~,tabli,>h ,t .. ble financial ,upport for hi ... 111lkpendent 11lini~\I}-

When the Chicago World·, hlir opened in 1893. Dowie diJ nOl l1~ed ;Hlother epiphany expaience 10 ~ec the pm· ~i bi lities. Hi, fiN step. Just " ... It h"d been in Melbourne. \~a, to erect" lllaJ...e.,hifl tabernacle in II\\! Ih iel.. of tl\\! acll\ It} 111

t hi~ ca\e. :ICro .. S the ,tr~~t Imm the camp of Buffalo Bitt Cod). I-or scveral month, the meeting ... allractcd only n1(Jde~t crowd\. but when hard lime' hit tl\\! city in the \prmg o f 1894. the l:ongreg;llion mushroomed. The Chicago pre ... , ... oon suggested that Dowie wa, pUlling on Ill..! best .. how in town and there may have been more than a gralll of truth in the claim . One reporter ri ghtl y charged that Dowie·s ni ghtly all ack, on Journa!i\t ... politician,>. Masons . Roman Cat holics. denominational clergy. dl"ugg l.,t, and, above all. medic:1I doctors. made Billy

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l.ance Their bemu ... ed tolerancc nov. turned to aklnn The 0111/(101.. callcd it an "epidemic 01 crcduht}-"~

T he geographic and dcmugraphil' rea­ture~ of ZIon Cit} arc COl"'} 10 dc~·

Crlbe The tov.n wa ...... ituated 42 milei> north of Chicago. ju ... t belov. the \\:i ... -con .. in border Dov.- i c·~ engincer-, laid out lhe rooKh in a .. ymmetrical grid, leJ"mg large tracti> for parh. rcneation, and future growth Many oj the l.trceh and mo!>t of the landmarki> wcre given Old TC!.lament name .. l.uch;1 ... Gi lead. Beulah. and Shiloh. Familiej, ... tarled to ... ettte in 1901. and the town wall mcorpllr..lted the following year. Although Dowie claimed that by 1905 the community had a per­manent population of IO.O<Xl. a recent study indicate ... a .. noted earlier, th.1t the numocr wa~ closer to 7,SOO.Y In 1919 the town changed it .. n:llne to Z ion .

Thc cconomic arrangcment ... o f Zion City refiectcd an ingeniom yct lIlherently preca r iou .. combina\Lon of biblica l. utopian. and modern notion ... A bakery, ca nd y plant. and l'lT,!;c lace f.tctory pumped the community' .. !inanci;11 life­blood. All bu .. inc ... .,e .... including Z ion City Bank . werc owned and. to a remark­able extent . run by Dov.-ie him ... clf. RCl.l­dents purchased their homesite ... at fair market value, but in lieu 01 clear tLllel. they rece ived UOO-ycar lea .. e .. which could be revoked at the general over-,cer'l. di scretion

The system was not as oncsidcd as II sounds. The overriding goal was to bri ng all aspect'> o f pcr<>anal and ),Ocial exi .. -tence unde r theocratic direction Zion City's officill! mollo , "Wherc God Rule~,

Man Prol.pers," lo uccinctl y cxpresl.ed the interpenetration of re lIgious and eco­nomic motives that I>crvadcd the com­munity. Acco rding to the advertising literature. Zion City ~imply followed "God' s Plan" for economic lind ~piri!Ua l prosperity.

This meant, fir~t of all, that earnings above a reasonable reluOl to capital were sharcd by the mcn and women who pro­duced them . It also meant that guarantced employment and other financial pro­tections. l.uch as immunity against s trikes and labor violence, were coupled with systematic distribution of the profits . "God's Plan" did not entail cconomic communism; privale owncrship and pru­dent stewardship of personal assels were encouraged. Yet Zion City businesses did

Dr. Granl Wader is assislant professor of religious Siudies in the UniversilY of North Carolina. Chapel HIll. His grandfalher. Ralph M. Riggs, was gener.tl superintendent of the Assemblies of God (1953-59) .

not borrow from out<.ide banb, and ordi· nary rc~idcnh avoided an)" contarninatm~ cOlllmercial contact'> v. Ith the Ilut'>lde world E,en cducational and recreational actlvilLe~ tool.. place mainly \\ ithin the protective boundanc\ of the (.'ommunl\~. Finally. and perhap' mo" Imporlanll~, In

accord with ··God· ... PI.ln" a tithe of all per,onal and bu\lIle .... income \\ a ... rctumcd to God. or more preCl\cl~, tll the Chri .. tian Catholic Church It 1\ ditlicult to l..nov. to v.hat e~tcnt "Gnd', PI;IIl" actually v.a .. put into prJo.:tice. but lor the fiN 2 or ~ year. lhe blueprint \eem\ I(l

have been fottowcd quite clo\cl)>" and to have worked .. urprismgly \\.-ell M

The political arrangemcnh of /,,'n Cit~ abo combined bihlic;l1. utopLan, and modem notion" in a manner that \va .... like the cconOll1lC \tructure, lIl~cniou, yet unstable. hr.t of all, only "born ;t~;tin" Chri ~tiam were permi!led to Ji"c or do business in the: cit)- A ... ;I re ... ull. ;lccOrULIlg to the ad\crtising literature. the (.·Olll­munity "as free of "'intOXIcating liquor.,

MallY of Do .... ie·s follo .... ers later became im'oil'ed ill the Pentecostal movement.

tobacco. gambling den ... deadl) drug .. , forbidden food ... , theatcr<.. brothel ... pro· fessional politician .. , fraudulent a .... e,> .. or. and spender<. of taxes." It ,,1\0 \\a .. Irec ~)f pork produch. ~hel lfi\h , chitin ... torel.. Illorluarics. and hm jllta"' . Governance 01 the community wa ... autocratic v.llhout apology. A regularly elcctcd m:lyor and town council attended to thc mundane detllil s of municipul hfe, but all qllc\t ioil'> of conscquence, rang ing from the way one was to vote in pre ... idential clcctiu n"'l0 the choice of a marriage partner, werc dctcrmined by the general ovcr<.ccr No one pretended or wllnted OIherwil.c II

Finally, the connection between the lown and the c hurch should be noted . Zion City' s relation to the Chri\tian Cath­olic Church roughly paml1eled Salt Lakc City's relation to the Church of J cl.u~ Christ of Lattcr-day Saints: it wa ... the literal and symbolic ccnter of a worldv. ide ecclesiastical organilation. All or vir· tually all rcsidents of the community wcre members of the church, and at Icasl half of the adults belonged to an eyangeli .. tic strike force called the Zion Restoration Host. By 1900 the denomination hlld 25,000 to 50.0<Xl adherents. depending upon whom one believcs. Although most of the church's members lived in other pUTtS of the Uni ted S tatcs. Canada. Europe, South Africn, and Australia. there can be little doubt that much of the time their hearts were in Zion City.12

To Be COlltilllled

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,I IoOUnt fUI nrh "",grJ('tl""": dnail <.;a 011,;0 John J H.II...:\ ... n.; Gcrlt'" "I 4 \Io...xm ~I.M -41011"11"", },'UNfU/ <', S.J(", ..... ' '1,1<101. 11(\·1~1. U"" It' oIutu1">";~r"l"I"'~J.l .an,,1e m I .. a, .. ' <', lf~aJ '"~ IChl<:J.Ft> •. 1\ "IIIlII,,1 1!<t<J.l r It . .anJ'\m,m""" ,",,,, f r .. m R .. ",,, " Hru1 R('t'orJ of f,~It, If.JflIII,· /hunr II ... J/In~ 1(,,,,.,,,., In I~ Srtl, .. t'II (-...{,/ .. rn", ('"".Iu. 1 .... 1'" 1101 R.·, J,o/tn ~I... u ... 1 ,lin n .... ,~ j("hl<"~F'" t~<I~ •. "'p I'f' 4(). liS 11<1. 147

4 SclJ..". S'oJmma",.~ (" .. "I .. n. r l~'I. /,." H,I/"'''r. ~ JUIl<: NUl. P 50.1. S\Io.lln .. 1)., .... ,1' •.. r <,117 h ...... "unrle, ,,1 I),., .... ,c·, InH'l:I"t JF.!ln,t ,mOlh ~Il>l.'I". "--..! I","n oJlf .. "/,,,~. II JJnll~1) I~'I~. r !~II. 11\ ~l.l~ 1<I()1. r lilt>, '-1 \1.1) N(l~. r '-'~. \{I Scplcmhcr Nl.l~. r 7q~

~. llealh. "p")\,k: M I' () h>rthl' h<'ltne...s.lnd hlilllel htt had.):wund. ,cc R;l~n,,",d J ("un· nln!1h~m. "h"m Hohnc" III HC;lhn~ lk l-auh ('u~ In·\mcn,a. 1~7~-1~'-l~.·· Oumh /lnl,'n 41 eN74L 4'1'}·~14 ;mJ [)on;lIJ" t)4\I<>1I. ~ I he: RI'>t' "lire han):dl<."allkJ.hng "k" .. n,",1 In ',no:'l(""\'hlh CcnEur. ,-\nK'r'K4:' P".· .. ,,"" J" .. r",,1 ,,/IM S'''Jr'' Jm 1' .. III~n'II,,1 .\lwJJr.' 4 IN~!) 1·111

() [)"".c ,., "rthur Rt}n .. IJ,. ~t L> • I("hl<."~~ .. 'l C'Ifllm"".'lt"lCr Itf \-kahh. q '1..1) IK'I~. rernnl<.'\l m I,nd-.a~. n",,·, .. , r 1~1

7. I.t''''·u <>J 1f ... ,/mlt. III Scplcmhcr t'-ll14. I'fl 7M). 711 h .... a lypl':J.I ~Il..,;l 1>, 1). .. " It ufO.>n IlI'I<.lIher e' .. n~clt.:al htalt.- ·In Ih" ,' .. ,c \I;!q R "l'<.Id"onh - '«< 1.t''''·'J "J fI~,II",~. 1:1 .. t .... h I)!q~. I'fl .1Kf) .. 1lB

1:1 ~Th:: 00"11' \Io\'cmeru an (l11.:.I!!<.I.·· O .. I/.".t. ~2 Jllnc 19()1. p . .j~9 Tilt- rcporleT \1001' t "'­I'flcdm;!n. "I)u",e anJ Oo"'cl,m. M ,-4101..,"',,,, ',,,,,,lrll R .. ,,", "/ R .. ",,"i ~I:I (1'>'In) 61 ~ ··U.lm.· I.."" 11111 .... 0.:1'·· " Ila..ed on Hc.llh, ···"r'Nk. p In~

\) "u"",h.·Z"",. (111111."'," P 2 The p"'ru'dunn c'>l"nale' ~"'cn by \chotar, ~ar)". bUI Ku,~h', detall"d ret:on~lnKlIon of Tl:,ldcnllal p;H1cm, off"" Ihe- ,,1<,)\1 probal;!lc oumber.

10 l.Ion lil'loneal Soc,el), "OU",e-', l)rc~m," Wlldt".1 '" /I/In (1970). pp 10·20

II IhKl. pIS. 12. Harlan. Vo"',,,. p. 3. dl ""u~<,('\ the l'hunch',

rroh~blc "ie "nca 1905 Today the dcnounnallon ha\ unl) ~.~OO mcmber'> mlhe UmlC<.l SI~IC'. bul II n'lIIn,he, In S"·,I7.erlalid, Soulh Alnca. and Au, Lr~"a See. Illr c~ample-. JanlCO' W h:mande/. ·"/.olu Z,o""m:' Nm .. ral IIwo" (lq71) 44-:'iO. and " J 11ollen"egcr, Tht: Pt",,,osta/. Flit CII"rmm"" "'(II·tm",,1 '" III .. Ch"rrhu. ltan' R A WII<,(l1l (MlOno:'apv"~. 1972). pp 1Ib--12~. 149·tB .t·

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Between 19J5 :uuj 197X rCilder. 01 the Prllll'f'o.IWf /;"1'l1ll~e1 grew a"u\[()1lIcd

10 the weekly cart()()n~ hy ('harlc~ I R,lImay The .. ctccliom on Ihc .. c p:.gc .. ,Ife Irolll f{;un';ly'~ compilation WI Ch/'ll/lim CflrtO(!//\ (]949).

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A LOOK AT THE CREATIVE WORK OF

Art In\lLIU1c, He enrolled ;11 Central Blhle In .. tilulC (now Central Bible Coliege) in 1935 and began worl..mg pan-lime for the G(l~pcl Publi .. hmg lIou .. c. /\fler he lin­.... hed college he began wurl-ing full-llIlIC in the an dCpilnlllcnt

In 1949 Vaughn Shoemaker, chid ci.lr· looni .. t for Ihe Clm:i.lgo D:.iI) New ... called RanNly the Ic;.ding Chri .. tian cilr-1001\1\1 "Lvcr) one oj hi., c,.rloon .. :' Shoemaker IHQtC, "i., equivalent to a \Cmlon. It wilt never be known in thi' world JU" how far hi~ (.;artoon, have gone in extending Ihe Kingdom of OUf Lord."

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Ralmay left the Go~pel Puhli'hing Ilnu.,e rn 1955 to head the art department ilt Oral Roocrt, Evanllcli,tlt: A""Ix;rirtion But he continued to create cartlXlIl., for the Pent/HI.I/al El'llllgel until 1978. In Tul" • he ,rhu t;\Ughl \I. <ller color and tommercial Mt at Or,,] Rohcn .. Um\'ef'olt}. He retIred in 19K!.

~o\l. 75 year, 01 age. Ram~a) <,1.11 make .. hi .. home in Tuha and leep .. oU'Y painting and exhibillllg hi .. work lie ha., been a member of Cenlr:ll A., .. embly in 'I ul~a for many year,.

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Resist the devil Gild

he will flee from ~ou.

Jam~ 4,7

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How a Presbyterian Preacher Received the Baptism in 1912 The Personal Testimony of s. A . Jamieson

I wa., ordained a Prc~bytcrian min i.,tcr at the age of 25. Before I could be

ordained, I had \0 wkc an academy. a college. and :. thcological !.cminary COllI"\C. all of which occuplcd a period of 9 year<;. After !>crving three prosperous pa<,tomlcs I wa!. appointed ~upcrjrucndcnt over five countic!> in the ~"nc of Min­nesota, which unice I held for 20 years. During th<ll time J organilcd 35 churches and buill 25 chun;h cdlfic.:cs. dedicating them all without debt. Some of thc churches that I organized with 20 menl­ben. hllve now over 500 member!>. My work In the Prc:.bytcrian church W,IS

blc.,~cd of the Lord. Many souls were really saved under my ministry.

Mrs. Jamieson lind I were both hungry for the deeper truth .. rcvcnlcd in God's Word. when we ncard of the outpounng of the Iioly Spirit at A/u~a street mission in Los Angeles. ('alif. We greatly rejoiced at the good news. though we did not then know the relll meaning of this wonderful nlUnifestation of the Holy Ghost So anx­iou~ was my wife to receive this wonder­ful gift that I think she would have taken the first train for Los Angeles. had she had the means. She went down to Atlanta, Ga., to visit a friend. and wh ile there she met a few saints who were seeking the Baptism . There she renHlined for 3 months, and received the gift of the Holy Spirit that ~he so much desired .

She was so anxious for me to receive the bllptisrn wi th the Spirit that she asked me to resign my positio n of super­intendent of Home Missions and tarry for the Baptism. l llis I ought to have done. but I thought thai I could receive this gift and still re tain my position. The mistake I

Whell Iht' Asstl11blit's o[ God ... as [omlt!!1 1/1

1914. S.A. Jamiesoll was Ihert' 0/1l1 became (I

ch(lfft'r member. 111 1916 he sen'ed ()II fht COlli' mitll't' which prepared Iht' Stalellll'l!f of Failh. He W(/S Iht principal of Midll't'sl Bibll! School. Allbllrn. Nebraska. in irs 1 year of opermioll (1920,. lie (lied ill 1933 .

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made was to placc more Importance on my position a~ superintendent than on receiving the preciom. gIft of the Holy Ghost Thi~ s<ld mistllke of making a wrong c'>tllllate of the value of thmgs. is made by a large number of people. including mini<,ters. How absurd fo r a Christian even to think of such a com­p;lri .. on. yet there are many Christiam who place more value on positions which are lemfJorarr at beJt than on the great xift of the Holy ChOM. Ala,>. they are like the man with the muck rake described by Bunyan 10 Pilxrim's Prop,ress.

TIle devil tried to make me believe that God would not w:mt me to give up my JXlsition as superintendent. telling me that I had received the Baptism when I WllS

"After I received my Baptism the Bible was practically a Ilew book to me."

saved. It was very easy for me to accept this suggestion from Satan, because that is what I had been taught in the Presbyter­i;m Church from childhood. I felt that for me to give up my position of honor and my good salary, and join that Pentecostal class of ignorant lind poor people would eventually lead Ille to the poorhouse. The trouble with me. as with thousands of others was thm for a time I was not ll'illillg 10 pay the price. God used my wife to show me that I was altogether mistaken in the position I took. I began to pray ear­nestly and the Lord soon removed from my mind :111 hindrances to tarrying for the B:lptism.

I gave up my position as superintendent glad ly, left our beautifu l home in Duluth, Minnesota. went to Portland. Oregon, and began to seek the Baptism. They taught sanctification as a second work of grace, so I sought it and the more I sought the worse I grew. I remained about 10 months without gaining anything worth­while. Final1y word came to tiS that Mrs. Woodworth-Etter was conducting ;I great revival at DlIlIas. Texas, and we decided to go there. Arriving there December 23, 1912, and having secured furnished rooms near the tabernacle. I set to work in ear­nest seek ing the Baptism. and about I I o'clock Christmas eve, I received the pre­cious gift of the Holy Ghost. When I went

10 the altar that night I .. aid to the Lord. ,,] now mean bU'>lIle .. ~ and I am willing \0 remain here. and fa,>1 atl week to receive thl~ gifL" As f:lr a .. I knew God had ~trippcd me of everything. I threw my<;clf helplessly <II HIS feet and God soon granted me the de .. irc of my heart Pralsc His holy Name! R>r a long time I wanted God to baptize me in my o .... n W:IY, for example in our home. I had ... een people get their l1aptism In the sawdu .. t. and I said to myself, " I surely don't want to be baptized that way," and that is Ju .. t tile place where God baptiled me. It is not best to dictate to God where you arc to receive your Baptism. for God witt prob· ably choose the place to which you object as His place 10 baptize you.

I had a ~triking experience <lfter I had received my Baptism. F. F. Bo~wonh and E. G Birdsell wer\! called out of the city to pray for a very sick man. Whde they werc gone a young nHm brought hi .... i~ter who was very sick. [told him thai Brother Bosworth was out of town. I felt very sorry for hlln. so he dcl.:idcd to return home. Ju<,t as he wa~ le;lving Mrs. Jamieson said, "Don't let him go. God has givcn u .. tile Holy Spirit that we might pray for the sick." So we prayed and tile sister was instantly healed . My. that encouraged me to go on!

Through the Baptism the Holy Ghost has done many great thing~ for me.

I. He helped me to get rid of my ser­mons. [ had 500 as well prepared sermon~ as S.A. Jamieson could prepare while in the Presbyterian Church. I had a beautiful box special1y made for them, locked with a silver lock. I priled them very much. The devil told me to keep them, but the Holy Spirit in me said. "Burn them up and I will furnish you messages of My own choosi ng ." So [ took thcm into the yard and sct a match to them: and tlleY were so dry that tlleY burned like tinder. Thank Goo.

2. After I received my Baptism the Bible was f"{fctically a IIl'W book to me. I understood it as I never had done before. Preach ing under tile anointing became a delight. and my love for souls was very much increased.

3. It increased my love for God and my fellow men. gave me a more consuming compassion for souls. and changed my view of the ministry so that it was no longer looked upon as a profession but as a calling. [ now fecl sorry for ministers Ihat arc trying to preach without the anointing.

If you want to succeed in your Chris­tian work you should seek tile Baptism with the Holy Spirit. If Jesus needed tile Baptism to do His great work we surely need this precious gift. Its price is above rubies. We need the Holy Spirit to pray for the sick and to cast out demons. I surely praise the Lord for bring ing me into Pentecost. -t-

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TIME FRAME A QUICK LOOK INTO THE PAST .,., "" I I.' "",., I I ," I I I ," I I." '" I I ••• '. I I . I. I. I II ••••••• ,

Each j~ul' 1M Milor "'\00\ il"n1~ or inlen-<ol ror Ihb column rrom 1M p .. nt"roltol h'om:"/' Imf.., Rflln f..-'·fI"gtl.·\polfo/.r Frmh. nord fI"d I\,t" .. u. lind olMr publiralion,. l'OUlUll'tll\ lind ,u~\ljon, from our rtad~ art iO\ilM.

10 Years Ago-I976 Merle J HaITi ... fonner a"i~tant ~upcr~

intendenl of the Arkan .. a .. DI~triet and former admim~trator of Htlkre .. t Chi I dren's Home ..... 1 .. elected dl\lricl ~uper· intcndent at the Arkan~a, Diqrict Council

More Ihan 1.000 Catholic prie\t<, allcnded lhe second National Conference for Pri csts on C:llholic Chari~malic Renewul at Steubenville. Ohio. 20 Years Ago-l966

J . Otis Harrell, gener31 man3ger of Gospel PubJi,hing lIouse. retired 3fter more than 4() years of employment al he3dquarter.. Homer L. Men/ies h3 .... uc­cceded Harrell

All missionaries have been ordered out of Burma. and the A .. sembtics of God organization is now 111 the himd .. of the national!.. Maynard L. Ketcham. field sccretmy for the Far Ea .. 1. i~ optimistic that the church will thrive. 30 Years Ago-I956

W.1. Evans Hall wa<, dedic3ted on the Central Bible In<;titute campus in memory of the late dean and instructor. The build­ing houses classrooms. the Myer Pcarl-1ll3n Memorial Library. and admm· istrativc office ... (Set! photo.)

A leller h3s been reccived from Anna Ziese. the only A<;sembJies of God mis­sionary left in China . It was the fi rst cor­respondence from Sister Ziesc in several years. (See photo. A fell' other /ellers from

SiSler Li{'u Wl'rj' ren'in',1 rIu' hilI (II/l'

IHI.~ rer:ein',J ill Me/reh /9()().)

.w Years Ago-l9-U; A Feast of Penteco .. t. .... ith con

gregation .. from the :\,:-.cmblic, 01 God. Church of God. and Pentccmtal Holine~, cooperatlllg. met June 2-9 III \\·a~hlllg((ln. D.C. Spca"'er. ..... ere Raymond Corvill and Erne .. t S William ..

An outpouring of the Spirit al the Juneau Children' .. Home i~ ;111 an ....... er to prayer. The home cares for 10 homeless children. 50 Years Ago-l936

Evangeli,1 Adele Cannich:lel W3' the featured speaker In the 6·week Youth Revi\'al Tent Campaign ill Southgate. Cal­ifornia. spon'>Ored by the Chri~t', Amba!'o­sadors of the Southern Catiforma DI .. tricl (Set' photo.)

Ne .... and .... cteran mi .. ,ionaries going 10 their fields include Ellen Esler. Kathryn Long. Ruth Kelly. John M Lewis. and Hamel! 011 (India): Mr and M ..... Harry Downey and Mr. and M .... Jame, 1-I,ln .. • hom (Congo): Mr and Mrs. John Hall and Helcn Duffy (French West Africa): Beatrice and Thelma Hildebrandt (China): Mr. and Mrs. Russell Phlnts (Egypt): Jane Collins (South America): and Esther Crews (El Salvador). 60 Years Ago-I926

The Faith Hospital and Rest Ilorne for people in spiri tual and physical need has been opened next to the r-our Fold Gospel Tabernacle in Indianapo li s. Earl and Be ula Cl3rk arc the pastors.

For 2 wceks Mrs . William Booth· Clibbom ministered :It the Washington State Girts· Reformatory in Gra nd Mounds. Of the 159 girls at the insti­tution. 130 made professions of faith and 81 were baptized in water.

(;RUT YOUTH REVIVAL IN BIG ~EN~

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BEGONS SUNDAV:;:N; i .. 2 30 P M J ItJSlCr Jor )'oulh rel'i,'al at South Galt', Cail­Jornia, )unt-)ltly 1936. Adl'/l' Ca,,,.ichatl. speakrr.

70 Years A~o-1916 The Ozark Bible and Literal)" Schoul.

Eureka Spnng~. Ar"'an\a,. i, prep.lnng for 11\ '>Ccond year of operation Director Daniel C O. Opperman ad\'crll'c" the <;chool <b a place "with Chri,tlilfi em·ir­onmenC' for grades 7-12.

Several missionarie~ enroute to Chma stopped at Stone Church. Chicago. They arc Jo<,ephine Cobb. Marie Stephany. and Lloyd Creamer. The 13tter two wil l be travehng with Mr. and MI">. E. C Stem berg who are returning to China. 80 Yca rs Ago-l906

M ...... Lucy F. F3ITOW, 11 fonner .. lave and now called "GO(r .. anointed hand­maid" in Pentecostal circ le ... ha~ left the Los Angc les Awsa Street Mission and i~ now ministering in Houston

Pentecostals are estimating th1ll ~ome 13.000 people havc received the bapt l ~m in the Holy Spirit since 1901. .!.

Tnt W.I. E"arls Hall, dtdicaud on QntraJ Bible InstitllU campus, /956 .

Missionary An,," ZitS<' who rtm(li"td ill Chi"a afttr Iht tommulfisl l(lbo"tr in 1949. Su "til'S

about Itlltr u"dtr 1956.

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D Beating in Texas, 19111 'mOl pa., 5

"My flesh was mashed 10 lhe bOlle 011 my

back . .. "early to my k"ees. "

"/ nel-'er luullhe sligh/eM allger or illjeeling towards those me"."

waa gone a.nd I was waiting for my t.ra.ln, a larger mob of aOOut 25 took me from the depot and knocked me down and pounded me with heavy hardwood clubs with all their power, cursing a.nd decla.ring that. I would never preach a.ga.1n when they were through with me. As they pounded me with these heavy clubs (made from the oar of a. boat), I offered no resistance, but committed myself to God and asked him not. to let the blows break my spine. God stood wonderfully by me and no bones were broken except a. slight fracture tn my left. wrist. When they left off poundLng me wtth the clubs as I got. up others of the mob who had no clubs knocked me down hitting me in the head with their flsts. I was knocked down several LLmes but was not. for a. moment unconsctous, which was a miracle of God's care.

I was then not allowed to take my train but had to walk 9 miles to Calvert where I got a train Sunww at 2 p.m. for home.

The suffering durlng this pounding was terrible but as soon as it was over I looked awa;y tram wounds and bruJses to God and he took awa;y all suffering and put his power and strength upon me so that I carried a heavy Suitcase with my right arm over 9 miles. I never had the slightest anger or UJ feeling towards those men who beat me so cruelly, and the walk to Calvert In the dark with moon-light was the most heavenly experience of my IUe and the Lord gave me wonderful intercession for those men that He should forgive them and prepare them for his coming.

My flesh was mashed to the bone on my back down nearly to my knees, but since the beating I have been free from all suffering.

Others been made nervous and have broken down and wept as they were shown the wounds on my body, but I have been absolutely free from ner­vousness, no fear and not even tired.

He has been so prectous to me since that 1 have thanked him many times for being prlviledged to know something of the U fellowship of his suffer­lnJts" If this mobing was the result of some unwise thing I had. done or for speaking anything but His own sweet message, I would be very sorry, but since it came for plain obedience in preaching His gospel to avBry" creature, It has given me great jay to experience this which was 80 common among the early christians In the first centuries of the church.

I feel like 1 am several notches higher in the Christian life. Already this experience God has used and made it a blessing to others and

I have read. some of the sweetest letters from God's people. You need not worry one bit for we are not now preaching to Col. people

and will not unless God clearly leads as he did when he led us to Queen City and other parts of Dallas. He put his se&! upon this by saving many, healing many and baptizing over 225 with the Holy Ghost. The deepest and quickest work I have known of. We do not lay our own plans but walt for him.

We have just moved our tent from the corner of Weaskell and State Ste. to the corner of East Side and Washington AYe., and last night which was our Orst night in the new location, the tent was nearly full and the attention was nne. Pray that God wtll give us a great meeting there. we may move into some house near the tent in a few d.ays.

Vlvtan is well and so sweet. God gives her at times the real burden for souls at which times the Spirit makes intercession through her in tongues. Bro. Graves (Fred A. Graves) Is with us.

The paper just oame from Z.C. (Zion City, Illinois) telling about my beating.

Not muoh like the facts. My face was not soratched but my head. was bruised in several places. No marks left on my face.

Would love to see you all at home. we are all happy in the will of God. I would muoh prefer to be faithful and have some little tribulation now

than to fall to overcome and have to pass through the great tribulation soon to come. Praise God I am determined to have God's plan for my life carl'led out.

With much love to you all, I am Your Devoted Son. Fred

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