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Re: Who was Harry Morse ?
Here is part of the testimony of Harry Morse about his experience at Azusa Street.
I soon went to Los Angeles to investigate for myself, and as I heard they rolled over one another and stuck their tongues out like snakes and had other awful contortions, I was very suspicios of them. I was at the time in Peniel Mission work and my heart was hungry, realizing my need of deeper things of God for the ministry and wanting the real, genuine baptism from God. So I went to investigate, but was very cautious, extremely so because of these bad reports. But I wanted to see for myself. When I went into the old Azusa Street Mission that Monday night in the month of September, 1906, I was utterly surprised to find merely a good old time red hot gospel revival meeting going on, and I tell you it hit the spot in my soul. While I did not understand everything, yet I soon changed my opinion and after a few more investigating visits, to be perfectly sure, I publicly put myself on record as being in favor of God’s work there. In a few weeks more I began to seek the baptism.
Let me say too, that, having been in close touch with the work since 1906 on the Pacific Coast, where it is most strongly represented, and being well acquainted with most of the leaders, I declare to you that I have not seen any fanatical rolling, nor the strange things which are reported, but I have found some of the most saintly and deep thinking people who were in the Holiness Movement, and some from many of the churches, with a new glory in their souls, standing for this work.
This was penned in 1914.
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