Azusa Street Revival

[KWSS1976]

Does anyone have a history of the Pentecostal church before this took place.I know most on here have seen this already..

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Azusa_Street_Revival

[Revelationist]

A book written by Dr. Marvin Arnold "Church History"

[Sam]

Originally Posted by KWSS1976

Does anyone have a history of the Pentecostal church before this took place.I know most on here have seen this already..

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Azusa_Street_Revival

I haven't read through the Wikipedia article but it does talk about people receiving the Holy Ghost Baptism in Kansas and Texas prior to Azusa Street.

There is a book called The Phenomenon of Pentecost by Frank Ewart which is distributed by the PPH which talks about some of this.

[Sam]

These are a couple of posts from another forum which talk about the move of the Holy Spirit in India:

Christian and non-Christian activists against the exploitation of women look back for inspiration to the 19th-century Indian social reformer Pandita Ramabai. Ramabai disguised herself as a
sannyasini (female mendicant), determined to rescue destitute women who
were being forced into servitude and sexual degradation. She beheld unspeakable
horrors: hundreds of agents enticing abandoned and helpless child-widows into
institutions where they were shut up or rented out to men. Her initial effort to
rescue seven wretched women nearly cost her life. She returned twice, during a
terrible famine, to rescue and carry away scores of victims in her train of
bullock carts—starving little girls (and on occasion a few boys) clad in filthy
rags—and to give them a new life at her Mukti Mission. Literate and skilled
"graduates" of Mukti went out into the world. Many became teachers or widely
sought-after wives. Some attended colleges in America and became medical
doctors.

Mother Ramabai's mission and orphanage for girls became a "hot bed" for Pentecostal revival in the early days of the 20th Century, and many of
the girls had visions and were baptized in the Holy Ghost with speaking
in other tongues.
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In January 1905 Ramabai encouraged the girls at Mukti to prayerfully seek for revival. Many responded and a revival began on June 29 when one girl was baptized in the Holy Spirit. Some were "slain in the Spirit" under the conviction of sin, and others received a burning sensation said to result from their baptism "in fire" (Matt. 3:11). The participants also experienced glossolalia in 1906. The revival soon spread, and a number of missionaries received Spirit-baptism (e.g. Albert Norton). A Chicago reporter, William Ellis, reports that in 1907 he witnessed evidence of revival going on among the women at the mission. Ramabai told him that meetings were held two times a day and led by "girls who have been baptized wiht the Holy Spirit and with fire."
from page 756 of Dictionary of Pentecostal And Charismatic Movements, copyright 1988

[Revelationist]

It needs to be noted that Azusa Street was a trinitrian revival and that there were One God Pentecostal preachers there that were not allowed to preach at this revival.

[berkeley]

Originally Posted by Revelationist

It needs to be noted that Azusa Street was a trinitrian revival and that there were One God Pentecostal preachers there that were not allowed to preach at this revival.

Source?

[Revelationist]

Originally Posted by Berkley

Source?

The source I got it from was Dr. Marvin Arnold "Pentecost Before Azusa Street". A Pentecostal Historian.

[Sam]

Originally Posted by Revelationist

It needs to be noted that Azusa Street was a trinitrian revival and that there were One God Pentecostal preachers there that were not allowed to preach at this revival.

Of course Azusa Street was "a trinitarian revival." The Christians there were trinitarians. The doctrine of the trinity was standard Christian theology at that time. The doctrine of "oneness" or "Jesus only" had not been "revealed" yet.

[Revelationist]

Originally Posted by Sam

Of course Azusa Street was "a trinitarian revival." The Christians there were trinitarians. The doctrine of the trinity was standard Christian theology at that time. The doctrine of "oneness" or "Jesus only" had not been "revealed" yet.

So the true church had been snuffed out and no longer existed?

[Sam]

Originally Posted by Sam

There is a book called The Phenomenon of Pentecost by Frank Ewart which is distributed by the PPH which talks about some of this.

a copy is attached as a pdf file