I didn't watch that whole video of "Something Got Ahold of Me."
It was different than I had heard it before.
This was from some play or production and from the wording I heard it seemed to be about the experience of a man known as Bro. Lee.
This is from pages 63-67 of The Phenomenon of Pentecost which was wrtiten by Bro. Frank Ewart.
It happened that a sister in the Lord from Los Angeles
who was affiliated with a small, colored Nazarene church,
visited with friends in Houston, Texas. She, like many
others, came under the sway of Brother Seymour’s gripping
personality. On her return to Los Angeles she told
the saints about a “very godly and humble man” she had
met in Houston. At once these colored saints sent an invitation
to this preacher to come and hold a meeting for
them. In due time he arrived. The first Sunday morning
he took
Acts 2:4 for his text in that Nazarene church pulpit.
The saints were dumbfounded. They never heard
such a sermon before, and never expected it. He said that
when anyone received the baptism with the Holy Spirit
according to the original pattern, he would have the identical
experience with that which the disciples received on
the Day of Pentecost, and speak with new tongues just as
they did on that occasion.
When the meeting was dismissed, Brother Lee, a
much esteemed colored saint who was a member of the
Peniel Mission, invited Brother Seymour to his home to
take dinner. When they returned to the mission for the
afternoon service, the door was locked. Brother Seymour
asked the reason for this and was told that he was judged
to be a preacher of an utterly false doctrine. They would
not permit him to preach in their pulpit anymore. So
Brother Lee, solely out of Christian courtesy towards the
visiting preacher and not that he believed in his doctrine,
invited him to his home. Brother Seymour had no place
to live, and Brother Lee felt that he could not leave the
stranger homeless while he had a home. The saints who
had invited Brother Seymour left him stranded without
any money to return to Houston. Brother Seymour stayed
in his room and prayed. Brother and Sister Lee did not
feel good towards him, but they could not find it in their
hearts to command him to leave. They had an unwelcome
guest on their hands.
After a few nights in the home, Brother Seymour
asked them if they would join him in prayer when Brother
Lee would return from his daily work. This they did, and
immediately the Spirit of God began to take hold of their
hearts, and the hosts felt differently towards their
preacher guest. In a few days the saints from the little
church began to come around to learn whether the
stranger was still in town.
They found such a wonderful spirit of prayer in that
home that they also began to humble themselves before
the Lord. The Lord would impress everyone who came to
that home with the necessity of seeking His face in
prayer. The spirit of conviction seized every true saint, no
matter how they believed, and they would fall on their
knees and confess that God was in that place. They would
not receive this praying man’s doctrine, but they loved to
be near him and to pray with him.
Then came a new innovation. A Baptist, Sister
Asbury, came in and invited Brother Seymour and as
many as were hungry for more of God to hold the prayer
meeting in her home. So they began the protracted
prayer meetings in the home of Brother and Sister
Asbury at 214 North Bonnie Brae Street. These hungry
souls tarried day and night, and in the meantime the
Spirit of the Lord had inspired Brother Lee so that he was
in constant prayer. He was a janitor in the bank at
Seventh and Spring Streets for years. He said that he
used to go down into the basement of the bank and hide
away for hours and hours in deep, heart-searching meditation
and prayer.
One day the Lord gave him a vision. He plainly saw
two men come to him, and he was impressed that they
were Peter and John. He said that he was not asleep but,
like Peter on the housetop, had fallen into a trance. They
stood and looked down on him; then they lifted their
hands toward heaven and shook mightily under the
power of God and spoke in other tongues. He said that he
jumped up to apprehend them and to ask them some
questions, but they vanished. Brother Lee said that he
shook from head to feet under the power of God. When
he went home that night, he said to Brother Seymour, “I
know now how people act when they get the power of the
Holy Ghost.” Brother Seymour had previously explained
the manifestations of the Spirit to the group, but it had
sounded like idle tales and they could not understand it.
Brother Seymour could not impress the people, but after
Brother Lee had his vision a deeper hunger was stirred in
his heart, and when he related it, the saints began to
believe that he had outlined a real scriptural experience.
Brother Lee began to seek more earnestly than ever for
the baptism.
One evening he came in from his work and said to
Brother Seymour, “If you will lay hands on me I will
receive my baptism!” But Brother Seymour said, “No, the
Lord wants me to lay hands suddenly on no man.” Later
on in the evening, however, Brother Seymour approached
Brother Lee and said, “Brother, I lay my hands on you in
Jesus’ name!” Immediately Brother Lee fell under the
mighty power of God as though he were dead. Sister Lee
was so frightened that she began to scream and cry,
“What have you done to my husband?”
In a few minutes Brother Lee rose up and sat in his
chair. Brother Seymour said afterwards that he prayed
and asked the Lord to let him get right up as they all
seemed so scared, and the Lord could not finish the work
at that time. Brother Lee had a wonderful blessing which
was the prelude to a mighty baptism in the Spirit. After a
time Sister Farrow arrived from Texas, and Brother Lee
asked her to lay hands on him. She did and the same
thing happened; he dropped as one dead out of his chair,
but this time he began to speak in other tongues. He only
spoke a few words in tongues and got up. This puzzled
Sister Lee and her brother, and they asked if that was all
there was to a full and complete baptism. Brother
Seymour told them that there was only one baptism but
many fillings, and that Brother Lee would have lots of
manifestations from this day forward.
They went on over to the prayer meeting in Sister
Asbury’s home. When Brother Lee walked into the house,
he threw up his hands and began to speak in other
tongues. Six people were already on their knees praying,
and the power fell on them and all six began to speak in
tongues as the Spirit gave them utterance. This happened
on April 9, 1906. This was followed, as at Pentecost, by
a great noise that was spread abroad.
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