Azusa Street by Bartleman Frank 1871-1935

Author:Bartleman, Frank, 1871-1935
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
Tags: Bartleman, Frank, 1871-1935, Pentecostals, Pentecostalism, Revivals
Publisher: New Kensington, PA : Whitaker House
Published: 2000-11-18T16:00:00+00:00

Azusa Street

minds and spirits, to escape from the world for the time, and get alone with God. There was no noisy, wild spirit there. That, at least, could be done elsewhere. The claims and confusion of an exacting world were shut out. It was a sort of "city of refuge" from this sort of thing, a haven of rest, where God could be heard and talk to their souls. Men would spend hours in silence there, searching their own hearts in privacy and securing the mind of the Lord for future action. This sort of thing seems nearly impossible today amid present surroundings. We die out to self by coming into His presence. And this requires great quietness of spirit. We need a "holy of holies." What Jew of old would have dared to act in God's temple as we do today in the missions? It would have meant death to him. We are full of foolishness and fanatical self-assertion. Even the formal Catholics have more reverence on the whole than we.

Sunday, August 26, Pastor Pendleton and about forty of his members came into Eighth and Maple to worship with us. They had received the baptism and spoken in tongues in their church. The denomination had thrown them out of their own building for this "unpardonable" crime. When I heard the church was going to try Pendleton for heresy, I invited them to come in with us if they were thrown out. Two days later they were expelled and accepted my invitation. Brother Pendleton declared after this experience that he would never build another doctrinal roof over his head. He was determined to go on for God.

Multitudes are shut up in ecclesiastical systems, within sectarian boundaries, while God's great, free pasture lies out before them, only limited by the encir-chng Word of God. "There shall be onefold, and one

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