In The Days of The Latter Rain (Pentecostal Pioneers) by Thomas Ball Barratt

Author:Thomas Ball Barratt [Barratt, Thomas Ball]
Language: eng
Format: azw
Published: 2014-02-09T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter 8. The Truth about the Pentecostal Revival

THERE are very few papers, religious or secular, but have had printed reports for or against the present Revival that is now sweeping over the world. And judging from the bitter antagonism on the one hand, and the self-sacrificing enthusiasm and love for it on the other hand, every thoughtful person will come to the conclusion that the forces at work in this Revival are of no ordinary character.

Claiming, as I do, to be in favour of this Revival as such, although there are some things that have arisen in connection with it in various places, that I am not in sympathy with, I feel the time has come to make a clear and definite statement concerning my personal views about the matter, especially as several papers have held these forth in a false light.

Personal experience.

It will be necessary for me therefore to make some personal statements, so as to put things clearly before you.

The first time I heard anything about this Revival was in New York, America, toward the close of 1906.

I was in that country attempting to raise funds for the City Mission work of the Methodist Episcopal Church in Christiania, Norway. A new hall was to be erected there if I was successful. The statement made by the chief Missionary Secretary, Dr. Adna Leonard, that the time chosen for this tour to America was the worst we could have fixed on, proved only too true.

Although the Norwegian King allowed me to make use of his name in connection with this enterprise, which was also backed up with the endorsement of fifteen bishops and other leading men within the M. E. Church, the tour proved unsuccessful in a financial way.

But all this led to a deepening of my spiritual life. I had for twenty years taught the necessity of heart-cleansing, and the Baptism of the Holy Ghost, and had been wonderfully blessed of God in my labours. Now, I studied once more books and articles that covered the ground, especially the Bible. A copy of the paper “The Apostolic Faith,” fell into my hands, in which an account of the Revival at Los Angeles was found, and the wonderful manifestations of the Holy Spirit in connection with it.

On comparing it with the Bible records, I found that the statements were correct, and that what the people there were enjoying was the very blessing I was seeking.

I wrote to them and received an answer from some friends there, corresponding exactly with the trend of thought in the paper. It would take too long to state all that transpired during those days in my inner life. Suffice it to say that on the 7th of October, when all alone in my little room in the “Alliance House” in New York, I received the Baptism of the Holy Ghost, and five weeks later, at a prayer meeting with some friends, I received the Tongues with an increase of power that convinced me I had received the Gift of the Holy Ghost as the disciples “at the beginning.

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