Making Black Los Angeles by Marne L. Campbell

Author:Marne L. Campbell
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press

Healing

Charles Fox Parham taught “Divine healing” to his students, and William J. Seymour fully accepted the notion, and healing became a significant characteristic of the revival. Stories of people either being healed or having the ability to heal through prayer or the “laying on of hands,” almost outnumbered stories of people experiencing salvation, justification, and sanctification. The first issue of The Apostolic Faith noted many people healed from defective sight, and that their ability was “completely restored.” It also stated, “The deaf have had their hearing restored.”121 One man even came to a meeting seeking healing of deafness. God restored his eyesight as well.122 The newspaper reported many examples of healings: “Soon after we arrived, a lady sick with dropsy came to the meeting. She got out of bed to come; had been sick a long time.… She immediately shouted that she was healed. I felt the healing power flow into her body.… She walked down town and told her neighbors about the wonderful things the Lord had done for her.”123 Many people were cured of other infectious diseases. In Los Angeles, a Mrs. S. P. Knapp who suffered from tuberculosis received “divine healing” on 12 August 1906.124 Another woman received healing for consumption when she had lost all but part of one of her lungs.125 Several other people were “divinely healed” of similar ailments.126

Men also received healing. Tom Anderson, for example, was a member of the church living in Los Angeles during the revival. He testified about being cured of an illness that had lasted approximately six and a half years. He said that doctors had failed to heal him, but when he attended the revival meetings, God cured him immediately. Anderson’s testimony was not unlike that of others, regardless of whether they were regular members.127

Mrs. J. Kring was “healed” from having cancer in her lungs on 8 August 1906. Her doctor had told her she had no hope, and diagnosed her condition as terminal. Her testimony read, “One lung was entirely closed up. When she was prayed for, the Lord immediately touched her body and healed her.”128 Kring was so overwhelmed with joy that she spent the rest of the evening shouting as if she had never been ill. Another woman had been suffering from hemorrhages in her lungs for many years. Before she came to the revival, she had experienced seven consecutive hemorrhages. In fact, the woman was too ill to attend the revival, but members there prayed for her. She immediately was healed, and finally left her bed.129 Margie Downing also experienced “divine healing.” Diagnosed with cancer, the doctors told her that they could not help her. Her physicians told her that she could expect to die at any time. Her entire abdominal parts were “a mass with cancer. The hole eaten by the cancer was deep enough to hold a quart of water.”130 Miraculously the hole filled up with new flesh. Conditions such as lung cancer, tuberculosis, and consumption were ailments that many were “cured” of.

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