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Saturday, 16 February 2008 |
 312 Azusa Street is just one of a handful of web sites which hosts an extensive collection of Azusa Street articles, pictures, and information...for free! Don't be fooled by copycat sites as many have leeched their material from us! This is why some areas of our web site require registration. It's fast easy and free. Once you have registered you have complete access to this web site. Incidently we do not sell, trade, or even use the information you submit to us during registration.
Here you can find a complete text reprint of all 13 editions of the Azusa Street Mission newspaper called The APOSTOLIC FAITH. Along with the newspaper reprints, you will find historical articles concerning the Azusa Street Mission and the impact this great Mission had on 20th Century Pentecostalism and the Church. In our Estore you can purchase a copy of the Book Like As Of Fire a reprint of all 13 Azusa Street Mission Newspapers on CD-ROM and download a copy upon purchase. In addition to the book there are dozens of pictures, articles, and more. This web site hosts just a small sample of what is on the CD. Click here for details. Inside our web site you can read about Agnes Ozman the first person to first to speak in tongues at Charles Parham's Bethel Bible College in Topeka, Kansas. Read what the LA Daily Times had to say about this "weird group" (April 1906). Then read what the founder of the Nazarene Church, Dr. Phineas F. Bresee, said would be the fate of this "insignificant movement " (December 1906). Finally you can read the editor's comments explaining why the Azusa Street Mission revival faded and the church eventually closed; and how the same problems that plagued Azusa Street Mission plague the Pentecostal churches today. |
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LA TIMES Reports Wierd Babel of Tongues |
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Thursday, 30 August 2007 |
| Breathing strange utterances and mouthing a creed which it would seem no sane mortal could understand, the newest religious sect has started in Los Angeles. Meetings are held in a tumble-down shack on Azusa Street, near San Pedro Street, and devotees of the weird doctrine practice the most fanatical rites, preach the wildest theories and work themselves into a state of mad excitement in their peculiar zeal. Colored people and a sprinkling of whites compose the congregation, and night is made hideous in the neighborhood by the howlings of the worshippers who spend hours swaying forth and back in a nerve-racking [sic] attitude of prayer and supplication. They claim to have "the gift of tongues;" and to be able to comprehend the babble. |
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Nazarene Leader Says the Gift of Tongues Movement Insignificant! |
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Thursday, 30 August 2007 |
 by Dr. Phineas F. Bresee
The Gift of Tongues
Some months ago, among some of the colored people in this city, reinforced after a little with some whites, there began something which was called the "gift of tongues:" The meetings were held in a large rented building on Azusa street. The professed gift of tongues was not the only peculiarity of the meetings, but much physical exercise of various kinds, with laying on of hands. The meetings attracted some attention, especially among that class of people who are always seeking for some new thing. |
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1906 San Francisco Earthquake |
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Thursday, 30 August 2007 |
By Frank Bartleman  Frank Bartleman was an early leader of the Pentecostal movement at the Azusa Street Mission in Los Angeles, California. He was a central figure in the Azusa Street revival of 1906. His reports published in the holiness press heralded a world-wide revival. Bartleman's journalism helped to inform the world of the Pentecostal renewal and was largely responsible for promoting a revival that is still spreading throughout the world. The following is an excerpt from Azusa Street, Frank Bartleman's chronicle of the birth of the Pentecostal movement. I found the earthquake had opened many hearts. I was distributing especially my last tract, "The Last Call." It seemed very appropriate after the earthquake. Sunday, April 22, I took 10,000 of these to the New Testament Church. The workers seized them eagerly and scattered them quickly throughout the city.
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Comments About Azusa Street |
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Thursday, 30 August 2007 |
 by Rev. Curtis W. Bond BS. MA.
107 years ago on New Years Day 1901
a group of Bible students led by Charles Parham assembled in a house in Topeka Kansas. They were seeking an “Apostolic” experience—to speak in tongues as the Spirit of God gives the utterance—just like the apostles did on the day of Pentecost as recorded in Acts 2:4. On that first day of the new century, and for several days after, most of those assembled received the experience of speaking in other tongues as the Spirit of God gives the utterance. Some students left the Bible school and traveled to Houston Texas and Los Angeles California spreading the new message of “speaking in tongues is the evidence that the believer has received the infilling of the Holy Ghost” (in harmony with Acts 2:1-4). Five years later another group assembled in a rundown former AME—Methodist Church in downtown Los Angeles. |
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