Evan Roberts' poem expresses a desire to be filled with the Holy Spirit to overcome fear and empower bold speaking to attract souls to Christ. Charles Fox Parham described how Agnes Ozman began speaking in tongues after he prayed for her, unable to speak English for three days. Frank Bartleman reported on the inclusive and spiritually sensitive early meetings at Azusa Street, where people sought God at all hours under the Spirit's power. William Seymour emphasized measuring all experiences against Scripture.
Evan Roberts' poem expresses a desire to be filled with the Holy Spirit to overcome fear and empower bold speaking to attract souls to Christ. Charles Fox Parham described how Agnes Ozman began speaking in tongues after he prayed for her, unable to speak English for three days. Frank Bartleman reported on the inclusive and spiritually sensitive early meetings at Azusa Street, where people sought God at all hours under the Spirit's power. William Seymour emphasized measuring all experiences against Scripture.
Evan Roberts' poem expresses a desire to be filled with the Holy Spirit to overcome fear and empower bold speaking to attract souls to Christ. Charles Fox Parham described how Agnes Ozman began speaking in tongues after he prayed for her, unable to speak English for three days. Frank Bartleman reported on the inclusive and spiritually sensitive early meetings at Azusa Street, where people sought God at all hours under the Spirit's power. William Seymour emphasized measuring all experiences against Scripture.
Evan Roberts' poem expresses a desire to be filled with the Holy Spirit to overcome fear and empower bold speaking to attract souls to Christ. Charles Fox Parham described how Agnes Ozman began speaking in tongues after he prayed for her, unable to speak English for three days. Frank Bartleman reported on the inclusive and spiritually sensitive early meetings at Azusa Street, where people sought God at all hours under the Spirit's power. William Seymour emphasized measuring all experiences against Scripture.
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Whispers of the Divine Wind
Sound Bites from Those the Holy Spirit Used Over the Centuries (Session 9) A poem by Evan Roberts (1878 1951) of Wales: Send the Spirit, blessed Jesus Into every waiting heart. Lest the fear of man oppress us, Thine own strength, O Lord, impart. May we speak Thy words for ever; Grant us eloquence and grace, To attract souls without number, Now, to see Thy smiling face.
Charles Fox Parham, recalling what happened with Agnes Ozman in the early
hours of January 1, 1901: I laid my hands upon her and prayed. I had scarcely repeated three dozen sentences when a glory fell upon her, a halo seemed to surround her head and face, and she began speaking the Chinese language and was unable to speak English for three days. When she tried to write in English to tell us her experience, she wrote in Chinese, copies of which we still have in newspapers printed at the time.
Frank Bartlemans report of the early Azusa Street meetings (1906):
Soon the meetings were running day and night. The place was packed out nightly. There were far more white people than colored coming. The color line was washed away in the blood [of Christ]. The Spirit was very sensitive, tender as a dove. We knew the moment we had grieved the Spirit, by an unkind thought or word. The Lord fought our battles for us in those days. We had a tarrying room upstairs, for those especially seeking God for the baptism, though many got it in the main assembly room also. On the wall of the tarrying room was hung a placard with the words, No talking above a whisper. We knew nothing of jazzing them through at that time. The Spirit wrought very deeply. An unquiet spirit, or a thoughtless talker, was immediately reproved by the Spirit. We were on holy ground. Brother Seymour generally sat behind two empty shoe boxes [actually, crates], one on top of the other. He usually kept his head inside the top one during the meeting, in prayer. There was no pride there. The services ran almost continuously. Seeking souls could be found under the power almost any hour, night and day. The place was never closed or empty. The people came to meet God.
William J. Seymour, writing in The Apostolic Faith newspaper (Sept. 1907):
We are measuring everything by the Word, every experience must measure up with the Bible. Some say that is going too far [i.e., being too restrictive], but if we have lived too close to the Word, we will settle that with the Lord when we meet Him in the air.
