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Azua i treet Digitized by the Internet Archive 2010 in http://www.archive.org/details/azusastreetOObart i MK G3 9f/i;ik^iP^ Unlessotherwiseindicated, all Scripturequotationsare fromtheKing James VersionoftheHolyBible. Scripturequotationsmarked(rsv)are fromtheRevisedStandard Version CommonBible© 1973,bytheDivisionofChristianEducationofthe National Council ofChurchesofChristintheU.S.A.Usedby permission. AZUSA STREET ISBN: 0-88368-638-4 PrintedintheUnited StatesofAmerica Copyright© 1982 byWhitakerHouse WhitakerHouse 30 HuntValleyCircle NewKensington, PA 15068 LibraryofCongress Cataloging-in-PublicationData Bartleman, Frank, 1871-1935. [Anotherwaverollsin] AzusaStreet/byFrank Bartleman. p. cm. Originallypublished: Anotherwaverollsin. Northridge, Calif : Voice Christian Publications, 1962. ISBN 0-88368-638-4 1. Bartleman, Frank, 1871-19—35.2. Pentecos—tals—Uni—tedStates- Biography. —3. Pentecost—alism United—States H—istory 20thcentury. 4. Revivals California LosAngeles History 20thcentury. 5. Los Angeles(Calif)—Churchhistory—20thcentury. 1. Title. BX8762.Z8 B37 2000 289.9'4'092—dc21 00-010960 No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or by any information storage and retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publisher. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 / 07 06 05 04 03 02 01 00 Conteets Beginnings 7 1. 2. Fire Falls atAzusa 39 3. DeeperYet 69 4. Traveling Ministry 101 5. TheWave Continues 117 6. The Deeper Significance ofPentecost 129 Special Epilogue: Revival and Recovery 147 About the Author 169 Chapter 1 esfimimi arrivedjn Los Angeles, California^^^vJthjnyjvife I arid two young daugiite^rs^,^ffr^ecember 22, 1904. Little Esther, ouFoldestjchild, tfiree years oldj_was seized with convulsions_an4p_assed_away to be with ^Jesus_on_January 7. at 4_A.M^Little "Queen Esther^ seemed to have been born "for such-a=t=im=e=as this" ClEsther4:14). ^ ^Beside that little rnffin with heart bleeding^ . ^^gledgedmylife anewfor God's service. Inthe presence of death, how real etern^Jssues become. I promised ^e rest ofmyjife should be spent wholly for Him. He m .made a fresh covenant with e. I then begged Him to open a door ofservice quickly, so that I might not find 4ime for sorrow. ^Just one week after little Esthe£s-d£parture^Ibe- ganpreaching twice a day at the Peniel Mission in m Pasadena^-Miile souls were saved during the onth's Azusa Street QieetingsJiL-Eeniel Mission,Jhe.greatest victory gained was the spiritual growth of a company of young men ^attending there. A number were cajledoutby the Lord -iorfuture service. On April 8. I heard F. B. Meyer, from London, preach. He describedjhe great revival then going on in Wales, which he had ust \isited. He had met E^ah j Roberts. Mysoulw^stirred to its depths, having read of thirTevival shortly before. I then and there prom- ised God He should have full right of^ayjvvith rne^ He could use me. X/I^strib^^^^^ ^^f]^^'' i^i thp post offTce^banks. and^ public buildings in Los_Angeles and also took tracts to many s?^loons. Later I visited about thirty saloons Tii Lq5_Angeles again. The houses of^pipstitution were wide open at that time, and J gave, out man\- tracts there. ^Little Esther's death had broken my heart, and I^ felt I could live only while in God's service. I longedjo ^now Him in a more real way and to see^the workof ^od go forth in"nnwer. A great hurden and cry came in jny_hearLforAJBisllt}LreyiyaLJ^ preparing me .forj;enewed service for Him. This could be brought about only bv the realization of a deeper need in my own heartJoLGod, and a real soul travail for the work ofGodTThis He gave me. Many were being similarly pj;epar,ed-atjthis_tinie-in different parts of the world. The Lord was preparin^o visit and deliver His people once more. Intercessors were the need. "He... . jbuondered that there jvas^ no intercessgr^jls^iah. 59:16). "Isouahtfor a man...[to] stand in the gap be-

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