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“Oh, wretched man that I was! My life had become miserable, and I decided that my only hope lay in Christ; and to receive Him I would surrender my all.” –John C. Jernigan

“I guess you remember the little girl you prayed for at Brother Linwood Slay’s tent revival here in Alabama City, who had been sick for two years and five months. She was six years old and weighed only fifteen pounds. Well, Brother Walker, I just want to tell you and praise the Lord for He has really and truly healed her. She began to mend from that night on and now she weighs over thirty pounds and can pull up to a chair.” –Sister Mary Morgan

“Dear ones, I only feel humble and meek and am glad to know that I have victory, and rejoice because my name is written in heaven. Please pray that I continue in this highway of holiness and that my husband be filled with the Holy Ghost; also that my father will get saved.” — Mother Jessie L. Hayward

By the end of 1921, the words “Echo Park Revival Tabernacle” no longer stood for a fond but distant dream. The building was fast becoming a blessed and concrete reality, a solid base for the evangelistic work the Master had placed in my hands. How eager and anxious I was after another strenuous series of eastern campaigns and the transcontinental trip through snow and sleet to reach Los Angeles, where I lost no time speeding to the tabernacle site.

“I tell the folks everywhere I go that I am a cotton chopper and preacher,” Samuel W. Latimer wrote to readers of the Church of God Evangel in 1914. Brother Latimer had recently come into the Church of God and was serving as pastor in Spring Place, Georgia. His letter continued, “I’m asking God to help me more and more to get out and work for Him.”

The Nazi Party was so thoroughly organized, having spies left and right, that my better judgment told me that my religious activities would sooner or later be called into question. Herman Lauster