The Apostolic Faith (Los Angeles)
The newspaper of the Azusa Street mission in Los Angeles, issued free from September 1906. It is the mission’s own account, written within months, of how the revival began, what it taught and who came.
Read the text at apostolicfaith.org ↗Scan of vol. 1 no. 1, September 1906 (Flower Pentecostal Heritage Center, archived copy) ↗Searchable transcription of vol. 1 no. 1 (Azusa Books) ↗
The paper was published by “the Apostolic Faith Movement of Los Angeles” from the mission’s address at 312 Azusa Street. Thirteen numbers appeared in Los Angeles between September 1906 and May 1908. Most articles are unsigned; some carry the name of William Seymour, the mission’s pastor. It printed doctrinal statements, sermons, testimonies of conversion and healing, and letters from people who had carried the message to other cities and countries.
It is the voice of the mission and reports what its members believed was happening, including healings and the speaking of foreign languages by people who had not learned them. It gives the date on which the mission held that the revival began, 9 April 1906, describes the building, and records who took part. It is cited in the Azusa Street Revival for those things and for the mission’s own teaching.
Cited in
- 9 April 1906, firm date