Who was Harry Morse ?

[Scott Pitta]

5/6/1923 (Stockton Independent, p. 16) An enthusiastic audience listener to Rev. Tatman Friday night in the big tent on California street, as ho spoke on the Christian’s need of the Holy Ghost baptism. Mr. Tatman has been with the Pentecostal movement from tho beginning when seventeen years ago in a mission on Azusa street, Los Angeles, the signs that Jesus said would follow the believers first began to be known In this generation. Jesus said, “These signs shall follow those that believe, they shall cast out devils, they shall speak with new tongues’’ Mk. 16:17. In his own vivid language he thundered, “Men came from all over the world to stop it. Long coat tailed preachers, and short coat tailed preachers, and high hat preachers, and preachers of all sorts looked on, and when they could not stop It they started to ridicule by calling us holy rollers, but we fooled them all and rolled right over all opposition. Then they said leave it alone and it will soon blow over. This time they were right for the thing has blown over all the world. This movement is of God, for it is God’s enduement of power to His believing children that they might witness of His might with signs and wonders following.” The speaker was tremendously in earnest and thrilled his audience again and again with unexpected sallies and sudden postures. He must be seen as well as heard and though this is only his second night here, already a large following of people have been attracted I to him and men are saying we | never heard it on this wise before. His subject for tonight is, “The Signs of the Times.”

[Scott Pitta]

I do not often find early Pentecostals who made reference to their Azusa street experience. Here is one example of a friend of Harry Morse who did.

It is also the only evidence that I have that connects Tatman with Azusa. Documenting who was at Azusa street is very difficult to do.

[Scott Pitta]

Aimee McPherson preached and toured in cities in California promoting healing. To a certain extent, she was a celebrity.

Others followed in her wake like Mattie Crawford and others.

Mattie Crawford preached all over the USA and was considered by some to be Oneness. But I see little doctrine in her presentation, other than healing.

2 questions: What impact did Aimee McPherson have on introducing Pentecostalism to mainstream America ? What impact did Mattie Crawford have on Oneness Pentecostalism ??

[Scott Pitta]

George Farrow penned a famous hymn, It's All in Him. But it was not the only time he penned some prose.

Here are a pair of poems he penned around the same time he wrote his famous hymn.
It was a general mixup I was in the other night,
Although 'twas not an-angry mob or rough-and-tumble fight.
And ladies, too, as well as men, were mixed up in the fray,
And were jostled here and yonder in the rough-and-tumble way.
There were laboring men with hardened hands and girls from shop and store,
And those whose locks were white with age whose laboring days were o'er.
But all took part and bumped and pushed and stumped each other's feet,
Till a bunch of football players would have found 'them hard to beat.
But this was not a free-for-all l’d have you understand,
For each must pay their little coin before they took a hand.
Oh no! 'twas not an angry mob of ruffians not by far,
'Twas just the usual evening crowd upon my homebound car.

and....

Garden Recreation

When the rainy days are ceasing and the sunny days increasing,
And the voice of lark and robin once again are heard.
When the willow buds are swelling,
The approach of spring fortelling
And all nature seems with animation sliced.
Then my muscles gel to twitching
And my fingers get to itching
And the things of shop and office seem to be of little worth.
For Im sick with garden fever and I'd be a base deceiver
Should I say I'm not in tune with mother-earth.
Some with found anticipation
Others seek diversion in a motor car or yacht.
Some ransack the nation
In their search for recreation .
But mine is waiting for me in my garden spot.
Here I find sweet relaxation
Rest from daily occupation,
time for quiet meditation
Business problems all forgot

[Nicodemus1968]

Scott, its like your having a conversation by your self.

[Scott Pitta]

When I run into something unique, I post it here. Data continues to come in about preWW2 Oneness Pentecostalism in California. But I do not post it all here.

It is sorta like working on a huge puzzle and finding where small pieces fit in.

I never did find old Gospel Tidings magazines from the 1945-1960's. Hopefully they will show up.

I figure there are more readers to the post that posters.

[Scott Pitta]

Updated list of books related to early Pentecost:

Adams, Carl, Born With a Mission

Ballsestro, Carl, How High my Mountain

Bangs, Carl, Phineas Bresee
Bartleman, Frank, Deity of Christ
Batchelder, Frank, Meat in Due Season, 1938, 1946 and 1952

Blumhofer,Edith, Aimee Semple McPherson
Blumhofer, Edith, Assemblies of God, Vol 1
Buffum, Lillie, Lilies from the Valley
Buffum, Herbert, Buffum Special number 2
Buffum, Herbert, Melodies of Treasure
Buffum, Herbert, Buffum Songs Special 1930

Burgess, Stanley, Dictionary of Pentecostal and Charismatic Movements
Cagle, Paul, The Curtain of Time

Calvary Temple, Calvary Temple Celebrating 90 years
Carrier, Steven, A Man and a Woman Passed This Way Blessed of God
Clanton, Arthur, United We Stand

Clibborn, William Booth, Baptism in the Holy Spirit
Conquerors Bible College, Ensign 1978

Craig, Glen, From Crutches to Wings

Crawford, Mattie, The Pentecostal Flame
Crayne, Richard, Pentecostal Handbook

Dayton, Donald, Theological Roots of Pentecostalism

Elder, Glen, Children of the Great Depression
Epstein, Daniel, Sister Aimee

Espinosa, Gaston, William J. Seymour
Ewart, Frank, Jesus the Man and the Mystery
Ewart, Frank, The Name and the Book
Ewart, Frank, Phenomenon of Pentecost

Fudge, Thomas, Christianity Without the Cross
Fudge, Thomas, C.H. Yadon
Fudge, Thomas, Heretics and Politics

French, Talmadge, Early Interracial Oneness Pentecostalism
French, Talmadge, Our God is One

Frodsham, Stanley, With Sign Following
Gardiner, Gordon, Out of Zion into all the World

Goss, Ethel, the Winds of God
Gray, David, Questions Pentecostals Ask

Grubb, Norman, C. T. Studd
Gurley, A.D., Apostolic Herald, November 1936

Hall, J. L., Restoring the Apostolic Faith
Haney, Clyde, Prophetic Research

Haney, Olive, Man of the Hills
Haney, Kenneth (no name listed) Labor of Love

Harris, Theo, Pentecostal Revivalist
Hathaway, Evelyn, Hallelujah Chariot
Haywood, G.T., Christian Outlook magazine 1923 and 1924.

Hunter, Jane, Gospel of Gentility
Idaho HIstorical Society, Directory of Churches and Religious Organizations in Idaho 1940

Jarnagin, Bernice, When the Gospel Came to Superior

Liardon, Roberts, Frank Bartleman’s Azusa Street

Liardon, Roberts, Maria Woodworth Etter Complete collection
Loudermilk, Mary, A Willing Heart Life and Missionary Work of Lucile Farmer
Lindquist, Truth About Trinity 1940

McPherson, Aimee, Sermons and Personal Testimony of Aimee McPherson

Manley, William, Galaxy of Coming Events
Martin, Larry, Doctrines and Discipline of the Apostolic Faith Mission
Martin, Larry, In the Beginning

Martin, Larry, The True Believers Part 2


Martin, Larry, We’ve Come This Far by Faith
Martin, Ruby, Panoramic View of the Bible

Miller, Thomas, Canadian Pentecostals

Ong, Connie, Letta in China
Price, Charles, Golden Grain Mantle of Elijah
Price, Charles, Golden Grain, Is Jesus in the Atonement ?
Price, Charles, Golden Grain, On to Victory
Price, Charles, Golden Grain, Rebekah at the Well

Price, Charles, Golden Grain, Shepherds False and True

Price, Charles, Golden Grain, Tacoma Victory Number
Price, Charles, Golden Grain, This is That

Price, Charles, Golden Grain, Transfiguration

Price, Charles, Golden Grain, the Two Sauls
Price, Charles, Story of My LIfe

Reed, David, In Jesus Name
Russell, Jesse, Peniel Missionary Society

Scism, Ellis, Northwest Passage
Scott R. J. 1913 Songbook for Arroyo Seco Campmeeting

Search for Truth, Truth versus Tradition
Studd, George, diary 1908

Sutton Matthew, Aimee McPherson
Tatman, M. R. Personal paers, Why I left the Mission, 12 Loaves of Fishes

Thompson, Steve, 20th Century Apostle Alfred Garr

Tramble, Thomas and Wilma, The Pullman Porters and West Oakland

Tyson, James, Early Pentecostal Revival
Tyson, James, Earnest Contenders for the Faith

Urshan, Andrew, Life of Andrew BarDavid Urshan
Utley, Uldine, Petals from the Rose of Sharon

Wallace, Mary, Old Time Preacher Men

Wallace, Mary, Pioneer Pentecostal Women Vol 1
Wallace, Mary, Pioneer Pentecostal Women vol 2
Wallace, Mary, Profiles in Pentecostal Preachers
Wallace, Mary, Profiles of Pentecostal Preachers vol 2

Wallace, Mary, Profiles of Pentecostal Missionaries
Wegner, Linda, Streams of Grace

Western Apostolic Bible College, 1957 yearbook

Western District. Our Heritage
Wiens, Grace Yadon, Unto You and to Your Children

Wilmington Group Publishers, Life and Sermons of William Seymour

Woodworth Etter, Maria, Holy Ghost Sermons
Woodworth Etter, Maria, Signs and Wonders
Yadon, C. Haskell, Jehovah Jesus

[hometown guy]

Originally Posted by Nicodemus1968

Scott, its like your having a conversation by your self.

[Scott Pitta]

It is a place where I leave data others might find interesting. I also post things here in the hope it will generate insight from other.

Which early Oneness Pentecostal books are not on this list that I need ?

The Gospel Tidings began publication in 1942. But I cannot find anyone who has them. The Western District does not have them, nor does Christian Life College library. Perhaps Hazelwood has them, but their archive moved to UGTS and they are not as of yet open to the public.

[Tithesmeister]

Originally Posted by Scott Pitta

I do not often find early Pentecostals who made reference to their Azusa street experience. Here is one example of a friend of Harry Morse who did.

It is also the only evidence that I have that connects Tatman with Azusa. Documenting who was at Azusa street is very difficult to do.

Have you run across a reference to Andrew Urshan being at Azusa Street?