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How the Black Church Embraces Tragic History and the Fervor of Faith


How the Black Church Embraces Tragic History and the Fervor of Faith
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“It was out in the country, far from home, far from my foster home, on a dark Sunday night. The road wandered from our rambling log‑house up the stony bed of a creek, past wheat and corn, until we could hear dimly across the fields a rhythmic cadence of song, soft, thrilling, powerful, that swelled and died sorrowfully in our ears. I was a country schoolteacher then, fresh from the East, and had never seen a Southern Negro revival. To be sure, we in Berkshire were not perhaps as stiff and formal as they in Suffolk of olden time; yet we were very quiet and subdued, and I know not what would have happened those clear Sabbath mornings had some one punctuated the sermon with a wild scream, or interrupted the long prayer with a loud Amen! And so most striking to me, as I approached the village and the little plain church perched aloft, w ....

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Black History Month Spotlight: Rev. William Joseph Seymour, Mastermind Behind a Religious Movement
In 1906, the charismatic preacher William Joseph Seymour (1870-1922), son of formerly enslaved parents in Louisiana, claimed a prayer meeting he was leading at 216 North Bonnie Brae Street was visited by a “move of the holy spirit.” More and more Angelenos joined the meeting and, following Seymour’s lead, began speaking in tongues. “They shouted three days and three nights. It was Easter season. The people came from everywhere,” a neighbor recalled. “By the next morning there was no way of getting near the house. As people came in they would fall under God’s power; and the whole city was stirred. They shouted until the foundation of the house gave way, but no one was hurt.” ....

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