EVANGELICAL WOMEN IN THE SECOND HALF OF 1800; LUCY FARROW P/12

                                                              Read Part One HERE

In this post I will contine to focus on a woman named Lucy Farrow. She lived from 1851 - 1922. After having this wonderful spiritual experience of Holy Spirit Baptism, Lucy returned to Texas to pastor once again. Here she told Seymour and her congregation about her experience. She would later introduce Seymour to Parham. It is through Lucy's and Parham's association with Seymour that Seymour came to a Pentecostal understanding of the baptism of the Holy Spirit. This teaching and experience would become a major feature of the Azusa Revival.

Lucy was fifty-six when she came to Azusa. While there, she laid hands on many, praying for them, and they would receive the same experience of Spirit baptism. At Azusa she did much teaching as well.

Lucy did not stay at Azusa indefinitely. She ministered throughout America, holding meetings in Louisiana, North Carolina, Virginia, New York, and even in England. In Texas she worked with Parham's ministry one again. Lucy continued to lay hands on people and see them come into the experience of he baptism in the Holy Spirit. An early skeptic named Howard Goss heard Lucy speak at Azusa and became convinced of the experience. Later, as he saw Lucy ministering to others and they experienced this baptism, he said that "his heart became hungry again for another manifestation of Gd... So I went forward that she might place her hands upon me. When she did, the Spirit of God again struck me like a bolt of lightning; the power of God surged through my body, and I again began speaking in tongues."

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