EVANGELICAL WOMEN IN THE SECOND HALF OF 1800; ALICE BELL GARRIGUS P/29

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In this post I will continue my story on a woman named Alice Bell Garrigus. She lived from 1858 - 1949. Alice and her friend Gertrude joined the Congregational Church. Gertrude later went to Africa as a missionary and died there. About 1891, Alice gave up her teaching profession to work in a home for destitute children and women.

She next moved to Rumney, New Hampshire, where she came into contact with the First Fruit Harvesters Association, a small evangelical denomination focused on the evangelisation of New England. Alice served as an itinerant preacher with the First Fruit Harvesters between 1897 and 1903.

In 1907, at a Christian and Missionary Alliance camp meeting, she met Frank Bartleman, a veteran of the Azusa Street revival and an unofficial chronicler of the Pentecostal movement. Bartleman "stood for hours," wrote Alice, "telling us of the deeper things of God." After he left the camp meeting, Alice, Minnie Draper and others met in an old barn to pray, and there Alice received the baptism in the Holy Spirit. She continued preaching at Rumney and Grafton, Massachusetts, and other places, but began feeling impressed to found a mission in St. John's, Newfoundland,

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