TY - JOUR
AU1 - Miller, Thomas William
AB -  5 The Canadian "Azusa": The Hebden Mission in Toronto Thomas William Miller* Enthusiastic proponents of Pentecostalism at the Apostolic Faith Mission in 1906 in Los Angeles referred to that city as "the American Jerusalem." A similar appellation could be given to the city of Toronto, Ontario, where a powerful visitation of God began late in the same year. For decades, Canadian Pentecostals have considered Robert E. McAlister, one of the founders of the Pentecostal Assemblies of Canada, to have been the first Canadian to have received the Baptism in the Spirit and spoken in tongues in the twentieth century. A careful examination of the documents, however, has revealed that the first person to have experienced this Baptism, accompanied by tongues-speaking, was Mrs. James (Ellen) Hebden. There remains one faint possibility that another Canadian had the Pentecostal experience at an earlier date, for John Loney, of Snowflake, Manitoba, wrote to William Seymour in 1906, " I am in sympathy with your work, am baptized with the Holy Ghost and fire, and have received the gift of some as yet unknown tongue or tongues. It first came two years ago, and is proving more distinct and real. Believe God is 
TI - The Canadian "Azusa": The Hebden Mission in Toronto
JF - Pneuma
DO - 10.1163/157007486X00020
DA - 1986-01-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/brill/the-canadian-azusa-the-hebden-mission-in-toronto-2OY3TfHtqB
SP - 5
EP - 29
VL - 8
IS - 1
DP - DeepDyve
ER -