Anna Hall

Anna Hall was one of Charles Parham's followers in Houston. As the revival grew in Los Angeles thruough the Summer of 1906, Parham sent Hall and others to oversee or investigate the work.

At Azusa, she reported a dream she had had while in Houston, "A few weeks ago, as we were in our camp meeting, the first night we called our altar service there were 100 at the altar seeking God, and a strange power came into my being that I had felt once before when God wanted to reveal something to me. I have learned that it pays to be quiet before the Lord. I went home to my daughter's house and prepared for bed. Just as the gray dawn began to appear, I waked as if someone had touched my shoulder, and felt the same power. I heard the beautiful warbling of a bird, and thought it was a mocking bird which one might hear there. But no, it seemed away down in my soul. And as that beautiful bird began to sing, I saw a little infant face right before my eyes. And as the song of the bird began to ripple, it began to sound like water running over pebbles. It increased till it sounded like many waters, and the face enlarged till it was a full grown face. I said, 'Surely this is a messenger from the holy country.' The voice answered. 'Yes and I have come to tell you that Jesus is coming. Go forward in My name, preach the Gospel of the Kingdom, for the King's business demands haste. My people have only time to get on the beautiful garments, and prepare for the wedding supper in the Heavens.' Dear ones, have you got on the beautiful robes of righteousness? I said, 'Lord, reveal unto me what this means, the singing of the bird and rippling of the waters.' And God spoke to me, 'The singing of the beautiful bird and the baby face was the proclamation of the first coming into the world; and the voice of many waters is the proclamation of Jesus Christ that is soon coming.'"

Hall spoke at a Russian church in Los Angeles and was able through the gift of tongues to speak to the Russians in their own language (Apostolic Faith September 1906).

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