The crowds that had mourned her loss prepared a lavish welcome home. On Saturday, June 26, , lined the route from the train station to Angelus Temple, cheering and wishing Sister well. Some law enforcement officials challenged her kidnapping story, but the Los Angeles district attorney acknowledged that he had no case against McPherson.
When the focus finally shifted away from the "scandal" in January, Sister immediately set out on a national evangelistic tour.
Her support base remained strong, but press coverage changed. The months of innuendo left a legacy of unanswered questions that took a toll on her popularity. Yet her ministry continued. During the depression, the Angelus Temple's Commissary provided food, clothing, and other necessities to needy families—no questions asked.
In the s, McPherson began barnstorming again, and in September , she addressed 10, people in the Oakland Auditorium. She died the next day of kidney failure and the effects of the mixture of prescription drugs she had been taking.
McPherson's funeral took place on her fifty-fourth birthday, October 9, Though her popularity had shrunk significantly since the s, 50, people filed past her coffin.
Her lasting legacy is the denomination she founded, the International Church of the Foursquare Gospel, with some 2 million members in nearly 30, churches worldwide. Sections Home. Bible Coronavirus Prayer. Subscribe Member Benefits Give a Gift. Subscribers receive full access to the archives. Colleen Langlands Mary Magdalene, as seen in John 20, verse After Mary M meets the risen Christ at the tomb, she runs to the disciples and shares the good news, not only becoming the first woman, but the first evangelist period of the gospel.
Matthew the Evangelist, the author of the first gospel account, is symbolized by a winged man, or angel. The Foursquare Church expects Spirit baptism to be received in the same manner as recorded in the Book of Acts, namely that the believer will receive spiritual gifts, possibly though not necessarily including speaking in tongues.
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After the birth of Roberta Star, she returned home and continued her Pentecostal work. She also worked with her mother for the Salvation Army. Semple married a New York grocery clerk, Harold S. McPherson, in ; this marriage ended in divorce five years later.
Thereafter she set out as an untrained lay evangelist to preach a Pentecostal-type of revivalism a religious practice focused on restoring the spirit of God into people to the people of Ontario, Canada. Physically attractive and possessing a dynamic personality and the instinctive ability to charm crowds, Aimee Semple McPherson gradually perfected her skills. By this time professional revivalism had achieved a distinctive style and organization; McPherson was in the forefront.
Though she initially lived an almost hand-to-mouth existence, following the route of traveling evangelists from Maine to Florida, success meant a move to larger cities in America, England, and Australia.
In the cities audiences were often immense, with ten thousand to fifteen thousand people deliriously applauding her. Pentecostals believe that the sounds made by people while "speaking in tongues" are biblical messages that can be interpreted by another worshipper. In she and her followers dedicated Angelus Temple. She called her new breed of Christian church the Foursquare Gospel, a complete gospel for body, soul, spirit, and eternity. Seating over five thousand people, this served as her center of activity.
For newcomers, Sister McPherson and her church, later named the Church of the Foursquare Gospel, offered something more extraordinary than the usual Sunday sermon.
Eventually, she and her Angelus Temple became an L. Enter the Fray: First takes on the news of the minute from L. Times Opinion ». Her flamboyant preaching style provoked plenty of scorn from mainstream clergy. Her worst break with the community came in , when she faced fraud charges on suspicion of concocting a false kidnapping story to cover up an unexplained six-week disappearance.
Some said she was having a secret affair with the engineer of her popular radio programs. Nothing was ever proved, and the district attorney eventually dropped the case insisting that she was guilty but not convictable. There were even rumors that she and her church had bribed the prosecutor. But her persistent good works in later years went a long way toward redeeming her reputation in the eyes of many Angelenos, some of whom loved her so much that they could forgive her anything.
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