White families from local holiness churches began to attend as well. Seymour and his small group of new followers soon relocated to the home of Richard and Ruth Asberry at 216 North Bonnie Brae Street. Lee, and he began to hold Bible studies and prayer meetings there. He was invited to stay in the home of congregation member Edward S. However, not all members of Hutchins' church rejected Seymour's preaching. Condemnation of his message also came from the Holiness Church Association of Southern California with which the church had affiliation. Elders of the church rejected Seymour's teaching, primarily because he had not yet experienced the blessing about which he was preaching. On the following Sunday, March 4, he returned to the church and found that Hutchins had padlocked the door. During his first sermon, he preached that speaking in tongues was the first biblical evidence of the inevitable infilling in the Holy Spirit. Seymour arrived in Los Angeles on February 22, 1906, and within two days was preaching at Julia Hutchins' church at the corner of Ninth Street and Santa Fe Avenue. Seymour received and accepted the invitation in February 1906, and he received financial help and a blessing from Parham for his planned one-month visit. Once home in California, Terry suggested that Seymour be invited to speak at the local church. While in Houston, she visited Seymour's church, where he preached on receiving the Holy Spirit with the evidence of speaking in other tongues, and though he had not experienced this personally, Terry was impressed with his character and message. Neely Terry, an African American woman who attended a small holiness church pastored by Julia Hutchins in Los Angeles, made a trip to visit family in Houston late in 1905. Seymour inherited from Parham the belief that baptism with the Holy Spirit was the third work of grace, following the new birth (first work of grace) and entire sanctification (second work of grace). Seymour, the one-eyed 34-year-old son of freed slaves, was a student of well-known Pentecostal preacher Charles Parham and an interim pastor for a small holiness church in Topeka, Kansas. Seymour, leader of the Azusa Street Revival Today, the revival is considered by historians to be the primary catalyst for the spread of Pentecostalism in the 20th century. The participants were criticized by some secular media and Christian theologians for behaviors considered to be outrageous and unorthodox, especially at the time. Frodsham, in his book, With Signs Following, quotes an eye-witness description of the scene: The revival was characterized by spiritual experiences accompanied with testimonies of physical healing miracles, worship services, and speaking in tongues. In this humble Azusa Street mission, a continuous three-year revival occurred and became known around the world. This building, originally built for an African Methodist Episcopal (AME) church, had more recently been used as a livery stable, storage building and tenement house. To further accommodate the crowds, an old dilapidated, two-story frame building at 312 Azusa Street in the industrial section of the city was secured.
The testimony of those who attended the Azusa Street Revival was "I am saved, sanctified, and filled with the Holy Ghost" in reference to the three works of grace of Holiness Pentecostals, the original branch of Pentecostalism. The news quickly spread the city was stirred crowds gathered and a few days later Seymour himself received the Holy Spirit services were moved outside to accommodate the crowds who came from all around people fell down under the power of God as they approached people were baptized in the Holy Spirit and the sick were healed and sinners received salvation.
On the night of April 9, 1906, Seymour and seven men were waiting on God on Bonnie Brae Street, "when suddenly, as though hit by a bolt of lightning, they were knocked from their chairs to the floor," and the other seven men began to speak in tongues and shout out loud praising God. The revival began on April 9, 1906, and continued until roughly 1915. The Azusa Street Revival was a historic revival meeting that took place in Los Angeles, California.
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