“I tell the folks everywhere I go that I am a cotton chopper and preacher,” Samuel W. Latimer wrote to readers of the Church of God Evangel in 1914. Brother Latimer had recently come into the Church of God and was serving as pastor in Spring Place, Georgia. His letter continued, “I’m asking God to help me more and more to get out and work for Him.”
The Nazi Party was so thoroughly organized, having spies left and right, that my better judgment told me that my religious activities would sooner or later be called into question. Herman Lauster
August 1946 brought eventful days to delegates meeting in Birmingham, Alabama, for the 41st General Assembly of the Church of God. Some of the excitement was likely because this was the first full meeting of ministers and members in several years. The war years had demanded travel restrictions, and the previous Assembly in 1945 was limited primarily to Bishops.
On entering the auditorium Sister Emma Barr was the first to dance upstairs. . . .
With the advantage of time, it is easy to see that the year 1929 was a watershed for youth ministry in the Church of God. On October 24, the General Assembly adopted a resolution establishing the Church of God Young People’s Endeavor(YPE) as a national youth organization.
In January, 1907, I became more fully awakened on the subject of receiving the Holy Ghost as He was poured out on the day of Pentecost. That whole year I ceased not to preach that it was our privilege to receive the Holy Ghost and speak in tongues as they did on the day of Pentecost. I did not have the experience, so I was almost always among the seekers at the altar. . . . By the close of the year I was so hungry for the Holy Ghost that I scarcely cared for food, friendship or anything else. I wanted the one thing—the Baptism with the Holy Ghost. –A.J. Tomlinson, The Last Great Conflict
