IPHC Historic Timeline Centennial Notes

Centennial Notes

By Dr. Harold Hunter

Year: 1907
Sent by the PHC, Tom McIntosh may have been the first Pentecostal missionary to reach China.

Tom J. McIntosh was baptized in the Holy Ghost and spoke in tongues as the Spirit gave evidence in 1907. Before the end of the year he went to China to spread the gospel message with some financial support from the Pentecostal Holiness Church. He also spent time in Jerusalem before returning to the states and publishing a book in 1909 entitled The Life and Trip of T.J. McIntosh and Wife and Little Girl, Around the World. By the end of 1909, he and his wife were in Hong Kong. They worked together there with the A.G. Garrs, Azusa St. veterans. ⁽⁷¹⁾

J.H. King met up with McIntosh when he visited Hong Kong in 1910, but it was the Garrs— who had worked at the Oliver Gospel Mission and who joined the North Carolina PH Conference during the 1910's—who were instrumental in getting King to visit China and India. ⁽⁷²⁾ Already in Hong Kong was Miss E. May Law who was on hand from 1908 through 1914 joining the PHC in 1910. ⁽⁷³⁾ Also in Hong Kong from 1910-1913 for the Fire-Baptized Holiness Church was Mrs. Addell Harrison and her daughter Golden along with Almyra Aston ⁽⁷⁴⁾ in addition to Miss Ollie Maw, ⁽⁷⁵⁾ PHC member, who served from 1912-1915.

It is not possible to mention Hong Kong without noting the incredible accomplishments of Miss Anna M. Dean who arrived in Hong Kong in 1909. She organized a mission station later that year which exists today as the most profitable IPHC mission of its kind. Miss Dean, who remained in Hong Kong until her death in 1918, was joined in 1912 by her niece, Miss Anna Dean Cole who stayed until 1951. ⁽⁷⁶⁾ Miss Jane Schermerhorn arrived in 1914. They were joined by the W.F. Turners in 1919.

Rev. A.B. Garr and his wife recommended that King should visit Pentecostal mission sites around the world. King left the Falcon Holiness School in January 1910 and got confirmation of his world mission tour while at Texas Holiness University. He wrote in The Bridegroom’s Messenger:

God clearly and miraculously opened the way for me to go with Brother Britton to Greenville, Texas. ... While there God gave me a message in tongues and the full interpretation to the effect that I should leave, or begin to make preparation to leave in the spring. ⁽⁷⁷⁾

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Centennial Notes

Year: 1907
Sent by the PHC, Tom McIntosh may have been the first Pentecostal missionary to reach China.

Tom J. McIntosh was baptized in the Holy Ghost and spoke in tongues as the Spirit gave evidence in 1907. Before the end of the year he went to China to spread the gospel message with some financial support from the Pentecostal Holiness Church. He also spent time in Jerusalem before returning to the states and publishing a book in 1909 entitled The Life and Trip of T.J. McIntosh and Wife and Little Girl, Around the World. By the end of 1909, he and his wife were in Hong Kong. They worked together there with the A.G. Garrs, Azusa St. veterans. ⁽⁷¹⁾

J.H. King met up with McIntosh when he visited Hong Kong in 1910, but it was the Garrs— who had worked at the Oliver Gospel Mission and who joined the North Carolina PH Conference during the 1910's—who were instrumental in getting King to visit China and India. ⁽⁷²⁾ Already in Hong Kong was Miss E. May Law who was on hand from 1908 through 1914 joining the PHC in 1910. ⁽⁷³⁾ Also in Hong Kong from 1910-1913 for the Fire-Baptized Holiness Church was Mrs. Addell Harrison and her daughter Golden along with Almyra Aston ⁽⁷⁴⁾ in addition to Miss Ollie Maw, ⁽⁷⁵⁾ PHC member, who served from 1912-1915.

It is not possible to mention Hong Kong without noting the incredible accomplishments of Miss Anna M. Dean who arrived in Hong Kong in 1909. She organized a mission station later that year which exists today as the most profitable IPHC mission of its kind. Miss Dean, who remained in Hong Kong until her death in 1918, was joined in 1912 by her niece, Miss Anna Dean Cole who stayed until 1951. ⁽⁷⁶⁾ Miss Jane Schermerhorn arrived in 1914. They were joined by the W.F. Turners in 1919.

Rev. A.B. Garr and his wife recommended that King should visit Pentecostal mission sites around the world. King left the Falcon Holiness School in January 1910 and got confirmation of his world mission tour while at Texas Holiness University. He wrote in The Bridegroom’s Messenger:

God clearly and miraculously opened the way for me to go with Brother Britton to Greenville, Texas. ... While there God gave me a message in tongues and the full interpretation to the effect that I should leave, or begin to make preparation to leave in the spring. ⁽⁷⁷⁾