Aimee Semple McPherson

Short Name: Aimee Semple McPherson
Full Name: McPherson, Aimee Semple, 1890-1944
Birth Year: 1890
Death Year: 1944

McPherson, Aimee Elizabeth Kennedy Semple. (Ingersoll, Ontario, Canada, October 9, 1890--September 26, 1944, Oakland, California). Foursquare. With no formal education beyond high school this remarkable and controversial woman founded the International Church of the Foursquare Gospel denomination. Pentacostalist missionary to China, 1917; itinerant Pentacostalist preacher in U.S. 1918-1923; pastor of Angelus Temple (Foursquare), Los Angeles, Calif. 1923-1944. Author of books on the Foursquare Church and composer of five oratorios. Evangelistic zeal is evident in her many published hymns. Full length biographical studies:

Thomas, Lately. (1970). Storming heaven : the lives and turmoils of Minnie Kennedy and Aimee Semple McPherson. New York: William Morrow & Co.

McPherson, Aimee Semple. (1973). The Story of My Life. Waco, Tex.: Word Books.

--Terry W. York, DNAH Archives

Letter to the editor from daughter Roberta Semple Salter describes the drive from New York to Los Angeles in 1918. (Smithsonian, November 1980). DNAH Archives


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Texts by Aimee Semple McPherson (69)AsAuthority LanguagesInstancessort descending
Death shall be swallow'd in victoryAimee Semple McPherson (Author)2
It's raining, it's rainingAimee Semple McPherson (Author)2
La Palabra predicad, del Libro de DiosAimee Semple McPherson (Author)Spanish2
Merciful and gracious, Long suff'ringAimee Semple McPherson (Author)2
On Carmel's mount Elijah kneeledAimee Semple McPherson (Author)2
On the mountain of GodAimee Semple McPherson (Author)2
Pass the joyful news alongAimee Semple McPherson (Author)2
Pitchers, Pitchers, Here bring your empty pitchersAimee Semple McPherson (Author)2
See yonder sun how fast he runAimee Semple McPherson (Author)2
We will go with our young and with our oldAimee Semple McPherson (Author)2
When God looked on the ancient worldAimee Semple McPherson (Author)2
When I read the story in Acts 2 and 4Aimee Semple McPherson (Author)2
With the scarlet thread of redemptionAimee Semple McPherson (Author)2
All o'er the earth men are sighingA. S. M. (Author)3
Arise, ye sons of men, ariseAimee Semple McPherson (Author)3
Cast ye your crowns at the blest Savior's feetA. S. M. (Author)3
Christ led the way to CalvaryAimee Semple McPherson (Author)3
Christ the light of the agesA. S. M. (Author)3
Come, now, ye weary and halt and blindAimee Semple McPherson (Author)3
Crowns are made in cruciblesA. S. M. (Author)3
Forth to the battle, we marchA. S. M. (Author)3
From the crossroads of life there leadsA. S. M. (Author)3
Have you found a friend in Christ the KingA. S. M. (Author)3
Hold the foursquare fortress firm 'tis the testing dayAimee Semple McPherson (Author)3
I claim the promiseAimee Semple McPherson (Author)3
I plead thy blood, O ChristA. S. M. (Author)3
I'm sailing o'er the sea of lifeA. S. M. (Author)3
I've found the key to ParadiseAimee Semple McPherson (Author)3
Life's first years pass awayA. S. M. (Author)3
Lord Jesus, thy name is sweet in my earsA. S. M. (Author)3
Lost was my soul on sin's mountainA. S. M. (Author)3
Not all the efforts of our handsA. S. M. (Author)3
O, cross of Christ, and can it beA. M. S. (Author)3
O is there no balm in Gilead (McPherson)A. S. M. (Author)3
O man, thou'st time for pleasureAimee Semple McPherson (Author)3
O mighty God upon us pourAimee Semple McPherson (Author)3
O precious Babe of BethlehemA. S. M. (Author)3
O that it might be no moreA. S. M. (Author)3
Once came the little childrenAimee Semple McPherson (Author)3
Once I knew a little boyAimee Semple McPherson (Author)3
Sing winds a lullabyA. S. M. (Author)3
So far as the east is from the westA. S. M. (Author)3
Some folks believe that when men once trustA. S. M. (Author)3
Speak thou, O Lord, thy servant will obeyA. S. M. (Author)3
The blood of my Savior, by faith I now seeAimee Semple McPherson (Author)3
The world is filled with sorrow. Its heart is filled with painA. S. M. (Author)3
There came to this earth, in the dear, long agoAimee Semple McPherson (Author)3
To thy tents, to thy tents, O Isr'lAimee Semple McPherson (Author)3
When I go home to heavenA. S. M. (Author)3
When Naaman the leper came of oldAimee Semple McPherson (Author)3
When on the green banks of old Jordan's streamA. S. M. (Author)3
When our God thunders the hills and mountainsA. S. M. (Author)3
When the weary and the lameA. S. M. (Author)3
Who's that lying in the manger lowA. S. M. (Author)3
Holy and righteous Father humbly we come to theeA. S. M. (Author)4
I have found a charmed circleAimee Semple McPherson (Author)4
In a quiet dusky cornerAimee Semple McPherson (Author)4
On, on, up the foursquare wayAimee Semple McPherson (Author)4
The Lord planted a garden deep within my heartA. S. M. (Author)4
There's a bright flag waving in the skyAimee Semple McPherson (Author)4
Thirstest thou, O Son of GodAimee Semple McPherson (Author)4
Though stars from their heavenly orbits may strayAimee Semple McPherson (Author)4
'Tis falling on the housetopsAimee Semple McPherson (Author)4
While walking in the lowlandsAimee Semple McPherson (Author)4
Why are they whipping my JesusA. S. M. (Author)4
Close to its sunset hourAimee Semple McPherson (Author)5
Forward march, O foursquare hostA. S. M. (Author)5
Foursquare we stand for the living wordAimee Semple McPherson (Author)5
It was on the day of PentecostAimee Semple McPherson (Author)5

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