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Aimee Semple McPherson

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


TextsTunesHymnalsRecommendations
Texts by Aimee Semple McPherson (69)sort descendingAsAuthority LanguagesInstances
All o'er the earth men are sighingAimee Semple McPherson (Author)2
Arise, ye sons of men, ariseAimee Semple McPherson (Author)2
Cast ye your crowns at the blest Savior's feetAimee Semple McPherson (Author)2
Christ led the way to CalvaryAimee Semple McPherson (Author)2
Christ the light of the agesAimee Semple McPherson (Author)2
Close to its sunset hourA. S. M. (Author)English4
Come, now, ye weary and halt and blindAimee Semple McPherson (Author)2
Crowns are made in cruciblesAimee Semple McPherson (Author)2
Death shall be swallow'd in victoryAimee Semple McPherson (Author)1
Forth to the battle, we marchA. S. M. (Author)2
Forward march, O foursquare hostA. S. M. (Author)English4
Foursquare we stand for the living wordAimee Semple McPherson (Author)English4
From the crossroads of life there leadsAimee Semple McPherson (Author)2
Have you found a friend in Christ the KingAimee Semple McPherson (Author)2
Hold the foursquare fortress firm 'tis the testing dayA. S. M. (Author)English2
Holy and righteous Father humbly we come to TheeAimee Semple McPherson (Author)English3
I claim the promiseAimee Semple McPherson (Author)2
I have found a charmed circleAimee Semple McPherson (Author)English3
I plead thy blood, O ChristA. S. M. (Author)2
I'm sailing o'er the sea of lifeAimee Semple McPherson (Author)2
In a quiet dusky cornerAimee Semple McPherson (Author)English3
It was on the day of PentecostA. S. M. (Author)4
It's raining, it's rainingAimee Semple McPherson (Author)1
I've found the key to ParadiseA. S. M. (Author)English2
La Palabra predicad, del Libro de DiosAimee Semple McPherson (Author)Spanish1
Life's first years pass awayA. S. M. (Author)2
Lord Jesus, thy name is sweet in my earsA. S. M. (Author)2
Lost was my soul on sin's mountainAimee Semple McPherson (Author)2
Merciful and gracious, Long suff'ringAimee Semple McPherson (Author)1
Not all the efforts of our handsAimee Semple McPherson (Author)2
O, cross of Christ, and can it beA. M. S. (Author)2
O is there no balm in Gilead (McPherson)Aimee Semple McPherson (Author)2
O man, thou'st time for pleasureAimee Semple McPherson (Author)2
O mighty God upon us pourAimee Semple McPherson (Author)2
O precious Babe of BethlehemA. S. M. (Author)2
O that it might be no moreAimee Semple McPherson (Author)2
On Carmel's mount Elijah kneeledAimee Semple McPherson (Author)1
On, on, up the foursquare wayAimee Semple McPherson (Author)English3
On the mountain of God, stands the mansion of LoveA. S. M. (Author)English2
Once came the little childrenA. S. M. (Author)2
Once I knew a little boyA. S. M. (Author)2
Pass the joyful news alongA. S. M. (Author)English1
Pitchers, Pitchers, Here bring your empty pitchersAimee Semple McPherson (Author)1
See yonder sun how fast he runAimee Semple McPherson (Author)1
Sing winds a lullabyAimee Semple McPherson (Author)2
So far as the east is from the westAimee Semple McPherson (Author)2
Some folks believe that when men once trustA. S. M. (Author)2
Speak thou, O Lord, thy servant will obeyAimee Semple McPherson (Author)2
The blood of my Savior, by faith I now seeAimee Semple McPherson (Author)2
The Lord planted a garden deep within my heartA. S. M. (Author)English3
The world is filled with sorrow. Its heart is filled with painAimee Semple McPherson (Author)2
There came to this earth, in the dear, long agoAimee Semple McPherson (Author)2
There's a bright flag waving in the skyAimee Semple McPherson (Author)English3
Thirstest Thou, O Son of GodA. S. M. (Author)English3
Though stars from their heavenly orbits may strayAimee Semple McPherson (Author)3
'Tis falling on the housetopsAimee Semple McPherson (Author)3
To thy tents, to thy tents, O Isr'lAimee Semple McPherson (Author)2
We will go with our young and with our oldAimee Semple McPherson (Author)1
When God looked on the ancient worldAimee Semple McPherson (Author)1
When I go home to heavenAimee Semple McPherson (Author)2
When I read the story in Acts 2 and 4Aimee Semple McPherson (Author)1
When Naaman the leper came of oldAimee Semple McPherson (Author)2
When on the green banks of old Jordan's streamA. S. M. (Author)2
When our God thunders the hills and mountainsA. S. M. (Author)2
When the weary and the lameAimee Semple McPherson (Author)2
While walking in the lowlandsA. S. M. (Author)English3
Who's that lying in the manger lowA. S. M. (Author)2
Why are they whipping my JesusAimee Semple McPherson (Author)English3
With the scarlet thread of redemptionAimee Semple McPherson (Author)1

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