PAW HISTORY
REVEREND
The Early 1900’s
JOHN SCHAEPE
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everend John Schaepe, the year 1903 in Hawaii without Christ in his life and unable to find work decided to commit a crime. There on the waterfront of Honolulu a mugging was about to take place as a sea captain was soon to pass him. John with a 38-caliber pistol on his person ready to excute his plan, was stopped by God who had another plan for his life. A sound struck his ears, a sound of music, and instead of executing a crime, he followed that sound and found a Salvation Army Mission. There he heard testimonies that made him desire “a better way of living.” He returned to his room where he was converted and then quickly joined the Salvation Army. On February 3, 1906 Schaepe testifies that God “baptized me with the Holy Ghost,” and he spoke in Chinese, Japanese, and Korean. This would have placed his experience occurred prior to the Azusa Street revival. It is probable, however, that it was actually in 1907 when he received his “baptism,” since he was apparently working in Southern California, breaking horses, at the time the revival broke in Los Angeles.
22 THE CHRISTIAN OUTLOOK
April, 1913 at the Apostolic Faith World-Wide camp meeting held in the Arroyo Seco valley of Los Angeles, while the young minister Schaepe listened, heard Robert E. McAlister revelation sermon. McAlister observed that in the Book of Acts, the apostles always baptized the newly converted, “in the name of Jesus Christ.” He emphasized that the Matthew 28:19 Trinitarian formula was not used. After hearing this revelation knowledge concerning the baptism in Jesus’ name, Schaepe was sufficiently inspired by the message that he spent the entire night in prayer. Toward morning, this “would-be preacher” raced throughout the camp shouting out his revelation on the power of the name of Jesus. The “revelation” on baptism, that the “name” of the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit was “Lord Jesus Christ.” The name of the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost was the name Lord Jesus Christ which name was part of the baptismal command posited by Peter in Acts 2:38 - i.e., baptism “in the name of Jesus Christ”- was the fulfillment and counterpart of the Great Commission in Matthew 28:19 constituting baptism “in the name (singular) of
“AND THEY CONTINUED”
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