Preaching, as I did from Maine to Florida, going north in summer and south in winter, the Foursquare Gospel soon had a following much too large to be contained even in the largest of tents, so I began to rent the largest halls, coliseums and buildings.

In 1918, at the Nationwide Camp Meeting which I conducted in Philadelphia, we had to build a regular tent city to contain the thousands who came to camp and remained on the grounds and the great tabernacle tent was packed to capacity by people from far and near.

It was at the close of this great camp meeting that the Lord definitely called me to Los Angeles.  Packing the large Gospel Car with our necessary traveling and camping equipment, I drove all the way across the continent with my children and with my mother, who had recently joined me in the work.

After a very wonderful series of meetings conducted in the Philharmonic Auditorium in Los Angeles, it was laid upon my heart to build a house unto the Lord.

All of my life I had been an Evangelist.  My husband was an Evangelist who went from place to place, conducting campaigns, winning hundreds of souls, and then moving on to other places as the Lord led and opened the way.   Calls poured in on every mail for me to come here or to go there. The greatest auditoriums in the country were available if I could go, and the fields in the homeland and abroad were ever calling for the Gospel Message.

So it was but natural that, when I first planned Angelus Temple, I expected it to be a great evangelistic center in which I would hold campaigns when in Los Angeles, and which other speakers would use during my absence in other parts of the world.  I never dreamed, then, that the Lord meant for me to make this my place of abode, even though He had promised me a home where I could leave my two children to be cared for and to attend school while I should preach.

But soon it was borne in upon my heart that there was to be the place of training for missionaries and evangelists; that here would come young men and women who would offer their lives to the service of the King; that here