would be prepared and sent forth evangelists who would help to answer the calls which were pouring in so rapidly as to be almost a maelstrom.

After purchasing the ground, we set about building Beautiful Angelus Temple.

Throughout my evangelistic work, the Lord had blessed and provided financially as well as every other need.  All the money which had come to me in love offerings and gifts, had been put back immediately into the Lord's work.  Larger tents were purchased and larger buildings rented, but as fast as it was received it was given back in His work, the Lord sent in more for the further extension of His cause and Kingdom. There was no reason why I should not have kept the money for myself.  It was given to me freely as love offerings.  Many people told me I was foolish not to invest it for myself or "save it for a rainy day".

The Echo Park Evangelistic Association was formed on Sept 26, 1921, and work started on the new building.  As I went about from city to city holding campaigns, I sent all my offerings home to help erect the Temple.  One city's love offering paid for the excavation, another paid for the foundation, another for the wall, another for the dome--gifts from the subscribers to my magazine, the Bridal Call Foursquare Family, paid for other parts of the building, and so on until Angelus Temple, in all its creamy white beauty of perfection, with its lofty dome and deep voiced organ, and its softly carpeted aisles provided by the Gypsies, and its beautiful windows was set down opposite peaceful Echo Park--a gift from the world to Los Angeles.

From the moment the Temple was opened in January l, 1923, the crowds came.  In spite of its fifty-three hundred seats, the great auditorium was taxed to capacity with the multitudes which nightly poured in.  Revival spirit ran high, the altars were filled and twelve thousand were converted the first year.  Miracles of healing so real and so evident even to an unbeliever brought a thoughtful world to our doors and to our altars.  Hundreds were filled with the Holy Spirit and students came from far and near to study in the Bible School.

The first day the school was opened in 1923, the building provided next door to the Temple proved too small, and we had to move to one of the Temple auditoriums.

All of this time I was planning that when this wonderful campaign was over, I would be on my way to answer other calls.  But there was no cessation of the glorious outpouring, and seemingly no convenient place to close.  It was at this time that the thought of having a church first presented itself.