Frank Bartleman
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| Born | December 14, 1871 |
| Died | August 23, 1936 (aged 64) |
| Occupation | Author, Evangelist, Missionary |
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Frank Bartleman (December 14, 1871 – August 23, 1936) was an American Pentecostal writer, evangelist and missionary. He converted to Pentecostalism and became a preacher in 1892. He began his writing career in 1905.
Bartleman was born the third of five sons on a farm near Carversville, Pennsylvania to Frank Bartleman, a strict German and Roman Catholic immigrant and Margaret (Hellyer) Bartleman, an American-born Quaker of English and Welsh stock. Bartleman worked on his parent's farm until he moved to Philadelphia at age 17. In Philadelphia he worked odd jobs and attended Grace Baptist Church, where he converted on October 15, 1893. The following summer he began formal preparation for full-time ministry at Temple University. He also studied briefly at the Moody Bible Institute. In the following years Bartleman ministered with the Salvation Army, the Wesleyan Methodists, Pillar of Fire, and Peniel Missions.
On May 2, 1900, Bartleman married Anna Ladd, a Bulgarian woman who had been adopted and raised by American Methodist missionaries. The Bartlemans had four children together. Their first child, Esther, died shortly after birth and Frank recommitted himself to ministry as a result.
From 1906 to 1908, Bartleman attended prayer meetings led by William J. Seymour prior to the Azusa Street Revival.
Bartleman wrote many daily articles for Pentecostal magazines and documented the events that led up to the 1906 Los Angeles revival. Through his writing he accomplished much in the area of evangelism during his lifetime. His book Azusa Street describes the events surrounding the Pentecostal revival. He authored six books, four pamphlets, over five hundred and fifty published articles, and one hundred tracts. Bartleman is best remembered for his chronicles of the 1906 Los Angeles revival.Of the revival, held in Los Angeles from 1906 to 1909, Bartleman famously wrote, "It seemed that everyone had to go to “Azusa.” ... There were far more white people than colored coming. The “color line” was washed away in the blood." It may be that Bartleman was familiar with the esteemed scholar and activist W. E. B. Du Bois, whose early essays, and landmark book, The Souls of Black Folks, published in 1903, popularized the phrase.
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