The Azusa Street Mission and Revival

by Cecil M. Robeck Jr.

the smaller Seymour party to worship upstairs, while he took the main sanctuary as his own. He announced that he was the new bishop of the mission and proceeded to take control. In January 1931, the situation exploded into an argument that reduced both parties to throwing hymnals at one another. Police were called; the mission was padlocked. While Jennie Seymour sought justice, Ruthford Griffith sought control. The disagreement finally ended up in various courts, with Griffith suing the mission and the mission suing Griffith. The matter remained in the courts for another year and a half. While a lower court found in favor of Griffith, a higher court ultimately reversed the ruling, and in June 1932 it found in favor of Mrs. Seymour. By then the building had been demolished, and the group moved back to the Asberry home on North Bonnie Brae Street, where the revival and the mission had been born 26 years