Parish History     Inter-denominational Camp: 1942
 
LAKE ARTHUR      The 47th annual Inter-denominational Camp Meeting will open at Lake Arthur July 9 (1942) and continue through July 19.

This announcement was made following a meeting of the Board of Directors on June 17. Members present were Sidney W. Sweeney, Lake Charles, president; Rev. Lastie Hoffpauir, Indian Bayou, secretary; J.C. Mack, Lake Arthur; F.H. Helms, Sweet Lake; and Howard Clayton, Roanoke. Only one member, Robert Lyons of Lake Arthur, was absent. 

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Parish History    Lake Arthur Area Settled

Early settlers drawn to fertile ground, plentiful game The Indians who
lived there probably had a name for the lake. The French settlers
probably had a different name for it. Lake Arthur is the name that
finally stuck. It was named for Arthur LeBlanc, who settled on its
shores. People began calling it la lac d'Arthur, which translates into
Lake Arthur. In ''History of Lake Arthur,'' Calvin Dale Smith and Allen
Fitzgerald wrote,  ''In 1811 Atanas Hebert came to Lake Arthur to
settle. That marks a date we can follow with accuracy.''

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(see paragraph 6 for Lake Arthur Camp Meeting)

Chapter 5

EARLY MOVEMENT IN LOUISIANA

1) On Friday before the fourth Sunday in August, 1885, J. S. Sanders, then a young man and member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, was in a spirit of prayer for a mighty outpouring of the Holy Spirit upon himself, as he felt his deep need of such a baptism. He had been converted and joined the church, but now felt his need of a deeper work being wrought in his heart as a power for service for the Master, when suddenly the heavens opened and a mighty baptism with the Holy Ghost fell on him and surging billows of Pentecostal glory swept through his soul until he felt that he would die if the Lord did not stay His hand. This mighty baptism with the Spirit came in direct answer to his prayer, which so completely changed him that he has not been the same man since that day. With this baptism came a definite call to preach, and he, like Paul, "was not disobedient to the heavenly vision."

 

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