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Anthony Quinn, who became a member of the Angelus Temple at a young age, wrote the following about Aimee Semple McPherson in his memoirs in 1972: “Years later, when I saw the great actresses at work, I would compare them to her. As magnificent as I would find Anna Magnani, Ingrid Bergman, Laurette Taylor, Katharine Hepburn, Greta Garbo, and Ethel Barrymore, they all fell short of that first electric shock Aimee Semple McPherson produced in me.”
Anthony Quinn was so much in awe of Sister Aimee that he dared not look in her eyes because he was afraid she would be able to see his soul. One day, in the Angelus Temple, as he was blowing his saxophone at a rehearsal he sensed a presence behind him; it was Aimee. But he wouldn’t look at her. During a pause, he looked over his shoulder and there she was, sitting right behind him, smiling. Their eyes finally met. “I felt no fear, no embarrassment, no awe - just complete acceptance. She smiled as if to say, “I know you. I like you.” It was so simple.” would later write Anthony Quinn. Aimee came to him and told him the following “I have the feeling that the Lord has singled you out to become a great preacher.”
She then invited him to come preach with her the following week in the Mexican district. Quinn was only 14 at the time, in 1939, and he rode in Aimee’s car as she drove to a tent revival on the East side of town. “It was as if I’d been waiting an eternity for such an acceptance”. On the platform, Aimee apologized for not speaking Spanish and she asked the young Anthony, standing by her side, to help translate her sermon in spanish saying that one day, he would too become one of our great preachers. The boy was terrified “but when she put her hand on my shoulder, and an electrical charge went through me. I spoke loud and clear. I was her voice that night, the extension of that great power.”
Anthony Quinn would not become a preacher, but he became a successful actor and he experienced the anointing of God that afternoon, on the platform when Aimee put her hand on his shoulder and he became for just a few minutes, her voice.
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