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Garr igus wrote , "w as t he place God had chosen as the site f o r
Hi s Hou se, a nd t h a t wa s wh y it could not be secur ed f or any
ot her purpos e " . 13
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While the b uilding was b eing r e n ova t e d , Garriqus checked
the religious l andscape in t he capital city. She a ttended
"Th e Grapnel Ch urch " on Hutchings str eqt, operated by J o b
House a nd Rob ert Laita, a f o r me r Salvation Army officer. An
offshoot of t he Methodist Church o r the Army, the mission
adv o cated holiness and s a ncti f icat ion . There, Ga rrigus
t e s t ified t o "her ex perI e nc ev - c-L; e , her life s t or y t o t ha t
time- -and her God- -;i -.-...n ma n d a t e " t o give the f ull gospel-­
J esus- -saviour , Sa nctifier, Baptizer, He al e r, and Corning
Ki ng" . 14
The qu e s t i on may be legitimately asked: Why did Garrigus
not a s s oc i ate permane n t l y wit h one of the existing denomina ­
tions , or at lea s t one of the Holi ne s s missions in St.
Joh n 's?'s The a nswer i s t wo f o l d , t h e first bein g that sh e wa s
an indepen dent person , who se life ex hibited a proclivity
towards s o l o verreures ;" She ans.....e r-cd t he question b lunt1 y
i n a sermon s he preached 16 years l a t e r at Rumney , Ne w
Hampshir e. "Whe n we got to St . John 's, " s he r e c ol l ecte d,
.....e found it was a city of c hurch e s . As I went
a r ou nd I mi s sed something. I listened to t h e
pre achers and I h ea r d good t hings but I mi s s ed t h e
f ull g osp"'l . They wen t s o far and stopped. Jesus
was t he Sa viour of the world. Th a t was as far as
t hey k ne w.
Ther e wa s a message that God wanted to g i v e
ou t the r e . I t i s no use to go wi t h out the f ull
g os pel . It takes that t o satisfy a man . If y o u
preach h a l f a gospe l the y wil l t u r n away from it.