Archibald Cooper was a British sailor and soldier during the Anglo-Boer war (1899–1902). After the war he remained in South Africa as an agent in a shipping business (Anderson 2007). He was converted by Rodney Gipsy Smith (1860–1947), a British evangelist who came as a missionary to South Africa in 1905 (Hexham and Poewe-Hexham 2002). Upon his conversion he joined a Presbyterian church and congregated there for a while. During that time, he heard about William J. Seymour and the Azusa Street Revival through their publication, Apostolic Faith (Poewe 1988). He had a Pentecostal experienc…