PART TWO: IMPORTANT AND NOTABLE EVENTS AT IKARE
1. Orimolade would go to farm with his brother Peter Omojola but would not sleep at
night; he would sing spiritual songs from night till morning.
2. He was a very good hunter that would go to the bush alone without a cutlass or a gun,
yet would come back home with slaughtered animals.
3. He once tried to do business by buying and selling of palm oil and kola nuts. He travelled
to a town called Oshokoshoko in Northern Nigeria with his friend. On his way, an angel of
God appeared to him and warned him not to jeopardise his mission as a prophet of God
with business. He refused to take the warning and as soon as he got to Oshokoshoko, he fell
seriously sick, people thought that he would die. His friend returned to Ikare to inform
them. His brother Egunjobi was sent to bring him back home, however before Egunjobi
got to Oshokoshoko, Orimolade had got back to Ikare, by what means – nobody knew.
4. One day, Orimolade paid his close friend Garuba a visit. As it was getting dark,
Orimolade bid his friend goodbye and began to walk home (bearing in mind that he was
crippled and could only walk with the aid of a stick). His friend Garuba decided to discover
the mystery as to how Orimolade walks about. So Garuba mounted his bicycle and started
to follow or chase Orimolade but he never saw or overtook Orimolade along the way. On
getting to Orimolade’s house, Garuba met him at home – Surprise! Surprise! Orimolade
asked Garuba what he was trying to investigate.
5. Orimolade fasted for three months after which he called his mother to fetch water and
bath for him. Afterwards he told his mother that he wanted to prepare a feast for the town
and asked his mother to assemble the pots and be ready for feast preparation. To
everybody’s amazement including his mother, people started to walk in with loads of
foodstuff as gifts – which exceeded what they needed.
ORIMOLADE’S MISSIONARY JOURNEYS
Moses Orimoade started his missionary journey at Ikare around 1916 and he travelled to
the length and breath of Nigeria-, which could be likened to the journey of first Apostles of
Jesus Christ in the Bible.
He travelled from Ikare to Irun, Ogbagi, Ayere, Ogidi, Kabba, Abaji, Igan, Ikase, Egbe,
and Ibida, to the North and back to Ilorin, Ikirun, Oshogbo, Ogbomosho, Ibadan,
Abeokuta and finally Lagos.
Everywhere that Orimolade went, he encountered opposition from idol worshippers and forces of darkness but at all times he rebuked and overcame them.
A few examples as listed below:
At Irun: Irun is a village, a few miles from Ikare known for its witchcraft practices and evil
masquerade performances. He also pulled down the image of Osijora- the predominant
idol worshipped in that village.
At Ogidi: He stayed with a church leader called Olupeka who warned him about a river in
the village that non-relatives must not go there. The indigenous of Ogidi have worshipped
and sacrificed to the spirits in the river for many years. Orimolade took his preaching to
the river, prayed into the water and it dried up. The evil fish -like creatures were exposed
and killed.
At Ikirun: Sango worshippers constantly attacked the Anglican Church at Ikirun. While
Orimolade was in the church, the sango worshippers conjured lightening and thunderstone
to strike them but immediately the attack returned and killed the sango worshippers. The
Christians at Ikirun were left alone ever since then.
At Ogbomosho: As Orimolade and his entourage got to Ogbomosho, he encountered a
charlatan young woman who condemned him, and insulted his entire entourage.
Orimolade was annoyed because of the woman’s remark and he asked his entourage to
leave the town but before he left he cursed the town that: “Rain shall not fall in this town
again, pregnant women shall not give birth to new babies and the lady will surely loose her
life.”
At Benin: Orimolade condemned the practice of human sacrifice. In his sermon to a large
crowd, he said God created man in his own image. By his sermon, many traditional
worshippers gave up their charms to be burnt.
IT WAS NOTED THAT WHENEVER MOSES ORIMOLADE WAS AT THE PEAK OF
PREACHING, HIS NAZARITE HAIR WOULD STAND UP WHICH FRIGHTENED HIS
FOLLOWERS. HENCE HE WAS ADVISED TO WEAR A PECULIAR HAT TO COVER
HIS HAIR.
In every town he visited, he directed his converts to existing churches irrespective of their
denomination, and where there was no Christian church he helped to establish one.
At Lagos: Orimolade got to Lagos on July 12th, 1924 with a lot of followers. One Rev.
Oguntolu of African church, Ojokoro directed Orimolade to Holy Trinity (Anglican)
church, Ebute Ero where Archdeacon T.A. Ogunbiyi was the minister.
Orimolade went to preach on a Sunday in the church and he preached for eight hours and
read the Bible from Genesis to Exodus without looking at any book. He also performed
many miracles on that day which displeased the host minister T.A.Ogunbiyi, he became
jealous. Everybody in the Church was amazed, as they had never seen such activities before.
Archdeacon Ogunbiyi invited Orimolade for a revisit sermon in his church but planted
charms at the entrance of the church to harm Orimolade. Unfortunately, instead of
harming Orimolade, the churchwarden was harmed – he collapsed and Orimolade
resuscitated him with prayer. From there on Moses Orimolade was called Baba Aladura,
which means Praying father.
Ogunbiyi challenged Orimolade to tell them the Bible school he attended and how he
acquired such a versatile translation of the Bible. Ogunbiyi was also in disagreement with
Orimolade’s free gift of holy water for healing. Ogunbiyi felt that the blessed water should
be a source of income for his church. Eventually Orimolade was sent out of the church and
he continued his open preaching in Lagos – emphasising the need for absolute faith in the
Lord Jesus Christ, reliance on the power of the Holy Spirit, the efficacy of prayers for
healing and the use of Psalms, his outstanding preaching ability was reflected in quoting
passages from the bible.
Visit from Ogbomosho
A delegate from the town of Ogbomosho had been trailing Moses Orimolade since the event
that put their town under a curse. Eventually they caught up with him in Lagos and begged
him to forgive them and go back with them to Ogbomosho to remove the curse. The whole
town had suffered due to lack of rain and pregnant ones had failed to deliver.
On the day that Orimolade stepped into Ogbomosho, he prayed that God should avert the
curse. Rain started to fall heavily and many pregnant women delivered on that day.
The whole of Ogbomosho Township realised instantly that Orimolade was God sent.
Other events in Lagos
1. A boy who swallowed a needle vomited it when Orimolade prayed for him.
2. A lady fell into the lagoon and was delivered back alive after Orimolade prayed for her
to return alive.
3. A masquerader at Obun-Eko, Lagos sent a message to Orimolade not to come and
preach at Obun-Eko. Orimolade sent back to him and gave him the date that he would be
there to preach. On the faithful day, the masquerader was fully armed with his charm.
Orimolade with his entourage approached the man-reciting psalms 24 and 91 – but as the
masquerade saw Orimolade approaching, he (the masquerader) collapsed and died.
On that day, the popular C&S. song descended
Aje nse lasan ni
Kerubu a pa won run
Which means: - witches are doing in vain
Cherubim will destroy them
The case of Mother Captain Abiodun Akinsowon
Mother Captain Abiodun was only seventeen and a half years old when she came to Moses
Orimolade – by which time he was forty – six years old with nine years of missionary work.
Mother Captain Abiodun was in a trance from the 18th to 25th June 1925. Trance was
never heard of and everybody thought she was sick or afflicted with an unknown illness.
She was a member of Rev. Ogunbiyi’s church and even he referred to her spiritual journey
as something else.
Eventually Captain Abiodun’s parents heard about the praying father’s activities in Lagos
and went to Orimolade’s house seven times before the spirit of God would allow him to go
with them. (This repeated call to Orimolade was confirmed in Orimolade’s letter to
Captain Abiodun). Moses Orimolade prayed for her and asked that she be returned back
to earth. The prayer was answered and Captain Abiodun confirmed that if Orimolade had
not been one of the elders from heaven, she would not have been released.
After she recovered, her parents allowed her to go and live with Orimolade as his an
adopted child – Orimolade used to call her “My child” and captain Abiodun would address
Orimolade as “ my father”. During the years 1925 to 1928 that Captain Abiodun and
Moses Orimolade were together as father and daughter, there was a tremendous progress
in the church activities. Moses Orimolade did not go out of Lagos again but would send his
daughter to lead the evangelism, hence she was refferred to and addressed as CAPTAIN.
As anyone would expect, anywhere there is joy, happiness and progress, satan will try its
wiles to destabilise them. It was Satan through people that caused the separation between
Moses Orimolade (Father), and Captain Abiodun (Daughter). Just imagine how great C. &
S. Church would be if she had been under one leadership (like the Catholic Church) since
the inception.
The names given to the band
1. At the beginning they were called “Aladura Band”
2. From the 9th Sep. 1925 – it was called “Seraphim”
3. On the 26th March 1926 – “Cherubim” was added
since that time the band has been called Cherubim and Seraphim
Moses Orimolade pronounced Holy Michael as the captain of the band on the 29th
September 1925.

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