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There the Rev. Charles Parham founded his first Pentecostal Bible school in 1900. He taught that every "full Gospel Christian" must be "baptized in the Holy Spirit." From this followed such gifts as glossolalia, faith healing and prophecy. Parham encountered resistance from local church leaders and eventually moved off to Texas, where his Pentecostal churches found their roots among the South's rural poor (current membership: about 4 million...
Pioneered by a turn-of-the-century Kansas Methodist preacher, Charles F. Parham, Pentecostalism asserts as its basic tenet the need for baptism by the Holy Spirit, the supreme manifestation of which is glossolalia, or speaking in tongues. Dissatisfied with the institutionalized quality of Methodist worship and spirituality, Parham took as his inspiration the message of Acts 2: 1-4, which tells how, as the disciples assembled on Pentecost, "there appeared unto them cloven tongues like as of fire. And they were all filled with the Holy Ghost, and began to speak with other tongues." Hoping to receive the spirit...
PLAIN OLD BLUES (Emarcy). Art Hodes at the piano and Truck Parham on bass swing their way through a lexicon of the blues reminiscent of Chicago in the '30s (Washboard Bines, How Long, How Long Blues, The Chimes Blues, Snowy Morning Blues). All very backward-looking, comfortable and exceptionally cheery...
Though opportunities vary widely, they can be found on every continent. Frank Rizzo, 60, found his niche in Tokyo, where he now inspects and certifies Japanese imports and exports to protect buyers and sellers against future damage claims. George T. Parham, 62, left North Carolina for Southern Rhodesia as a leaf buyer for British-American Tobacco, stayed on to establish one of the world's largest tobacco auctions. Ex-Navyman Phillip Gordon, 44, arrived in Southern Rhodesia with a Jeep and $500 in 1949, is now one of the wealthiest men in British Central Africa; he has built...
Your very excellent rendition of the obstacles imposed on the not-so-glory-ridden Peace Corpsmen surely helped to straighten out many thwarted images held by many reposing onlookers on many "front porches of the U.S." WALLY PARHAM Stillwater, Okla...