Parham saw himself as a lone prophetic voice preparing for an end-times revival. He was right about the revival but wrong about the timeline, the segregation, and his own infallibility. As you download and read the PDF, you will likely feel a strange mixture of inspiration and revulsion. That tension is exactly where honest history lives.
Before diving into the text, one must understand the author. Charles Fox Parham (1873–1929) was a radical Methodist holiness preacher who became disillusioned with the formalism of mainline denominations. Operating out of Topeka, Kansas, Parham established the Bethel Bible School in 1900. It was here, on New Year’s Eve 1900, that Parham’s student Agnes Ozman began speaking in what she believed was a foreign language—an event Parham quickly codified as the "Bible evidence" of the baptism of the Holy Spirit.
Parham saw himself as a lone prophetic voice preparing for an end-times revival. He was right about the revival but wrong about the timeline, the segregation, and his own infallibility. As you download and read the PDF, you will likely feel a strange mixture of inspiration and revulsion. That tension is exactly where honest history lives.
Before diving into the text, one must understand the author. Charles Fox Parham (1873–1929) was a radical Methodist holiness preacher who became disillusioned with the formalism of mainline denominations. Operating out of Topeka, Kansas, Parham established the Bethel Bible School in 1900. It was here, on New Year’s Eve 1900, that Parham’s student Agnes Ozman began speaking in what she believed was a foreign language—an event Parham quickly codified as the "Bible evidence" of the baptism of the Holy Spirit. a voice crying in the wilderness charles parham pdf