Voices and influences
Charles Fox Parham
The Kansas teacher whose students went looking in Acts for the evidence of Spirit baptism - and whose later years disgraced what he began.
Summary
This site quotes Charles Fox Parham 1 times across 1 book, and lists 0 works.
- Lived 1873 to 1929, American.
- Quoted here most in Acts: 1 of 1.
Charles Fox Parham
- Lived
- 1873 to 1929
- Nation
- American
- Tradition
- Pentecostal
1 of 1 quotations
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Quoted in full, because Charles Fox Parham died in 1929 and these works are out of copyright. Each citation below names its edition and its year. A citation naming a modernised text means that edition makes its own editorial changes, and that edition's terms are not in this site's record.
“Now we want to say to private individuals or to schools, that the speaking in other tongues is an inseparable part of the Baptism of the Holy Spirit distinguishing it from all previous works; and that no one has received Baptism of the Holy Spirit…”
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who has not a Bible evidence to show for it.
Acts 2:4 And they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak in other tongues as the Spirit enabled them. BSB
Influence, on the record
This site quotes Charles Fox Parham 1 times across 1 book.
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The life told as one accountfrom this site's record
Charles Fox Parham was a young holiness preacher running a Bible school in a rented mansion in Topeka, Kansas, when he set his students a question: what does the book of Acts give as the evidence that a believer has been baptized in the Holy Spirit? They came back with one answer - speaking in tongues. On January 1, 1901, a student named Agnes Ozman asked for prayer and began to speak in a language she did not know, and Parham built a movement on it. His Houston school four years later is where William Seymour heard the teaching he would carry to Azusa Street. Then Parham's own story darkened: he denounced the Azusa meetings in openly racist terms, was arrested in San Antonio in 1907 on a morals charge that was dropped but never lived down, and spoke approvingly of the Ku Klux Klan in his last decade. The doctrine outlived the man who framed it, and the movement he started largely left him behind.
1 quotation across 1 book