Often described as the century of the Holy Spirit, the 20th century saw great Pentecostal revivals sweep the globe drawing more people into the kingdom of God than had been converted in all the previous centuries added together. And this revival movement began almost exactly at the turn of the century when earnest men and women were learning that the powerful baptism in the Holy Spirit had not passed away with the Apostles but is for today!
At Christ’s second coming the church will be found with the same power that the apostles and the early church possessed. the power of Pentecost is manifest in us. the Christian religion must be demonstrated. the world wants to be shown. then let god’s power be manifest through us.”
So stated Charles fox Parham who gave his life to restore the revolutionary truths of healing and the baptism of the Holy Spirit to the Church. The first 40 years of the 20th century were powerfully visited by this man’s Pentecostal message that changed the lives of so many around the world.
The miracles that occurred in Charles Parham’s ministry are too numerous to record. Multiplied thousands found salvation, healing, deliverance and the baptism of the holy spirit. When he proclaimed to the world in 1901 that, “speaking in tongues was the evidence of the baptism of the holy spirit,” the Pentecostal truths of the early church were wonderfully restored.
In October of 1900, Parham, already a successful evangelist with a noted ministry in divine healing, obtained a beautiful structure in Topeka, Kansas, for the purpose of beginning a bible school: he called it, ‘stone’s folly’.
The building was patterned after an English castle. but the builder ran out of money before the structure could be completed in style. the staircase that joined the ground and first floors was carved with finished woodwork of cedar, cherry wood, maple and pine. the second floor was finished in common wood and paint.
The outside of stone’s folly was laid in red brick and white stone, with a winding stairway leading up to an observatory. another doorway led from there to a small room known as the prayer tower. students took turns to pray three hours each day in this special tower.
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