The Life of Charles Parham: Founder of the Apostolic Faith Movement (Pentecostal Pioneers Book 18) by Mrs Parham

Author:Mrs Parham [Parham, Mrs]
Language: eng
Format: azw
Publisher: Revival Library
Published: 2015-01-18T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter XXII

OUR NEW HOME.

SISTER Rilda Cole, a sweet Christian lady who lived at Keelville, Kansas, (and went as chaperon with the first company of young workers, who accompanied Mr. Parham to Texas), gives a report of a meeting held there, which was published in “The Gospel of the Kingdom."

“Through the fall and winter our people at Keelville were heavily weighted down by the spiritual status in which we found ourselves.

“Our young people, who attended our services, seemed to be drifting away further and further from salvation, while we Christians had no power to help, though our hearts really ached for them.

“So we agreed among ourselves to take the matter definitely to God, that He would send us help, and give a revival in our place that would shake things up from the foundation, and it is with praise to the Lord and joy in my own heart that I am writing you the story of how He answered prayer.

“We asked Bro. Chas. Parham to come out and hold a meeting. At first he gave us no satisfaction, but we kept on praying and finally the Lord sent him to us.

“The campaign began about the last week in January, 1910, and the first drop in the revival shower was when a man who was a sinner of about fifty years, arose and asked our prayers and before we left the house, God gave him the evidence of sins forgiven. Besides he was so marvellously healed, that it equalled the Bible stories of Christ’s power to heal.

“Now the amen corner and front seats, were filled with young men and women, whose hearty hand shake, beaming eyes, smiling faces, glad songs of praise, heartfelt testimonies and sincere prayers, all gave public witness to sins forgiven; new hearts, and lives consecrated to Jesus.

“A young man from Washington, who was visiting at the home of his parents in Melrose, Kansas, when attacked by those who fought our work, saying the speaking of tongues and healing of the sick was not of God, received this answer from him:

“‘Well, I know it is certainly not of the devil, for if it was, I would have had it long ago, for I have had everything else that belongs to him.'

“Many accepted divine healing and see with us the soon, and now to them, glad coming of our Saviour, the Lord from heaven. And so today, while the angels strike their harps anew, God’s listening ear hears our hallelujahs too.'*

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During this meeting, Mrs. Mary C. Bennett of Baxter Springs, Kansas was taken very sick. She had taken the Lord for her Healer during the first meeting in Baxter Springs and had been healed several times, but now was going through a very severe test, and she gives her testimony as follows.

“One Wednesday night one week from the day that I was taken so bad with pneumonia, satan came to me as real as any person and laughed and scoffed in my face and said, 'You have no God’ But I threw out my hand and said, ‘You are a liar.

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