may surprise some readers to know that neither faith healing nor speaking in tongues nor locutions ("words of knowledge") were a part of the original Pentecostal experience. These aspects were, "discovered," in 1862 (faith healing) and 1901 (speaking in tongues -- with some earlier flashes). The modern Charismatic experience is an amalgam of "discoveries." There was no day before and day after the Holy Spirit (supposedly) poured himself out on the modern (1837) America in any way resembling what we think of Pentacostalism, today. The cast of characters who cobbled out the phenomena, experiences, interpretations, and social characteristics that crystallized into what is the generally known as, "Second Wave," Pentacostalism are interesting to read about. That the initial theology was not stable is proven, even, today since it begs of even more, "discoveries," that then have had to be re-interpreted to resemble something in Scripture. John Wimber, in South Africa proved that by starting the, Third Wave, with yet two more phenomena added to the list of, "discoveries": Holy Laughter and Spiritual Glue. There is talk of a Fourth Wave. In essence, the originator of the modern movement committed the fallacy of the converse accident in that she got a phenomenon as a result of a type of desperate prayer and, being a good Protestant, tried to match it with something in Scripture. Now, the phenomenon did have a proper interpretation which the Catholic Church could have given her, but, alas, she was a Protestant in America and the Church