The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-01-31
PARHAM IN kANsAs cITY.
Topeka Faith Disciple Is Attracting
Attention.

Attention
The Kansas city Times contains the
following account Of a meeting held in
Kansas City last night:
Rev. Charles At. Parham Of Topeka
and the seven students Of his college
who claim to have received the gift or
tongues" returned here yesterday and
renewed at 1915 Madison avenue their
effort to start a revival which shall
cause all the people OF Kansas CITY 10
embrace their peculiar faith kew MT.
Parham in his sermon said God had told
him he was TO meet with complete sue
cess this time.
MrParham is confident the millennium
is at hand and that II is TO De uSnefed
in by his preaching, and the exhorta-
lions, '-prcphesying, = and speaking with
tongues Of his disciples.
The day Is ait hand for the restora-
ton OF the apostolic faith he declared.
Private ownership or land and OF all
other things Will be done away withs
and all Christian people Will pour their
money and their all into the Golfers Of
Christ; and then the devil viii be
chained up and Christs ideal OF fellow
ship, love and faith in Him Will have
been realized
Rev. Mr.. Parham was disposed to be
critical regarding the beliefs and actions
Of other processing Christians. He de-
nounced the spiritualists as frauds.
Then he directed his attention to Mrs
NaLloQ, the now famous KANSAS JOINT
smasher He admitted that he was once
something of a joint smasher himself.
II have lived in Kansas for years" he
declared, and once succeeded in closing
and Keeping closed all the joints in q
German town But Mrs. Nation, with
her little hatchet and fiery words will
prove as complete a failure as have all
forms Of reformation There isn't now q
city or county or town in Kansas where
you can't get whisky if you wear red
nose. The red on your nose viii serve
as a light to light you safely to the bar
or the garnet or the cellar where it is
kept
but if I had all the money that the
w. c II. q. spends in fighting the liquor
traffic could send out spirlt-moved men
and women who would move the world
and who not only save mems bodies
from the liquor traffic, but also their
souls from the devil"
Rev Mr. Parham- having concluded his
discourse his disciples began to testify
Rev. Mr.. Parham himself told how, on
the preceding night, at a little meeting
of the faithful in Kansas City, kas-, the
gift of tongues was suddenly con-
before. The number Of those who were
receiving this evidence Of the presence
Of the Holy Ghost was, he said. con
stantly increasing. He was followed by
Mrs. Haslxins, a good looking Kansas
City woman. who said she had been
healed of all her bodily defects. The
spectacles she wore might nave been
suggestive to a hardened disbeliever.
Mrs. Haslins also related how, after
having labored with the Lord for a pro-
longed period on the preceding night, the
Holy Ghost had visited her, and she
had suddenly spoken in an unknown
tongue"
Mrs. Easter. who frequently testifes.
told of a remarkable cure 1t was that
of young girl who had been SO com
pletely paralyzed below the waist that
for seven years it had been possible 10
stick a pin in her flesh without her dis
covering the fact. She had been COM
pletely healed. Mrs. Easter said, after
Rev. Mr.. Parham had prayed a br1eI
time with her In his college at Topeka
Mrs. Easter then told her own exper-
fence At a former meeting she testified
ton. BTight's disease. deafness and
tumor by her faith. She made an IN
teresting addendum last night Tnere
were other diseases Of which she mad
been cured which she could not men
ton in a public audience, she declared
But she continued, Il can tell Of my
have been praying to God that He con-
fer upon me the gift of tongues, ana
last night, just at u o'clock, he gave
it to me for a witness 1 spoke IN
foreign tongue, and. as have for many
years Ionged to be a missionary to
China, am convinced that the tongue
I spoke in was Chinese MY stepfather
who is a German, heard me, and ne de-
clares that I also prayed in German.
and that he understood me perfectly
She added that the Lord had grac-
iOusly increased her avoirdupois from
los to 10 pounds within the last five
years
Miss Oman. the student in Parham's
college at Topeka who says that since
langua ges testified but mentioned no
new instances on which the gift OF
tongues had been conferred upon her.
Rev Mr. Parham's sister-in-laW, Miss
Th.stlewait, who occasionally has the
gift conferred upon her. was SO thankful
for it. because. she said. she felt nearer
to the poor heather nations when speak
ing in their own languages
IA young student from Topeka named
Stanley told Of how he was divinely
cured Of typhoid pneumonia on Thanks
giving day
THE doctors said I would die, but,
he gravely asseverated, the Lord d.
vinely healed me, and the next day
was able to walk ten miles
Young Stanley's father, who at 20 IS
one Of Parham's most diligent students
and ardent followers, and Miss Stanley,
aged about IS, also testified to having
been endowed with the gift of tongues,
although they gave no specific instances.
Rev. Mr.. Parham stated last night
that the meeting will continue indefinite
ly. He is hoping for a great revival OF
religion a $ result Of it. He says he is
daily making recruits, and that money
is coming to him from the most unex-
pected sources.