A spirit of religious revival blazed across the United States just
after 1900. With a focus on Holy Spirit power, early adherents
stirred an enthusiastic response, first at a Bible school in Topeka
and then in a small mission on Asuza Street in Los Angeles. Almost
immediately, the movement spread to Houston, Chicago, and then
northeastern urban centers. By the early 1910s the fervor had
reached most parts of the United States, Canada, and northern
Mexico, and eventually the converts called themselves pentecostals.
Today there are pentecostals all over the world. From the beginning
the movement was unusually diverse: women and African Americans
were active in many of the early fellowships, and although some
groups were segregated, some were interracial. Everywhere, ordinary
people passionately devoted themselves to salvation, Holy Ghost
baptism evidenced by speaking in tongues, divine healing, and
anticipation of the Lord's imminent return.
This movement saw itself as leaderless, depending on individual
conversion and a radical equality of souls -- or, as early devotees
would say, on the Holy Spirit. But a closer look reveals a host of
forceful, clear-eyed leaders. This volume offers twenty
biographical portraits of the first-generation pioneers who wove
the different strands of Holy Spirit revivalism into a coherent and
dramatically successful movement.
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