Holiness Pentecostalism

{{multiple image Pentecostal Christianity was established under the work of Charles Fox Parham and William Joseph Seymour. Charles Fox Parham was originally a Wesleyan-Holiness preacher, and in 1901, under his ministry "a student had spoken in tongues (glossolalia)" and Parham thought this to be evidence of baptism in the Holy Spirit. At the Azusa Street Revival, the testimony of those who attended the Azusa Street Revival was "I am saved, sanctified, and filled with the Holy Ghost". At that time, the Apostolic Faith Gospel Mission held three services a day, all days of the week, and there "thousands of seekers received the baptism of speaking in tongues." Holiness Pentecostalism inherited the hymnody of the Wesleyan-Holiness movement of Methodism, though Holiness Pentecostalism "reinterpreted some of the words and phrases to accentuate the Pentecostal experience" of the third work of grace. A preacher named William Howard Durham fractured Pentecostalism, which at that time was solely Holiness Pentecostalism. Holiness Pentecostal divine Charles Fox Parham saw Durham's rejection of entire sanctification as inviting "animalism" and "spiritualistic counterfeits" into the ranks of the denomination. In response to Finished Work Pentecostalism, Charles Fox Parham prophesied Durham's "destruction within six months" and said that "if this man's doctrine is true, let my life go out to prove it, but if our teaching on a definite grace of sanctification is true, let his life pay the forfeit." As Durham then "died suddenly and unexpectedly on a trip to Los Angeles on July 7, 1912, thus seemingly vindicating Parham's position", he responded, "how signally God has answered." Holiness Pentecostals saw "the belief in entire sanctification as a second work of grace" as a "test of orthodoxy" and those who professed a belief in the "Finished Work" as heretics. == Denominations ==