Parham's Students at Bethel Bible School Spoke in Tongues

ON THIS DAY, 15 OCTOBER 1900, Charles Fox Parham opened Bethel Bible Institute in Topeka, Kansas. The institute was housed in a mansion known as Stone’s Folly, whose builder had run out of funds before it was complete. The school was faith-based, and funds soon dried up. It survived only one year, but its influence survived much longer.