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| | How a humble preacher ignited the Pentecostal fire |
 | | Charles Fox Parham, a white preacher who opened the Bethel Bible School in Topeka, Kan., in 1900, seized on that passage and became the first to teach that speaking in tongues was the only true evidence of a baptism in the Holy Ghost. |
 | | During the same period, Seymour, who was born in Centerville, La., in 1870 to former slaves, had drifted north in search of more racially tolerant locales. |
 | | In October 1906, Seymour was proud to host Parham, the father of the Pentecostal doctrine, but the mentor, an avid segregationist, was aghast at the intermingling of races, as well as the feverish proceedings, which often found churchgoers banging on tambourines and running up and down the aisles. |
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