A History of Christian Doctrine #3 - Online Christian Library

A History of Christian Doctrine
MA, 1984), in Jeffrey Gill compilation, 125. See also Manuel
Gaxiola, La Serpiente y la Paloma: Historia, Teología
Análisis de la Iglesia Apostólica de la Fe en Cristo Jesús
(1914-1994), 2 nd ed. (Mexico: Libros Pyros, 1994), 117.
30 James Tinney, “The Significance of Race in the Rise and
Development of the Apostolic Pentecostal Movement” (paper
presented at the First Occasional Symposium on Aspects of the
Oneness Pentecostal Movement, Harvard Divinity School,
Cambridge, MA, 1984), in Jeffrey Gill compilation, 60.
31 AF 1, no. 12 (January 1908): 4, in Papers, 61.
32 AF 1, no. 10 (September 1907): 2, in Papers, 51.
33 AF 2, no. 13 (May 1908): 2, in Papers, 63.
34 AF 1, no. 1 (September 1906): 1, in Papers, 10.
35 Charles Parham, “A Note of Warning,” The Apostolic Faith
(Zion City, IL), January 1907, in Sarah Parham, Life, 166-170.
36 The San Antonio Light reported on July 24, 1907, that
Parham and J. J. Jourdan were arrested for “the commission of an
unnatural offense,” or sodomy, but that Parham would fight the
charge and that he attributed the numerous stories of his alleged
immoral conduct to the anti-Pentecostal followers of Dowie in
Zion City. For a reproduction of the article, see Tyson, 41.
Sarah Parham wrote, “One day I received word that he had
been arrested while preaching but some of his true friends had
immediately came [sic] to his release and he continued the
meeting. The city attorney told him that he would not have to
appear, because he (the attorney) would not even call the case
for trial for he ‘was satisfied it was all spite work.’ I was with
him in Texas, at the date set in the indictment, but the case was
never called, the prosecuting attorney declaring that there was
absolutely no evidence which merited any legal recognition.”
Sarah Parham, Life, 198.
Howard Goss stated about the events in 1907: “The greatest
test of our whole lives came, as Satan struck our movement
a terrible blow from within. One of our leading ministers fell
into an awful sin, which turned out to be only a temporary
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