| When Charles Fox Parham, a white Pentecostal pioneer and teacher of Seymour's (he had allowed Seymour to attend his Bible School on the condition that he sit outside a door left partially ajar), visited Azusa Street in October of 1906, he denounced the Revival as a "darky camp meeting." "What good can come from a self-appointed Negro prophet?" scoffed the mainstream newspapers. |
| This unfortunate incident and his judgmental nature alienated Parham not only from Seymour, but others as well. The Movement had now begun to move well beyond him. Indeed, it was not as monolithic as he and others assumed: Pentecostalism emerged in India in 1906 among holiness believers without ties to Topeka and Azusa Street. |
| Parham had difficulty retaining the loyalty of many followers. Most Pentecostals rejected his notion that only the Spirit baptized would be taken in the Rapture and had even less tolerance for his ideas about the annihilation of the wicked and the origin of Anglo-Saxon peoples. |
| As his influence slipped, he became increasingly resentful. When former friends and other Pentecostals met to organize the General Council of the Assemblies of God at Hot Springs, Arkansas, in 1914, Parham criticized them. |
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| Parham Denounces Azusa Street Revival as "Darky Camp Meeting" |