Word: pentecostal
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Pentecost of the year 383 A.D., Samaritans at Mount Gerizim massacred Christians. Other Christians were angry and destroyed the Samaritan temple. A church was built on its ruins. Later the church fell to pieces and was buried under debris. This autumn the German Archaeological Institute uncovered the site...
...train with President Coolidge rode Pentecost Mitchell of Duluth, whose father organized the first mining company on the Mesaba. Mr. Mitchell, president of U. S. Steel Corp.'s potent subsidiary, Oliver Iron Mining Co., doubtless referred to the fact that a rich part of the Mesaba used to belong to the Federal-Government, before iron was discovered there. It was traded to the State of Minnesota and now is operated by U. S. Steel Corp. on a royalty basis. Township taxes on the mining properties have made Hibbing one of the richest communities in the land. The miners...
...Bible class members had worked themselves into hysteria, declared the deacons. They had been practicing Pentecostalism assiduously, vehemently. In the description of Reporter Hugh O'Connor of the New York Herald Tribune, "prayer meetings continued late into the night, with men and women intoning Scripture, chanting hymns and imploring the Holy Spirit with ardent cries to come into their souls-at times even falling to the floor of the church and lying outstretched on their backs, rigid, while their lips streamed mystical sounds, supposed to duplicate the 'Gift of Tongues,' such as accompanied the coming...
...before 300 members of the Presbytery, adding that he had directly communicated with God on six other occasions. Then, with the voice of a prophet, he said: "The Holy Ghost is about to descend upon New York. The church in this city is on the eve of a second Pentecost. The Pentecost will be made by the spirit of God out of the differences of race, background and intellect that exist here. I feel that the spirit of God is at work this moment on the new Pentecost...
Columbia University, through its University Extension Division, is helping to make possible the exercise of the "international mind" through the spoken word. When the courses which are announced to begin next Monday are in progress, there will be a wider representation of tongues than occurred at Pentecost, for in this ancient historic polyglot assemblage no tongue was represented from regions more remote from Jerusalem than Mesopotamia and Asia Minor and Egypt, with the exception of "sojourners from Rome"; whereas the Columbia courses are practically planetary in their scope. They are extension courses in a double sense, embracing as they...