Lesson Three
Topeka, Kansas

Bethel College
•	Charles F. Parham
•	Young, Holiness preacher
•	Established Bethel Divine Healing Home
•	Published Apostolic newspaper
•	“Bethel College” Bible School
•	Parham opened in 1900
•	40 students enrolled
•	Bible as textbook
•	Revelation of Tongues as evidence of Holy Ghost

Watch Night Service
•	115 people total
•	Service was especially blessed 
•	A mighty spiritual power filled the school  
•	Hearts were filled with hunger for the will of God to be done.

New Years, 1901
•	Sister Agnes N. Ozman requested that hands be laid on her that she might receive the Holy Spirit 
•	Brother Parham’s hesitation
•	Finally, in the Name of Jesus, he laid his land on her head and prayed.  
•	Prayed only a few sentences when a glory fell upon her.  
•	She lost her English , and with floods of joy a laughter she praised God in other languages. 
•	In her testimony she wrote, “ It was as if though rivers of living water were proceeding from my innermost being.”

Beginning of 20th Century Revival
•	Some students had remained at the Bible School to pray while Brother Parham was out preaching in Topeka
•	God answered their prayers by pouring out his Spirit 
•	They began speaking in tongues and some were given the interpretation
•	Room filled with a sheen of white light
•	Brother Parham returned and began to speak in tongues
•	Newspapers carried the news and revival had begun!

The Revival Spreads
•	Mrs. Mary Arthur in Galena, Kansas
•	Attended healing service and was healed
•	Received the Holy Ghost shortly thereafter
•	Started home meetings, then in a building
•	Hundreds were converted, baptized, healed
•	Many signs, wonders, miracles took place
•	Meetings continued till the winter of 1904
•	Howard A. Goss was converted in this revival
•	Orchard, Texas
•	Group from Galena carried truth to Texas
•	Pentecostal revival broke out
•	The whole town was converted
•	Traveled home on a train singing and praising 
•	Twelve people were filled on the train ride
•	One of the twelve being Howard A. Goss

Lesson Three
Self Help Test

A.	Write an account of Bethel College, Topeka, Kansas, and the events that took place there one New Years, 1901. 

B.	Write an account of the Pentecostal revival that took place in Galena, Kansas, 1903- 1904.