... that the "founder" of Pentecostalism decided to make racist remarks and badmouth the revival when he couldn't have his way. From my personal past experience I see that not much changes.



The first Pentecostal followers and Pentecostal preachers 
were black people at the beginning of the 20th century. 
1904 in the Topeka Kansas Bible College happened first, but remained within the Bibleschool.
The Welsh ecstatic movement happened 1904 in the United Kingdom.
Azusastreet happened 1906 in California and was widely spread:
Black people having no jobs, no money, little hope to get socially setlled. 
First Azusa Street preachers piled up shoeboxes and other old cases
to stand upon and to preach to passersby shouting out loud and falling in ecstatic speech often.

Ecstatic speech is a psychological phenomeneon and can happen to any person.
Psychology of Religions is dealing with it and discerns spiritual trance from spiritual ecstasy.
From trance a person can emerge into ecstasy, 
but spiritual ecstasy can happen to a person as well as  a "rapture" instantly 
if several biological individual parameters are met.

But:
Spiritual Trance and Ecstatic Speech and Ecstatic Experiences are as Old as Mankind.
Glossolallia and Xenoglossy are special experiences within spiritual trance and spiritual ecstasy.

What makes Glossolallia wildcat 
is the constant everyday practice as kind of prayer 
without being in trance and without being in religious ecstasy.









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