testimony to a hunger on the part of many holiness and evangelical Christians for a more “Pentecostal” experience than they had received under classical holiness teaching. “Third blessingism” was an important portent of things to come in the holiness movement that produced the later Pentecostal movement. It is not without significance that the first person to speak in tongues in the 20th century, Agnes Ozman, was part of this movement. Such widespread use of Pentecostal terminology had the effect of moving
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