What I find interesting about Parham is the same man who claimed that signs and wonders had resumed in 1901 also wrote in 1902 that if you don't preach signs and wonders as part of the gospel you're in danger of damnation from God.
In the same book (
A Voice Crying in the Wilderness, 1902) he makes some truly ridiculous claims. He says Job was a sinner and that's why God sent catastrophe on him. He was dragged down by his godless wife who told him to curse God and die. He says the cyclone hit the house where his children were eating and drinking wine because they were partying and dancing. Then he says—you can't make this stuff up—they would probably belong to a "fashionable" church that allows dancing and theater-going; and surely wouldn't blame their godless behavior for their trouble but would have a rational explanation: it was merely a cyclone.
I wonder what Parham would think of the churches he spawned which permit every form of carnality and sensuality in the churches. But the apple doesn't fall far from the tree: today they make up equally ridiculous stories by twisting the scripture; nothing much has changed there.
It seems to me more people would want to know the origins of the church they attend.
"Some people say to us, was Job a sinner, did he suffer for sin? We answer, Yes; whatsoever a man soweth that shall he also reap. The Word of God says, Be not unequally yoked together with unbelievers. Because of her beauty or some other reason, Job married a
foolish and ungodly woman, who told him to curse God and die. She had raised [for] him an ungodly family, who, when the cyclone struck the house were wining and dancing. Truly they may have belonged to a fashionable church where dancing and theatre-going were permitted; the harm was not in these innocent (?) amusements but in that miserable cyclone!"—A Voice Crying in the Wilderness, pg. 42 (underlining added)