Agnes Ozman (1870-1937) was a female student at Charles Fox Parham's Bethel Bible School in Topeka, Kansas. Ozman's experience was considered by many as “the first to speak in tongues,” which sparked the modern Pentecostal-Holiness movement in the early 20th century. 1870 (MDCCCLXX) was a common year starting on Saturday (see link for calendar) of the Gregorian calendar or a common year starting on Monday of the 12-day-slower Julian calendar. ... 1937 (MCMXXXVII) was a common year starting on Friday (link will take you to calendar). ... The factual accuracy of this article is disputed. ... aka, Bethel Gospel School. ... This article is about the state capital of Kansas. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... The Pentecostal movement within Protestant Christianity places special emphasis on the gifts of the Holy Spirit. ...

• Her parents were farmers and since childhood, Agnes and her six siblings attended the Methodist Episcopal Church in Nebraska, Wisconsin. As a young woman, Ozman participated in Bible institutions and eventually attended the Bethel Bible School in Kansas.

• Parham taught his students with regard to the Holiness movement of which he introduced the concepts of Divine healing and Sanctification. Parham pondered over what the bible verse "receiving Baptism of the Holy Spirit" meant and whether any evidence could be found. Parham gave his students three days, while he was absent, to ponder over this issue.

• By the time he returnes his students jointly agreed that if the Holy Spirit had descended upon an individual, then speaking in other tongues was sufficient proof of that. The students pointed out that this type of event was mentioned four times in Acts of the Apostles.

• Therefore on a New Year's Eve Parham and his students planned to pray for the Holy Spirit. So in 1901, after midnight of the first day, Ozman asked her mentor to pray specifically so that she could be filled with the Holy Spirit through the laying on of hands on her so that she could speak in another tongue.

• According to her fellow students, their prayers were heard in which her colleagues reported that a halo had surrounded both her face and head and that she started speaking in the Chinese language. Not long afterward Parham and thirty four other students also began speaking in unknown languages.

• As Quoted [1]: "It is said that Ozman could not speak English for three days and was only able to write in Chinese characters." and "Many that day experienced other gifts of the Spirit, and soon the little group went off from Kansas City to share the good news". [2].

In 1937, Ozman died from a heart failure. Farmer spreading grasshopper bait in his alfalfa field. ... The Methodist Episcopal Church, sometimes referred to as the M.E. Church, officially began at the Baltimore Christmas Conference in 1784. ... Official language(s) English Capital Lincoln Largest city Omaha Area  Ranked 16th  - Total 77,421 sq mi (200,520 km²)  - Width 210 miles (340 km)  - Length 430 miles (690 km)  - % water 0. ... This article does not cite its references or sources. ... The word Bible refers to the canonical collections of sacred writings of Judaism and Christianity. ... The Holiness movement is composed of people who believe and propagate the belief that the carnal nature of man can be cleansed through faith and by the power of the Holy Spirit if one has had his sins forgiven through faith in Jesus. ... Divine healing is claimed by many religious people as the phenomenon of a person being healed by the direct intervention of God. ... Sanctification or in its verb form, sanctify, literally means to set apart for special use or purpose, that is to make holy or sacred (compare Latin sanctus holy). Therefore sanctification refers to the state or process of being set apart, i. ... In Christian Pentecostal theology, Baptism with the Holy Spirit is a second baptism, in fire, spoken of by Jesus in the Gospels. ... Glossolalia (from the Greek, γλώσσα (glossa), tongue and λαλώ (lalô), to speak) comprises the utterance of semantically meaningless syllables. ... The Acts of the Apostles (Greek Praxeis Apostolon) is a book of the Bible, which now stands fifth in the New Testament. ... For other articles with similar names, see New Year (disambiguation) New Years Eve is December 31, the final day of the Gregorian year, and the day before New Years Day, New Years Eve is a separate observance from the observance of New Years Day. ... The laying on of hands is a religious practice found throughout the world in varying forms. ... Mary Magdalene in prayer. ... Chinese (written) language (pinyin: zhōngw n) written in Chinese characters The Chinese language (汉语/漢語, 华语/華語, or 中文; Pinyin: H nyǔ, Hu yǔ, or Zhōngw n) is a member of the Sino-Tibetan family of languages. ... The English language is a West Germanic language that originates in England. ... Technical note: Due to technical limitations, some web browsers may not display some special characters in this article. ...