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Originally Posted by MissBrattified
One major difference would be that William Seymour claimed revelation from scripture while Joseph Smith claimed revelation during an isolated miraculous event involving a visit from the angel "Moroni." The former is a tangible source and the "revelations" are therefore easy to verify or disprove.
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Pentecostalism in the 21st Century goes back farther than William Seymour. Namely, Charles Fox(xe?) Parham and his little bible school in Topeka, KS is where the modern experience of speaking in tongues originated in the United States.