F.F. Bosworth’s House Recently Up for Sale

When Mr. Parham entered the city, it was impossible to obtain a building to hold a meeting in as all doors were closed against him. His first meeting was held in a private room at Elijah Hospice (hotel) at the invitation of the manager. The next night two rooms and the hall way were crowded out and from that time onward the meetings increased in number, attendance and power.

He then began cottage meetings and many of the best homes in the city were opened for meetings. Fred F. Bosworth’s home was literally converted into a meeting house. On some Sundays, morning and evening, four rooms have been closely packed with people at one time, generally uniting in one meeting, but sometimes for a few minutes being divided into three separate testimony meetings until a hymn begun in one room would be taken up in the others until the whole assembly was welded into one body of praise. I am sure those who participated in the divine enthusiasm of these meetings will never forget their sweetness and power. I was permitted to be in the cottage meetings the following winter, and know how the dear people of Zion City did worship God in spirit and in truth as their hungry hearts were filled with the Holy Spirit.