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On the surface, [[Speaking in tongues]] was the critical factor separating Pentecostals from adherents of the Holiness movement, but the underlying difference between the two was the manner in which the movements interpreted scripture. Holiness people used metaphor to make biblical events synonymous with personal experience. For them, the Exodus symbolized the progression of the soul to the life of holiness. Pentecostals sought to reenact elements of the biblical text literally, and believed they participated in the fulfillment of scripture.<ref> Charles Edwin Jones, "Beulah Land and the Upper Room: Reclaiming the Text in Turn-of-the-century Holiness and Pentecostal Spirituality." ''Methodist History'' 1994 32(4): 250-259 </ref>
On the surface, [[Speaking in tongues]] was the critical factor separating Pentecostals from adherents of the Holiness movement, but the underlying difference between the two was the manner in which the movements interpreted scripture. Holiness people used metaphor to make biblical events synonymous with personal experience. For them, the Exodus symbolized the progression of the soul to the life of holiness. Pentecostals sought to reenact elements of the biblical text literally, and believed they participated in the fulfillment of scripture.<ref> Charles Edwin Jones, "Beulah Land and the Upper Room: Reclaiming the Text in Turn-of-the-century Holiness and Pentecostal Spirituality." ''Methodist History'' 1994 32(4): 250-259 </ref>
A short, profound Pentecostal revival in [[Wales]] (part of Britain) in 1904-5 lasted less than a year, but made 100,000 converts. The revival spread from south Wales to north Wales, then to Britain, and eventually to Los Angeles, California, which proved fertile ground for Pentecostalism.<ref> Edward J. Gitre, "The 1904-05 Welsh Revival: Modernization, Technologies, and Techniques of the Self," ''Church History'' 2004 73(4): 792-827. see also [[Wales]].</ref>
===Azusa Street Revival===
===Azusa Street Revival===