ABSTRACT
An advertisement appeared in the Wichita newspapers the morning of May 7, 1922, announcing Aimee Semple McPherson standard three-weeks meeting to be held at the Forum. By the end of the meetings, Aimee would meet her Waterloo with organized Pentecostalism, and relations would be strained with the Assemblies of God. From her time in Wichita, Aimee would formulate a new theological perspective called The Narrow Line and The Middle Road. Whacks from the other side came from Wichita's mainline religious establishment, primarily from the clergy. Finally, in the Wichita campaign there was new evidence that Aimee's vision of Christianity was also broadening beyond healing and moving messages. It took the form, as it would during the Depression years in Los Angeles, of what Aimee called remembering the poor. Before leaving Wichita Aimee told those in attendance at the Forum, I have preached under all kinds of conditions, some of them heartbreaking.
