As multiple holiness sects merged to form what would become modern Pentecostalism, many unusual men, women, and ministries became immortalized as “heroes of the faith”, many of which are described as such in books and videos naming them as “God’s Generals”.
The religious empire of John Alexander Dowie, for example, was one of the multiple prototypes used by Charles Fox Parham as he was birthing the Apostolic Faith movement.
Parham visited Frank Sandford’s Shiloh commune and Dowie’s Zion commune while building his own religious sect in Kansas.