 Kathryn
Johanna Kuhlman was born on May 9, 1907, in Concordia,
Missouri, to German parents, Joseph Adolph and Emma
Walkenhorst Kuhlman. She was one of four children: Myrtle,
Earl, Kathryn and Geneva. Kuhlman was converted in 1921 at a
revival meeting held in a Methodist church and led by a
Baptist evangelist, a Rev. Hummel. By 1923 Kuhlman had
completed the tenth grade, which was the extent of public
education available in Concordia. Her sister, Myrtle, had
married a traveling evangelist from Moody Bible Institute,
Everette B. Parrott.
She urged the Kuhlman parents to
allow Kathryn to join them for the summer, which they
reluctantly did. The Parrotts' itinerary took them to Oregon
that summer, and Kuhlman assisted in services by giving her
testimony several times in the revival meetings. At the end
of the summer, the Parrotts, intending to return Kuhlman to
Concordia, allowed her to stay with them and Rev. Parrott
promised that she could preach occasionally, a promise which
he never fulfilled.
Kuhlman remained with the Parrots
for five years. During that time, the Parrotts were influenced
by Dr. Price, a Canadian evangelist, who instructed Parrott on
the baptism of the Holy Spirit. The first time a person was
healed in one of Kathryn's meeting was in 1946, here is what
she had to say of that occurrence. "It was in Franklin,
Pennsylvania in the old Billy Sunday Tabernacle. I had gone to
Franklin by faith (l946), not knowing what I would find there.
It was in the third service, as I was preaching on the
Holy Spirit, sharing with the people the little that I knew
about that Third Person of the Trinity - a woman stood up and
testified to her healing of a tumor. That was the first
healing that took place in this ministry. It happened without
the laying on of hands, without any special prayer; it just
happened as a woman sat in the audience while I was preaching
on the power of the Holy Spirit. Since that time, there have
been thousands and thousands of healings. WHAT IS THE SECRET?
It is the Third Person of the Trinity - the Holy Spirit!"
God's Grace
by Kathryn Kuhlman
Where would
any man or any woman be this very hour were it
not for the grace of the Lord Jesus Christ?
Grace greater than all our sins - grace greater
than all our shortcomings. I am reminded of
God's grace when someone confides, "I wasn't
worthy of this healing or of God's blessings. I
am not worthy to be called an heir of God and a
joint-heir with Christ Jesus." It isn't a matter
of being worthy, for no man is worthy! It isn't
our perfection or our penitence, or a matter of
our labors to reach the place of perfection or
worthiness. It is God's grace alone!
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