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extravagant lifestyle and home. Upon hearing that, Coe printed pictures of four large homes owned by some top officials in the
Assemblies of God and the smaller homes of himself and three other revivalists. Coe also charged that the Assemblies of God were "fighting divine healing". Other revivalists soon came into conflict with Pentecostal denominations as well.
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Coe's revival messages centered upon healing, and he was adamant about not taking medicines and not visiting doctors. In 1953, the
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in 1944, and began to preach while still serving in World War II. In the following twelve years, he traveled the U.S. organizing tent revivals to spread his message. Coe was frequently the center of controversy, preached extensively through the South, and employed some 80 persons."
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Roberts' revival tent. One day Coe went to a Roberts' tent meeting and measured the tent; he then ordered a larger one. Coe was not bashful about announcing that his tent was the largest in the world; bigger, he claimed, than the one
160:, the seventh child of George Henry and Blanche Zoe (Mays) Coe of Pleasantville, Venango County, Pennsylvania, and Oklahoma City. His parents later placed him in an orphanage. He left there in 1935 at the age of 17. A heavy drinker, he joined the Army after
284:, died on September 27, 1996, and was buried in Laurel Land Memorial Park in Dallas. Jack Coe's son, Jack Coe, Jr., also became a preacher with a healing ministry.
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magazine until 1950, when he began his own magazine, the
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in the United States with a touring tent ministry after
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556:"'Faith Healer' Cleared Of Illegal Practice"
491:"Faith healer Dies- Victim of Bulbar Polio"
179:who moved to America from England in 1634.
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615:"Faith Healer Jack Coe Dies"
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341:"Biography of Jack Coe"
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973:American Pentecostals
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590:"Faith Healer Ill"
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