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goodly number of foreign missionaries and workers in Mukti and other stations
round about sought and received the same enduement with power from on high
that the girls had received. Writing of this revival at a later date, Albert
Norton, venerable missionary of Dhond, wrote: ‘About six months ago we began
to hear of Christian believers in different places and countries receiving
the gift of speaking in a new tongue which they had never known before. One
week ago today, I visited the Mukti Mission. Miss Abrams asked me if I should
like to go into a room where about twenty girls were praying. After entering,
I knelt with closed eyes by a table on one side. Presently I heard someone
praying near me very distinctly in English. Among the petitions were :’O
Lord, open the mouth; O Lord, open the mouth; O Lord, open the heart; O Lord,
open the heart; O Lord, open the eyes; O Lord, open the eyes! Oh, the blood
of Jesus! the blood of Jesus! Oh, give complete victory! Oh, such a blessing!
Oh, such glory!’ I was struck with astonishment, as I knew that there was no
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opened my eyes, and within three feet of me, on her knees, with closed eyes
and raised hands was a woman, whom I had baptized at Kedgaon in 1899, and
whom my wife and I had known intimately since, as a devoted Christian worker.
Her mother-tongue was Marathi, and she could speak a little Hindustani. But
she was unable to speak or understand English, such as she was using. But
when I heard her speak English idiomatically, distinctly and fluently, I was
impressed as I should have been had I seen one, whom I knew to be dead,
raised to life. A few other illiterate Marathi women and girls were speaking
in English, and some were speaking in other languages which none at Kedgaon
understood. This was not gibberish, but it closely resembled the speaking of
foreign languages to which I had listened but did not understand. |
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From:
Stanley H. Frodsham, With Signs
Following, Gospel Publishing House, Springfield Missouri, 1946, pages
107-108 |