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A highly
respected Methodist minister related the following to me. Languages had been
his hobby and he was fluent in at least seven. Reading in the paper that
extraordinary scenes of revival fervour were being experienced at Bowland
Street Chapel, Bradford, and that some were professing to have the spiritual
gifts of tongues and prophecy, he decided to investigate. |
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With much prayer
that he might be clearly guided, he took a train to |
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He kneeled
with the rest of us, and few moments later was amazed to hear around him people
speaking in rapturous praise and adoration to the Lord, in every one of those
seven languages with which he was familiar. |
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He was
dumbfounded. The people had been too occupied in their worship even to notice
his entry or his kneeling among them. Certainly nobody present knew which
languages he could speak. Then too, they were rejoicing in the death,
resurrection and promised return of the Lord Jesus, extolling the efficacy of
His cleansing blood and of His risen power. There were many things which he
realised as Scriptural in that meeting, though he had never before seen them
in practice. |
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Without
saying a word he set out again for his home, and on the way found himself in
a railway carriage alone, so took out his pipe and tobacco, and lit up in order
to think over all he had seen and heard in Bowland Street meeting. A great
longing took hold of him to be filled with the Holy Ghost, to be
God-possessed and God-controlled. Then is occurred to him that that tobacco
pipe was somehow not consistent with such a desire, so he threw his pipe and
tobacco pouch out of the railway carriage window and falling on his knees, he
cried to God to endue him too with power from on high. When his train arrived
at the station where he was to alight, he found that he too was extolling the
Lord Jesus in a new language which he had never learned. |
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time onward he often came into |
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W. F. P.
Burton |
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From: W.
F. P. Burton, Signs following,
pages 34-35 |