was too busy with its own problems at the time to get involved. Sadly, when she and her co-religionists visited England in (I'd have look this up) 1865, the people at the Keswick seminar re-interpreted the whole phenomena in such a way as to completely disguise its original intentions. It has taken a long time to trace all of this. Donald Dayton has done most of the yeoman's work. As I say, there is a lot I could talk about, but that is not the topic of this post. Linguists, neuroscientists, sociologists, and other scientists have studied different aspects of the modern phenomenon. They have actually done brain mapping studies of people speaking in tongues. I don't want to be cryptic, but it takes a while to lay this all out and I like to systematic and thorough. The original intention from the original "discoverer" was specifically condemned as a proposition by the Council of Trent. Mnsr. Knox is, essentially, correct, when he says that the phenomenon was an attempt to overwrite nature with grace. All I will say about the Charismatic aspects of the Alpha Course is that it will never make the person into a saint (it, actually, can't, since it imports a defect in Faith), but, if it does not drive him insane or to kill himself (you would have to know what I know to believe this is possible), it could make him a better person up to a point. Make of that what you will.