Many more had not been prayed for, so Howard-Browne continued out the building, up and down lines of seekers on the outside lawn. By the time he was done, some 4,000 persons had been prayed over, Roberts estimates. She fell to the ground and laughed for an hour and 45 minutes. When we tried putting her to bed, she fell out laughing. We finally had to put her in the bathtub.
Baby boomers are notorious for going to great lengths to alleviate their inner pain.
Howard-Browne understands this quite well. The elder Roberts then prophesied over him, but the sounds of students hysterically laughing nearly drowned him out. Not everyone thinks the laughing phenomenon is good. I don't think it is significant for American Christianity in general. In fact, I don't think it's theological at all.