The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1908-01-03

elects to sit on low STOOL at the rect
of the person with whom she con-
verses, for the sake of better hearing.
While we were talking her grown
daughter, Monoramabai, her first as
sistant in the work. sat on the floor
with her arm about her mother, and
word. Ramabai (the suf1x "bai,'
means Mrs" or "Miss") speaks SIM
ply, naturally and directly. So she
told me of the growth of Shadai Sa-
dan, the work for widows, and one or
the Mukti mission, the whole support
ed by faith
eve do not make special point OF
the gift of tongues; our emphasis is
always put upon love and life. And
undoubtedly the lives of the girls
have been changed. About 700 Of
them have come into this blessing.
We do not exhibit the girls that have
| been gifted with other tongues, nor do
| we in any wise call special attention
to them. We try to weed out the false
from the true; for there are other
| spirits than the Holy Spirit, and when
| a girl begins to try to speak in another
tongue, apparently initiating the other
girls, without mentioning the name or
blood of Jesus, l go up to her and
| sreak to her, or touch her on the
shoulder, and she stops at once:
whereas, if girl is praying in the
Spirit / cannot stop her, no matter
| how sharply I speak to her or shake
her."
| The Wonderful Gift of Tongues.
my hearing is peculiar" continued
Ramabai, lin that I can understand
most clearly when there is loud
| noise "a well-known characteristic OF
| the partially deaf and move among
| the girls, listening to them. 1 have
heard girls who know no English make
beautiful prayers in English. I have
| heard others pray in Greek and He.
brew and Sanskrit and others in lam
| guages that none of us understands.
| One of the girls was praying in this
very room (the room of one of the
| English staff few nights ago, and
| although in her studies she has not
gone beyond the second book, she
prayed so freely and clearly and beau
| tifully in English that the other teach
ers, hearing, wondered who could be
praying, since they did not distinguish
the voice." YES" spoke up the occu-
pant Of the room, land she prayed by
name for a cousin of mine whom I
had forgotten. and Of whom had
never once thought since coming to
India"
When I asked why, in Ramabai's
opinion, tongues that served no useful
purpose being incomprehensible to
everybody should be given, whereas
the gift of tongues on the day of Pen
tecost was SO that every person in
that polyglot multitude should hear
piled, II, too, wondered about that.
But 1t has been shown to me that 1t
is to rebuke unbelief in the gift Of
tongues, she herself has been given
the gift"
All these wonders have set down
impartially, as phenomena of great
interest to all who give thought to re-
ligious or psychic themes. Neither
Ramabai, nor the native teacher who
led the meeting which I described, is
an emotionalist, so far as I could per.
ceive. Both, in fact, are persons OF
more than ordinary reserve, culture
| and discernment, nor can I explain
the relation between what is happen,
ing at Mukti and the revivals that are
being reported from various parts OF
India, most of them characterized by
astonishing confessions of sin, on the
part of Christians and by prolonged
and even agonized prayer, with pro
nounced physical emotion.
Making Presbyterians Dance.
There has been a pronounced phys.
| ical side to the demonstrations, as
found at Kedgaon. Entire audiences
have shaken as If smitten with palsy,
strong men have fallen head;ong to
| the ground. Even lepers havA been
| made to dance Leaping, shouting,
rolling on the floor, beating the air
and dancing, have been common. Con.
| corning dancing, Bishop Warne said,
1 l
| the dancing; that is reported as most.
| ly having taken place in Presbyterian
churches!" 1t is fact that the dig
nified Presbyterians, even the Scotch
church missions, have been foremost
in these revival experiences.
The revival has continued in various
parts of the empire for more than q
year; 1 have reports from Lucknow,
Allahabad, Adansol, Moradabad, Bare
lily, Khassia Hills and Kedagaon. The
Methodists baptized 1900 new con-
verts during the year, besides the
notable result of having secured more
than 800 new candidates for the min
istry.
Dramatic in the extreme have been
| the confessions of sin, and restitution
therefore, and the reconciliations be.
| tween enemies.
Everywhere there is agreement that
the lives of the people have been mark.
eddy altered for the better. 'The