Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1910-05-20

We do not make special point Of
10 gift of tongues; our emphasis is
ways put upon love and life. And
undoubtedly the lives of the girls
nave 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, | go up to her and
sreak to her, or touch her on the
shoulder, and she stops at once;
whereas, if a girl is praying in the
Spirit | cannot stop her, no matter
how sharply l speak to her or shake
| her"
The Wonderful Gift of Tongues.
My hearing is peculiar" continued
Ramabai, lin that 1 can understand
most clearly when there is loud
noise "a well-known characteristic of
| the partially deaf and 1 move among
| the girls, listening to them. l have
heard girls who know no English make
beautiful prayers in English. l have
heard others pray in Greek and He
brew and Sanskrit and others in lam
gCages that none of us understands.
| )ne of the girls was praying in this
| very room (the room of one of the
| English staff a 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, "and she prayed by
name for a cousin of mine whom
had forgotten, and of whom l had
never once thought since coming to
| India"
When 1 asked why, in Ramabais
| 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
the story in his own speech, she re-
piled, Il, too, wondered about that.
| But it 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 l 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 l described, is
an emotionalist, so far as | could per-
ceive. Both, in fact, are persons OF
more than ordinary reserve, culture
| and discernment, nor can | 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-
uOuuC0Q puy SlCdl Cn1OllOu.
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 headlong to
the ground. Even lepers have been
made to dance. Leaping, shouting
rolling on the floor, beating the air
and dancing, have been common. Con-
corning dancing, Bishop Warne said,
Personally, l have not seen much OF
| the dancing; that is reported as most
| ly having taken place in Presbyterian
churchesl" 1t is a 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
| year; l have reports from Lucknow,
Allahabad, Adansol, Moradabad, Bare
| lily, Khassia Hills and Kedagaon. The
Methodists baptized 1000 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
edly altered for the better. The
revival" says one, has given India
new sense of sin" The spontaneous
composition of hymns has been
curious feature of some meetings;
Bishop Warne thinks that there will
be a new hymnology in the vernacu-
| lar as an outcome of this revival"
While columns more could be writ
| ten concerning incidents of this re-
vival, there is only room here to add
! that it must not be assumed that all
of India is being stirred by these
events. Many churches and missions
| are strangers to them, and the Euro
pean population Of the country as
whole know nothing about them. Yet
it is the conviction of those who claim
to have received the Pentecostal bap-
tism that all of India is to be swept
by a fire of religious revival. Some
even say that they have been given
direct supernatural assurance of thi7
fact
(Copyriel by Joseph Il Bowles)