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While we were finishing our coffee, one of these men stood up and called out the name of a song. Everyone joined in, loud, lusty and wonderful, as I'd heard it before among Pentecostals. By the middle of the second song a woman at the next table was weeping. There was nothing especially emotional about the song itself; it was one of the standard old Gospel hymns, "When I Survey the Wondrous Cross." But crying seems to be as infectious as laughter. Soon some of the men on the platform were unabas
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― They Speak with Other Tongues: A Skeptic Investigates This Life-Changing Gift
― They Speak with Other Tongues: A Skeptic Investigates This Life-Changing Gift
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At Seabury House, headquarters of the Episcopal church, David was asked the touchiest question of all--the one that in the past had led to more ill-will toward the Pentecostals than any other. He'd been talking to a group of clergymen for thirty minutes or so about the Pentecostal experience when one of the priests stood up suddenly and said with some asperity, "Mr. du Plessis, are you telling us that you Pentecostals have the truth, and we other churches do not?"
David admits he prayed fast. "
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― They Speak with Other Tongues: A Skeptic Investigates This Life-Changing Gift
― They Speak with Other Tongues: A Skeptic Investigates This Life-Changing Gift
