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A testimony I read tonight, involving William J Seymour, of the Azusa Street revival.........
"As she looked at me through her gold-handled lorgnette, she said, 'Reverend, I believe in the baptism of the Holy Ghost and fire...but I don't appreciate the noise, the shouting.'
'Sister, you are just like I am, I responded. There are many manifestations that I see among God's people that I don't appreciate myself, but, do you know, when the Spirit of the Lord comes upon me, I enjoy it.'
'Her small mouth pursed in mild disagreement, but I continued: ...Now, my little sister, if you want to go into the prayer room and pray to be baptized in the Holy Spirit, please go ahead. And when it happens, don't shout unless you feel like it. Just be yourself.'
"She nodded vigorously, 'Oh indeed I will.'
"...I was busy in an office about seventy-five feet away and soon forgot that she was there. Suddenly....I heard a penetrating outcry.
" Quickly I jerked open the door to look through the church and there came the little lady out of the prayer room as if she had been shot from a cannon. She began jumping, dancing, and shouting in the Lord. It was something to see this reserved, refined lady with the gold-handed lorgnette, dancing and swaying...crying out and singing intermittently in tongues and in English.
"I went out to meet her and smiling on the inside, commented, 'Sister, what you are doing doesn't appeal to me.'
"She made an undignified jump into the air and shouted, 'Maybe not, but it sure appeals to me!'" ;D
"As she looked at me through her gold-handled lorgnette, she said, 'Reverend, I believe in the baptism of the Holy Ghost and fire...but I don't appreciate the noise, the shouting.'
'Sister, you are just like I am, I responded. There are many manifestations that I see among God's people that I don't appreciate myself, but, do you know, when the Spirit of the Lord comes upon me, I enjoy it.'
'Her small mouth pursed in mild disagreement, but I continued: ...Now, my little sister, if you want to go into the prayer room and pray to be baptized in the Holy Spirit, please go ahead. And when it happens, don't shout unless you feel like it. Just be yourself.'
"She nodded vigorously, 'Oh indeed I will.'
"...I was busy in an office about seventy-five feet away and soon forgot that she was there. Suddenly....I heard a penetrating outcry.
" Quickly I jerked open the door to look through the church and there came the little lady out of the prayer room as if she had been shot from a cannon. She began jumping, dancing, and shouting in the Lord. It was something to see this reserved, refined lady with the gold-handed lorgnette, dancing and swaying...crying out and singing intermittently in tongues and in English.
"I went out to meet her and smiling on the inside, commented, 'Sister, what you are doing doesn't appeal to me.'
"She made an undignified jump into the air and shouted, 'Maybe not, but it sure appeals to me!'" ;D