All with One Accord (Donald Gee) - Deal Pentecostal Church

great gifts. Wisdom can be accepted as "the principal thing"
(Proverbs4:7) and the Word of Knowledge can be recognized
as the spiritual gift with which Paul longed to "teach others
also" (1Corinthians14:19).
Our attitude towards the supernatural should be
believing but sober. Zeal for a testimony to miracles must
never be allowed to sweep aside that sound judgment that
ensures a Pentecostal revival producing fruit that remains to
the glory of God.
Do "Tongues" Matter?
It sometimes happens that a chance remark contains a flash
of insight into an important matter. E. J. G. Titterington (now
deceased) observed in a letter to me that accompanied some
kind translation work from Norwegian (at which he was an
expert) that "It was the linking together of speaking with
tongues and the baptism in the Holy Spirit that sparked off
the Pentecostal revival." Further experience in lecturing to
students on the history of the revival has confirmed the truth
of that observation.
There are abundant instances scattered throughout the history
of religious revivals of the occurrence of speaking with
tongues. S. H. Frodsham has listed several in his book With
Signs Following. We usually regard what happened in Azusa
Street, Los Angeles, in April, 1906, as the beginning of the
Pentecostal revival. Actually what occurred there attracted
world-wide attention through the press, and as a consequence
hungry hearts flocked to Azusa Street from all parts of the
world and entered into the fullness of blessing. But there had
been previous outpourings of the Spirit in Topeka, Galena,
Houston, and elsewhere in the United States, to say nothing
of other lands. It is computed that upwards of a thousand
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