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

But the other day I received a letter from an old missionary
friend in South Africa that recalled a vision given several years
ago, and there seems some justification for quoting it here.
"I wonder whether you still remember a vision the Lord gave
me at that first united Pentecostal Missionary Conference in
Johannesburg when you were out here. In that vision a large
congregation of Christian workers could be seen, all looking
forward, towards a platform where Jesus was standing. While
they could all see the platform they could not see each other
because there were wooden partitions around each person, so
that none could have fellowship with the others. But it was
clear that they all had the same aim, and all were looking to
Christ. Then a wonderful quiet fire came down from Heaven,
going through these wooden partitions which burnt up in that
fire, but no smoke or flames could be seen, and it did not
disturb the people. The partitions just seemed to burn up and
disappear. And now the workers could see each other, and
greeted each other, and there seemed to be such wonderful
harmony, and they continued looking forward to Christ who
was still standing on the platform. Although the wooden
partitions had disappeared, it did not alter the positions of the
various workers; each one still kept his own individuality, but
they all seemed to love each other, and to esteem each other
very highly.
"I have been watching for its fulfilment all these years. I have
attended many Conferences of the Pentecostal brethren
talking about unity; I have watched others leave our ranks
trying to build up a new Pentecostal body, hoping to absorb
all the other existing bodies into one, but everything seems to
be a failure. I remember one day while on the way to attend
such a meeting for uniting the Pentecostal bodies, I looked
back into the backyard of our house where I had planted
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