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

evenings heaps of cigarettes, tobacco pipes, snuff boxes,
various heathen charms, and dice used for gambling were
given us. Although there had been no preaching on earrings
or bangles, the women started pulling off their earrings,
bangles, etc. The much feared 'Tsotsis' surrendered their
knives they used to carry with them to stab people, which
indicated that God was working in their hearts. Even after the
tent meetings were officially closed we were still obliged to
hold three to four meetings a day for a whole week, since so
many natives came in groups of from forty to fifty inquiring
about the wonderful things of God. By His grace the work is
still going on, for which we thank Him."
The only comments called for, except a glad "Hallelujah,"
seem to be -
(a) We are seeing all over the world the fulfilment of the
vision. Those who want to maintain or rebuild the partitions
should be very careful lest haply they work against God.
Especially mistaken are any zealots "trying to build up a new
Pentecostal body, hoping thereby to absorb all the others."
They never will; but it would be amusing if it were not
pathetic to observe how blind new movements can be to the
plain fact that their divisive tactics, often covered with much
mouthing of "unity," are only heading for the creation of just
one more little sect.
And
(b) When the Church devotes herself to her supreme
business of evangelism she finds as a blessed by-product a
spontaneous unity bursting through in all her sections. A
genuine love for souls carries with it a love for the brethren
also. We justly look with doubtfulness upon a boasted zeal for
evangelism that makes men narrow, bigoted, and censorious.
We have not so learned Christ. "He that is not against us is on
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