Michael Malone - Weebly

ahead to speak in tongues so all the multitudes were
amazed and understood every word of that gibberish
just as if it were English. Whether they were Parthians
or Moabites and I think some Romans were there and
Cappadocians and all those other little countries that are
all over the Holy Lands. And I know that there are a
few denominations who even in this day and age have
continued to see fit to have convulsions and babble
away for all they're worth, I'm sure with the best
intentions in the world, but I really think we needn't go
to that length here at St. Andrew's in order to find
words to wonder at the wonderful works of God. Of
which we ourselves are surely the wonderfulest, or most
wonderful, of all. Think of all those people together
talking away in a great hubbub, not the Tower of Babel
now, but a babble of Good News. For what is the
Good News? I'm reminded that our curate, Father
Fields, whom we've been so proud and happy to have
with us this last year, told me, I think, that 'gossip' and
'gospel' meant the same thing. Or perhaps that wasn't it.
I see Jonathan laughing there! I know, it was that
'gossip' means 'kinsman'! Yes, and so does 'kind.' And