Selected Messages, Volume 3 - Ellen G. White

us we spake in other tongues as the Spirit gave us
utterance.
In Toledo, when we were bearing our message
on the street, a man who was a Polish Catholic
stood on the street when Mrs. Mackin was
speaking; and as the Spirit of God came upon her,
and spoke to them through her in another language
that she could not understand, this Polish
gentleman exclaimed, “I know what that lady is
speaking. She is speaking in my own tongue of a
calamity which is soon to be visited on this city.”
Alleged Foreign Tongue.—In other instances,
when one comes into this blessing of speaking with
tongues, the Lord may give me the same tongue,
and we may hold a conversation in the language
that the Spirit of God may have given us utterance
in. Even three or four may take part in the
conversation, and yet it is a foreign tongue to them,
and one waits on the other until the other is
through; and it is all in order. This is the experience
we received, according to the promised blessing....
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