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APRIL
I,
1907
ZION'S
WATCH
TOWER
(uI·1l6)
my
effort
to
make
each
report
more
satisfactory
than
the
last.
Your
words
of
instruction
and
encouragement
have,
1
assure
you,
been
greatly
appreciated.
It
seemed
to
me
that
I
esteemed
the
Colporteur
work
a
great
blessing
and
priv·
ilege,
but
since
reading
the
report
in
the
January
1
Towm
I
feel
much
ashamed
and
pray
the
heavenly
Father
for
a
like
earnest
zeal
as
that
shown
by
the
Colporteurs
in
Jamaica
and
Costa
Rica.
May
the
heavenly
Father's
blessing
attend
alI
your
labor
of
love
in
the
new
year.
Your
Sister
in
the
Anointed
One,
ELLEN
ZELLER,-Colporleur
•
Friday
afternoons
and
Saturdays.
Am
doing
very
nicely
and
am
making
expenses,
and
so
feel
satisfied
to
continue.
Again
thankin~
you
for
so
kindly
remembering
me,
I
am,
with
much
ChrIstian
love,
Yours
in
the
harvest
work,
ALBEBll'A
CaosBY,-Colporleur.
Dear
Brethren:-
You
will
find
enclosed
my
first
report.
It
covers,
as
you
see,
somewhat
more
than
half
a
month,
but
I
hope
you
will
accept
it
as
it
is
and
make
allowances
for
mistakes
or
omissions,
remembering
that
it
is
Dew
to
me.
It
shall
be
.
XXVIII
ALLEGHENY,
PA.,
APRIL
15,
1907
No.8
VIEWS
FROM
THE
WATCH
TOWER
uaNG
WITH
TONGUES
AS
A
1lI0DEU
BELIGIO't1S
llIANIA
century,
the
affliction
known
as
the
jerks
raged
with
violence.
3peaking
with
tongues
has
been
a
feature
of
recent
re·
Young
men
and
women
were
seized
with
it
and
fell
in
con-
vival
meetings
held
in
various
cities
of
Ohio.
As
reported
in
vulsions.
Wicked
men
were
seized,
swearing
at
every
jerk.
the
secular
and
religious
press
these
manifestations
have
Some
not
affected
with
the
regular
jerks
ran
through
the
taken
the
form
of
articulate
but
unintelligible
utterances
woods
till
exhausted;
others
crawled
on
the
ground
as
a
for
the
most
part.
In
one
instance,
however,
a
young
woman
religious
exercise;
while
some
jumped
and
some
barked
for
is
reported
to
have
"babbled
for
nearly
an
hour
in
what
is
the
same
reason,
and
a
few
spoke
in
'unknown
tongues,'
said
to
be
the
Greek
language,"
though
in
her
normal
con-
from
which
facts
arose
those
obscure
classes
of
sectaries
dition
she
disclaimed
alI
knowledge
of
the
ancient
tongue.
derisively
known
as
Jumpers,
Barkers
and
Mutterers
...•
These
involuntary
utterances
appear
to
be
a
part
of
the
"It
is
also
a
matter
of
history
that
in
the
early
days
sign
manual
of
the
"Apostolic
Faith
Movement,"
which
we
of
the
Mormon
Church,
whole
days
of
'speaking
meetings'
are
informed
by
a
writer
in
The
Wesleyan
Methodist
(Syra-
were
devoted
to
it.
We
find
that
the
claims
made
by
the
cuse),
"originated
in
the
Pentecostal
experiences
of
Evan-
Mormons
are
the
same
now
being
made
by
the'
Apostolic
gelist
Charles
F.
Parham
and
colaborers
in
Topeka,
Kans.,
Faith
Movement.'
Mr.
Parham
says,
4
We
truly
are
in
the
in
A.
D.
1900,
January
1."
At
that
time
a
Miss
Agnes
days
of
the
restitution
of
all
things
which
God
hath
spoken
Ozman,
a
member
of
the
Bible
school
previously
founded
by
by
the
mouth
of
all
his
holy
prophets
since
the
world
began.'
Mr.
Parham,
"received
the
gift
of
the
holy
Spirit
and
spoke
In
an
announcement
of
the'
origin,
purpose
and
methods
of
with
other
tongues
as
the
Spirit
gave
utterance."
On
Janu-
the
movement,'
we
find
the
following:
'Handkerchiefs
blest
ary
3
folIowing
"twelve
students
were
filled
with
the
holy
in
behalf
of
the
distant
sick.'
We
do
not
remember
that
Spirit,
and
spake
with
other
tongues
as
the
Spirit
p;ave
them
many
people
since
the
days
of
Paul
have
dared
to
go
to
this
utterance,
while
some
in
the
room
were
said
to
have
been
extreme.
We
are
forcibly
reminded
that
a
few
years
since
seen
cloven
tongues
of
fire
as
they
appeared
on
the
day
of
a
man
by
the
name
of
Schlatter
practised
sorceries,
blest
Pentecost."
In
these
events
is
said
to
reside
the
origin
of
handkerchiefs,
and
otherwise
played
with
the
credulity
of
a
more
or
less
wide-spread
movement
frequently
referred
to
the
people,
so
much
so
that
special
railroarl
trains
were
as
the
"present
Pentecost."
The
adherents
of
this
move-
run
to
carry
the
hundreds
of
sick
to
him
for
healing.
That
ment
make
the
claim
that"
speaking
with
tongues"
is
"the
Paul
had
extraordinary
power
of
this
kind
we
do
not
doubt,
only
Bible
evidence
of
the
baptism
of
the
holy
Spirit."
An
but
what
promise
or
intimation
have
we
that
such
power
examination
of
the
manifestations
was
made
by
8.
A.
Man-
would
be
continueil'
If
this
one
feature
of
the
movement
well
and
reported
by
him
in
The
Wesleyan
Metlwdist
(Feb-
were
all,
it
would
be
enough
to
brand
it
as
a
counterfeit.
ruary
20).
He
writes
as
follows:
"In
these
days
the
deVIl
is
working
in
every
possible
way
"Those
with
whom
the
writer
has
talked
who
claim
this
to
destroy
the
work
of
Christ.
'He
comes
as
an
angel
of
gift,
say
that
the
spirit
takes
possession
of
their
vocal
light,
deceiving
if
possible
the
very
elect.'
He
counterfeits
organs
and
uses
them
as
he
wills,
while
their
minds
are
at
everything
that
is
good.
Many
honest
souls
are
being
de-
rest.
They
say
they
are
conscious
that
their
vocal
organs
ceived
and
the
work
of
God
is
hindered.
In
the
meeting
are
being
used,
but
do
not
know
how,
nor
do
they
know
what
where
I
made
my
observations
not
a
sinner
was
converted
they
are
saying.
They
have
no
power
to
stop
speaking
to
God,
and
I
am
credibly
informed
that
the
manifestation
when
once
the
spirit
possesses
them.
In
the
meeting
I
at·
of
the
so-called
'tongues'
brought
no
conviction
to
sinners,
tended,
two
women
were
thus
wrought
upon.
One
remained
but
to
the
contrary,
the
number
thrown
into
doubt
and
in
that
condition
four
or
five
minutes;
the
other
but
a
few
greater
unbelief
was
greater
than
those
who
professed
to
seconds.
The
first
indication
I
had
of
anything
out
of
the
have
the'
tongues.'
"-Literary
Digest.
ordinary
was
a
low
muttering
sound
without
articulation.
LIKENS
PRODSTANTISllI
TO
A
CERBER't1S
This
muttering
lasted
but
a
few
seconds,
then
the
voice
.4
Protestantism
is
a
modern
kind
of
Cerberus
with
125
raised
to
a
more
natural
tone
and
volume
and
it
would
be
heads,
all
barking
discordantly,"
says
the
Rev.
Charles
hard
to
imagine
how
a
more
rapid
succession
of
sounds
could
Edward
Stowe,
son
of
the
late
Harriet
Beecher
Stowe,
and
come
from
the
mouth
of
a
human
being.
For
the
most
part,
himself
a
prominent
Protestant
divine,
being
pastor
of
the
these
sounds
appeared
to
be
articulate,
but
if
she
spoke
a
Central
Square
Congregational
Church
at
Bridgewater.
He
language
no
one
knew
it.
She
herself
knew
not
the
meaning
is
of
the
opinion
that
in
many
respects
life
was
brighter
in
of
any
sound
she
made.
In
the
same
series
of
meetings
on
the
so-called
"dark
ages"
than
it
is
today.
This
condition
another
occasion,
another
lady
was
similarly
possessed,
and
is
due,
he
says,
in
part
to
the
many
sub-divisions
of
sects
when
it
was
time
to
go
home
her
tongue
was
yet
speaking,
and
creeds
in
religion.
and
instead
of
taking
a
street
car,
as
she
had
formerly
done,
He
exceedingly
regrets
the
condition
of
Protestantism
in
she
walked,
not
desiring
to
enter
a
car
with
her
vocal
organs
America
and
England
today,
there
being,
according
to
him,
125
beyond
her
control.
If
I
remember
correctly,
her
tongue
different
sects
in
these
countries.
"There
is
great
unrest
and
did
not
cease
until
she
had
nearly
or
quite
reached
her
home.
hunger
amon~
the
Protestants
of
today
that
refuses
to
be
Some
are
said
to
have
spoken
in
as
many
as
twelve
different
allayed
by
critics
or
aesthetics,"
he
says:-
languages,
but
in
all
this
I
had
no
evidence
that
what
they
"There
were
but
few,
very
few
colonists
in
numbers,
uttered
were
languages
of
earth
or
heaven.
That
these
peo-
and
their
material
wealth
was
entirely
inconsequential;
how
pIe
were
sincere
in
their
belief
that
the
spirit
of
God
was
can
we
account
for
the
stupendous
influence
which
this
tiny
moving
them,
I
have
no
doubt.
They
believed
they
were
commonwealth
exerted
and
still
exerts
on
the
history
of
talking
a
foreign
language."
mankind'
In
trying
to
"identify"
this
movement
Mr.
Manwell
"There
is
one,
and
only
one,
possible
answer
to
this
ques-
quotes
Isaiah
tespecting-
"the
spirits
that
peep
and
mutter,"
tion.
It
was
their
devotion
to
the
invisible,
the
eternal,
the
with
this
addition:
"To
the
law
and
to
the
testimony;
if
moral
order
of
the
universe,
the
glory
of
God
I
They
en-
they
speak
not
according
to
this
word,
it
is
because
there
is
dured,
and
yet
endure,
as
seeing
him
who
is
invisible.
All
no
light
in
them."
Certain
other
historic
phases
of
aberrant
the
history
of
mankind
for
them
centered
about
his
cradle
religious
manifestation
seem,
according
to
Mr.
Manwell,
to
and
his
cross,
and
for
them
there
were
none
of
those
unusual
classify
with
the
present
outbreak.
Thus:
benefits
and
privileges
which
we
enjoy
in
this
enlightened
"History
records
that
during
the
early
part
of
the
last
age,
of
being
illuminated
by
the
dark
wisdom
of
the
blind
[3975]
APRIL 1, 1907 Friday afternoons and Saturdays. Am doing very nicely and am making expenses, and so feel satisfied to continue. Again thanking you for so kindly remembering me, I am, with much Christian love, Yours in the harvest work, ALBERTA CrosBY,—Colporteur. Dear Brethren:— You will find enclosed my first report. It covers, as you see, somewhat more than half a month, but I hope you will accept it as it is and make allowances for mistakes or omissions, remembering that it is new to me. It shall be ZION’S WATCH TOWER (111-116) my effort to make each report more satisfactory than the last. Your words of instruction and encouragement have, I assure you, been greatly appreciated. It seemed to me that I esteemed the Colporteur work a great blessing and _privilege, but since reading the report in the January 1 TowEE I feel much ashamed and pray the heavenly Father for a like earnest zeal as that shown by the Colporteurs in Jamaica and Costa Rica. May the heavenly Father’s blessing attend all your labor of love in the new year. Your Sister in the Anointed One, ELLEN ZELLER,—Colporteur. . XXVIII ALLEGHENY, PA., APRIL 15, 1907 No. 8 VIEWS FROM THE WATCH TOWER AKING WITH TONGUES AS A MODERN RELIGIOUS MANIA 3peaking with tongues has been a feature of recent revival meetings held in various cities of Ohio. As reported in the secular and religious press these manifestations have taken the form of articulate but unintelligible utterances for the most part. In one instance, however, a young woman is reported to have ‘‘babbled for nearly an hour in what is said to be the Greek language,’’ though in her normal condition she disclaimed all knowledge of the ancient tongue. These involuntary utterances appear to be a part of the sign manual of the ‘‘ Apostolic Faith Movement,’’ which we are informed by a writer in The Wesleyan Methodist (Syracuse), ‘‘originated in the Pentecostal experiences of Evangelist Charles F. Parham and colaborers in Topeka, Kans., in A. D. 1900, January 1.’’? At that time a Miss Agnes Ozman, a member of the Bible school previously founded by Mr. Parham, ‘‘received the gift of the holy Spirit and spoke with other tongues as the Spirit gave utterance.’’ On January 3 following ‘‘twelve students were filled with the holy Spirit, and spake with other tongues as the Spirit gave them utterance, while some in the room were said to have been seen cloven tongues of fire as they appeared on the day of Pentecost.’’ In these events is said to reside the origin of a more or less wide-spread movement frequently referred to as the ‘‘present Pentecost.’’ The adherents of this movement make the claim that ‘‘speaking with tongues’? ig ‘‘the only Bible evidence of the baptism of the holy Spirit.’’ An examination of the manifestations was made by 8. A. Manwell and reported by him in The Wesleyan Methodist (Febtuary 20). He writes as follows: ‘‘Those with whom the writer has talked who claim this gift, say that the spirit takes possession of their vocal organs and uses them ag he wills, while their minds are at rest. They say they are conscious that their vocal organs are being used, but do not know how, nor do they know what they are saying. They have no power to stop speaking when once the spirit possesses them. In the meeting I attended, two women were thus wrought upon. One remained in that condition four or five minutes; the other but a few seconds. The first indication I had of anything out of the ordinary was a low muttering sound without articulation. This muttering lasted but a few seconds, then the voice raised to a more natural tone and volume and it would be hard to imagine how a more rapid succession of sounds could come from the mouth of a human being. For the most part, these sounds appeared to be articulate, but if she spoke a language no one knew it. She herself knew not the meaning of any sound she made. Jn the same series of meetings on another occasion, another lady was similarly possessed, and when it was time to go home her tongue was yet speaking, and instead of taking a street car, as she had formerly done, she walked, not desiring to enter a car with her vocal organs beyond her control. If I remember correctly, her tongue did not cease until she had nearly or quite reached her home. Some are said to have spoken in as many as twelve different languages, but in all this I had no evidence that what they uttered were languages of earth or heaven. That these people were sincere in their belief that the spirit of God was moving them, I have no doubt. They believed they were talking a foreign language.’’ In trying to ‘‘identify’’ this movement Mr. Manwell quotes Isaiah respecting ‘‘the spirits that peep and mutter,’? with this addition: ‘‘To the law and to the testimony; if they speak not according to this word, it ig because there is no light in them.’’ Certain other historic phases of aberrant religious manifestation seem, according to Mr. Manwell, to elassify with the present outbreak. Thus: ‘*History records that during the early part of the last century, the affliction known as the jerks raged with violence. Young men and women were seized with it and fell in convulsions. Wicked men were seized, swearing at every jerk. Some not affected with the regular jerks ran through the woods till exhausted; others crawled on the ground as a religious exercise; while some jumped and some barked for the same reason, and a few spoke in ‘unknown tongues,’ from which facts arose those obscure classes of sectaries derisively known as Jumpers, Barkers and Mutterers. . . . ‘It is also a matter of history that in the early days of the Mormon Church, whole days of ‘speaking meetings’ were devoted to it. We find that the claims made by the Mormons are the same now being made by the ‘Apostolic Faith Movement.’ Mr. Parham says, ‘We truly are in the days of the restitution of all things which God hath spoken by the mouth of all his holy prophets since the world began.’ In an announcement of the ‘origin, purpose and methods of the movement,’ we find the following: ‘Handkerchiefs blest in behalf of the distant sick.’ We do not remember that many people since the days of Paul have dared to go to this extreme. We are forcibly reminded that a few years since a man by the name of Schlatter practised sorceries, blest handkerchiefs, and otherwise played with the credulity of the people, so much so that special railroad trains were run to carry the hundreds of sick to him for healing. That Paul had extraordinary power of this kind we do not doubt, but what promise or intimation have we that such power would be continued? If this one feature of the movement were all, it would be enough to brand it as a counterfeit. ‘“*In these days the devil is working in every possible way to destroy the work of Christ. ‘He comes as an angel of light, deceiving if possible the very elect.’ He counterfeits everything that is good. Many honest souls are being deceived and the work of God is hindered. In the meeting where I made my observations not a sinner was converted to God, and I am eredibly informed that the manifestation of the so-called ‘tongues’ brought no conviction to sinners, but to the contrary, the number thrown into doubt and greater unbelief was greater than those who professed to have the ‘tongues.’ ’’—Literary Digest. LIKENS PROTESTANTISM TO A CERBERUS ‘*Protestantism is a modern kind of Cerberus with 125 heads, all barking discordantly,’’ says the Rev. Charles Edward Stowe, son of the late Harriet Beecher Stowe, and himself a prominent Protestant divine, being pastor of the Central Square Congregational Church at Bridgewater. He is of the opinion that in many respects life was brighter in the so-called ‘‘dark ages’’ than it is today. This condition is due, he says, in part to the many sub-divisions of sects and creeds in religion. He exceedingly regrets the condition of Protestantism in America and England today, there being, according to him, 125 different sects in these countries. ‘‘There is great unrest and hunger among the Protestants of today that refuses to be allayed by critics or aesthetics,’’ he says:— ‘‘There were but few, very few colonists in numbers, and their material wealth was entirely inconsequential; how can we account for the stupendous influence which this tiny commonwealth exerted and still exerts on the history of mankind? ‘There is one, and only one, possible answer to this question. It was their devotion to the invisible, the eternal, the moral order of the universe, the glory of God! They endured, and yet endure, as seeing him who is invisible. All the history of mankind for them centered about his cradle and his cross, and for them there were none of those unusual benefits and privileges which we enjoy in this enlightened age, of being illuminated by the dark wisdom of the blind [3975]
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