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Show CLAIM STRANGE GIFT. H BELIEVERS ASSERT THEY CAN 1 SPEAK ALL LANGUAGES. H Power Can Only Be Used for Purpose H of Exhortation When Holy Ghost H Came Church Members Fell H Down and Winds Roared. M I)ener. Col. TIiIh city has been H tho liuiiiu of strange religions nnil H nomo lilzarro iiiniilfeHtntliiiiH or ri'llg- H Ioiih belief. Tho Schlatter Incident or H 189G Htlll rntiHint people to talk and M wonder, ami tliu Sua Worshiped or M I , two yea ago aru.nut forgotten. Hut H i tho strnmu'Ht claim yet inndo by any B; body or belluvora Ih that or tliu Chris- r ( tlau AHHt-inbly church members, who i ' , lt1 - ny they Imvc beei) granted tho Apes- B tollo gift or many Ioiikiioh, and that fl they can npual all kIikIh of Inn- 1 RitnKOR, which tluy Imvo no or buroro H They nMcrt that n great majority H or tho COO laiiKimgeH In uxlMunc-e to- M day Imvc hmm imixl by their members 1 In thvlr Utile ehiiirli on Wellon Htrcot 1 nildcr the IcnderHhlp of DIMnc Inspl- They claim that the dlbtlii(-lh- niiiiK of this power is the run thai no one receiving the gift can use It for any other than purposes of exhortation Kreipienily the Inspired person speaks in a language totally iiubnown lo himself, him-self, the so), ami makes an ovhoi lotion lo-tion undei stood only by dome one or uMntolgu uiitlomillly who happens to be In the audience Occasionally olio of the iiieiubeih will speak lu a language unknown to any one present. As n result of this wonderful power thoy expect to send abroad missionaries lo China ami India. The (mo regarded as the ninst r-markable'uiuoug r-markable'uiuoug tliu believers Is that of MIkh Mabel .Smith, a gill or 18, whoso homo Is lu (ialvoston, Tev. To her has been given the power to epeul; IS languages, one Tor every year or her lire, nnd they think thai as shu adds years she will acquire languages. lan-guages. Another notable enso is that or Miss lively!! Hchlpplo, 17, who speaks altogether alto-gether In tho Chinese language. Sho hns never previously been nblo to speak this language, nnd hns never heard It spoken k ,Art.a .-- ..a. -AA . - .A Miss Mary Hotroft, a woraa,. well nnd ravornbly known In thl? city ror lier cluirltublo work, sayr, Ihut she uses both Chlncso nnd Arabic fluently In n recent address mado In n nilsslon meeting she spoko flvo dlfrerent lang-guages lang-guages so that thoy could bo understood under-stood by representatives of Are different differ-ent nationalities In tho room at tho lime. This power lias also been granted to the pastor of tho church, Hev. Oil-berl Oil-berl K. Fair, and Ills wire. "There Is nothing new in this," ho says. "We simply bellove and have proved conclusively con-clusively that tho power ot tho apostles apos-tles reaches down to tho preik'nt time. We aie now living In tho Gospel age, nnd everything Inaugurated by tho apostles lu their ago holds gdod In tho present. Wo are not a sect nor a cult. We simply bolldvo In tho whole (los-pel, (los-pel, and in this thing along with all tho rest or It." Mr. Kurr furnishes tills description of how the gift camo: .nst August a body or Christian people was holding a camp meeting in this city, nnd during tho meetings two Christian women enmo to us from l.os Angeles. They said they were going to Jerusalem to preach the Gospel Gos-pel lu Arabic, as God had given them thai gift 1 also tho gift or other languages. lan-guages. Many or our memberr began to seek It ror themselves. After the public meetings closed Wo nil went Inio a separate) room and waited roi the Lord lo do lo us as He did lo the apostles at Pentecost, when lie gavo them the girt or languages. i "The llrst manifestation of the pres once of the Holy Ghost xvns when pen- l pie began to tremble and rail down I nirt then there came a rushing ot great winds. This Is Just the same , thing Ihut happened according to the lllhle on the ilny or Pentecost. Very soon several of our members began to spent; In dllTeient languages nnd others oth-ers lutei pieted what they said No I less than 10 people, men, women and children, have received this wonder , fill Kid. "As for mvM'If. I ennnot tell an) thing moie about my receiving the I gift iliau Mils My throat began to swell mid I was compelled to remove my cravat. While I opened my month i under the inspiration of tho Holy Ghost. I Ih-biui in speak in a foreign liMigusge which I hud never studied or heard spoken, and I havo spoken under this woiul.'iful power ninny limes since." i |