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Show I The Gilt of Tongues. One Mr. W. T. Ellis, who, we are informed, has made, a Avorld tour of inspection of the vari-ous vari-ous missionary enterprises of the churches, . tells of some girls in India who were pleading for a visitation of God tor India, and-lo! "some of these girls who did not understand English wore praying pray-ing In English; some of these girls who did not understand Greek, were praying in-Greek; some J were praying in Hebrew; some of them Avore ! praying In tongues that no man can interpret, j Wo do not question Mr. Ellis. We refer to the I matter merely to tell him that ho went a long way around to And the marvel. Could he have come to Utah, it would but have required a journey jour-ney of throe and a half days and h-ere he could have found more gifts of tongues than all India can supply. All that ho would have required would have been to call at the Eoserot News offlce. But he should have come before Elder Ponrose went away. The Elder would have given him a game I worth seeing. He could have told him of mira cles of that nature Which no mortal would ever have believed which for that matter no mortal would believe now. But he could get what he was looking for to come now, and call upon the present editor. He is no slouch. He can even i from the narrow horizon of this city get some startling effects. He can show him a gentleman who in ordinary conversation cannot speak Eng-j Eng-j lish, but who when Inspired by prayer can speak 1 as good Swedish as over did Gustave Adolphus. ; In the same way he can show him where men j under the inspiration of devotion can make such i a stagger at Welsh that people for blocks around put their fingers to their oais. It is not Intro quent under similar circumstances to hoar good Americans pray with a broad Scotch accent. The thing works here like a charm. It has thus far however failed. It has never been possible to make an Irishman pray in modern Egyptian. There is a lack of coordination somewhere, that has heretofore been impossible. But we often hear what Mr. Ellis heard In India people praying in a tongue that no man j " can Interpret." But there are other things that , would astonish Mr. Ellis more than anything he heard in India. That would be to hear Apostle Heber J. Grant sing and to learn that before He-ber He-ber learned to pray he could not sing a note that would not stop a clock, and then listen to Mm now and realize that he could not hear singing like that In any civilized country on earth. Inula In-ula has no monopoly on miracles. |