The Earlier Years of the Modern Tongues Movement

G.H. Lang Soft cover; 90 pgs G.H. Lang studies the testimonies in books written by the earliest founders and leaders of the modern tongues movement. He points out that the New Testament has many warnings for the church to prudently judge itself (1 Cor. 10:15), and to test every spirit (1 John 4:1). Yet, he says, these representatives’ writings display an almost childlike acceptance that their experiences were given by God. Lang also quotes descriptions of the phenomenon themselves, things such as: -Sudden outbursts of deafening screaming and shrieking, -Tongues which did not resemble any known languages, -Uncontrollable intoxicating laughter and rolling on the floor, none of which are found in the New Testament. These were also always disorderly, in contrast to Paul’s direction concerning the exercise of the gifts of the Spirit (1 Cor. 14:26-33). The emphasis that the baptism of the Spirit should be marked by speaking in tongues is also contrary to God distributing the many different g