One morning I was just getting out of bed, “this gibberish, this jargon” as the enemy likes to call it, began to come.  The Lord said, “Let it babble!” I let.  The babble increased, and by night I was up to my neck.  I let.  I still let.  That’s all.  Someone else does the work, and it does not tire you.

And here is another paper.  “Meat in Due Season:  published monthly, or as often as the Lord leads.”  The editor quotes the Bible, “Call upon the name of the Lord,” and explains that “Call means #call#.”  The word appears to have a special meaning to these pentecostal persons—­it means working yourself into a frenzy of agitation; as the editor puts it, “you must #lay# hold of the #horns# of the #altar#.”  He goes on to exhort—­the bold face being his: 

Pray as if your very life depended upon it!  The first few minutes seemingly all the powers of hell will contend every word, the next few, relief in a measure will come, more liberty in calling.  In a very little while you will be #dead to the room, dead to the chair#, dead to everyone around you, dead to all and tremendously alive to your desperate need and emptyness; this conviction will grow as you increase calling upon Him.  It maybe you’ll weep, it maybe you’ll perspire, it maybe your clothing will be deranged, it maybe your throat will get sore.  Never for a moment let your mind rest on the condition of your person.  Open your mouth and God has promised to fill it.  Ask persistently until the very floor seems to sink beneath you and the fountains of the deep, of your heart let loose.  Like David, “pour out your soul” like one would pour water out of a bucket.  I have seen hundreds get through right at this point.  When #self-thought, reticence, decorum, reserve, propriety and dignity# had all been thrown to the four winds of heaven.  Self was then obliterated and consciousness of person gone.  Draw near to God and He will draw near to you saith the scripture, but you must draw near to Him first.

These enthusiasts derive their practices from the Shakers, a sect which originated in England, but was driven by persecution to the New World.  The Shakers call themselves the “United Society of True Believers in Christ’s Second Coming,” and were founded by Ann Lee, who variously termed herself the “Female Christ”, the “Holy Comforter”, and the “God-anointed Woman”.  They might be termed the suffragettes of religion, for they pray always to “Our Father and Mother, which are in heaven.”  They were taught the convenient doctrine that their Founder had “spiritual illumination”, so that any evidence of the senses used against her might deceive.  She governed through terror, holding that by her mental powers she could inflict torment upon any of her followers.  Fortunately she taught absolute celibacy, and so there are now only about a thousand of her disciples.

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