Which Reminds Me

The diaries of great-grandfather recording the Pentecostal experiences of my aunt and uncle who are described as speaking in tongues. This only proves that speaking in tongues is not everything. Uncle Merle is described as speaking in tongues and yet he later dumped his first wife and married Wicked Witch Kay, a novelist of no particular achievement from all reports. Regency romance novels are a dime a dozen in some circles. I daresay there will be no Nobel prize in their tawdry future of diminishing returns. Also recorded as speaking in tongues is Aunt Cindy, who went on to raise two worldly decadent children of no particular interest. Maybe some day they will get saved but there are no guarantees. Like my mother said, speaking in tongues is not everything. You can speak in tongues and yet be guided by worldly spirits. My mother tells the story of the man at the San Bernardino church who spoke loudly in tongues and also donated many plants to decorate the church grounds. Later it was learned that the plants were stolen from somewhere else. Oh. Ok, so you can be right on some Pentecostal points and yet very wrong on other points. Pentecostal is not everything, obviously. It was not necessary to kill all of the people to prove this minor point. We already knew this anyway.