[George W. Bush]

I can't provide anything on this, but I beleive there have always been those mostly among the poor to very poor who have touched God and received this gift. That would mean mostly uneducated and needy people who would be ridiculed by anyone for speaking about it and at times even killed as heretics.

It's a modern practice. I don't think anyone has ever made a serious claim of any sort that it was occurring to any extext prior to the twentieth century. There are many heresies described in church and civil documents and it generally seems that in such cases they made some attempt to record the justification for punishing or killing a heretic. I don't think that any of the first practicioners of tongues a hundred years ago made any claim that they had any predecessors.

[vmatt]

It's a modern practice. I don't think anyone has ever made a serious claim of any sort that it was occurring to any extext prior to the twentieth century. There are many heresies described in church and civil documents and it generally seems that in such cases they made some attempt to record the justification for punishing or killing a heretic. I don't think that any of the first practicioners of tongues a hundred years ago made any claim that they had any predecessors.

The Saturday Evening Post, May 16, 1964, p. 32 - Praying in tongues has recurred at intervals throughout the Christian era, although it did not affect large masses until early in this century. Its advocates were quickly expelled from the established churches, whereupon they established the Pentecostal churches. For 50 years it remained the almost exclusive possession of the Pentecostal churches.

I found this confirming my contention that tongues is indeed as old as Christianity itelf. I did not source this but I am already convinced beyond doubt that this was the case. Mankind has not found a way to control this gift and present it in a nice neat box for sale. It is truly like the wind blowing where it will. You see yourselves the attempts of churches regarding the precious gifts of God, they pervert them to mandated rituals like the false healing, burning breast and gibberish phenomenon. I see them to, am apalled and this is the reason I am not attending an assembly today. Do not let these works of Satan blind your minds and turn to me a deaf ear when I speak the truth.