Word: pentecostal
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Into this misery, says Author Buchan, came a clerk of Oseney nearby Oxford. He was called Peter Pentecost, poor, humble, dispirited, and yet with a face and figure that any gypsy could tell were no churl...
...long before Peter Pentecost found that he was indeed no churl. He was the hidden son of the dead Duke of Buckingham whom King Harry had swept aside on his way to the throne. Peter suddenly found himself a man with a destiny. A group of ambitious, discontented nobles wanted to help him overthrow King Harry. Through his guardian, Brother Tobias, the Church also beckoned his aid. But the faction which turned out to be his unswerving support were the furtive, secret folk who had been driven to the greenwood by oppression...
...when the day of Pentecost was fully come, they were all with one accord in one place. And suddenly there came a sound from heaven as of a rushing mighty wind, and it filled all the house where they were sitting. And there appeared unto them cloven tongues like as of fire, and it sat upon each of them. And they were all filled with the Holy Ghost, and began to speak with other tongues, as the Spirit gave them utterance...
...celebrate the 1900th Pentecost, the Christian Herald last month asked Calvin Coolidge, Congregationalist, for a message. His message, on his severe stationery (Calvin Coolidge: Northampton: Massachusetts) : "Of course I appreciate the great importance of the celebration. ... I do not see any method of improving our social and economic relations except through the teachings of religion. In fact it is my belief that we have gone as far as we can in progress and reform until we have a more general acceptance of the truths of religion...
...note with satisfaction that the movement for the observance of Pentecost, in contrast with many undertakings, is being carried forward with a minimum of external organization, without artificial promotion, or the setting of financial and statistical goals, and that attention is being concentrated upon leading the members of the churches into a deeper personal experience of the presence of the living God. . . . Why should not the churches during the period of Pentecost, so far as possible, lay aside their absorption in various programs, which, however good, derive their final value only from their relation to the will...