Pentecost?

Dr. Albert Edwin Keigwin testified to having had 'direct communication with God. He is pastor of a church which claims the largest Presbyterian membership in New York.

Said he to his people: "I am about to permit you to enter into the holy of holies of another man's life . . . This is my faith spread beneath your feet: Tread softly."

At the age of twelve, Albert Edwin Keigwin maintained a canary in his father's parsonage in Wilmington, Del. It came to pass that the canary fell sick.

"I took Petey out of his cage and it lay in the palm of my hand, pecking feebly at my thumb as if to say: 'Master, I love you.' . . . My father, knowing something of medicine, tried to save Petey's life, but after hours of effort, some time after midnight, the little thing expired.

"As its life went out, I was conscious suddenly of a presence, not a vision, and there sounded in my mind the words of Jesus: 'Are not two sparrows sold for a farthing, and not one of them can fall to the ground without the Father's notice? Are ye not of more value than many sparrows ?'

"If the words had been spoken by my father they could not have been more distinct or possessed more of the feeling of personal communion. Although but a lad, I knew that God had communicated with me for one brief moment. I stood as truly alone with him as though there was not another human being on earth. As I look back on it, the sense of complete isolation then was even more marvelous than the words.

"I looked up at my father and said: 'Father, God is here with us.' And we both dropped to our knees."

Later, Dr. Keigwin repeated this story at the Fifth Avenue Church before 300 members of the Presbytery, adding that he had directly communicated with God on six other occasions. Then, with the voice of a prophet, he said: "The Holy Ghost is about to descend upon New York. The church in this city is on the eve of a second Pentecost. The Pentecost will be made by the spirit of God out of the differences of race, background and intellect that exist here. I feel that the spirit of God is at work this moment on the new Pentecost."