The Earlier Years of the Modern Tongues Movement by G H Lang and published by Classics.
This book, which is a companion to his first work “The Modern Gift of Tongues, Whence is it?” by G.H.Lang is very useful, enlightening and interesting. Not only does it give priceless first-hand information about the Azuza Street Revival and the early “tongues movement” but it exposes the manifestations and doctrinal errors that were appearing even then. Lang is not opposed to Baptism in the Spirit nor to tongues; and he makes it plain at the outset that he is not antagonistic to the Movement. However, he does oppose what was of the Devil in this revival.
Lang was acutely aware that the picture here drawn of those early years may disquiet and distress some true children of God who, from lack of information, have felt confident that there was then nothing less than an eruption of the Spirit of God to awaken and quicken a sleeping church. It requires spiritual stamina to be able to look with a quiet and honest mind upon what disturbs cherished opinions. Such as, by the Spirit, have moral strength to do this will find that this book is not designed to withdraw them from the realm of things supernatural, but rather to enable them to discern more accurately between the divine and the human, the heavenly and the earthly, the workings of the Spirit of truth and the counter-workings of the great Liar and Deceiver.
