Lord Dufferin, governor general of...
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Lord Dufferin, governor general of Canada during the 1870s, once addressed an audience at McGill University in Montreal, speaking only in Greek. Sir Hector Langevin, a Canadian politician, accompanied his friend, Sir John Alexander MacDonald, to the meeting. The morning after the speech, Dufferin was amazed to read in the local press that Dufferin had spoken "the purest ancient Greek without mispronouncing a word." Said Langevin to MacDonald, "How would the reporter know that?" Said MacDonald, "I told him." Langevin protested, "But you don't know any Greek!" Said MacDonald, "That's true. But neither does he. And I do know a little about politics."
Dufferin may or may not have known Greek, but who knows whether anybody else really did? On the Day of Pentecost, the reverse was true. The speakers didn't know the languages in which they spoke, but their listeners all did! Therein lies a miracle of staggering proportions.
Dufferin may or may not have known Greek, but who knows whether anybody else really did? On the Day of Pentecost, the reverse was true. The speakers didn't know the languages in which they spoke, but their listeners all did! Therein lies a miracle of staggering proportions.
