Emphasis Preaching Journal

Unlike the first Pentecost, we don't always hear the message in our own language. A foreign exchange student came to an American boarding school from Scotland. About once a week his mother would call to see how he was doing. One week she asked, "How do you like the boys in your dorm?"

"Mother," he replied, "they are a strange lot. The one in the room to my left pounds on the wall all night and the one in the room to my right comes to my room and shouts through the keyhole."

"Oh my," said his mother, "how do you put up with such rude people?"