His Sacred Holy Presence Is Sensitive

A friend who had spent many years in India came to see Mary Warburton Booth to tell of the Great Revival. She relates the account in her book These Things I Have Seen.
“I was here when it broke out in the Khasya Hills.” Her face lit up, as she began to tell of the wonderful happenings she had seen and felt. It was the time of the Welsh Revival, and the weekly mail brought letters telling how God was using one man; sinners were convicted of sin, whole villages were converted.
A hunger and a thirst for God took possession of them and so they gave themselves to prayer. In a little Chapel where a few Christians were gathered for prayer, they suddenly felt an Unseen Power, and all went down in His Presence. Their cries went up, and the noise was so great that the heathen in the village ran to see what it was, and a great fear came over them.
“What was this power?” they asked. ‘Why are these men on their faces?’ And even as they questioned, they were silenced by the Spirit moving over them, and they cried out for salvation. The Revival spread, and one station after another caught the fire.
She continued, “Then a friend called to see me, and we began to gossip and criticize others. Something was said that was detrimental to another, and as we talked, something happened.”
The speaker paused, and her voice quivered, “I lost the glory from my soul; it just slipped away, and I stood there after the friend left, feeling as if something was slain within me. I went to my grass hut, but there was no glory. I knelt to pray, and I could only cry. I knelt in an agony of mind. What had I done? Nothing very much, I only joined in conversations that led to gossip, making light of another, and with drastic swiftness we took away her good name, and the glory I had received departed from my soul.”
“I have never felt the same; that glory has not come back to me.” Mary wrote, “I was awed by the story, and I felt her agony.”
Dear Jesus, help us not to unknowingly grieve Your Holy Spirit.
“Whoever slanders their neighbor in secret, I will put to silence” (Psalm 101:5).
“Do not grieve the Holy Spirit of God” (Ephesians 4:30).

August Memory Verse
“The Lord takes pleasure in those who fear Him, in those who hope in His mercy”(Psalm 147:11).