Grantville Gazette XIX by Eric Flint

Author:Eric Flint [Flint, Eric]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Science fiction; American, Fantasy, Seventeenth century, Space Opera, Alternative histories (Fiction); American, General, Science Fiction, Adventure, Fantasy fiction; American, Fiction, Short Stories
Published: 2011-02-02T00:00:00+00:00

Chalker continued on with his reading of the Bible until he came to Mark 1:16. "'Now as he walked by

the sea of Galilee, he saw Simon and Andrew his brother casting a net into the sea: for they were fishers.

And Jesus said unto them, Come ye after me, and I will make you to become fishers of men. And

straightway they forsook their nets, and followed him.'"

Chalker paused, then re-read the passage to himself and his eyes lit up. "God be praised!"

Looking at Fischer in the crowd gathered before him in the Nemeth's back yard, Chalker smiled,

"Fischer? That means 'fisher' or 'fisher of men' doesn't it?"

Fischer felt uncomfortable as others around him turned to look at him with wide eyes. He acknowledged

with a simple nod.

"Brother Fischer, I don't believe in coincidence in matters of the Bible. That you would come to our

revival and the very next Bible study should contain this passage . . . Well, the Spirit is strong in this

assembly tonight."

A man in the back of the gathered crowd began to speak out. But not in any language that Fischer could

recognize. It seemed to have an internal structure like a real language though. Then another began

chanting out in a different-sounding tongue, and another, and another.

Fischer looked from one to the other, and then several others begin to laugh and cry out, "Amen!" All

those around him seemed to be simultaneously raising their right hands above their heads and waving in

unison. God help me to understand what they are saying. Help me to learn to do as they do, he thought.

But the gift of tongues was not to be his that night.

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