“This feature of [South African] Reformed Church life each year, should be publicised abroad! I doubt if anywhere in the world such a spiritual phenomenon could be found. Here is a people…dedicated to belief in an infallible Bible, of strongly Calvinistic leanings, with widespread emphasis on discipline at both ministerial and lay levels — holding annual ten-day ‘Pentecost Meetings’ where the results challenge the entire Church!”
“If keen Evangelical Ministers or laymen could make their way to Stellenbosch during these ten days of ‘Pentecost Meetings’ — it could furnish them with inspiration, and challenge them to go home and seek to reproduce in their own country what they had seen in South Africa…. I came back to Australia more convinced than ever, that if we wish to see revival in our country — we must believe the Word of God and honour the Holy Ghost! My prayer is that we may increasingly do both!”
Summary of Holy Harvests: Annual Revivals at Whitsuntide
1. Adam was probably filled with the Holy Spirit right at his very creation before the fall. Presumably, even if he had never fallen — he would have kept on being filled increasingly. Indeed, he would perhaps also have celebrated Annual Harvest Feasts to Jehovah — even in the state of rectitude (if the latter had continued). Gen. 1:14; 2:7; 8:20-22; Luke 2:40,52; 3:33,23,28; I Cor. 15:22,45; Eph. 4:23ff.
