Let the reader turn to the second chapter of the Acts. "And when the day of Pentecost was fully come, they were all with one accord in one place. And suddenly there came a sound from heaven, as of a rushing mighty wind, and it filled all the house where they were sitting. And there appeared unto them _cloven tongues_, like as of fire, and it sat upon each of them. And they were all filled with the Holy Ghost, and began to speak with _other tongues_, as the Spirit gave them utterance. And there were dwelling at Jerusalem, Jews, devout men, _out of every nation under heaven_. Now, when this was noised abroad, the multitude came together, and were confounded, because that every man heard them speak _in his own language_. And they were all amazed and marveled, saying one to another, Behold, are not all these which speak Galileans? And how hear we _every man in our own tongue wherein we were born_? Parthians, and Medes, and Elamites, and the dwellers in Mesopotamia, and in Judea, and Cappadocia, in Pontus, and Asia, Phrygia, and Pamphylia, in Egypt, and in the parts of Libya about Cyrene, and strangers of Rome, Jews and proselytes, Cretes and Arabians, we do hear them speak _in our tongues_, the wonderful works of God." Here then we mark one special fact--a fact of deepest interest--three times referred to in the foregoing quotation. It is this, the Holy Ghost came down to speak to every man "in his own dialect"--not the dialect in which he was _educated_ merely, but "_in which he was born_"--the very dialect in which his mother first whispered into his infant ears, the sweet and tender accents of a mother's love. Such was the medium, such the vehicle which the divine Messenger adopted for the blessed purpose of making known to man that God was for us. He did not speak to the Hebrew in Greek, or to the Greek in Latin. He spoke to each one in the language which he understood, in the plain vernacular--the mother tongue. If there was any peculiarity in that mother tongue, any idiom, any provincialism in the dialect of each, the blessed Spirit would make use of it for the purpose of reaching the heart with the sweet story of grace. Contrast with this the giving of the law from Mount Sinai. There Jehovah confined Himself absolutely to one language. If persons had been gathered there "from every nation under heaven," they would not have understood a single syllable. The law--the ten words--the record of _man's duty_ to God and to his neighbor was sedulously wrapped up in one tongue. But when "_the wonderful works of God_" were to be published--when the blessed story of love was to be told out--when the heart of God towards poor guilty sinners was to be revealed, was one language enough? No! "Every nation under heaven" must hear, and hear, too, in their own mother tongue.