昨天我們談到，有些宗教人士對復興很反感，因為他們認為復興只是群體歇斯底里的情緒反應。今天，我們再探討他們反對的論據。1905年，在英國利物浦安菲爾德街禮拜堂（Anfield Road Chapel）的復興聚會中，其中一位目擊者描述當時的情況：「……人群推擠著禮拜堂的門為了要湧進去；年長的婦女們為了要擠到門口而爬越欄杆，結果摔倒了壓在其他人上面；另外有些人被警察好像拋麵粉袋一樣的拋到裡面去。」

當一些批評者讀到關於當日情景的報導時會提出這樣的疑問：「在屬靈復興中所看到的宗教狂熱與今天的搖滾樂隊的瘋狂有甚麼分別？」不錯，表面上看來似乎沒有甚麼分別，那種當場的感受和感官的反應可能十分相似，但正如路易斯（C.S Lewis）在《魔鬼敬君一杯》（Screwtape Proposes a Toast）這本書中指出，五旬節的方言現象，對旁觀者來說可能只是神經緊張或歇斯底里的表現。

當我們嘗試用自然的方式去表達靈性時，就好比將詞匯豐富的句子翻譯成為貧乏的語言，因為在貧乏的語言裡你只是用單一的詞匯去表達多種意思；倘若你用有限的屬世意念去描述豐富的屬靈世界，也是如此。例如，對於那些粗俗的玩樂以及敬虔的喜樂，我們都只懂得同樣以笑聲來表達；對於那些最自私、世俗的痛苦，以及最敬虔的哀傷，我們也只是同樣以眼淚來展現。因此，當屬靈的喜悅被誤認為屬世的歡樂時，我們不需要感到驚訝。

We spend another day examining the objection we looked at yesterday, that revival is merely a manifestation of crowd hysteria. One eyewitness of a revival meeting in Anfield Road Chapel, Liverpool, in 1905, says: "...crowds were pressing against the chapel doors trying to push their way in, elderly ladies were climbing over the railings to get to the door and falling on the others, and some were being thrown inside by the police like sacks of flour."

Critics who read such reports ask: "Is there any difference between the religious madness seen in times of spiritual revival and the frenzies and ecstasies associated with the rock and pop groups of the present day?" On the surface there appears to be little difference, the immediate sensations and the conscious nervous impressions may be very similar. But, as C.S. Lewis pointed out in Screwtape Proposes a Toast, the tongues phenomenon on the Day of Pentecost might also have appeared to an onlooker to be nothing but an expression of nervous excitement or hysteria.

When we try to express the spiritual through the natural it is like translating from a richer to a poorer language. In the poorer language you have to use the same word to express more than one meaning, and it is the same when you try to express the richer world of the spirit through the poorer medium of the physical frame. We have only laughter to express both ribald revelry and godly joy; we have only tears to express the most selfish, worldly grief and the most godly sorrow. Therefore we must not be unduly surprised that spiritual rejoicings are mistaken for rejoicings of a very different kind.