昨天我们谈到，有些宗教人士对复兴很反感，因为他们认为复兴只是群体歇斯底里的情绪反应。今天，我们再探讨他们反对的论据。1905年，在英国利物浦安菲尔德街礼拜堂（Anfield Road Chapel）的复兴聚会中，其中一位目击者描述当时的情况：「……人群推挤着礼拜堂的门为了要涌进去；年长的妇女们为了要挤到门口而爬越栏杆，结果摔倒了压在其他人上面；另外有些人被警察好像抛面粉袋一样的抛到里面去。」

当一些批评者读到关于当日情景的报导时会提出这样的疑问：「在属灵复兴中所看到的宗教狂热与今天的摇滚乐队的疯狂有甚么分别？」不错，表面上看来似乎没有甚么分别，那种当场的感受和感官的反应可能十分相似，但正如路易斯（C.S Lewis）在《魔鬼敬君一杯》（Screwtape Proposes a Toast）这本书中指出，五旬节的方言现象，对旁观者来说可能只是神经紧张或歇斯底里的表现。

当我们尝试用自然的方式去表达灵性时，就好比将词汇丰富的句子翻译成为贫乏的语言，因为在贫乏的语言里你只是用单一的词汇去表达多种意思；倘若你用有限的属世意念去描述丰富的属灵世界，也是如此。例如，对于那些粗俗的玩乐以及敬虔的喜乐，我们都只懂得同样以笑声来表达；对于那些最自私、世俗的痛苦，以及最敬虔的哀伤，我们也只是同样以眼泪来展现。因此，当属灵的喜悦被误认为属世的欢乐时，我们不需要感到惊讶。

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.