Prescindia Huntington Sings in Tongues in Perfect Unison with a Stranger

Prescindia Lathrop Huntington recorded a remarkable and spontaneous manifestation of the gift of tongues at a Kirtland fast meeting, witnessed by her skeptical cousin who had come expecting to mock the Saints:

"At another time a cousin of ours came to visit us at Kirtland. She wanted to go to one of the saints' fast meetings, to hear someone sing or speak in tongues, but she said she expected to have a hearty laugh. Accordingly we went with our cousin to the meeting, during which a Brother McCarter rose and sang a song of Zion in tongues; I arose and sang simultaneously with him the same tune and words, beginning and ending each verse in perfect unison, without varying a word. It was just as though we had sung it together a thousand times. After we came out of meeting, our cousin observed, 'Instead of laughing, I never felt so solemn in my life.'"

The account is notable on multiple levels: Huntington and Brother McCarter had evidently never rehearsed or coordinated together, yet they sang the same unknown words and tune in flawless unison. The effect on the skeptical cousin — who arrived intending to laugh but left in solemn reverence — adds an additional dimension to the miracle's power as a witness and conversion-adjacent experience.