Alfons Finck's Gift of Tongues during Translation
Published October 23, 2026 at 6:10 PM
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Millennial Star Research
President Alfons Finck of the Hamburg conference acted as an interpreter for a party visiting from Liverpool. Despite having poor knowledge of English, he found himself able to interpret effectively by the power of God, describing it as a personal experience of the gift of tongues. His speed and accuracy were so remarkable that it was a subject of general comment at the time.
In Their Own Words
“It was to me a personal experience of what the gift of tongues is. My English is so poor that I could not interpret by my own power, but by the power of God, who blessed me in what I did for you. Whenever I read your speeches in our German Star, I am astonished and thankful to the Lord that he upheld me at that time. — Millennial Star 84:1”
Sources & References
The Latter-day Saints' Millennial Star (Manchester, later Liverpool, England, May 1840–1970), Vol. 84, No. 01 (1922). https://archive.org/details/millennialstar8401eng (account extracted verbatim from the issue's Internet Archive OCR text; research confidence: high)
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