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Originally Posted by Witness Lee
When you have light, you have the seeing power, the view, and the vision. When you have light, you have knowledge, understanding, and wisdom. This gives you utterance, and you cannot be dumb. None of the tourists who visit Disneyland in Anaheim are dumb. When they see all the sights that are there, they are bubbling. Once you get into Disneyland, how could you be dumb? Even the little children, who cannot speak well, will have utterance because they see so many things.
Why do the pew members in the Christian denominations sit dumbly in their pews during the Sunday eleven o'clock service? Because they are short of light and see nothing. When you are in darkness, it is very difficult to speak. Try to speak when you are in darkness. You will be dumb because you see nothing. You will have nothing to say. If I am blind and you ask me to speak, I will have nothing to say. How different it is when we are in the light! When light comes, you have a great deal to say because you see so much. You see so many people, places, and things. You see so much that you speak spontaneously.
Light produces seeing, and seeing produces utterance. Why are all the church members so bubbling when they come to the meetings? Because they all have seen something and have something to say as a result. What we see spontaneously comes out in our utterance. There is no need to think of something to say. We talk about what we see. Light produces sight. Light comes from the Word. When you have the Word, you have light.
LS Hewbrews, Msg. 2
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In the above quote, WL states that other Christians remain silent because they are dumb and have no light. Obviously, it's a big generalization to make, and isn't anything more than a criticism directed at having a single speaker.
Of course, WL would never apply the same criticism to himself. He gave thousands of messages. In trainings, audience members were forced to sit in their assigned seats for 2 or more hours at a time. If there was any truth the WL's criticism of Christians, then how much more could the same be said about the LC.