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In one of the great scenes in George Bernard Shaw's play Saint Joan, Joan of Arc, the peasant maid of Orleans, is telling the obtuse King Charles about the Heavenly Voices she has heard. All she gets for her efforts is a scoff from the monarch, who refuses to believe in her mystic source of understanding. "Oh, your voices, your voices! Why don't the voices come to me? I am king, not you," rants Charles.
"They do come to you," replies Joan, "but you do not hear them. You have not sat in the field listening for them. When the angelus rings, you cross yourself and have done with it; but if you prayed from your heart and listened to the thrilling bells in the air after they stop ringing, you would hear the voices as well as I."
"When the day of Pentecost had come, they were all together in one place" (Acts 2:1).
"They do come to you," replies Joan, "but you do not hear them. You have not sat in the field listening for them. When the angelus rings, you cross yourself and have done with it; but if you prayed from your heart and listened to the thrilling bells in the air after they stop ringing, you would hear the voices as well as I."
"When the day of Pentecost had come, they were all together in one place" (Acts 2:1).
