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self gave her shock as Of irreverence
on her part as we'll as on his. She covlld
not tell why she felt as she did; only
she knew that if he had net told her to-
night she would still have ielt tho same
toward him as she always had
What was that feeling! What had
he been to her? Had she made mis-
take? She went to her bookcase ard
took out the novel which Jasper had
given her. Her face deepened in color
as she turned to certain passages which
she had read often and which she knew
Jasper had written for her She read
them again. Somehow they failed to
touch her strongly. She closed the book
and let it lie on the table, She gradual
ly felt that her thought was busy with
the sight she had witnessed in that
tent. Those faces, men and women,
touched for the first time with the
life was, after ALI The complete regen-
Grafton revealed in the sight of drunk
en-. vile, debauched humanity kneeling
down to give itself to life of purity
and Christlikeness-oh, it was surely a
a witness to the superhuman in the
world! And the face of Rollin Page by
the side of that miserable wreck out of
the gutter-she could recall as if she
now saw it Virginia crying, with her
arms about her brother, just before she
left the tent, and Mr.. Gray kneeling
close by, and the girl Virginia had talk
en- into her heart bending her head
while Virginia whispered something to
her. All these pictures, drawn by the
Holy Spirit in the human tragedies
brought to climax there in the most
abandoned spot in all Raymond, stood
out in Rachel's memory now, a memory
SO recent that her room seemed for the
their movements.
mo, no!' she had said aloud He
had no right to speak to me after all
that! He should have respected the
place where our thoughts should have
been. I am sure I do not love him, not
enough to give him my life.''
And after she had thus spoken the
evenings experience at the tent came
crowding in again, thrusting out all
other things. It is perhaps the most
striking evidence of the tremendous
spiritual factor which had now entered
the Rectangle that Rachel felt, even
when the great love of a strong man
had come very near her, that the spir-
itual manifesto ation moved her with an
agitation far greater than anything
Jasper had felt for her personally or she
for him.
The people Of Raymond awoke Sun
day morning to growing knowledge
of events which were beginning to rev.
olutionize many of the regular custom
ary habits Of the town. Alexander Pow
ers' action in the matter of the railroad
frauds had created s. sensation, not only
in Raymond, but throughout the coun-
try. Edward Norman's S daily - 'nges
Of policy in the conduct Of paper
had startled the community and caused
more comment than any recent polit-
ical event. Rachel Winslow's singing
i at the Rectangle meetings had made a
stir in society and excited the wonder
Of all her friends. Virginia Pages con-
duct, her presence every night with
Rachel, her absence from the usual cir
Gle of her wealthy, fashionable ac-
quaintances, had furnished great deal
Of material for gossip and question. In
addition to the events which centered
about these persons who were SO well
known, there had been all through the
city, in very many homes and in bust
ness and social circles, strange happen,
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} Henry Maxwell's church had made the
pledge to do everything after asking,
"What would Jesus do?' and the re-
, suit had been, in many cases, unhearc
of actions. The city was stirred as il
had never been. AS climax to the
weeks events had come the spiritual
. manifestation at the Rectangle and the
| announcement, which came to most
, people before church time, of the actua
. conversion at the tent of nearly so o1
the worst characters in the neighbor
) hood, together with the conversion ot
Rollin Page, the we'll known society
and club man.
: 1t is no wonder that, under the pres
sure of all this, the First church of Ray
} mond came to the morning service in
condition that made it quickly sensi
I tive to any large truth.
Perhaps nothing had astonished tn
: people more than the great change tina
t had come over the minister since h,
had proposed to them the imitation O
/ Jesus in conduct. The dramatic deliv
/ cry of his sermons no longer impressed
them. The self satisfied, contented, cas-,
t attitude Of the fine figure and the re
r fined face in the pulpit had been dis
t placed by a manner that could not b
Q compared with the old style Of his de
e livery. The sermon had become mes
v sage. 1t was no longer delivered. I
r was brought to them with a love, al
e earnestness, passion, desire, a hu
k mility, that poured their enthusiasm
e about the truth and made the speake
t no more prominent than he had to b
+ as the living voice of God. His prayer
were unlike any the people had eve
n heard before. They were often broken
b Even once or twice thew had been actu