El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-11-25
By Charles NJ. Sheldon.

What was that feelIng2 What had
he been to herr Had she made a mis-
take9 She went to her bookcase and
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
Spirits glory. What a wonderful thing
life was, after ALL The complete regen-
Grafton revealed in the sight of drunk
en-, vile, debauched humanity kneeling
down to give itself to a life of purity
and Chr1stlIkenessE it was surely q
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 tax
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 a climax there in the most
abandoned spot in all Raymond, stood
out in Rachel's memory now, memory
SO recent that her room seemed for the
time being to contain all the actors and
their movements
mo, mol" she had said aloud. 'tHe
had no right to speak to me after all
thatl He should have respected the
place where our thoughts should have
been. I am sure 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. 1t 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 manifestation 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 a growing knowledge
of events which were beginning to rev.
olutionize many of the regular custom
airy habits of the town. Alexander Pow
ers action in the matter of the railroad
frauds had created a sensation, not only |
in Raymond, but throughout the coun-
try. Edward Norman's daily changes
of policy in the conduct of his paper |
had startled the community and caused |
more comment than any recent polit- |
ical event. Rachel Winslow's singing |
1T the Rectangle meetings had made a
stir in society and excited the wonder
If all her friends. Virginia Pages con-
duct, her presence every night with
Rachel, her absence from the usual cir
lie of her wealthy, fashionable &C
Iuaintances, had furnished great deal
If material for gossip and question. In
ldditiOn to the events which centered
bout these persons who were so well
-nown, there had been all through the
ity, in very many homes and in bust
less and social circles, strange happen
ngs- Nearly a hundred persons in
Henry Maxwells church had made the
ledge to do everything after asking,
What would Jesus DOR and the re-
ult had been, in many cases, unheard
f actions The city was stirred as it
ad never been. As a climax to the
7eek's events had come the spiritual
at the Rectangle and the
which came to most |
eople before church time, of the actual
diversion at the tent of nearly 80 Of
ne worst characters in the neighbor-
God, together with the conversion of
.ollin Page, the well known society |
nd club man.
It is no wonder that, under the pres
Ire of all this, the First church of Ray
lond came to the morning service in
,ndition that made it quickly sensi-
We to any large truth
Perhaps nothing had astonished the 5
eop1e more than the great change that
ad come over the minister since he
i'd proposed to them the imitation of l
esus in conduct. The dramatic deliv- 1
y of his sermons no longer impressed |
lem The self satisfied, contented, easy
'titude of the fine figure and the re- =
ned face in the pulpit had been dis
aced by manner that could not be c
impaired with the old style of his de- | Z
very. The sermon had become a mes L
gee 1t was no longer delivered. 1t |
as brought to them with love, an
lrnestness, a passion, desire, a hu Y
ility, that poured their enthusiasm q
bout the truth and made the speaker 81
} more prominent than he had to be P
J the living voice of God His prayers o
ere unlike any the people had ever a
card before. They were often broken. q
ven once or twice they had been actu
~ ungrammatical in phrase or two. G.
hen had Henry Maxwell so far for "
,tten himself in prayer as to make
1stake of that sort? He knew that he N
I'd often taken as much pride in the 1J
ctlon and the delivery of his prayers b