Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1899-09-21

Tor MIN, as IL no should nave respected
the supernatural events they had Just
witnessed. She felt as if it were not the
time to be absorbed in anything less
than the divine glory Of those CONVEX
sions The thought that all the time
,, she was singing with the one passion Of
her sou! 10 touch the conscience of that
tent full of sin Jasper Chase had been
moved by it simply to love her for him
self gave her a shock as Of irrevcrence
on her part as well as on his She could
not tell why she felt rs she did only
she knew that if he had not told her to-
night she would still have felt the same
toward him as she always had.
What was that feeling? What had
he been to her. Had She made u mis-
take? She went to her bookcase and
took ont the novel which Jasper had
given her Her face deepened in color
rs she turned to certain passages which
shc 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 tho
Spirit glory. What wonderful thing
life was, after all The complete regen-
Grafton revealed in the sight of drunk
en-. vile, debauchcd humanity kneeling
down to give itself TO life of purity
and Christlilloness-oh, it was surely 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 il VIRGINIA CRYING, with her
arms about her brother inst before she
left the tent. and Mr. GRAY kneeliuo
close by, and the girl virginia had talk
Ell into her heart bending her head
while Virginia vhisncred 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 RaChcl's memory now, a memory
so recent that her room seemed for the
time being to contain all the actors and
their movements.
mo, MOI" she had said aloud. HE
had no right to speak to me after all
thatl He should have respected the
place where our thoughts should have
been. | am sure | do not love him. not
enough to give him nv life"
And after she had thus spoken the
evening S experience at the tent came
crowding in again, thrusting ont all
other things It is perhaps the most
striking evidence of the tremendous
spiritual factor which had now entered
the Rectanglo that Rachel felt, even
when the great love of 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 awoLe SIM
day morning TO n growing knowledpe
of events which were beginning TO rev
olutionize many of the regular custom
arv habits of the town. Alexander Pow
ers' action in the matter of the railroad
frauds had created q sensation not on1v
in RAYMOND but throuobout tbe coun.
try. Edward Norman daily cbanoes
of nolicv in the ccnduct of b;s noner
had startled the community and caused
more comment than anv recent no1;+-
ical event Rachel Win.1ov,s sinoin,
at the Rectenole MEETINGS had made a
stir in society and excited the wonder
of all her friends. VIRGINIA PAGES con-
duct. her rresonce every night with
Rachel, her absence from the usual cir
Gle of her wealthy. fashionable &C.
ouaintances, had furnished great deal
OF material for gossip and question. In
addition to the events which conferred
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
ings. Nearly a hundred persons in
Henry Maxwell's church had made the
pledge to do everything after asking,
"What would Jesus do?" and tho re-
suit had been in many cases, unheard
of actions The city was stirred as it
had never been As a 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 actual
conversion at the tent of nearly 30 of
the worst characters in the neighbor-
hood together with the conversion of