Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1900-10-07

Rachel w 1DSlOW went up 10 her room and faced her evening" s experience with conflicting emotions Had she ever loved Jasper Chase2 Yes--no. One mo- ment she felt that her life's happiness was at stake over the result of her ac- tion; another, she had & strange feel ing of relief that she had spoken as she did There was one great overmastering feeling in her. The response of the wretched creatures in the tent to her singing, the swift, awesome presence of the Holy Spirit, had affected her as never in all her life before The mo ment Jasper had spoken her name and she realized that he was telling her of his love she had felt a sudden revulsion for him, as if he should have 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 conver- siona The thought that all the time she was singing with the one passion of her soul to touch the conscience of that tent full of sin Jasper Chase had been moved by il simply to love her for him. self gave her shock as of irreverence on her part as well as on his. She could not tell why she felt as 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 herr Had she made mis- take7 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 hRd 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 Spirit, s glory. What a wonderful thing life was, after all The complete regen- eration revealed in the sight of drunk en, vile, debauehed humanity kneeling down to give itself to life of purity and Ghristlikeness-oh, it was surely & 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 MT. 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 ill the human tragedies brought to climax there in the most abandoned spot in all Raymond, stood out ill Raehels memory now. memory so recent that her room seemed for the .tims being to contain all the actors and their movements.
 No mol" she had said aloud. 'sHe had no right to speak to me after all that He should have respected the place where our thoughts should have been. l 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 erowding 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 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 growing knowledge of events which were beginning to rev olutionize many of the regular custom ary habits of the town. Alexander Pow CTS action in the matter of the railroad frauds had created sensation, not only ln Raymond, but throughout the coun- try. Edward Normans 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 stir in society and excited the wonder of all her friends. Virginia Page s con duct, her presence every night with Rachel, her absence from the usual cir cle 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 50 well known, there had been all through the city, ln very many homes and in busi- ness and social circles, strange happen lngs. Nearly hundred persons in Henry Maxwell's church had made the pledge to do everything after asking, What would Jesus do2" and the re- suit had been, in many cases, unheard of actions. The city was stirred as it 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 actual conversion al tEe tent of nearly 30 of the wort cfaaracsers in the ueighhOr-