ege. He is a graduate of my alma
mater and I knew him slightly when I was in the senior year. He has
taken an active part in the recent municipal campaign, and his
influence in the city is regarded as a very large factor in the
coming election. He impressed me, as did all the other disciples in
this movement, as having fought out some hard questions, and as
having taken up some real burdens that have caused and still do
cause that suffering of which Henry Maxwell speaks, a suffering that
does not eliminate, but does appear to intensify, a positive and
practical joy."

Chapter Twenty

"BUT I am prolonging this letter, possibly to your weariness. I am
unable to avoid the feeling of fascination which my entire stay here
has increased. I want to tell you something of the meeting in the
First Church today.

"As I said, I heard Maxwell preach. At his earnest request I had
preached for him the Sunday before, and this was the first time I
had heard him since the Association meeting four years ago. His
sermon this morning was as different from his sermon then as if it
had been thought out and preached by some one living on another
planet. I was profoundly touched. I believe I actually shed tears
once. Others in the congregation were moved like myself. His text
was: 'What is that to thee? Follow thou Me.' It was a most unusually
impressive appeal to the Christians of Raymond to obey Jesus'
teachings and follow in His steps regardless of what others might
do. I cannot give you even the plan of the sermon. It would take too
long. At the close of the service there was the usual after meeting
that has become a regular feature of the First Church. Into this
meeting have come all those who made the pledge to do as Jesus would
do, and the time is spent in mutual fellowship, confession, question
as to what Jesus would do in special cases, and prayer that the one
great guide of every disciple's conduct may be the Holy Spirit.

"Maxwell asked me to come into this meeting. Nothing in all my
ministerial life, Caxton, has so moved me as that meeting. I never
felt the Spirit's presence so powerfully. It was a meeting of
reminiscences and of the most loving fellowship. I was irresistibly
driven in thought back to the first years of Christianity. There was
something about all this that was apostolic in its simplicity and
Christ imitation.

"I asked questions. One that seemed to arouse more interest than any
other was in regard to