When they rose from their knees, Carter said, with a marvelous smile, as he faced his friends again, “I’ve got to work hard and fast to make good now the rest of my life. Give me all the help you can. I’m only a child in spiritual understanding, but I’m ready to go with him all the way.”

The following Sunday in Raymond was a day that was noted in its history, that history now so marked by so many significant events.

At the moment when Jasper Carter knelt by the communion table and the words were pronounced by Henry Maxwell, “My Brother, I baptize thee into the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit,” a wave of spiritual power passed through the church so wonderful, so plainly felt by that great congregation, that from many lips there trembled the words, “Jesus is here!”

If he had actually come into the room at that supreme moment, the feeling that he was present could hardly have been more real.

When Jasper Carter returned home after that day’s great experience, he took a letter out of his pocket and read it with a feeling of deepening awe, reverence, gratitude, and wonder.

It was a letter from Jesus, written from Washington, breathing Heaven’s blessing on him as he confessed his discipleship before the world, and bidding him be of good cheer as he took up his cross and began his changes in the policy of his paper and throughout his entire life.

This letter he read again and again, then put it into his pocket, and in the silence and seclusion of his own room, consecrated himself anew to the service of him who has turned the ways of men upside down in all the ages, and will continue to do so until he shall reign supreme over all.

Now in the days that followed Jasper Carter’s conversion and the radical changes that took place in himself and his paper, tremendous events were occurring in Washington where Jesus had continued his ministry.

He continued to meet with his own disciples of every name, outlining plans for union of effort, encouraging in every way the thought of the great work of the church, emphasizing its historical greatness, dwelling on the fundamental facts of its accomplishments. The ministers and church workers were simply on fire with his message, and united in an unbroken company to cleanse the city of the evils that had grown within it.