“Friends (and he said it in a tone I cannot convey), I am a new man in Christ Jesus. Once I was blind. Now I see. I will follow him whithersoever he leads me.”

Before we came away from that place, Jesus frankly and with perfect comradeship revealed to us his plans. He will stay in New York some time. He will appear again to the ministers and encourage and help them. He will bring his message and his helpfulness to many places. He will strengthen the faith of his disciples. Then he plans to go to Washington.

And then, you remember the United Congress of World Christianity is to gather here in New York next fall? He will be here then! What more fitting than that he of all persons should be present and speak as no man ever spoke! Great events are coming. How wonderful that we should be privileged to live at a time like this!

Now I understand what it must have meant to him who wrote that he testified of what he had ‘seen and heard.’ Richard and I have ‘seen and heard’ Jesus, and our hearts are aglow. Our picture of him as we last saw him there last night, is this: he spoke to us as he sat there holding the child, blessing our human love for each other, speaking with such wholehearted affection for us, that we could not help weeping for joy as he spoke. And then he raised his hand in benediction over us and the child, and over the sordid room full of dirty, sinful, common humanity, letting his hand fall with a gesture that even included the drunken wretch on the floor. And we understood, as we stumbled down the filthy stairs, a little of his reason for living there. We caught some glimpse, a little perhaps, of his divine sharing with human suffering, and we came away with our hearts throbbing at the thought of his human affection.

I wonder, Rachel, if we shall ever see him again! We must start for Raymond tomorrow, as our little vacation is over. But if we do not, nothing can ever take from us the blessed experience of our personal meeting with him. It is woven into our very heart history. It is a part of our eternal love for each other.

Your sister in Christ,

Virginia Stanton.

By the time Stanton and Virginia had reached Raymond, the whole world was talking and reading about Jesus and his appearances. In New York, there was not even a hint of any doubt as to his personality or power. But the general public was in a constant fever of expectation, wondering at his next appearance and daily asking one another questions concerning him.