Henry Maxwell went back to his parish work that afternoon with added convictions on the license business.
But if the saloon was a factor in the problem of the life of Raymond, no less was the First Church and its little company of disciples who had pledged to do as Jesus would do.

Henry Maxwell, standing at the very centre of the movement, was not in a position to judge of its power as some one from the outside might have done.
But Raymond itself felt the touch in very many ways, not knowing all the reasons for the change.
The winter was gone and the year was ended, the year which Henry Maxwell had fixed as the time during which the pledge should be kept to do as Jesus would do.

Sunday, the anniversary of that one a year ago, was in many ways the most remarkable day that the First Church ever knew.

It was more important than the disciples in the First Church realized.

The year had made history so fast and so serious that the people were not yet able to grasp its significance.