CHAPTER Nineteen.
[Letter from Rev.Calvin Bruce, D.D., of the Nazareth Avenue Church, Chicago, to Rev.Philip A.Caxton, D.D., New York City.] "My Dear Caxton: "It is late Sunday night, but I am so intensely awake and so overflowing with what I have seen and heard that I feel driven to write you now some account of the situation in Raymond as I have been studying it, and as it has apparently come to a climax today.
So this is my only excuse for writing so extended a letter at this time.
"You remember Henry Maxwell in the Seminary.

I think you said the last time I visited you in New York that you had not seen him since we graduated.

He was a refined, scholarly fellow, you remember, and when he was called to the First Church of Raymond within a year after leaving the Seminary, I said to my wife, 'Raymond has made a good choice.

Maxwell will satisfy them as a sermonizer.' He has been here eleven years, and I understand that up to a year ago he had gone on in the regular course of the ministry, giving good satisfaction and drawing good congregations.

His church was counted the largest and wealthiest church in Raymond.