CHAPTER Twenty-three.
"I AM just back from a visit to Raymond," Dr.Bruce began, "and I want to tell you something of my impressions of the movement there." He paused and his look went out over his people with yearning for them and at the same time with a great uncertainty at his heart.

How many of his rich, fashionable, refined, luxury-loving members would understand the nature of the appeal he was soon to make to them?
He was altogether in the dark as to that.

Nevertheless he had been through his desert, and had come out of it ready to suffer.

He went on now after that brief pause and told them the story of his stay in Raymond.

The people already knew something of that experiment in the First Church.