He was never so impressive as at this stage.

And the tale in its intensity was ever new.

His language was nervous, intense, almost Biblical, his figure suggestive of a patriarch's in a tragedy.

'Sixty years ago--sixty years ago--sixty years ago,' each time with a different and a grimmer intonation--'the Spirit of the Living God met me....

I was going down the steep incline when the great God stopped me, and made me think.' "In the last stage of his address he was the coloniser, the statesman, the social wizard who would recast character and rearrange humanity.