No one else was present.
Miss Royden has told me that it was an unforgettable experience.

Here was a man, she said, who has no reputation as a great scholar, and no popularity as an orator; he is loved simply for his devotion to Christ and his sympathy with the sorrows of mankind.

Yet that man, as no other man had done before, brought the Presence of God into the hearts of that little kneeling guild.

It was as if, Miss Royden tells me, God was there at the altar, shining upon them and blessing them.

Never before had she been more certain of God as a Person.
It is from experiences of this nature that she draws fresh power to make men and women believe that the Christian religion is a true philosophy of reality, and a true science of healing.