Into the Highways and Hedges

"[...] The preacher's voice and the splash of the waves on the shingle sounded far away and indistinct. Always she had longed for a personal revelation of the Christ; and now it came to her. As she had never realised before she realised now the "travel-stained" Son of the Father, whose mighty love had made the joys of Heaven pain till the lost were found. Ah, well! Since the day of Pentecost, and before, it is through man's voice that that revelation has come, and through men who have been baptised with a fiery baptism. Presently they began to sing; and some one officiously touched her shoulder, and said, "Ain't you a-goin' to join, miss?" And she stood up, feeling as if dazed by a sudden fall. Her overwrought nerves were jarred.[...]".