nearly midnight before
For a moment her voice faltered . Then she went on : `` Just as I am , thou wilt receive , Wilt welcome , pardon , cleanse , relieve , Because Thy promise I believe , O Lamb of God , I come , I come . '' `` If any man serve me , let him follow me . '' IT was nearly midnight before the services at the Rectangle closed . Gray stayed up long into Sunday morning , praying and talking with a little group of converts who in the great experiences of their new life , clung to the evangelist with a personal helplessness that made it as impossible for him to leave them as if they had been depending upon him to save them from physical death . Among these converts was Rollin Page . Virginia and her uncle had gone home about eleven o'clock , and Rachel and Jasper Chase had gone with them as far as the avenue where Virginia lived .