CHAPTER XVI.
The day was beautiful, and the church as usual crowded to the doors.
There was a feeling of hardly concealed excitement on the part of Calvary Church.

The action of Thursday night had been sharply criticised.

Very many thought Philip had gone beyond his right in bringing such an important subject before so small a meeting of the members; and the prospect of the approaching baptism and communion of the sexton had drawn in a crowd of people who ordinarily stayed away from that service.
Philip generally had no preaching on Communion Sunday.

This morning he remained on the platform after the opening exercises, and, in a stillness which was almost painful in its intensity, he began to speak in a low but clear and impressive voice.
"Fellow-disciples of the Church of Christ on earth, we meet to celebrate the memory of that greatest of all beings, who, on the eve of His own greatest agony, prayed that His disciples might all be one.

In that prayer He said nothing about color or race or difference of speech or social surroundings.