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Can anyone give me a the page number or the exact para in this book, where Joe is in a second class compartment, and there are 3 or four others travelling in this train? One is reading an English history book the other the Upanishad-- The waiter brings in tea and through the corner of his eyes, Joe catches the waiter touching the feet of the man reading the Upanishad.. .

Tristy at New World Library Do you mean this quote on page 31?

"September 14 Mathurå - Got off to a good start, and was sitting in the train, in my second-class (no first class in…moreDo you mean this quote on page 31?

"September 14 Mathurå - Got off to a good start, and was sitting in the train, in my second-class (no first class in India now) compartment, when two Americans came—Mr. and Mrs. Cummings, a husband and wife of the Bible Belt variety—with nine pieces of luggage, including a violin. The man spoke Hindi to the coolies, very easily, and the lady too. They were definitely missionaries. The man was John Cage,37 at the age of about sixty. A young Indian joined us, and for the better part of the trip he and the lady conversed; but she had her prayer book in her hand and presently went to that, whereupon the youth fell asleep. Meanwhile, Mr. Cummings told me of his visions (literally) of Christ, with a charming, boyish, forthright confidence that he was now fit to be a witness unto. . . , etc. His exposition of his experience was liberally ornamented with Biblical quotations and there was no question in his mind but that his way was it. He was a Pentecostalist. He had been a missionary largely among the Muslims, who had argued back hard, asking how he could bear witness, etc., if he hadn’t witnessed. And so he had called upon Christ, arguing with his deity that if he was to bear witness to Christ among these people, Christ should allow him at least as much of an experience as that which the twelve—who had already witnessed him in the flesh—received on Pentecost, when the Spirit descended in tongues of flame and they spoke in tongues. Well, the long and the short of it is, that Christ came through, and he had a wonderful experience, and spoke in an unknown tongue, and then later his wife had a wonderful experience too (she was now reading her prayer book) and they were very happy missionaries (obviously they were)."(less)

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