I must say a word, for my heart is so filled with regret and remorse, and the recollections of my awful mistakes while on earth, that I must release my soul of its burdens so far as a confession can do it.

(Please identify yourself.)

I am Ingersoll. And I am not the agnostic any longer, but the most repentant believer in all God’s spirit world, and one who now knows that Jesus Christ was and is the son of God to the fullest meaning of the word.

Oh, how glad I am that I came to you when I did, and that you caused me to seek the society of your band of beautiful and bright spirits who are filled with the Divine Love of the Father! For if I had not been with them, I would not have witnessed the scene of last night, and would not be a believer today in the Jesus who I now know is the savior of men by his wonderful love and knowledge of the Truth.

Well, my dear friend, such a scene as I witnessed last night was never witnessed on earth except, as I now believe, by the three disciples of the Master at the Transfiguration on the Mount. And then I doubt if the glory was as great as it was last night, or the brightness of the Master so blinding and magnificent!

I had seen the Master a number of times. And while he was the most beautiful and loving of all the spirits to me, and one to whom I was drawn in great affection, yet, I had no conception of the other qualities or attributes of his which he displayed last night.

And what must I think of you: a mere mortal, as are thousands of others on earth, having a soul development to a certain degree, but not to that of any of the spirits in the soul spheres here, as I am informed? And to think that you have been selected for the work of doing the Master’s desires on earth and having that selection declared, or, rather, ratified by an occasion that made all the spirits present tremble with awe at the glory and power which were displayed by Jesus Christ who I, on earth, proclaimed to be merely a good man!

I tell you that you are wonderfully favored, not only in being selected to do his work but also in having that selection anointed, as it were, by such evidence of glory and godlike power as were shown last night.

I had no conception of what the Glory of God meant, or what the Power of God could mean. And least of all did I suppose that any spirit in all the spirit world could possibly possess such glory or manifest such power. But Jesus Christ possesses the glory and power to such a degree as to make him almost godlike!

As I said, I was present, and observed him as he wrote to you, and also what he wrote. And as he proceeded to tell you that he had selected you to do his work, he was the beautiful loving Jesus that he always is, and as I have seen him. But as he proceeded and you doubted the possibilities of such things, and even to doubt if Jesus was really writing to you, there came into his countenance a wonderful look of authority and power. And then came the more wonderful brightness that outshone the noonday sun, and glory indescribable, and upon which none of us could look; and we fell prostrate to the earth, as you would say.

Oh, I tell you, the power which emanated from him was beyond all conception! The wondrous authority that appeared in his whole being was not possible of being withstood by either spirits or mortals, and we were filled with awe and admiration.

When he had finished writing, the glory and brightness that I have described left him, and he again appeared the humble, loving, but beautiful Master. And, before leaving us, he gave us his blessings and a great peace that passeth all understanding came to me. I know now that Jesus is my savior, and that the Divine Love of the Father is a real, existing thing; and I am striving to obtain It.

I believe in the New Birth, and am praying for it, and your dear grandmother tells me that I will soon get it.

So, now, I say to you that you can declare to the world that Ingersoll, the agnostic, is no longer an agnostic, but a believer in the Father’s Divine Love and in Jesus Christ, His beloved son, who is the Way and the Truth and the Life!

I will not write more tonight. But, when I shall have gotten my thoughts and feelings together, I will write you at large and tell you of what my soul says as to my future destiny.

Well, thanking you for your kindness and for your having such a grandmother, and for such a Jesus, I am 

Your friend,

R. G. INGERSOLL.^[1]