For more than three score years and ten I have been a preacher, though in a very limited way in recent years. In those many services a few have stood out as very special in one way or another. I will tell of one that was different, though I have no answer for it.
In the month of February 1965, I was in ministry at the church of North Sound on Virgin Gorda, British Virgin Islands. The preceding night I had preached on holiness. Never Before nor since have I had a greater sense of the Power of the Holy Spirit. In my attempt to close the sermon, Brother Halstead Dixon, missionary - pastor to those islands, shouted out, "Go on! We're with you till midnight." There was good response to the invitation and we were blessed with good results.
The service the next morning was, I thought, very ordinary. In thinking back on it, there is not one unusual feature that I can recall. I asked the congregation to stand for the benediction as usual. Then I gave the dismissal prayer and walked down between the standing groups and out the door to Gravette House, the tiny Mission Home.
After waiting around for some time, I wondered what was detaining the people. On going back to the church, I found all of them standing, just as I had left them. Why was that? No one has ever given an answer.
Brother William Hayton, later missionary to the Virgin Islands, tells me that many years after this occurrence the people there were still speaking of that service.
I am still wondering, but have no answer.
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