Experience Details:
Experiencer: 19-year old Theology student from London.
Everyday Activity Before Experience: Boarding a train.
Experience Report:
Everyday Activity (
Boarding A Train)
“Vauxhall Station on a murky November Saturday evening is not the setting one would choose for a revelation of God! I was a young theological student aged 19, being sent from Richmond Theological College to take the services somewhere — I cannot remember where — for some minister in a Greater London Church who had fallen ill. The third class compartment was full.”
A representation of the 19-year old Theology student from Richmond Theological College, boarding third compartment of train at Vauxhall Station on a Murkey evening.
Suddenly Sees Nothing But Light
“I cannot remember any particular thought processes which may have led up to the great moment. For a few seconds only, I suppose, the whole [train] compartment was filled with light. This is the only way I know in which to describe the moment, for there was nothing to see at all.”
Feels Sense of Deep Individual Purpose — 
Feels Everything Is Perfect or Right Exactly As It Is, For Him and All Of Humankind
“I felt caught up into some tremendous sense of being within a loving, triumphant and shining purpose. I never felt more humble. I never felt more exalted.”
“I felt that all was well for mankind — how poor the words seem! The word ‘well’ is so poverty stricken. All men were heirs. My puny message if I passed my exams and qualified as a minister would contribute only an infinitesimal drop to the ocean of love and truth which God wanted me to enjoy, but my message was of the same nature as that ocean. I was right to be a minister. I had wanted to be a doctor and the conflict had been intense, but in that hour I knew the ministry was the right path for me. For me it was right, right, right.”
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Feels Indescribable Ecstasy & Joy
“A more curious but overwhelming sense possesses me and filled me with ecstasy.”
“An indescribable joy possessed me…"
After-Effects
“I was right to be a minister. I had wanted to be a doctor and the conflict had been intense, but in that hour I knew the ministry was the right path for me…”