"I shall be back," I told my students. "Never shall I forget
America."
At a farewell banquet given to me in Los Angeles by loving friends,
I looked long at their faces and thought gratefully, "Lord, he who
remembers Thee as the Sole Giver will never lack the sweetness of
friendship among mortals."
I sailed from New York on June 9, 1935 {FN39-1} in the EUROPA. Two
students accompanied me: my secretary, Mr. C. Richard Wright, and
an elderly lady from Cincinnati, Miss Ettie Bletch. We enjoyed the
days of ocean peace, a welcome contrast to the past hurried weeks.
Our period of leisure was short-lived; the speed of modern boats
has some regrettable features!
Like any other group of inquisitive tourists, we walked around the
huge and ancient city of London. The following day I was invited to
address a large meeting in Caxton Hall, at which I was introduced
to the London audience by Sir Francis Younghusband. Our party
spent a pleasant day as guests of Sir Harry Lauder at his estate
in Scotland. We soon crossed the English Channel to the continent,
for I wanted to make a special pilgrimage to Bavaria. This would
be my only chance, I felt, to visit the great Catholic mystic,
Therese Neumann of Konnersreuth.
Years earlier I had read an amazing account of Therese. Information
given in the article was as follows:
(1) Therese, born in 1898, had been injured in an accident at the
age of twenty; she became blind and paralyzed.
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