This is a massive book filled with a variety of accounts about the great swami by those who met him and shared their memories. It's also in effect a history of Swami Vivekananda in the West told by those who first met him.

"A sickly saint everyone understands, but who has ever heard of a powerful saint? The power that emanated from this mysterious being (Swami Vivekananda) was so great that one all but shrank from it. It was overwhelming. It threatened to sweep everything before it… Still, those who feared to be caught in the current of this great power were but few; the others by thousands were drawn with the irresistible force, even as iron filings to a magnet. He had a power of attraction so great that those who came near him, men and women alike, even children, fell under the magic spell he cast."                     --Sister Christine, page 332.

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