ture and will seat twelve hundred persons. For
some months we have been looking for a popular young
man to fill our pulpit. It has been very difficult to
find an up-to-date man, one that will draw a
congregation to fill our church, for the audience keeps
growing less every Sunday, because we have not got a
real, live smart man to preach to us. We think if we
could secure your services you would draw the largest
congregation in this city, for your popularity has
swept the country from the Atlantic to the Pacific, and
we feel sure you are the right man. Our people are very
sociable and well to do, many of our members being
rich. We are willing to pay you a salary of seven
thousand dollars a year, and the use of a handsome
house elegantly furnished, and will allow you two
months' vacation, besides paying your expenses to come
here. We will say that, should you accept our offer,
our people will be glad to receive you into their
hearts and homes."

Penloe always answered all such communications, but as for accepting one
of them it was out of the question; for he knew it was not his field of
labor, and if the salary had been a hundred thousand dollars a year, it
would have been no temptation or an inducement to him to accept the
offer. For money, name and fame touched him not; and nothing could
induce him to leave his path of labor for the sake of going into some
new field of work which only held out large material rewards. He also
received many offers from the owners of papers and magazines, asking him
to write his views. The New York _Monthly Magazine_ offered him one
thousand dollars for an eight-page article on the sex question; provided
he would not write on the subject for any other magazine or paper.
Penloe accepted the offer because he considered that was the best
channel to communicate to the world his views on the sex question. Its
readers were of a class that could comprehend the subject in the spirit
in which it was offered. And as for the thousand dollars Penloe had a
sacred purpose he wished to use that money for. A man wrote to Penloe
offering him forty thousand dollars if he would consent to lecture for
one year in all the large cities in the United States. The man told a
friend of his, he was sure after paying Penloe his forty thousand
dollars and all other expenses, he would clear about sixty thousan