your love. Though I loved you so much, the question
arose in my mind whether you needed my love and companionship."

Penloe said: "Stella, darling, it is all true, what you say about my
living in the Eternal One, and that from Him springs all my strength, my
hope and my love; but if that Blessed Infinite One brings another joy to
me in the form of dear Stella's love, why should I not accept it gladly?
Yes, dear, your interesting self, your love is all a gift to me from the
Infinite Spirit. It is an additional joy and pleasure which He has
bestowed upon me, and my prayer is that I may always and fully meet your
expectations, and my self and my love may give you as much joy as yours
gives me."

Stella said: "Penloe, dear, my cup is full to overflowing; how good God
is to me."

Penloe said: "Stella, darling, I wish to express a thought concerning
love, and it is this. Many times you see two persons in love, and
instead of that experience broadening and intensifying their love and
sympathies, it has a tendency to narrow them down and contract them and
bring them to a very small selfish life, causing them to take no thought
or interest in any one but themselves. They seem to form a mutual
admiration society, and live to gain the praise of each other. After
all, when you analyze them, it is not so much love of each other as it
appears to be, but love of each one for himself. Then there is that kind
of love union which exists between two where, instead of narrowing and
contracting the lovers, it has a tendency to broaden them out in their
love, and make their sympathies universal in their scope; their love
being of that high order which seems to quicken all that is grand and
noble in their natures; and their lives seem to be those of intense love
for each other, and intense love for the Lord in His humanity."

Then they sat in blissful silence for a little while, when Penloe said:
"Stella, darling, have you thought over what you may have to give up
through becoming a life companion to me? Of course, dear, you know I
have consecrated my life and my endeavors as a free will offering to the
world, and it is not my work nor mission to raise a family. Now, the
instinct to become a mother is very strong in some women's natures."

Stella said: "Why, Penloe, dear, I do not have to give up anything in
becoming a life companion to you, for instead of being a material mother
I will become a spiritual mother to many, which is a far h