okes said: "Why, Penloe, the people who have invited you and Stella
to speak have expressed a wish to pay all expenses and remunerate you
both for your services as well. When I think how hard you worked to get
what few dollars you may have saved from your earnings, I hardly think
you are called upon to use your hard earnings when there are so many
more financially able to pay your expenses."

"I thank you, Stanley," said Penloe, "for your interest in my financial
welfare, but I see you are under the same impression that many others
are, in thinking that I worked out for the money there was in it. If it
had been money I wanted, I could have accepted a very fine offer from a
university to fill the Chair of Oriental Languages; but instead of being
Professor of Sanskrit and drawing a fine salary, I took the position as
dishwasher in a restaurant in San Francisco for awhile. Then I worked
with pick and shovel on the Pacific Coast Road. Next I worked on the
streets in the City of Chicago. I returned to Orangeville and took a
position as cowboy on a great cattle ranch near Orangeville. Then I
worked out as a ranch hand. I did all this hard, disagreeable work for
my spiritual unfoldment. I did it to bring myself in touch with the hard
lot of the masses. I did it also to show that if a man is upright in his
purpose he can live the Divine life anywhere. Again, I did it that I
might minister to the needs and necessities of that class of men who see
and hear so little in their lives to touch their Divine nature. That was
excellent for me; it helped to broaden and fit me for other work."

Brookes said: "It must have been exceedingly disagreeable to a man of
your tastes, culture and refinement, to perform such hard muscular work
in such rough surroundings, among coarse animal men."

Penloe said: "It would have been all that you have just expressed had it
not been for the fact that neither my work, my rough, tough companions,
nor my disagreeable environments were my world. No, they were not my
world. I built a wall around me and allowed none of these things to
enter my inner thought. My life was one of bliss, for I was all the time
drinking deep at the fountain of Divine love, and by His help I trained
and disciplined myself so that I saw Him in my hard manual toil. I saw
Him in all my uninviting environments, and, above all, I saw Him in my
animal companions."

Barker and Brookes saw such a glow of spiritual fire in Penloe's face a