oined the ranks, followed by the old Bay
State with its conservative element, and Boston became the scene of
illumination and rejoicing. The influence of these great States was felt
in many smaller ones, and they also helped to swell the wave of the C.M.
by joining the ranks. Quite a large percentage of that element in the
big cities, who profited by pandering and catering to the depraved
tastes of human nature, had left the city in which they carried on their
places of business now that the C.I. was practised, and they had gone to
the City of New York, thinking the element to which they belonged was
too powerful in Gotham ever to be driven out by the C.M., and it was in
this city where the greatest of all battles for reform thought was
fought.

When Penloe and Stella with Barker and Brookes left Chicago, they went
to the City of New York, staying in Boston a week on their way. They had
now been in this city for over a year and had called together picked
workers from many other States who were in the procession for reform.
The opposition was the same as that encountered in Chicago, only ten
times as strong.

When they had been in the city eighteen months, some few of the churches
had helped forward the work, just as some churches did in other cities.
Penloe decided that every church and every society of every kind that
had for its basis of organization love and justice, should receive a
special invitation to join in this great moral reform movement, and
special work should be allotted them. Penloe and Stella made a personal
visit to the leaders of the various sects, denominations and societies,
and ably presented the case for their consideration, showing that the
life of their organization depended upon their members being active
living workers for truth, purity and justice. He put each society on
record as to where they stood, whether its organization was merely that
of a social club, or whether it was ready to stand and work for the
principles it claimed to have for its foundation. Be it said to the
credit of each society, sect and organization, they all responded
heartily and co-operated with Penloe and Stella in helping forward the
grand reform; for they saw it was useless to prate about love, purity,
justice and freedom, with woman debarred by law from her legal and
political rights and tolerating a social custom which excited the worst
passions and bred prurient curiosity. It was a grand and glorious sight,
such