as the world had not witnessed before, to see Catholics,
Unitarians, Methodists, Universalists, Baptists, Episcopalians,
Congregationalists, Presbyterians, Theosophists, members of the Jewish
Synagogue, representatives of the Vedanta, together with the Y.M.C.A.
and Y.W.C.A., Christian Union, Christian Science and Socialists
Societies, and all other such societies join in the work. The members of
these various bodies coming in contact with those two great spiritual
luminaries, seemed to receive such an influx of the Divine as purified
their own organizations and made them what they should always be, a
_great power for good_. With such concentrated efforts by such an army
of workers, the enemy gave way and New York City became the beacon light
to travelers from other nations; not as it had been a city of greed and
lust, but a city where woman stood before the law the same as man, and
where its citizens were beginning to walk a little more in the line of
purity and freedom.

Just before the battle was won in the State of New York, the agitation
which had been going on in England, Wales, Scotland and Ireland for over
two years culminated in a victory for the reform forces. Two years after
the State of New York was won, the C.M. had carried every State in the
Union, and also Canada. Australia and New Zealand not wishing to be
behind in all that stood for advanced thought and freedom, fell in line
with the other English-speaking countries.

Penloe and Stella did not consider the work finished yet, and they
called for a congress of representative workers to meet in the
Auditorium in Chicago at a suitable date, which would give all time to
be present. Each State and country were to send two delegates, one man
and one woman. Australia, New Zealand, England, Scotland, Wales,
Ireland, Canada, and every State in the Union were all represented at
the Congress.

When the Congress assembled, it was unanimously agreed that Stella
should preside.

After the meeting had been opened and some preliminaries had been gone
through, Penloe said: "In the call for this congress it was stated that
its purpose was to consider how best to carry on this great work in
foreign countries, but before doing so I think it would be best to
change the name of the work. It seems necessary that some names, as well
as races, should pass through the period of evolution. The reason why I
will briefly state, as follows: In some countries where it is necessar