ks of the speaker very
closely. Looking in his face you could see the marks of dissipation; the
color and lines which drink and carnality leave on the countenance. To
judge his age by his face you might take him to be a man of fifty, but
he was only about thirty years old; for he had lived twenty years in
five. His form was large and well proportioned; naturally he was a
strong man. His clothing consisted of a shirt, a pair of overalls, both
dirty, a pair of suspenders and a pair of shoes.

When Penloe finished his address, and the audience was about to leave,
this man made a rush for the platform, and going up to Penloe under
great emotion, he said in broken utterances with tears in his eyes: "God
bless you for showing me that my real nature is Divine. I have been
living the life of a beast, but now I will live the Divine life." That
man afterwards said: "The look that Penloe gave me and the way he
pressed my hand will be with me as long as I live."

Penloe saw that if he stayed on the platform or did not leave the
building, he would have a crowd round him. Not wishing to give a
reception and thinking it best to keep the people's minds on what he
said, instead of having them diverted from the subject to him
personally, he hastily left the building. But he received a number of
letters from persons who heard his address. We will copy three as
samples.

The first letter we have copied was from the wife of the leading lawyer
in Roseland and read as follows:

"ROSELAND.
"DEAR MR. PENLOE:

"I would very much have liked to have had an
opportunity of meeting you, that I might tell you what
I am about to write and very much more. Since I heard
your address I so wanted to have a talk with you, as I
have so many questions to ask you, and above all to
tell you what your message has done for me.

"I am the wife of a lawyer, and at the age of
twenty-two I graduated from college. A year afterwards
I married Mr. Horton and have been married seven years.
My tastes have always been intellectual with a strong
desire to lead and to be above those around me. I had
little sympathy for the poor and ignorant, and those I
had little in common with I kept aloof from. My friends
looked to me as an authority on most subjects, as I
travelled in Europe two years after I was married. It
will