en would who had
just married a young lady with ten thousand dollars to spend on a
wedding tour."

Penloe said: "I will answer you, Stella, dear, as if you spoke in
earnest."

Stella said: "That is just what I want you to do, Penloe."

He said: "Stella, why should I care whether I am here or going on a
wedding tour through the Orient with you? All I have to do is to realize
and manifest the Divine. Stella, I have learned this one lesson, _that I
am not in it_, for it is He that is doing it all. It was He that placed
me in certain environments in India for my spiritual unfoldment. It was
He that brought me to Orangeville. It was He that caused you and me to
come together as co-workers in a cause which is so dear to us. It was He
that made us man and wife. It was He that caused you to pass through
this struggle which you have just had with yourself and brought you out
victorious. It was He that caused you just now to cut the last cord of
attachment and made you free."

Penloe had been standing while he talked and just here Stella rose from
her seat and, going up to him, put her arms round his neck and said:
"Yes, dear, it is He, it is He. He hath done it all and He has given me
you as my husband and spiritual teacher." She kissed him and said:
"Bless you, dear."

Continuing, she said: "Do you know that the fight I have just had has
been the most trying and severe I ever experienced?"

"Yes, dear," said Penloe, "I know all about it, and when a youth I
thought I was free from all attachment, till I passed through the most
trying experience in my life, which showed me I was not free from all
desire and attachment. In coming out of that struggle I cut the last
cord which bound me to the external, and since then I have been free,
and illumination followed, and that is why I have received light, and
knew before I rose the next morning after our wedding we would not go
now on a wedding tour, but would speak all through the State of
California. I knew what a struggle you were going to have, and I knew it
was necessary in order that you might be free from all attachment, for
the love of traveling through the Orient owned you just a little, and
now that you have become truly free illumination will be yours." He
ceased speaking and kissed her.

Stella said: "I must take care and let nothing own me, for I see that as
soon as I allow myself to be owned I become its slave, and you know,
dear, that freedom from everything is my