ing at the same time rich
spiritual gifts and free from family ties.

The line of work marked out for the teachers was as follows: First, to
locate themselves in the largest city in the country to which they are
sent.

To make themselves thoroughly familiar with the writings and teachings
of the founders of the predominant religion of the country to which they
are sent.

To find out all that is known of the leading saints and sages who have
lived in their lives the prevailing religion of the country in which
they lived.

To study thoroughly the habits, customs and bondages of the people of
the country to which they are sent. Then to cultivate the acquaintance
of the most intellectual and spiritually inclined native men and women
and get them interested in the work of the Reform Forces. To appeal to
them, and reach them through the teachings of the founders of their own
religion, as well as by what has been written and said by their own
saints and sages. Get the intelligent natives of both sexes to become
the leaders and teachers to their people. Get the native teachers to
work to strike at some of the bondages which they think the people are
ready to free themselves from first, and when the people have thrown off
one bondage then to work to get them to be free from other bondages.

After the teachers have got a group of intelligent native workers in the
line of the Reform Forces in one city, they are to go to another city
and do the same till the whole country has native workers in every part
working along the line of the Reform Forces.

From Penloe's remarks before the Congress, concerning the religions of
other nations, we will copy the following extract. "If any one will
study the teachings of the saints and sages of other religions, he will
find that the essence of spiritual thought contained in them all is
about the same as that contained in Christianity. The mistake which has
been made by missionaries and others lie in thinking that the ritual and
practices of the masses represent the thoughts of the great spiritual
luminaries of those religions. The masses of the Oriental countries no
more represent the real thoughts of the great spiritual teachers of
those countries than the commercial cannibalism of the West represents
the teachings of Christ. In fact, the masses of the Oriental countries
are in ignorance of the real spiritual thought of their own religion, as
much as the masses of the Western World are