A man may possess all the characteristics of a saint and a martyr
combined, and yet the average person is not attracted to him; but as
soon as money and popularity flow towards him, then in his eyes he
becomes next to a God; for people love to be touched on the material
side of their nature rather than on the spiritual. They consider the
spiritual well enough to talk about, and when a friend of theirs dies
they may love to sing "Nearer, My God, to Thee" and "Safe in the Arms of
Jesus," but what they really desire for themselves and families, above
everything else, is a rich blessing of material things; that which makes
well for the body and which puts them in a position to have full play of
the emotional and sensational part of their natures.
So great was the desire among the people of Orangeville and Roseland,
and in fact the whole county, to hear Penloe speak, and to see the man
that so much had been said and written about, that a committee was sent
to him with a request signed by the leading citizens, asking him to
deliver an address to them in Roseland. Penloe accepted the invitation
to speak. The committee secured the use of a large packing house for the
meeting, and fixed it up so that it seated a very large audience, for
they knew that the Penloe wave was at its height, and about every team
from every ranch in the county would be out on that occasion. As the
committee had well advertised more than a week ahead, that Penloe would
deliver a public address, the news reached to many parts outside the
county, so that when the day came for the meeting to be held a number
of strangers from different parts of the state were seen in Roseland.
We will copy from a San Francisco paper a report of the meeting, as that
paper had a special reporter there who gave a full report of the
address.
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AN IMMENSE CROWD
LISTENS
TO PENLOE'S ORIGINAL ADDRESS.
Meeting Opened by the Mayor of Roseland.
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