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Rh Other-world work is apparently quite compatible with hard work in this. One of my special friends, the nakaza of the August Dance Pilgrim Club is a case in point. His club communes once a month and his duties begin as soon as ever the monthly business accounts are settled. He then comes in for a series of possession engagements. Indeed, if you apply for a sitting you will find his time taken up ahead in a way to suggest more earthly callings. In addition to all of which he works like anybody else at his regular trade, and is a strong, hearty young fellow in spite of his being a god so goodly a fraction of his time.

Thus, humble though their active members be, the Ontaké pilgrim clubs furnish society not to be found in any other clubs on earth: the company of heaven is to be had for the asking. For the Ontaké pilgrim clubs are the only clubs in the world whose honorary members are, not naval officers, not distinguished foreigners, not princely figureheads, but gods.