In every human breast there is an instinctive tendency to worship some one or something; a looking up to higher Power.
The more material the people, the more material the God they worship. Looking back over the ages, we can see how the nations have come up from the very dust; how they have risen gradually from a material worship, to a more spiritual one. Commencing with the worship of images of stone and wood, following with the worship of the elements and heavenly bodies, emblems of an unseen power, the next phase bringing the worship of priest and pope, and rising at last to the worship of an unseen, but personal God.
Asking blessings of mere stone or wood is the lowest form of prayer.
