THE dominant tendency of tired humanity is to relaxation. It is a most comforting thing, to lie down, when under a sense of discouragement and weariness, and they are not all lazy who yield to this seduction. The longing for some one or some thing on which to lean, is felt at times by the bravest and strongest, and this will ever be, till human limitations have an end.
We are all little children in point of spiritual awakening and true self-sufficiency, and there are so many questions we cannot answer, so many problems we have not been able to solve, that the moments come when we crave the guidance of an assertive authority to which we may contentedly submit the determination of our course, the shaping of our thought.
This common experience makes it possible for us to understand how, in all the years, intelligent men and women have gladly committed to others the formation of their religious opinions, the adjustment of their religious difficulties, and found manifest relief when parting with the highest function and privilege of human intelligence.
