What thousands of people are demanding of the universe is that there
should be some way of solving life's problems without religion. And
life in every century has gone on demonstrating that there is no way of
solving them except through religion. I am using religion in the
largest sense, which is also the truest sense. I am not here concerned
with the dogmas of any particular church, nor with the question of the
ways in which religion shall express itself. The truth I am emphasizing
is that without some conscious relation to his God man remains a
stranger in the world and an exile from his spiritual peace; and that
such men cannot be happy or satisfying husbands. And of course all that
I have written as if thinking only of husbands is equally true for
wives.
I have been the perplexed and sympathetic confidant of a number of
people who with dismay and sorrow were finding out that marriage was
failing them. In almost all these cases religion had been simply passed
by as a thing hardly relevant to real life, and it has been plain
beyond all question that the trouble in the sphere of marriage could
not be mended till something had happened to the persons concerned--in
other words, till they had learnt to seek and use the help of God.
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