Now the messages of goodwill flash under the waves, heedless of the storms.

So also God's Cable is laid between us and His Heaven in the person of Christ.
"For ages (always remembering that our ages are with God a moment) the idea of WORSHIP was in the mind of man.

With this idea came also the sentiment of PROPITIATION.

The untamed savage has from time immemorial instinctively felt the necessity of looking up to a Being greater than Himself, and also of seeking a reconciliation with that Being for some fault or loss in himself which he is aware of, yet cannot explain.

This double instinct--worship and propitiation--is the key-note of all the creeds of the world, and may be called God's first thought of the cable to be hereafter laid--a lightning-thought which He instilled into the human race to prepare it, as one might test a telegraph-wire from house to house, before stretching it across a continent.
"All religions, as known to us, are mere types of Christianity.