And for this reason men, having bodies no less surely than spirits, can never afford wholly to dispense with it.

Hasty transcendentalists often forget this; and set us spiritual standards to which the race, so long as it is anchored to this planet and to the physical order, cannot conform.
A convert from agnosticism with whom I was acquainted, was once receiving religious instruction from a devout and simple-minded nun.
They were discussing the story of the Annunciation, which presented some difficulties to her.

At last she said to the nun, "Well, anyhow, I suppose that one is not obliged to believe that the Blessed Virgin was visited by a solid angel, dressed in a white robe ?" To this the nun replied doubtfully, "No, dear, perhaps not.

But still, you know, he would have to wear _something_." Now here, as it seems to me, we have a great theological truth in a few words.

The elusive contacts and subtle realities of the world of spirit have got to wear something, if we are to grasp them at all.