Of course we call it an Indwelling Spirit just as you do, but we insist that it is Him, a Person, and a Man--with whiskers." "Whiskers?
Oh yes--because you have them! Or do you wear them because He does ?" "On the contrary, we shave them off--because it seems cleaner and more comfortable." "Does He wear clothes--in your idea, I mean ?" I was thinking over the pictures of God I had seen--rash advances of the devout mind of man, representing his Omnipotent Deity as an old man in a flowing robe, flowing hair, flowing beard, and in the light of her perfectly frank and innocent questions this concept seemed rather unsatisfying.
I explained that the God of the Christian world was really the ancient Hebrew God, and that we had simply taken over the patriarchal idea--that ancient one which quite inevitably clothed its thought of God with the attributes of the patriarchal ruler, the grandfather.
"I see," she said eagerly, after I had explained the genesis and development of our religious ideals.

"They lived in separate groups, with a male head, and he was probably a little--domineering ?" "No doubt of that," I agreed.
"And we live together without any 'head,' in that sense--just our chosen leaders--that DOES make a difference." "Your difference is deeper than that," I assured her.

"It is in your common motherhood.

Your children grow up in a world where everybody loves them.

They find life made rich and happy for them by the diffused love and wisdom of all mothers.