Letting the Soul Catch Up With the Body

We need to help men in getting their souls caught up with their bodies. The rush and push of the physical forces of life crowd us on and on, ever faster. That’s our job, keeping men’s souls caught up with their hurrying bodies, making the current zeit-geist Chris- tian. You probably have read the story of the African explorer, who, after several days of forced marches through the wilderness, was informed by his ‘“‘head man” that the native porters would carry the baggage no farther for three days.

This was most irritating to the explorer, who, expressing himself in vivid and forcible language, demanded the reason for their refusal to proceed. The head man replied, simply, that they had gone so far and so. fast the last few days that they must have time “for their souls to catch up with their bodies.”’