He was, at the same time, discovering in himself personal needs to which
he had never given a thought, sordid everyday necessities the
satisfaction of which had always been at hand, unquestioned, taken for
granted much as one takes the sun and the air for granted. His meals had
been provided. His bed had been provided. The funds which had clothed
and educated him and trained him for the ministry had been provided, and
likewise his transportation to the scene of his endeavors. How, he had
not known except in the vaguest way, he had not particularly inquired,
any more than the child inquires the whence and the why of luscious
berries he finds growing upon a bush in the garden.
Not until he was torn by the roots out of the old, ordered environment
and flung headlong into an environment where cause and effect are linked
close did he consider these things. Materially he was getting a
first-hand lesson in economics--and domestic science of a sort!
Spiritually he was a little bit aghast, amazed that the Almighty did not
personally intervene to save a man from his own inefficiency. He began
to grasp the hitherto unnoted fact that meals and a bed and fires and
clothes and all the other stark necessities involved labor of the hands,
skilful exercise of the thought-function.
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