would not now say to a man merely that if he will pray he will get the
help he needs. I would say that if he is willing for a real spiritual
experience he may pass into a new state of being, in which he will
fight with success where he used to fail. Religion _will_ do all things
for you if you give your whole self to it, but it will not fit into
life as an occasional resource.

Let no one suppose, however, that consciousness of God has no relation
to the sexual side of life. Far from it. What the man who submits to
God will find is, firstly, that he is helped to clean and reverent
living, and to mastery over his body. But he will also find that when
at last real love calls him up into complete companionship of body and
soul with a woman he loves, God Himself will enter into that life and
become associated with all the emotions and activities which spring
from the sex element in our beings. Such men will come to thank God
that He made them with sexual powers in their natures. They will thank
Him that passion is a fact. They will say with utter conviction that
love with all it means both for the bodily and the spiritual life is
the greatest of all God's gifts to man.

Only to have experience of that quality a man _must_ come to marriage
undefiled. That is the fact that makes the struggle worth while. That
is what Browning meant when he said it was

"worth
That a man should strive and agonize
And taste a veriest hell on earth
For the hope of such a prize."

God does not call us men to a meaningless struggle. The fierceness of