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THE ASPIRANT AND THE TEACHER.
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must be opened first, and then alone he will be able to learn what the things in the museum can teach.
This eye-opener of the aspirant after religion is the teacher. With the teacher, therefore, our relationship is the same as that between an ancestor and his descendants. Without faith, humility, submission and veneration in our hearts to our religious teacher, there cannot be any growth of religion in us ; and it is a significant fact, that where this kind of relation between the teacher and the taught prevails, there alone gigantic spiritual men are growing, while in those countries which have neglected to keep up this kind of relation, the religious teacher has become a mere lecturer,-the teacher expecting his five dollars, the person taught expecting his brain to be filled with the teacher's words and each going his own way after this much is done ! Under such circumstances spirituality becomes almost an un
