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368 THE WORSHIP OF THE VIRGIN MARY.CHAPTER XIX.THE WORSHIP OF THE VIRGIN MARY.There seems to be on the part of fallen man an inherentsense of his need of a man-God. The patriarch of Uz gaveexpression to this feeling, when he intimated his wish fora " days-man,"" who " might lay his hand upon us both.""Our intellectual faculties and our moral affections are unableto traversethe mighty void between ourselves and the Infinite,and both unite in seeking a resting-place midway inOne combining in himself both natures. The spiritualityof God places Him beyond our grasp, and removes Him, in amanner, from the sphere of our sympathy.We are dazzledby his majesty and glory ; his holiness overawes us ; hisgreatness, seen from afar, and incomprehensible by us, seemsto repel rather than invite confidence, and to chill the heartrather than expand it into love. " Is there no resting-placefor our affections and sympathies," we instinctively ask," nearer than the auijust throne of the Infinite V We needto have the divine attributes reduced to a scale, so to speak,which corresponds more nearly with our intellectual andmoral range, and exhibited in One who to the nature ofGod adds that of man. This feeling has received numerousand varied manifestations ; and the effort to meet ithas formed a prominent feature in every one of the great