The cry of the human soul is never unheard. It is never that God does not hear the cry, but that man fails to hear the response. Like parts of a machine, made to fit into the other, and to work in perfect harmony, so is the human cry and the God-response. But man treats this cry as if were a thing alone, to be heard, or not, awaiting the cry, and only man's failing to heed, or to listen, kept him unaware of the response, and unsaved, unhelped by it.