In these
determinations the saints will usually be loyal to the temporary idols of
their tribe."
Applying this explanation to the case of "Sojourner Truth," we may realize
that the literal conception of Jesus as her guide and shield, was a mental
image, inevitable with her, as Jesus was the motive power of her every
thought and act. And although at the moment of her Illumination, she
realized the "bigness" of God, later, in arranging and recording the
phenomenon, in her mental note-book, she tabulated it with all she knew of
God--the religious enthusiasm of her work of conversion to the religion of
Jesus.
Says James, commenting upon the question of conversion in human experience:
and this tendency to what seems a narrow and limited viewpoint:
"If you open the chapter on 'Association,' of any treatise on Psychology,
you will read that a man's ideas, aims and objects form diverse internal
groups, and systems, relatively independent of one another. Each 'aim'
which he follows awakens a certain specific kind of interested excitement,
and gathers a certain group of ideas together in subordination to it as
its associates.
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