If forced to curtail or hurry these hours of prayer, he feels restless and unhappy, and his efficiency is reduced.

"Prayer," he says, "is as important as breathing; and we never say we have no time to breathe."[140] All this has been explained away by critics of the muscular Christian sort, who say that the Sadhu's Christianity is of a typically Eastern kind.

But this is simply not true.

It were much better to acknowledge that we, more and more, are tending to develop a typically Western kind of Christianity, marked by the Western emphasis on doing and Western contempt for being; and that if we go sufficiently far on this path we shall find ourselves cut off from our source.

The Sadhu's Christianity is fully Christian; that is to say, it is whole and complete.