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Japan's No. 1 Christian has written a novel about the life of Jesus. Author is soft-faced, reedy-voiced, myopic Toyohiko Kagawa, who is also Japan's No. 1 writer, turns out quantities of poems, tracts, devotional books, novels on economic and agrarian subjects. Behold the Man (Harper; $2.50) is his most ambitious work...
...rank in craftsmanship with George Moore's fanciful The Brook Kerith (which had Jesus survive the Crucifixion, pass a long life in retirement) or with Sholem Asch's best-seller of 1939, The Nazarene (which among other things presented a supposed "gospel" written by Judas). But Behold the Man is vivid, emotional, at times almost cinematic in its blood-&-thunders. Like the works of Upton Sinclair, it may find a wide, unsophisticated readership in other tongues as well as English...
...have attended services at many Episcopal churches, particularly in New York and Pittsburgh. At every service, the rector has made use of the prayer to give the President "wisdom" instead of the time-honored prayer to "behold and bless thy servant the President of the United States" which was part of the morning service from 1789 until the revision of the prayer book in 1929, when as an alternative the "wisdom" prayer was added...
...Excerpt from the "bless" prayer: "O Lord, our heavenly Father, the high and mighty Ruler of the universe, who dost from thy throne behold all the dwellers upon earth; Most heartily we beseech thee, with thy favor to behold and bless thy servant THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES, and all others in authority...
...words: "Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do." "This day shall thou be with Me in Paradise." "Behold Thy Mother. Behold Thy Son." "My God, My God, why hast Thou forsaken Me?" "I thirst." "It is finished." "Father, into Thy hands I commend My Spirit...