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This revolution is organically tied up with the Russian Revolution. Few readers may agree with Author Scott that the Bolsheviks "preached a doctrine in some ways reminiscent of the gospel of Jesus, a doctrine in the spirit of the Declaration of the Rights of Man." But few will disagree that the Russian Revolution "inaugurated the era of collectivism, the most frightening, powerful and misunderstood phenomenon of the 20th Century." Author Scott believes that socialism is inevitable (" . . . if the Soviet Union, by some miracle, were to fall tomorrow into the Arctic Sea, the collectivist revolution . . . would not stop"), and that capitalism...
Since Matthew, Mark, Luke and John first wrote it down, the story has been retold by many a brash biographer (notably: Ernest Renan, George Moore, Emil Ludwig). But the original Gospel story still stands four-square against all comers. Undaunted by the experience of his predecessors,* Columbia's Professor Emeritus John Erskine, who has already tried his hand at fiddling with Greek myths where Homer nodded (The Private Life of Helen of Troy, Penelope's Man), last week came forward with a new version of the Gospel story (The Human Life of Jesus; Morrow...
...using parables, Jesus was "a great artist, a superb storyteller, a born dramatist. . . ." In performing miracles He revealed "a God of love." But the author, who shies away from the supernatural, does not believe that Lazarus was raised from the dead. Lazarus' relatives and friends and the Gospel chronicler may have believed it, but "there is nothing [in the Biblical account] that compels us to believe that Lazarus was literally dead." Lazarus may have been brought "back to health" by Jesus' "power of mind and will" and by "the therapy of his own abundant vitality...
...Erskine is inclined to be charitable toward one of them: ". . . St. John, when he wrote his version of the Gospel, was an old man, a very old man indeed, and ... he was using incidents in the life of Jesus, not in the interest of biographical accuracy, but to illustrate a doctrine...
...world problems Harry Truman applied the good-neighborly gospel: "Do by your neighbor as you would be done by." The nations must come to realize, he said, that the welfare of the world was more important than any individual nation's gain. Said the President: "We are going to accept that golden rule, and we are going forward to meet our destiny, which I think Almighty God intended us to have-and we are going to be the leaders...