Word: mulder
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Most of the lawyers at the conference were much interested in problems of practical legal ethics, such as those set forth in a "dialogue address" between Chicago Attorney John Mulder (a Presbyterian) and Karl Olsson. minister (Evangelical Covenant Church) and professor of church history at North Park Theological Seminary. Lawyer Mulder submitted a case history for moral scrutiny: three hoodlums tell the owner of a gas station that they will protect him from broken windows and sugar in his gas for $200 a year, and the owner asks his lawyer whether he should pay. "We have here," said Mulder...
Professor Olsson wanted to know about the lawyer's conscience. "Are you suggesting," he asked, "that the Christian lawyer all his life is sentenced to living with an anguished conscience?" Replied Lawyer Mulder: "Yes, I am . . .1 feel a sense of despair at what can happen to his spirit as he tries to balance the obligations to the moral law and to his client...
...Mulder and Mortensen's Among the Mormons is an excellent example of this new objectivity. Although both the editors are Mormon in background, they have written a book whose tone is remarkably detached...
...Mulder and Mortensen have also garnered brief accounts of Mormonism from a lineup of 19th century notables: Horace Greeley, Charles Dickens, Ralph Waldo Emerson (who called Mormonism an "after-clap of Puritanism"), John Greenleaf Whittier, and Mark Twain. The latter's revulsion at the concept of polygamy melted at his first sight of the "poor, ungainly and pathetically 'homely' creatures" that were the Mormon wives. "No," Twain wrote, "--the man that marries one of them has done an act of Christian charity which entitles him to the kindly applause of mankind, not their harsh censure--and the man that marries...
However, this is the first book of its kind, and it is one which succeeds in capturing the drama and the color of Mormonism. One of the main reasons for this success is the extremely well-written editors' introductions to each account, which seem to bear Mulder's stylistic imprint...