Word: must
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...must know ourselves! We must confess that we are terribly poor and that our people are suffering miseries which justly horrify the civilized peoples. We must confess that our political life is corrupt to the core, and that most of our homes are nests of crime, of injustice, oppression, lynching and suicide...
...must see with open eyes that we are ruled by militarists who arose from banditry and from the scum of society, and whose education and training never qualified them to rule...
...more than eight years after his first Indian venture that the cumulus of his experiences, reactions, volitions suddenly crystallized in his mind into what was tantamount to a vision. Figuratively he saw the Galilean walking along an Indian road. He must offer the Christ, not in a Western setting, to which by historic accident he seemed to belong, but in an Indian setting. Thereafter, mostly among the quiet intellectual Brahmans but also among the outcastes, he preached the Christ, not Western, but universal. Him they would accept because they had spiritual accord with the mysticism of his life and suffering...
Throughout his book he traces his brilliant idea which must perforce rank with the most gracious, sympathetic?and effective?missionary approaches. Two figures loom: the Christ, of course, and Mahatma Gandhi.? It is in Gandhi, he finds, or in one like him, that India will find the Christ. Curious is the parallel which Indians already draw between their great leader and Jesus Christ. Gandhi has suffered, fasted, been imprisoned. And many an Indian, now first glimpsing the new figure on the Indian road, has reverently paralleled Yerravada, Gandhi's first prison, with Calvary...
...religious life of America must be saved from both the selfish and the sentimental, to the sacrificial. Very often a feeling of being sentimental toward Chris tian things covers a selfish attitude. We take it for granted that because we can feel, we have thereby the facts that under lie Christianity. The fact that underlies Christianity is the Cross ? that is the attitude we should take toward life...