Word: musts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...churches (O the misery of the plural!) must now do four things. They must have a clear understanding of the ground on which they stand, so as not to make a compromise of the faith. They must in all earnest start a process of internal revitalization to sweep away idol worship, worldliness, hypocrisy, division, ignorance, and heaviness of the eye and lukewarmness of the heart . . . They must quickly plan together and decide upon a program of practical and concrete social service. And they must revolutionize their organization, their theology, their ways of living, and their methods of evangelism...
...lives in the realm of nature and of social relations, is part and parcel of the material world and of society . . . The churches must realize that they have their social duties, and must serve under whatever political regime ... In order to live [under the Communists], they must become their words in concrete social action. Therefore, a concrete progress of service is a necessity...
...church organization, evangelistic methods, theology, and ways of living must undergo a radical change . . . Audacity of thought is necessary. There is no fear of heresy, for history tells us that creative periods have always been times for the emergence of heretics . . . But today there can be no more inquisition, judgment, condemnation, and execution. The fire that burned saints to death for heresy has been thoroughly extinguished. The trouble is that there is so little heresy in the Chinese churches, so little creative thinking, so little originality...
...though he feels that his work is "well-nigh completed," Seymour still worries a good deal about the future of such institutions, as Yale. His chief concern is the same as it was twelve years ago-"absolute intellectual freedom . . . The Yale atmosphere must be so completely impregnated with the sense of freedom that our students going from here will serve naturally and universally as its apostles . . . We seek the truth and will endure the consequences...
...forgotten by a new generation which was facing fiercer foes of the moral order than Demon Rum. But only 15 years before, Maryland's Senator William Cabell Bruce had risen on the Senate floor to speak the indignation that many another angry church member must have felt: 'God forbid that any clergyman of this kind should ever come near me for the purpose of exercising any office that appertains to his profession. If he were to sprinkle baptismal water upon the head of a child, I should expect its scalp to be scalded rather than hallowed...