Word: nazareth
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...Sermon had for its text the fact that Jesus of Nazareth was a poor man, a carpenter, who wore plain clothes, had poor friends, low social rating, belonged to no exclusive clubs. The argument was that the Protestant Churches, whether ritualistic or evangelical, had, to all appearances, forgotten, overlooked, or discarded this fact. Extracts...
...convinced that the Church exists largely for the white-collared people. They regard it somewhat as a comfortable social club for merchants and bankers, Rotarians and members of the Chamber of Commerce ... I have a recollection that somewhere in the New Testament it says that when the Carpenter of Nazareth spoke, the common people heard him gladly, while the religious and business classes persecuted and crucified him ... It might be well for you to take a census of your own churches and especially to count the number of men on your official board who earn their daily bread...
...Jesus of Nazareth, I have with most of the present dissenters of England some doubts as to His divinity; though it is a question I do not dogmatize upon, never having studied it and think it needless to busy myself with it now, when I expect soon the opportunity of knowing the truth with less trouble. I sec no harm, however, in its being believed, if that belief has the good consequence, as probably it has, of making His doctrines more respected and more observed...
...Shri Krishna of the prehistoric India, Buddha, Jesus of Nazareth, Confucius, Mohammed, Zoroaster,--all these through the avenue of religion appeared before the human race and helped the human mind to evolve many of its rich potentialities of faith, righteousness, and spirituality. Personalities such as Ashoka, Charlemagne, Peter the Great, Napoleon, Mazzini, Shiwaji, George Washington, Abraham Lincoln and others rose to eminence and power through sincere and farsighted service to their fellow men in organizing programs of human conduct conducive to life, liberty, and pursuit of happiness in the worldly sense...
...brother been well read, he would have cried (in angry Italian): "Shoemaker, stick to thy last!" As it was, Nazareth only shook his head and prophesied that singing would make Antonio a bad shoemaker, and that the young man would come to no good...