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...That was the core of Jesus' teaching," said Dr. Wriston, and there was just as much moral pressure on Christ as on the modern preacher to concentrate on social and political reforms. The Jews of the New Testament were intensely political, white-hot nationalists. Under occupation by a foreign power and burning for liberation from Rome, they looked for a leader to bring them salvation in practical, tangible terms...
...short, concerned itself with just one level of life-"personal religious experience . . . The problem with which He wrestled was the age-old problem, the purification of the mind and heart of man. All His teaching was directed to that end and to no other whatsoever. I suggest that the preacher, when he fulfills his function as teacher, find there his guide and model...
Growing up in the little southern Indiana town of Petersburg, Willard Brenton Hargrave was regarded as a dull boy. Playmates called him "Dummy." Teachers despaired of his learning anything. At 13 the Methodist preacher's son was in juvenile court, threatened with reform school. But the judge, noticing that Willard Hargrave seemed to pay little attention to the court proceedings, wondered whether he had heard what went on. A doctor's examination showed that the "dummy" was half deaf, probably as a result of chicken...
...high humanitarian purposes by the easy method of using the involuntary good Samaritan ... is not edifying. There ought to be a better method of making the legal order effective for our humanitarian ideals than that of Robin Hood or that of the pickpocket who . . . was so moved by the preacher's eloquence that he picked the pockets of everyone in reach and put the contents in the plate...
...angakok doesn't consider sinful what a white preacher considers sinful, but knows only one kind of sin - that which harms the community . . . An angakok . . . believes in every spirit [but] the white men are exceedingly narrow-minded and conceited people, and that's the reason why they dare say there exists, at the most, one spirit-theirs, of course! . . . Each tribe has the god it deserves, for gods are made in the image of those that believe in them. Therefore the stupid have a stupid god, the intelligent an intelligent god, the good a good god, the wicked...