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...bright summer morning in Guns-bach when he was 21, Schweitzer awoke and calmly came to a momentous decision: "I would consider myself justified in living until I was 30 for science and art, in order to devote myself from that time forward to the direct service of humanity. Many a time already had I tried to settle what meaning lay hidden for me in the saying of Jesus: 'Whosoever would save his life shall lose it, and whosoever shall lose his life for My sake and the Gospels shall save it.' Now the answer was found...
Preaching Was Necessary. For an idealist of 21, there was nothing particularly unusual about his decision except that he acted upon it. For Albert Schweitzer, the resolution was a binding contract with himself. Without telling anyone of his decision, he set out upon such a decade of activity as would have done credit to an ordinary man's lifetime...
...Second Coming. In 1903, Schweitzer was appointed principal of Strasbourg's Theological College. In preparation for a series of lectures on the history of research into the life of Jesus, he began the work which was first to make his reputation international-The Quest of the Historical Jesus...
Will-to-Love. Is Albert Schweitzer a Christian? He is certainly not an orthodox one. He subscribes to no creed and has no patience with theological distinctions. His religious thinking and living have character that defies any precise labeling. He is a pantheist, but he is far more than a pantheist. "Every form of living Christianity," he says, "is pantheistic in that it is bound to envisage everything that exists as having its being in the great First Cause of all being." But to him, ethical piety cannot depend upon the impersonal First Cause manifested in nature but upon...
...Mass Murderer." In his daily life Schweitzer takes his own injunction to revere life so seriously that it sometimes astonishes those around him. He himsel" reports that the natives consider his view impractical and perverted when he tell them they must transplant young palm trees instead of cutting them down when a clearing is to be made. A Lambarene colleague reports that when a grapefruit was brought to Schweitzer as he worked late at night, he would always drop a spoonful of the juice on the floor beside him for the ants. "Look at my ants," he would say. "Just...