The Dynamite of God (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1918. Excerpt: ... XI THE BLACK MAN AND THE CHRIST THE SEMICENTENNIAL ADDRESS OF THE FREEDMEN's AID SOCIETY, DELIVERED AT ST. PAUL METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH, CINCINNATI, OHIO. "That he Christ by the grace of God should taste death for every man."--Hebrews 2. 9 To a thoughtful mind and to a manly heart this must appear a momentous occasion, because it has to do with a race. Nothing on this earth is of any special importance save man. God built the world for him, and if man moves out of this world, God will dismantle it like an unoccupied house. It was one of the weighty sayings of Mrs. Palmer recorded by her husband in that fascinating biography of her he penned, "Nothing counts but people." The novelists know that; the dramatists know that; the historians know that; the school teachers know that; the preachers know that. We have passed that station on the road where one class of supposedly superior people counts, and are running into the station where all kinds of people count. A novelist entitled his fiction, "All Sorts and Conditions of Men." It is the title of the world's most momentous interest. Some men have inherited Plato; all men have inherited Jesus; and Jesus, not Plato, is Lord of the society of the planet now and of the society of the future. Plato is like a tale that is told: Jesus is like a tale which is just barely begun in the radiant telling. Wherefore, Humanity's thrilling narrative is only beginning to be recited. A race What an electrical word that is, shot through with light and flame A race--a huge block of men, a kinsmanship by blood, by history, by suffering, by shipwreck, by survival. What a vivid, vital thing a race is How weighty like a mountain range and, like a mountain range, cold and bleak and dangerous and high and sunlit and wide with he...