Lehre und Wehre St. Louis, Missouri — März 1916, Seite 104

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104 Reden des synoptischen JEsus über sein Erlösungswerk.

„While the picturé resulting from Mr. White's method is widely
at variance with the conventional portraits of Jesus, the author
claims that it is not a new presentation, but merely an attempt to
restore an original much overlaid and blurred by the aceretions 0f
time.“ Mr. White doziert also: „The Carpenter of Nazareth has
redeemed the toiling masses from contempt. It is no mere trope of
rhetoric, but literalest fact, that Jesus of Galilee was the incarnation
of labor's world-tragedy in its long climb up the ages. Conceived
of an ancestry of immemorial toil, gestated amid the swirl of coming
despotism, born in à stable, his cradle an ox-manger, suckled in
straits and poverty, he knew the sorrows of the disinherited before
his feet had felt the ground. From boyhood up he earned his liveli-
hood by sweat. A fréee workingman, compelled to compete with slave
labor, he ate the bread of affliction, and drank the cup of servitude.
He was à day-laborer; he wore the mechanics' dress; he belonged to
what is now known as the tin dinner-pail crowd. It is far-reachingly
significant — and the point will get itself considered in days that are
to come — that the hands which were nailed to Golgotha's eross had
known the feel of tools, and probably bore even at the moment some
callouses from his wage-earner days. He lifted up his voice against
industrial oppression; therefore he was led to the slaughter, though
there was no harm found in him. And his ovn self bore the world-
old sufferings of the wage class in his own body on the tree. — The
Carpenter is the proletariat's lord by the divinest right. For he is
on the one hand the keeper of the flood-gates of enthusiasm, and on
the other he directs that flood into channels of worldly use, of social
transformation. It is this combination of the two traits in rarest
blend which gives him the easy preeminence, and makes him the
Christ — humanity's anointed one. — The task of the twentieth cen-
tury is going to be to convert the Church to the Carpenter.“

über Paulus aber und dessen Bedeutung läßt sich Mr. White also
hören: „Paul was undeniably sincere. He believed that in reinter-
preting the Ohristian faith so as to make it acceptable to the Romans,
he was doing that faith a service. His make-up was imperial rather
than democratie. Both by birth and training he was unfitted to
enter into the working-class consciousness of Galileans. He was in
culture a Hellenist, in religion à Phariseée, in eitizenship a Roman.
From the first strain, Hellenism, he received a bias in the direction
of philosophy rather than economies; from the second, his Pharisaism,
he received aà bias toward aloofness, other-worldliness; and from
the third, his Romanism, he received à bias toward political acdui-
escence and the preservation of the Status JUO. ... True, Jesus was
a factor in this conversion experience. But the Jesus to Vhom Paul
went over was not the Carpenter of Galileée, but rather an imperial
magnate, lord of à renewed and glorified Roman Empire. Chris-

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