ABSTRACT
There was a young man about thirty years of age, full of zeal and compassion. He lived in a time of great economic pressure. He was very kind and sympathetic to his people. Before he reached the age of thirty, he had made a thorough study of certain life problems such as “Social Reorganization” and “Human Relationships.” He went through a period of self-awakening before he reached the stage of self-determination, and likewise he first effected a change of heart before he brought about any changes in forms. His first address to the public was the reading of a passage from Isaiah in the synagogue of his native town: The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, Because he anointed me to preach good tidings to the poor; He hath sent me to proclaim release to the captives, And recovering of sight to the blind, To set at liberty them that are bruised, To proclaim the acceptable year of the Lord. His charge and admonition to his disciples were in the following words:
If any man would come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross daily, and follow me. For whosoever would save his life shall lose it; but whosoever shall lose his life for my sake, the same shall save it. For what is a man profited, if he gain the whole world, and lose or forfeit his own self?
“Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself”; “Thou shalt forgive thy brother until seventy times seven”; “And why beholdest thou the mote that is in thy brother's eye, but considerest not the beam that is in thine own eye?”