ABSTRACT
The purpose of arresting the attention of a world and of holding it for two thousand years was accomplished by the use of success and of failure alternately. The Sermon on the Mount began with telling people that they would be successful if they knew how—if they had a vision. It proceeded to give them the vision. It began with giving them a vision for the things that they had—told them how even the very things that they had always thought before were what was the matter with the world they could make a great use of. “Blessed are the peacemakers; blessed are those that hunger; blessed are the meek.” For two thousand years men have devoted themselves, Sunday after Sunday, to saying over and over again that men should love one another.
