Show JEWS JESUS AHEAD OF HIS TIMES by PROF WILLIAM LYON yale university it is often said that no one can speak or write for posterity hut but it is is certain that jesus talked over the heads of itis ilia audience and that people of the twentieth century understand him much better than those who first heard him ho he was waa a trouble maker a challenging C and provocative nuisance many people hated him many could not understand himi him but nobody forgot him instead of giving explanations lie he aroused questions in peoples min minds da the world has been trying to live up to him but for nineteen centuries we have still tailed failed to catch up with him because he is years year a ahead of this present time the most liberal progressive and advanced thought and action today would be to go straight back to jesus and imitate him ile he was no political revolutionist but lie started a revolution in every individual heart he meant to turn people from selfishness to unselfishness faoro fr 1 0 m cowardice ardice to courage from vulgarity bulgari ity to purity lie ile always emp emphasized the spirit above everything else there was a certain recklessness about him he had no prudence no caution lie ile told people that they must give themselves vea veLi to religion with no reservation |