WWJD

I have been reading Myths America Lives By (Richard T. Hughes), once again and enjoying it as usual. The book is filled with little attention getting stickers, pasted on each page where I found a comment worth noting. I haven’t highlighted anything on the pages as I want Laurae to read it after I’m through with it.

(OK, here’s my gift to you…invent a substance that will highlight words in a document or book and that can also be peeled off of the page when you are done with it. A transparent yellow film that can be removed by lifting it from the page. Wouldn’t that be great? You could mark up books as you read them and then remove the highlighting if you wanted to lend the book to someone else. You could use it on originals of contracts and other documents as well. Now, if you invent this and make a fortune; I only want 10%.)

Back to the book; the author discusses the rise of the Social Gospel in the late nineteenth century. He mentions Charles Sheldon, whose best selling book, In His Steps, appeared in 1897. That book tells the story of the Reverend Henry Maxwell, the pastor of a fashionable church in Kansas. Maxwell saw the vision of the social gospel and challenged the members of his church to deal with the social crisis of that time. How? By answering the simple question, “What would Jesus do?”

Yes, WWJD is over one hundred years old. Here’s a good sermon that tells the story best. http://www.presbyterianwarren.com/follow.html