Stanley High

The Kingdom of God is a kingdom of ideas and ideals but not as such; ideas and ideals incarnate in living men – men who have caught up in themselves those principles and ideals that found their supreme expression in Jesus Christ and caused them again to live and breathe, dare and do, aspire and create, destroy and rebuild. Such men ever are pioneers – inevitably so because the kingdom of God is still a kingdom in the making. The conviction of Stanley High is that every man and woman who in some new and vital way incorporates in character or deed some idea proclaimed by Jesus the Christ is in a very real sense a pioneer of the coming kingdom. Each is not perfect, but believed to have made a contribution toward the interpretation for our day of the meaning for human life and conduct of those eternal principles set forth in an earlier age and a far different civilization in the life and teachings of Jesus. Life ever is inspired by life. The true apostolic succession is a procession through the gages of men and women whose souls have been kindled by the fire that they have found burning in the hearts of men and women of the older generation.… (mehr)