Abstract

It Seems to Heywood Broun

This article focuses on comments supplied by an reviewer William Blackshear, to the newspapers by letter-writing clients. The matter is about a small group of Negro worshipers attend services at St. Matthews Church in Brooklyn or elsewhere. The author says that in spite of the stalwart stand taken by a few preachers here and there it seems obvious that the average professing Christian of today has not the slightest intention of attempting any actual experiment in living the life suggested by Jesus. According to the author there can be no denial of the fact that the rules of conduct established were outlined for people living under conditions quite unlike our own. But even in the beginning there was never any pretense that the way of Christ was easy.