"Seek Hundred 'Hungriest Children'" and "Foreign Mission Report Will Be Explained"

1932

"The minister dreamed that his eight-year-old Billy, who had died two years before, was hungry—hungry in the midst of plenty; and that on Thanksgiving day! The minister’s childhood was spent in New England where Thanksgiving was celebrated like our Christmas. Billy’s few Christmases had been spent in a time and in a part of the country where Christmas is Christmas. So, the next day our minister determined that Billy should have his Christmas celebration by proxy. He has that curious sort of Celtic (or is it Christian?) faith that convinces him that those who have “gone on” know what goes on here."

Jesse Halsey On Hocking and Rethinking Missions

 1933 | Presbyterian Advance

On Hocking

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Hocking was here today. He spoke three times. Three times I heard him. And we “rethought missions” with him. Some of us have been thinking and rethinking with him for years. Only a few days ago I found Wieman saying about him, what I have long felt. Wieman has wandered much farther from Hockings’ sturdy theism than have I, but that only makes his saying all the more meaningful. He says this—"I distinguish sharply between the profound insights into the religious way of living, which Hocking reveals, and the system of philosophy in which he clothes them. In the former he is, to my mind, unsurpassed among living men. --Jesse Halsey c1934