The reverent silence was broken by ripples of laughter, which spread across the auditorium in waves. The nonconformist had dressed to fit his optimistic feelings. (“Well,” thought one somber faculty member, “what could be expected from one who at high school graduation had been elected the class clown?”) That morning the young Mrs. Bollback was as embarrassed for her husband as Mother Bollback had been for her son the night he stood dripping wet on the tabernacle platform. Oswald Chambers in his earthy, practical approach to spiritual things counsels: “Never take anyone seriously but God.” “The question is not what do people think about me, BUT what does God think?” “If we take people seriously, we will forget that God alone is our Judge.” “If we take ourselves seriously, the burden of self will be intolerable.” “If we take seriously every will and wish of our God, we shall walk in Light.” What if Harry’s joyous Christianity was sometimes a bit irrepressible?
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