Deep River and the Negro Spiritual Speaks of Life and Death by Howard Thurman

Author:Howard Thurman [Thurman, Howard]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Music, Religious, Christian, Religion, Christian Living, Inspirational, Spirituality, Social Science, Ethnic Studies, American, African American & Black Studies
ISBN: 9780913408209
Google: siTaAAAAMAAJ
Publisher: Friends United Press
Published: 1975-01-15T05:30:43+00:00

The source of life is God. The mystic applies this to human life when he says that there is in man an uncreated element; or in the Book of Job where it is written that his mark is in their foreheads. In the last analysis the mood of reverence that should characterize all men’s dealings with each other finds its basis here. The demand to treat all human beings as ends in themselves, or the moral imperative that issues in respect for personality, finds its profound inspiration here. To deal with men on any other basis, to treat them as if there were not vibrant and vital in each one the very life of the very God, is the great blasphemy; it is the judgment that is leveled with such relentless severity on modern man. “Thou hast made us for thyself and our souls are restless till they find their rest in thee,” says Augustine. Life is like a river.

Deep River, my home is over Jordan—

Deep River, I want to cross over into camp ground.

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