When Is It Tolerable to Be Intolerant?
Know The Way, Keep The Truth, Win The Life
Sermons For The Middle Third Of The Pentecost Season
Two words in our vocabulary conjure up opposite types of persons: the tolerant and the intolerant. One seems to wear a white hat; the other, a black one. Two little verses set these types in clear contrast. Jonathan Swift wrote:
We are God's chosen few,
All others will be damned;
There is no place in heaven for you,
We can't have heaven crammed.
Edwin Markham wrote:
He drew a circle that shut me out -
Rebel, heretic, thing to flout.
But Love and I had the wit to win -
We drew a circle that took him in.