Excerpt from Heart to Heart, Frank Talks on Familiar Themes
This little publication is a sheaf of gleanings from The Supplement, a monthly publication of mine in which for some time I have tried to talk Heart to Heart to people whom I regarded as willing to welcome courageous thinking and speaking on the part of someone else, even if they were indisposed to indulge that luxury themselves. I had long felt that there are some in and outside my congregation whom I ought to reach. Week by week, year in year out, I had been addressing and otherwise influencing in various ways and degrees thousands of men and women of diverse ages and cultural conditions. This had been going on for years. These people had not been harmed or otherwise wholly untouched. If they had, they would either have dropped me or from me long ago. So I thought that if I have to any extent helped some, why not enlarge the sphere of my usefulness? Utility is an outstanding mark of God's creation, and man, as far as we now see, its master product, should not be content with less than being as useful as he possibly can. But those whom I was not reaching did not come to me. Some thought I was too frank and resented my candor by not coming, altho they continued to hold me in what I have good reason to denominate a loving regard. Accordingly, I have not been one of those Rabbis to whom flock all their own people and many others, according to newspaper reports printed at a long distance. Some of my people, not unlike some in many other congregations, are content with religious instruction, spiritual inspiration, and moral impulse, in homeopathic doses at irregular and widely separated periods. They are a sort of unconscious Jewish Christian Scientists, content with piety by proxy, or with the administration of religion by absent treatment. But I have refused to be a "Healer" while posing as a Rabbi for which I had long prepared. I was, as I still am, unwilling to do less than as much certain good as I can. If some folk whom I might benefit would not come to me, I felt that I ought to go to them. Hence the publication of my little magazine. The Supplement, in which for several years, month by month, I have furnished Heart to Heart what in part constitutes the messages of the present publication which, like the pages from which they have been culled, is put forth as a labor of love. Its dominant motive is missionary. Its goal like its source is to try to add a little to the world's much needed store of courage co-operation and cheer.
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