"For eighteen years Jesus worked thus as a day labourer. We find him ever afterward identifying himself with the working class. Passages like, "which of you intending to build"; "the kingdom of heaven is like unto a man that is a householder, which went out early in the morning to hire labourers"; "the burden and heat of the day"; "no man hath hired us"; and the references to the patching of worn garments and hewing down trees for firewood, give evidence of a working-class consciousness."
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Bouck White
Charles Browning "Bouck" White (October 20, 1874 β January 7, 1951) was a Congregational minister, an American socialist, a Jesusist, an author, a potter, and a recluse.
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