It's important for me to acknowledge and honor the life of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. on this, the day America celebrates his birth.
Below are selected excerpts from L. Harold DeWolf in his Funeral Tribute to MLK at Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta, GA on April 9, 1968.
"Martin Luther King spoke with the tongues of men and of angels... Now that knowledge and that wisdom have been transcended as he shares in the divine wisdom of eternity.
It is now for us, all the millions of the living who care, to take up his torch of love. It is for us to finish his work, to end the awful destruction in Vietnam, to root out every trace of race prejudice from our lives, to bring the massive powers of this nation to aid the oppressed and to heal the hate-scarred world."
L. Harold DeWolf (1905-1986) was Martin Luther King's dissertation advisor at Boston University's School of Theology. From 1965 to 1972 he was the dean of Wesley Theological Seminary in Washington, DC.
--Shella
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