The Christ of the American Road [antikvár]

INTRODUCTION After twenty years in India I wrote The Christ of the Indian Road. I gave the manuscript to the publisher with an apology and went back to India. I expected nothing from it. Its reception was a surprise to me. When I look back to see the reason for that reception, I think perhaps it was this: it was new to a good many people to find that each nation has something distinctive to contribute to the interpretation of the universal Christ. Seeing Christ in the light of one national interpretation—their own—they took it for granted that this was the interpretation, the Truth itself. They were surprised to find that other peoples, with a different racial history and culture, might bring out other phases and emphases of the universal Christ which they had missed. But to some of us who have roamed afar it has become a commonplace that it will take the sons of men to interpret the Son of Man. For none of us has the Truth. The Truth is in Christ— the Truth. What we hold is truths about the Truth. We need, therefore, the other person's truth to add to our truths, so that our pooled truths may more closely approximate him who is the Truth. I say "more closely approximate," for even our pooled truths are forever this side of the Truth. We shall eternally grow into deeper and larger comprehension of the Truth, and assimilate it more and 7