I Am Mad!
StoryIllustration★★★★One of the late Dr. Spencer’s parishioners in Brooklyn, New York, met him hurriedly urging his way down the street one day; his lip was set, and there was something strange in that gray eye. “ How are you to-day, doctor?” he said, pleasantly. He waked as from a dream, and replied soberly, “ I am mad !” It was a new word for a mild, true-hearted Christian; but he waited, and with a deep, earnest voice went on:— “ I found a widow standing by her goods thrown in the street; she could not pay the month’s rent; the landlord turned her out; and one of her children is going to die; and that man is a member of the church! I told her to take her things back again. I am on my way to see him !”
Anon.
The point
A minister filled with righteous anger at a landlord who evicted a widow works to help her, showing that anger at injustice can be righteous and motivating.