Hidden from the Prudent

A blind Ute father raises a little silver cross and says it means men should not fight, but live as brothers. Has he grasped Christianity more clearly than the scholars who fill libraries with books about it?

In this 1921 William Penn Lecture, Quaker Paul Jones recalls a visit to Utah’s Ute reservation, where a family’s words turned a familiar religious question inside out. Jones asks whether faith is a theory to study, a system to classify—or a truth made real in how we live. The stakes reach beyond the library: if the heart of Jesus’ message is hidden by our cleverness, we may miss the possibility of living together in love. Can the prudent learn again to see what a humble heart already knows?

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