Bouck White

Bouck White ( born October 20, 1874 † January 7, 1951 ), birth name Charles Browning White, was a parish pastor of the Congregational church, followers of the " Jesusism ", an American socialist, an author, a potter and a recluse.

Early years

Bouck White was born in Middleburgh in Schoharie County, the son of Charles Addison and Mary ( Bouck ) White. White used Middleburgh as a background in his book " The Mixing " (1913 ) and described thinly veiled residents as degenerative Dutch ( " degenerative Dutchmen "). Middle Burgh residents sued him and replied that White " a few years ago in the village was born male child, whose early stupidity have given no indication of his future precocity. "

Training

After graduating from Middleburgh High School, he attended Harvard College in 1894, studied journalism and graduated with his graduation in 1896 from. He first worked as a reporter for the Springfield Republican, until he felt called to religious duties and the Boston Theological Seminary visited. In 1902 he graduated from Union Theological Seminary of New York City. In 1902 he graduated from the " Union Theological Seminary " in New York City and worked as a pastor in the Ramapo Mountains near West Point. He published his first book Quo vaditis: . A call to the old moralitiesim 1903 A typical selection shows that he was from the beginning against the mentality of money making. "I've seen a people crazy by the new wealth, a drunken people, a people dizzy from large possessions. A ferocity they had to, but there was no wildness for the wwirklich desirable in life. "

After a year in Ramapo, he was pastor of the Congregational Church of the Thousand Islands in Clayton, New York for the next three years. White was ordained in 1904 by the " Congregational church" as a priest. Then he took over the position of Head of a social organization for men of Holy Trinity Episcopal Church, Brooklyn, where he remained until he was discharged in 1913.

Socialist activities

While he worked at the Holy Trinity church, White has written several books. "The Book of Daniel Drew " (1910 ) was " a study of the psychology of Wall Street. A fascinating history of mental excuses and benefits of ethical juggling a hopeless prisoners in the system. " The film " The Toast of New York " from 1937 with Cary Grant, Edward Arnold and Frances Farmer was created after this book. With the book: The Call of the Carpenter represented ( The Call of the Carpenter ) ( 1911), Jesus of Nazareth as workers, agitator and social revolutionary, he had gone too far. The result was his dismissal from the Holy Trinity church. White founded his own church, "The Church of the Social Revolution " ("The Church of the Social Revolution"). Eugene V. Debs stated then that White was "the only Christian minister " in New York. In "The Carpenter and the Rich Man " ( " The Carpenter and the rich man " ) (1914 ) shows " Bouck White ... in a lively and engaging manner Jesus as the leader of the great proletarian uprisings of his time. The immorality to be rich when other people are poor, is the keynote of this book, and the author builds on the message of the carpenter, as he has found in the parables. "

White was a member of the Socialist Party of America until he was expelled because of his religious beliefs. On May 10, 1914 White appeared to a worship of the church, who belonged to the Rockefeller family, to discuss the question: " Did Jesus taught that it is immoral to be rich " He was arrested for disorderly conduct and three days later, he was sentenced to six months in prison on Blackwells Iceland. Due to its success in the conversion of workhouse prisoners to socialism, he was transferred to the more isolated prison " Queens County Jail ." Upton Sinclair published a letter in the New York Times, in which he urged the White- trailer to advocate for his release. In this letter he compared Bouck White with Jesus, the magistrate who had sentenced him, with Pilatusund the " Calvary Baptist Church " with the biblical temple ..

Creed

After he was released, he in 1915, published " Letters from Prison " containing ( " Letters from Prison" ) his creed:

"I believe in God, the most powerful champions, rebels of the heavens and the earth. And in Jesus, the worked carpenter of Nazareth, who was born of the proletarian Maria at the workbench, descent into hell work, suffered under Roman tyranny at the hands of Pontius Pilate, was crucified, died and was buried. It is not our power that offers the freedom he rose from the dead to the Lord of the democratic progress, sworn enemy of stalemate, makers of the popular uprisings. I think, to work, to the self-respecting workers, the holiness of beauty freeborn producers, the community of comrades, the resurrection of the workers and the industrial community, the eternal kingdom of cooperatives. "

For desecration of the U.S. national flag, he was put back in jail in 1916, although he claimed it was been part of a religious ceremony to burn more flags from different countries as a request for international brotherhood at the same time.

Later life

White went to Europe to learn more about either the pottery or to work as a war correspondent, and married Andree Emilie Simon, a 19 - year-old girl, whom he brought back to its original home in Marlboro, Ulster County, NY. Because he abused, tarred and feathered him the locals. The marriage was annulled and White left Vermont in the summer of 1921. He eventually moved to New Scotland, Albany County, NY in the region of the Helderberg Mountains and with the help of two Swedish brothers he built by hand a primitive castle of local limestone in the middle of the 1930s. He called his buildings as " Federal Castle " and "The Spirit of the Helderberg Mountain ," but the residents they called the " Helderberg Castle. " He made a living by selling " Bouckware " ceramic with a new glazing technique that does not require heat. Fire destroys his apartment at the castle in 1940 and 1944, suffered a stroke White, which forced him to move into a home for old men in Menands, where he died in 1951.

" Bouck White went through the Methodist parsonage, the congregationalen service and after a stint as a youth worker, he founded his Church of the Social Revolution and angry all the socialist and religious organizations until he descended into infamous, eccentric adventure in the mountains outside of Albany, New York. "

Publications

• White, Bouck: The Book of Daniel Drew. München: Georg Müller, 1922, 1st - 3rd Thousand
• White, Bouck: The book of Daniel Drew: a glimpse of the Fisk - Gould -Tweed regime from the inside, ISBN 0-01-290227-6
• White, Bouck: Letters from prison; socialism a spiritual sunrise. ISBN 9781171838296
• White, Bouck: The Carpenter and the rich man,
• White, Bouck: Church of the Social Revolution: A Message to the World (1914 ) ( Paperback) ISBN 9781436807081
• White, Bouck: The Free City; A Book of Neighborhood. ISBN 9781458873798