The Magical Chance by Dallas Lore Sharp — Read

Here on my desk lies a new book entitled, "For the Benefit of My Creditors," the autobiography of Hinckley Gilbert Mitchell, a scholar, a teacher in a school of theology -- and now this book, a simple, sad book of human struggle and defeat, of spiritual and scientific adventure and triumph and romance.

The scholar is not the accepted stuff of literature. What of human interest can come out of a classroom? Yet I have seen this scholar's classroom when it was wilder than ten nights in a barroom crowded into one. I have seen some lively and human times in my own classroom; and I know that there is as real a chance, and as magical a chance, there as Dana found on the high seas. There are frontiers for the scholar, especially in theology, as dangerous in their crossing as any to be met with by the overland pioneer.