Tact was not M. R. DeHaan’s strongest virtue. The founder of Radio Bible Class and editor of Our Daily Bread was likely to crash his fist into his hand or his desk to emphasize a point to his staff and demand that things be done his way. However, he was not reluctant to apologize, and he also mellowed with the years.
Once he and his wife had a disagreement and said nothing to each other during breakfast. When it was time to read the devotional in Our Daily Bread , she pushed it under his nose and said, “Are you the man who wrote this?” It was an article on kindness and forbearance. “That did it,” said DeHaan, “we had to make up right there.”
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Wikipedia.org, drawing from material in James R. Adair’s book M. R. DeHaan: The Man and His Ministry (Grand Rapids: Zondervan Publishing, 1969).