{"id":5522,"date":"2019-09-30T03:47:41","date_gmt":"2019-09-30T03:47:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/churchedge.com\/illustrations\/index.php\/2019\/09\/30\/they-had-to-make-up-right-there\/"},"modified":"2019-09-30T03:47:41","modified_gmt":"2019-09-30T03:47:41","slug":"they-had-to-make-up-right-there","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/they-had-to-make-up-right-there\/","title":{"rendered":"They Had To Make Up Right There"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tact was not M. R. DeHaan\u2019s 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.<\/p>\n<p>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, \u201cAre you the man who wrote this?\u201d  It was an article on kindness and forbearance.  \u201cThat did it,\u201d said DeHaan, \u201cwe had to make up right there.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>________<\/p>\n<p>Wikipedia.org, drawing from material in James R. Adair\u2019s book  M. R. DeHaan: The Man and His Ministry  (Grand Rapids: Zondervan Publishing, 1969).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tact was not M. R. DeHaan\u2019s 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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[93,360,90,3227,3519],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5522"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5522"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5522\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5522"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5522"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5522"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}