title: Preaching on Death: An Ecumenical Resource
author: Blair Gilmer Meeks
description: The authors include: Hilary hayden, Jeffrey VanderWilt, Rebecca Kruger Gaudino, Lucy Bergman, Mary Virginia Olson, Leander Harding, Diane Karay Tripp, Gerard S. Sloyan, Jose Rubio, Melvin Wilson Costen, John Allyn Melloh, Peter Judge, Mary Pope, Donna Osthaus, RAchel Reader, Jose Antonio Rubio, Larry Curran, Paul Perry, Judith Simonson, Robert Tate, Melissa Kay, Blair Gilmer Meeks, Mary Frohlich,Craig Mueller, Genevieve Glen.
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  Blessed Are the Meek  
  
  
    
  
  
  
  
  
  # Blessed Are the Meek
  
  
  ### G.C. Edmondson
  
  
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  Transcriber's Note: This e-text was produced from Astounding, September, 1955.
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  [Illustration]
  
  
  BLESSED ARE THE MEEK
  
  
  Every strength is a weakness, and every weakness is a strength.  
  And when the Strong start smashing each other's strength ... the  
  Weak may turn out to be, instead, the Wise.
  
  
  
  
  
  BY G. C. EDMONDSON
  
  Illustrated by Freas
  
  The strangers landed just before dawn, incinerating a good li of bottom land
  in the process. Their machines were already busily digging up the topsoil. The
  Old One watched, squinting into the morning sun.