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                <opener><fw place="top" type="letterhead">Columbia University <lb/>in the City of <rs ref="#tillich_place_id__319" type="place">New York</rs> <lb/>[<rs ref="#tillich_place_id__319" type="place">NEW YORK</rs> 27, <rs ref="#tillich_place_id__865" type="place">N. Y.</rs>] <lb/>EXECUTIVE
                        SECRETARY OF EARL HALL</fw>
                    <dateline><date when="1946-08-14">August 14, 1946</date></dateline>
                    <salute>Dear <rs ref="#tillich_person_id__1928" type="person">Professor
                            Tillich</rs>,</salute>
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                <p>My congratulations and sincerest best wishes are extended to you on the occasion
                    of your sixtieth birthday. I realize how much you think of this as an event of
                    special importance. It is my earnest wish that it may carry with it a richness
                    of blessing.</p>
                <p>I believe this occasion can be used to express my deepest gratitude to you for
                    your contributions to my life. Your lectures and theological formulations, your
                    interpretation of the history of Philosophy of Religion, and your profound
                    sermons – – all these and many other specific instances have revealed your depth
                    of penetrating insight and the incomparable background of understanding and
                    wisdom which you signify for me. I am, of course, humbled by my gross inability
                    in using your constant guidance in a manner comparable to its worth. I often
                    fear that in my desire to use your methodology I do it real injustice. I am,
                    nevertheless, deeply grateful for its having so clearly set forth to me. </p>
                <p>Your contribution to theological thought in <rs ref="#tillich_place_id__684" type="place">America</rs> is beyond measuring. I am convinced that it is a
                    very real and far-reaching contribution. The recent war, and what it signified,
                    brought you to us; we are grateful for that, and your coming represents a
                        <q>good</q> which has come about because of the struggle in recent years,
                    which may be the one and only <q>good.</q></p>
                <p>May your sixtieth birthday be a happy one, and I trust that it will indicate anew
                    your continuing role in our community, as one of our greatest teachers, and as a
                    scholar whom we are grateful to in <rs ref="#tillich_place_id__684" type="place">America</rs>.</p>
                <closer><salute>Very sincerely yours, </salute><signed><rs ref="#tillich_person_id__3752" type="person">J. Edward
                        Dirks</rs></signed></closer>
                <fw place="bottom" type="adressline">Professor <rs ref="#tillich_person_id__1928" type="person">Paul Tillich</rs>, <lb/>Box 1419<lb/><rs ref="#tillich_place_id__769" type="place">Easthampton</rs>, <rs ref="#tillich_place_id__865" type="place">New York</rs></fw>
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