Article April 17, 1937 Issue

Signs of the Times

Topic: Subordination to God's Will

with contributions from Chiang Kai-Shek, H. R. L. Sheppard, Luther A. Weigle, Roy L. Smith, W. E. Wilson, D. H. Kress, C. W. Elsey, A. H. Wurtele

[Madame Chiang Kai-Shek, in the Religious Digest, Grand Rapids, Michigan, condensed from the Shanghai Evening Post and Mercury]

Life is really very simple, and yet how confused we make it. In old Chinese art there is just one outstanding object, perhaps a flower, on a scroll. Everything else in the picture is subordinated to that one beautiful thing. An integrated life is like that.

To know His [God's] will and to do it, calls for absolute sincerity, absolute honesty with oneself, and it means using one's mind to the best of one's ability. There is no weapon with which to fight sincerity and honesty. Political life is full of falsity and diplomacy and expediency. My firm conviction is that one's greatest weapon is not more deceptive falsity, more subtle diplomacy, greater expediency, but the simple, unassailable weapon of sincerity and truth.

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