Article February 22, 1947 Issue

Signs of the Times

Truthfulness, Our Standard

with contributions from Geoffrey F. Fisher, W. Kee Maxwell, Seth Wilson, James Reid, Michael Di Stasi

The Most Rev. Geoffrey F. Fisher Archbishop of Canterbury during the Fifty-fifth General Convention of the Episcopal Church in Philadelphia The Living Church, Milwaukee, Wisconsin

To the Christian there is such a thing as absolute truth. To the rest of the world truth is considered relative. The pure scientist and the Christian know that they cannot create truth; they can only discover it. The Christian knows that there is absolute truth, existing in the mind of God. He has no nonsensical idea that he can make truth fit his ideas. Others think they can stretch truth, or shrink it, to suit themselves—as if they had an elastic yardstick, of no fixed length.

Many have no interest in all truth, but only in their own little fragments of it. This fragmentation of truth is dangerous. It blinds the person who is subjected to it.

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