Signs of the Times

Spencer D. Moseley

Chicago Sunday Evening Club

Spencer D. Moseley, President
General American Transportation
Corporation in an address to the
Chicago Sunday Evening Club

In my experience, I have yet to meet anyone who does not in some way deserve my respect. ... I believe that this strong feeling has made it considerably easier for me to try to follow the Golden Rule, which has such tremendous ramifications.

It is so easy today to slip into the habit of grouping people. We're either Northern or Southern, Black or White, labor or management, city or country, "in" or "out," but all these labels say nothing about a man. They don't describe his honesty, his pride, his capability for compassion, his humility, his skills, his strength; ... his love of God, his country, and his home; his humor, his dignity, his warmth. All these traits have to be God-given, and they reflect the infinity of Mind that is also reflected in the sameness—yet individuality—of snowflakes....

Because there is in every man and woman a reflection of the Divine, I believe also that we have a responsibility to the great Love, quiet Strength, and Intelligence that is God. This responsibility is to live, to do what comes to hand, with joy and dedication, to use and develop the spark that is within. I believe that the divinity in each of us responds to that in others. Thus, any relationship, be it social, the home, business, or any other, to be lasting and real must be based on the virtues which Christ taught us....

Always I have found that indulging oneself then hoping for a solution to laziness, lack of concern or whatever, through prayer doesn't work—nor can it be effective if temper, impatience, or personal gain is involved. But if I have searched my own self and my motives are good and unselfish—the answer usually comes somehow and at some time. A day rarely passes in which I don't ask for help or express my gratitude for that reservoir of strength and goodness that is there for the asking.

I know that real satisfaction and happiness come not from material things or human honors or pleasures, but from the satisfactions of a job well...done, or warm and honest human relationships, from giving more than you can possibly get in return.

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