E Stanley-Jones, Missionary to India
The
emptiness of the modern man is the greatest mission field we have ever faced.
And it won't get better -- it will get worse -- until Christ fills it!
So
I've sung my Song for years, in many climes, among many people, high and low,
rich and poor, princes and peasants; and down underneath these differences I've
found the same basic human nature, with the same possibilities and the same
desires. It is no "hit song" which makes a momentary hit and passes
away.
It has the "music of the spheres"
behind it -- and more -- the sum total of reality is in that Song. I sing
because I can't help it; it sings itself. If I held my peace, "the stones
would cry out." The hard, bare facts would cry out for just such a song to
sing and such a creed to believe.
From
"A Song of Ascents: A Spiritual Autobiography" by E. Stanley Jones
