THE SURRENDERED SELF
In his autobiography, A Song of Ascents, E. Stanley Jones, well-known Christian missionary, to India tells of a situation where the fellow members of his Ashram helped him in a problem regarding his spiritual reputation. It seems that for a number of years Jones had supported a prominent man financially. And when the time came when he could no longer support him, the man turned on Jones and attacked him in the public press. So E. Stanley Jones sat down and wrote a ltter of reply of a few sentences, the kind of reply in which you don’t give your opponent a leg to stand on, but wipe him off the face of the earth. As he put it, “the kind of reply you are proud of the first five minutes, the second five minutes you’re not so certain, and the third five minutes you know you’re wrong.” But before he mailed this letter he sent this reply to the people…
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