My "Morning Worship"

       There had been times when Dr. Sung did have a critical attitude toward us.  Once he told me I “might amount to something” if I would not give so much time to my family.  When he was staying with us in Nanchang in 1931, he came down to breakfast one morning, and saw me down on my knees by the couch playing and talking with our baby Lois.  She was our first child after thirteen years of marriage, and was very precious to us.  Dr. Sung said, “Oh, I see you are having your morning worship.”

       He himself always Put God and God's work ahead of his family.  Some criticized him for that, but I never felt he was wrong in it.  He was merely taking the call of God seriously, even “hating his own family” as Jesus said one must do if he is to be worthy to enter the kingdom of God and be Christ's true follower.  The rest of us do not take God's call and God's work seriously enough.  He had a one-track mind.  How wonderful if we could all be that way.  One had to know Dr. Sung, and see his work and the results, to appreciate his attitude in this respect.  His own family appreciated him; Mrs. Sung seemed to feel he was doing the right thing.  I never felt that she was critical of him.  His own daughter became a Christian young people's leader, and the communists put her in prison because she had too much influence.  In 1974 she still had two-and-a-half years to serve.