Rare As a White Crow (1)

"Rare as a white crow" is Abraham Kuyper's description of how scarce discipline was in the church of his day. It was as rare as a white crow. I have seen a lot of crows in my life. We used to hunt crows once in a while in the orange groves outside of town. Waves of crows -- "murders" of them, as they say -- flew out of the foothills in the evenings to scavenge in the landfills at night. Never saw a white crow. And that was Kuyper's point. In the Netherlands of his day (1837-1920), Kuyper...