Respect for Authority

The fifth of the ten commandments enjoins, “Honor thy father and they mother that thy days may be long upon the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee.”  (Ex. 20:12).  The first five of these commandments follow the line of God’s unity, God’s spirituality, God’s holiness, God’s rest, and God’s authority.  That last, to this modern world is a stickler.  Authority is not a popular note, and, among the heedless, never struck.  The so-called Now Generation never gives it a thought, any more than...