A Sober Sixty-Three

I Thessalonians 5:8:  “But let us, who are of the day, be sober, putting on the breastplate of faith and love; and for an helmet, the hope of salvation.” The dawn of another year has crept upon us.  Suddenly ’62 is gone and ’63 is here.  It is a customary procedure in this country (and I presume in others also) to “drink out the old and drink in the new.”  It is that devilish practice which calls to mind the Scriptural injunction:  be sober.  The entrance into a new year requires a sober...