And Be Ye Thankful

Some ten years ago, in the city of Chicago, I attended a concert of Christian music on a Thanksgiving Day evening, and the pastor of the church in which the concert was held selected a portion of the third chapter of Paul’s Epistle to the Colossians as part of the devotions preceding the musical program.  Starting at the twelfth verse, he read the passage in the customary manner but when he came to the words which constitute the heading of this editorial, he paused and slowly, with great...