Putting Away Childish Things

When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish things.                        This month’s issue of Beacon Lights takes as its theme the words of the inspired apostle Paul in 1 Corinthians 13:11. Near the end of his chapter on the spiritual gift of charity (or love), the apostle Paul uses the metaphor of “growing up” to describe the temporary nature of the more sensational spiritual gifts that God gave to the...