A New Crop of Fools Comes On…

This message was sent to a president of the United States by a group of concerned young people: “We stand for preservation of our heritage through obedience to law.”¹

Without law, we would have no heritage. Law sustains life. Law keeps the universe in its course. Without law there would be no safety, no standards, no assurance, no guidelines in life. Without law men, nature, life, would be in complete chaos. Then why, Oh why should there be looseness pertaining to law, failure to uphold it, failure to respect and live by law.

Frank Crane once gave some terse sentences on this subject: “Every generation a new crop of fools come on,” he said. “They think they can beat the orderly universe. They conceive themselves to be more clever than the eternal laws. They snatch goods from Nature’s store, and run…And one by one they all come back to Nature’s counter, and pay—pay in tears, in agony, in despair; pay as fools before them have paid…Nature keeps books pitilessly. Your credit with her is good, but she collects; there is no land you can flee to and escape her bailiffs. …She never forgets; she sees to it that you pay her every cent you owe, with interest.” ²

Thank God for law, for those who respect it, live by it, sustain it: for the laws of health; for seeds that produce what was planted, for the succession of the seasons, for everything that sustains life, and makes peace and orderly purpose possible.

Everything we have, everything we may ever expect to have, everything we can count on would be lacking without law. Everything that we can count on comes with living and working with law. “We stand for the preservation of our heritage through obedience to law.” Nature sees to it that you pay her every cent you owe—with interest.