Standards

A printer told me that 98 percent of students entering his trade drop out because printing demands an exactness and conscientiousness few young men now possess; every mistake is visible to the world, and the work requires patient correction of even the smallest errors. Other skilled trades report the same decline, and many now depend on foreign labor because apprentices refuse painstaking work. The roots of this problem lie deeper than training they lie in our deteriorating relationship to God. When a society becomes casual about its duties to God worship, obedience, tithing it invariably grows even more casual about its duties to men. Disrespect toward God breeds disrespect for all authority and responsibility, until life descends from “Thy will be done” to the anarchy of “My will be done.” If you grieve over such a world, begin its repair where all true reform begins: with yourself and your relationship to Almighty God.