WHERE THERE IS NO VISION THE PEOPLE PERISH

SUNDAY...THE SAME OLD, SAME OLD WEATHER

Sunday, 9:00 AM.  19 degrees F, wind NE, light to moderate with stronger gusts.  The sky is again overcast, it is foggy and there are continuing snow flurries.  The humidity is 86% and the barometer is more or less steady, currently at 30.09".  The roads are slick again.  It looks like what has become the same old, same old weather.
   Last Sunday's post was pretty downbeat, decrying the withering of Christianity in the Western world. So I will present a 1909 quote from the English poet, author and Christian philosopher G. K. Chesterton, who witnessed similar witherings in his lifetime:
   "I have very little doubt myself that, somehow or other, an inspiring and compelling creed will return to our country, because religion is really a need, like fires in winter: where there is no vision the people perish, and perish of cold.  The nation that has no gods at all not only dies, but what is more, is bored to death."
   And my continuing thanks to Almanac reader Douglas Petersen for introducing me to the works of Chesterton.