Adopt Modern Values? 

- Cal Thomas, part 4

     Now that I'm 80, a lot of other writers think I need to adopt their modern values. I think not. Things that worked yesterday and today, and will work tomorrow if tried, usually fall into the category of "wisdom."

     On the 150th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, President Calvin Coolidge said, "Don't expect to build up the weak by pulling down the strong." Coolidge was a source in some of my columns to remind people that we can find more wisdom in the past than in the present, if we will only pay attention.

     Human nature and Biblical morality never change. There is a standard by which truth can be measured. 

     Only two things matter: the first is not whether one's name is written in a newspaper column or on a TV screen, but whether our names are written in the Lamb's Book of Life. 

     The other is whether one will hear a verdict on one's life that exceeds whatever honor or award is given in this life. That is the verdict of Jesus: "Well done, thou good and faithful servant." 

     That's my goal, to hear those words. 

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