Emphasis Preaching Journal

On an insurance house billboard appeared the sign, "Nothing exceeds like excess." The witticism is appropriate in describing our decade. America has been bred on the notion that "Nothing succeeds like success." It was Alexander Dumas who coined that phrase in the last century for one of his French plays. The phrase fit an age of general optimism. The saying came to America at a moment when our industrial and technological achievements were only beginning. By the turn of the century technological know-how in America promised to deliver payment on the American dream of the pursuit of happiness.