Emphasis Preaching Journal

As the son of a police chief I learned very early in life about the necessity of laws for the protection of the individual. Later, after I became a police officer, I was sent to a distant city to return a young man who was charged with automobile theft. As we traveled, I learned through our conversation that the young man had almost no sense of right or wrong. He had been raised by a criminal father with practically no discipline or rules by which to live. He was allowed to do whatever "felt right" at the moment, and was never given any religious instruction.