FENCE
familiar injunction, "Do not trust anyone over thirty!" Older age represents authority and the es tablishment. The goal is to cast off restraints. In trying to drop out of society, many of our youth have been un der the illusion that such a course would provide real liberty. Nothing was really solved by being alien ated from society. Man was made by God to conform to certain rules and standards. The satisfaction and contentment for which he so des perately seeks can only be found in a realization and a rigid adher ence to these truths. It is acknowledged that most def initions relate freedom to respon sibility. Yet, the question remains, "What is responsible behaviour?" We believe it is that which is clear ly set forth in Scripture. Our desire should be to know the reason why "the fence of God" has been put up. When we do we will not be tempted to take it down. Our glor ious Christian faith spells out won-
Lord Chesterton once remarked, "Do not ever take a fence down until you know the reason why it was put up." We seem to be living in an era of "fence breaking." Young people are obsessed by the idea of freedom. Anything that smacks of restraint or control is considered out of date. Actually, the fences of life make possible the freedoms of life. I am thinking of those little fences of marriage ceremonies, property rights, traffic laws, rules of etiquette, and most important, the spiritual laws which Cod has established for our good. Recently a Catholic nun, who was president of a certain college, asked to be freed of her vows to the church. She wanted to make the school secular in concept. All of this was done with a goal of "academic freedom." As chief ad ministrator, she was convinced that such should characterize a college today. The rebellion of youth, ex pressed especially on campuses across our land, would re-echo the
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