Sam "Golden Rule" Jones had "quittin' meetings" for those converted at his revivals. These meetings were to get people to confess their sins (cussing, drinking, gambling, and so on) and then have everyone pledge to quit their sinning. At one of these meetings, a lady was asked what she was going to quit. She said she had not been doing anything and was going to quit doing that. Perhaps it's time for us to quit doing nothing!

One of the oldest tricks in the book for mischief-minded big-city kids is to stand on a street corner, craning necks back to look at some non-existent phenomenon in the sky, just to see how many people you can influence to follow your gaze upwards. The temptation is almost irresistible.

Last Thursday was the day of the Ascension of the Lord, being forty days after…