NOT TOO OLD TO LEARN
Harry Truman visited Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., when Holmes was in his nineties. When Truman walked into the room, the retired justice was reading Plato’s Republic. Truman asked him, “Mr. Justice, why at this point in life would you be reading something like that?” Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., replied, “I may be old, but I haven’t stopped growing.” If somebody can have that perspective about law and philosophy, ought we not all the more have that perspective about the church of Jesus Christ?
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