Visit the hospitals today, and you will see patients being given a saline solution which helps to keep life in their bodies. Salt Has Always Been Known As One Of The Finest Preservatives That Mankind Has. Before the days of modern refrigeration, the farmer would kill his hog and salt it down to preserve the meat. Likewise, salt preserves society itself. Just as a human being does not naturally grow good, neither does society.
Society tends toward rottenness and decay.
One of the most thrilling stories in all of the Bible was that of Elijah being carried to heaven in the chariot of fire. He was saying that the man going yonder, who had gone about calling people to God, was really the defender of his nation. I am sure there were many then who felt that the defense of Israel was in her chariots and horsemen, her armor, her battleships, and her warriors. But one with deeper insight could see that the real defense of any nation lay in the character of her people. To Everything It Touches.