In the days of the Depression, Clarence Darrow, the brilliant lawyer, was addressing the members of a black church in Chicago. Most of these people were desperately poor. They didn’t have jobs and had little in which to place their hope. Darrow recounted their troubles and then noted how joyfully they had sung. Then he asked this pointed question: “What do you have to sing about?” A lady in the congregation jumped to her feet and said, “We’ve got Jesus to sing about!”
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Donald F. Ackland, et. al., Broadman Comments 1991-1992 (Nashville: Broadman Press, 1991).