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Review and Herald Publishing Association · Washington, D. C. · Nov 24, 1910

Two Ways — Which?

ONE evening, at a summer watering-place, the young people were dancing. One young girl, however, was not taking any part in the exercise.

“Does not your daughter dance?” asked a lady of this girl’s mother.

“No,” was the reply.

“Why, how will she get on in the world then?”

“I am not bringing her up for the world,” was the quiet answer.

That young girl is now a woman, and the influence of her consecrated life is felt in many of the Christian interests of a great city.

For what are you bringing up your daughters, dear mothers of other girls? What aim have you for them? Are you bringing them up for the Lord or for the world? What do you want to see them become? What are your dreams and ambitions for them? Do you want them to shine in society, to “marry well,” to live in wealth? Is that the vision that fills your soul when you think of them? Look on a little farther. Life is short. Suppose your dream is fulfilled—is it anything more than a dream? What lies beyond? The curtain is drawn, and there is the hushed chamber of death. What do you desire for your child then? The curtain is drawn again, and eternity opens. What would your fond affections choose for her then? It is better to think matters of this kind through to the end.—Selected.