Submit Yourselves to God.
By Editor
Did you ever notice a child led along by its mother's hand? How safely it walks so long as it holds fast to her. But if it runs away, unwilling to be led, how soon it falls, and is hurt or lost, not knowing how to go. When travelers climb high mountains, they have a guide to lead and help them. The guide knows every rocky path, every steep place; he furnishes rough shoes and a staff for each traveler, and has ropes to fasten around each person to keep them from going too far from him. Suppose a traveler refused to put on the rough shoes, or to use the staff, or to be fastened to the guide. How soon he would be on the wrong path, stand on some dangerous ledge, slide down some steep place, or fall over a deep precipice. So with our life; it is God's gift; all we have and are belongs to him, and he offers to be our guide. Shall we not gladly ask his will, and try to do as he would have us? Suppose a smooth-tongued person, pretending to know the way, should try to entice the travelers to leave the rightful guide and go with him, would it be wise to do so? There is one great enemy who from the beginning has tried to persuade men not to obey God, not to submit themselves to him. We are to resist him, refuse to listen to him, and he will flee away. The best way, then, to live remembering we are in God's sight, is to submit to him.—Sel.