IT matters which way. Sometimes the path of good and the path of evil run parallel, cross, wind about, run parallel again, diverge; yet are they endlessly separate, for in one the course is downward to the pit of destruction; the other is upward to glory; and while they run parallel, as they seem to, the passengers in one are downward bound, moved by selfishness, while the others “walk upward glancing,” actuated by unselfish devotion to some holy work. It is said of Asa, king of Judah, that in the latter years of his reign he “was diseased in his feet; his disease was exceeding great, yet in his disease he sought not to Jehovah, but to the physicians. And Asa slept with his fathers, and died.” 2 Chron. 16: 12, 13. Now, this is not written to condemn the physicians, for they are a useful profession, and fill an honored and useful place. The record shows us that Asa was going downward when he turned away from Jehovah, who had wrought so mightily for him, to the help of man. He turned from the ever-living fountains of Lebanon to the cisterns of men. He turned from the God, who had marvelously rescued and saved him, to men whose power was at the best all too limited. In Asa’s attitude itself there was darkness, defeat, death. Another could have sought the physicians and found relief, but his way would be upward. An angel of glory on the downward road holds within himself the seeds of death. The Christian pathway lies all the way up the hill to clearer light and glorious dawn, and never-ending existence.