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A YOUNG GIRL'S CHOICE

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Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Jan 21, 1903

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 29, No. 3.

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A YOUNG GIRL'S CHOICE.

I READ of a girl whose father had a great deal of money; he had earned it making and selling beer, giving her a lovely home with everything she could wish. She lived a gay life, going to parties and balls, till a day came when she saw this way of living was the way of sin, and she turned from it to follow Jesus. She could not go to these parties any more, and when her father asked her to go, she had to say, “I can not, for I am a Christian now.”
This made him angry and he said, “Well, you must go, that is all there is to it.”
“But, father,” she said, “it would be sin for me to do it.”
“Never mind about sin; I want you to go with me to-night. I will wait for you.”
“I must not go, father,” she cried. “Please do not ask me.”
“You can choose now to go with me or you can leave your home. Which will you do?” asked the angry father.
“Father, I will do anything you ask, if it is right to do, but this is sin, and I can not disobey God.”
Then he said, “You may have till morning to think over this, and if you can not give up being a Christian you will have to go away.”
When morning came he asked her what she would do. “I am willing to stay away from church if you wish, but I can not go where Jesus would not have me.”
“Then you may go,” he said. So the girl left sadly to get her things, and when she was ready to go away stopped to say good-by to her home.
Kneeling by the sofa she prayed God to guide. Then she sang: “Jesus I my cross have taken, all to leave and follow Thee.”
Her father in passing, heard her sing and pray. The Holy Spirit softened his heart. He went in and kissed her. “Forgive me,” he said. “You may stay and go to church as much as you like, and will you pray for me?”—Anon.