Deciding for Eternity

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Sep 18, 1901

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 27, No. 38.

Deciding for Eternity

These are trying times. The prophet Joel, looking forward to these days, filled with a multiplicity of vital questions, exclaimed: “Multitudes, multitudes in the valley of decision; for the day of the Lord is near in the valley of decision.” Men are everywhere ranging themselves on one side or the other of great questions; but, O, how few of them are deciding from the basis of sound moral principle. With many it is a decision in sentiment, led by some blinded demagogue. With many it is a matter of expediency, will it pay? With many it is a matter of politics and party. And yet all these avail naught. They may seem to pay now; but in the ultimate, weighed in the balances of God, they will be found wanting. Righteousness, justice, truth, love—let these be the basis of every decision now. You can not afford to do otherwise. You are deciding for eternity.