TWO ENDS | AdventAI

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Jul 23, 1896

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 22, No. 29.

TWO ENDS.

When a small boy, I was carrying a not very large ladder, when there was a crash. An unlucky movement brought the rear end of the ladder against a window. Instead of scolding me, my father made me stop, and said very quietly, “Look here, my son, there is one thing I wish you to remember; that is, every ladder has two ends.” I never have forgotten it, tho many years have gone. Do we not carry things besides ladders that have two ends? When I see a young man getting “fast” habits, I think he sees only one end of the ladder, the one pointing toward pleasure, and that he does not know that the other is wounding his parents’ hearts. Ah, yes, every ladder has two ends, and this is a thing to be remembered in more ways than one!—Sel.