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Walking Carefully

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Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Aug 19, 1902

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 79, No. 33.

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Walking Carefully

It behooves us to walk carefully and to speak soberly when a soul is in trouble or is passing through one of the many crises of life. “It is said that among the high Alps, at certain seasons, the traveler is told to proceed very quietly; for on the steep slopes overhead, the snow hangs so evenly balanced that the report of a gun, or even the sound of a voice, may destroy the equilibrium, and bring down an immense avalanche that will overwhelm everything in ruin.” Here and there,—we meet them almost every day,—are persons who are obliged to make decisions which will mean to them life or death. They stand at a fork in the road, hardly knowing which direction to take. At such a time a wrong word, or even a wrong look or sign, may decide them to take the wrong road. “A young lady who was deeply impressed with the truth, and was ready, under a conviction of sin, to ask, ‘What must I do to be saved?’ had all her solemn impressions dissipated by the unseemly jesting and laughter of a member of the church by her side, as she passed out of the sanctuary.”—Northwestern Christian Advocate.