TRAVELING THE WRONG ROAD.
By Dwight Lyman Moody
SOMETIMES we go right against our feelings. I remember once I went to Cleveland—I had been eighteen years in Chicago—and when I got to Cleveland I found Lake Erie was on the west side of the city. I was completely turned around. The sun rose in the west and set in the east all the time I was there. If I had gone according to my feelings, I would have got right into Lake Erie and been drowned in it; but I didn’t go according to my feelings, I went according to knowledge; knowledge is better than feelings. One time I went across the corner of this county, and I was driving along some roads where I had never been before. When I had got, as I thought, within about five miles of Conway, I began to think, “Now, you are going according to your feelings; hadn’t you better have a little knowledge about this thing?” So I reined up at the first house and called, “Hello, there!” A man came out, and when I asked him about the road, I found that instead of going to Conway, I was going right away from it. First I thought the man was wrong, then I thought, “This man has lived here for years, he knows the way better than I do;” so I turned around and drove my horse right against my feelings. Don’t mind your feelings, let feelings take care of themselves; what you want is to obey. When people begin talking about their feelings, bring them right to Scripture.—D. L. Moody.