THE CHOICE by Frederic William Farrar

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Nov 5, 1894

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 20, No. 52.

THE CHOICE.

By Frederic William Farrar

EVERY young man and young woman has to make the choice in turn. That choice is never decided by accident. In old days, when Nebuchadnezzar rode forth to conquer, and stood at the head of parting roads, you read in the book of Ezekiel how he decided by arrow divination—how he took a sheaf of arrows and let them fall, and went on that road toward which most of the arrows chanced to lie.

It is by no such blind accidents of destiny that the direction of the soul is determined. In our moral and spiritual life the crisis of the moment is decided only by the tenor of the life; the course of to-morrow is but the inevitable resultant of the forces of thousands of yesterdays.—Archdeacon Farrar.