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What Is Its Area?

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Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Oct 1, 1896

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 22, No. 39.

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What Is Its Area?

It is well sometimes to take in the length of a thing as well as its breadth. There are many views and paths in these days which seem to be exceedingly broad and liberal, but how long are they? They give our unbridled selfishness room wideways, but for how long? The way of right and duty and truth and God seems to our frozen, selfish sight narrow, but it ends only with eternity. It is broader than it seems, even "exceeding broad," and it is infinitely long. But taking it the way it seems, would it not be well to pause and compute the area of the paths or fields waiting our choice?