MAKING SURE OF TO-MORROW.
No man has any right to expect to live differently to-morrow from the way in which he is living to-day. What he chooses to-day he chooses for to-morrow. What he overcomes to-day he is overcoming for to-morrow. What he yields to-day he is still more likely to yield to to-morrow. Yet most of us live as tho we did not believe this, and we try hard to persuade ourselves that we are safe in so living. The devil encourages us mightily in this self-deception. If he can persuade us to sin for to-day only, he is well content to let us pledge ourselves to ourselves that to-morrow we will defeat him. There may be no to-morrow for us in this life; to-day is all we have, and to-day is our only hope for to-morrow if to-morrow does come. If we are unable to conquer to-day, we shall be still less able to do so later. The man who sins to-day because he expects to give it all up later is planning with fatal certainty to give up, later, everything but his sin.—S. S. Times.