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THE WRONG DIRECTION

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Pacific Press Publishing Company · Mountain View, California · Oct 17, 1906

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 32, No. 40.

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THE WRONG DIRECTION.

A FRIEND of mine told of an engineer in one of our Western states who was completely lost one night with his engine. The night was very dark and he had to make the run to a certain city. After he had gone a considerable distance, everything seemed strange to him and he could not account for it. He stopped at a little station, roused the agent, and inquired where he was. After consulting the map, he found that he was going in the wrong direction. A switch had been left open and he was switched from the main track onto a branch road, and had he gone on very much farther he would have met with disaster.
He thought he was going in the right direction. He did not notice when the locomotive glided on the other track. Both tracks ran in the same direction for a short distance and then they separated, never to meet again.
How many men and women started right in life; from the home and family altar, from the knees of a praying mother; on the narrow way that leads to heaven; but they have been switched off, they are going in the wrong direction. A thought or a deed might switch our life from the right way. "There is a way which seemeth right unto a man, but the end thereof are the ways of death." Prov. 14:12.—Gospel Work.