p. 11 | LOSING ONE'S POSITION

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

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

LOSING ONE'S POSITION.

LOSING one's position or work is not always the most serious thing that can happen, tho when first facing the problem of such loss one may so regard it. Some years ago the young son of a saloon-keeper attended a Sunday-school. Because of its teaching, he began to feel that it was not right for him to tend the bar. He spoke to the minister about the matter, asking what he had better do.

"Decide for yourself," was the clergyman's reply.

"If I refuse to tend bar, father says he will turn me out."

"But what do you think you deserve if you do attend the bar?" he was asked.

"I think that I deserve to be turned out."

Here the matter rested for a while.

Later the boy, by his refusal, lost his place, and was forced to look out for himself. The minister helped him to secure a position. He worked himself up until to-day he is the greatest living authority upon a certain line. He is assistant in one of the largest libraries in the country, and is acquainted with ten or twelve languages.

Many have to decide between losing a position and obeying conscience. Loyalty to the right never fails of a reward. It often brings greater earthly good, and will always result in eternal gain.—Selected.