Take the Safe Path

Pacific Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Oakland, Cal. · May 27, 1875

Take the Safe Path

DURING the progress of a “Union Temperance Conference” held in England a few weeks ago, one of the speakers, Rev. C. Garrett, urged that even if an occasional glass did not harm some who took it, the example might prove exceedingly harmful to others. No man liveth to himself. He (Mr. Garrett) was fond of climbing. He had pretty strong limbs and a cool head. A few months ago he was climbing a precipice—he thought he could hold on with safety. When at a dangerous point, he heard a voice which almost paralyzed him; it was the voice of his own boy who had caught sight of him and was following not far behind. The voice said, “Papa, take the safe path, for I am following you.”