I shall take my chance. Two boys had started in early morn to visit a distant village. They were cousins, and their home lay in the same pleasant valley. At noon they had reached their destination. They were about to return immediately when their attenention was attracted bu a traveling circus, and in one way or another the time slipped by until the sun was rapidly declining. Then they hastened towards home.
“Let’s try another road,” said the elder lad. “It will be pleasanter than returning by the way we came.”
His younger and wiser companion endeavored to dissuade him; but he was obstinate, and declared that he knew the road perfectly. On they went and now the sun had disappeared, night was creeping on quickly. Presently it got quite dark, and the boys halted, for the elder had to admit that they had lost their way. Before them the road branched off to the right and left.
“I shall take my chance!” said foolish lad, and he went off to ti left.
The other waited until a countryman passed, who informed him that the proper way was that to the right. He reached home in safety, while his compinion was found next morning exhausted and weary, lying under a hay stack.
Two paths lie before us, dear children! The broad road that Christ tells Hs leads to desstruction, and the narrow road to life eternal. Let us not say, “I will take my chance, and follow my own blind impulses,” or take the way that seems pleasantest: but let us rather ask God to lead us, and to be our Guide. The narrow path with Jesus is always the happiest path.
Jesus says, “I an the way.”
ML 09/01/1946