A CELEBRATED scientist, who was on his way to a convention, arrived late at a railway station. Hoping to reach a suburban station in time, he jumped into a taxicab; but too hurried to think clearly, he merely shouted to the driver, “Drive quickly!” The cabman indifferent to his patron’s interests, ran the car at high speed up one street and down another. At length the passenger realized the predicament and called out,
“Do you know where you are going?”
“No,” was the reply, “I do not know where we are going, but we are going quickly!
You say, “What a foolish man!” But stop, are you wiser? You also are on a journey—the journey of life—and you are going quickly, but where? There are only two destinations—heaven and hell. Let the question “Whither bound?” cause you to pause and think.
If you are on the broad road be assured that you are at the mercy of one far worse than the taxi-driver; for, unless you see your hopeless course, he will take you round at his will and then land you in that place of banishment from God’s presence.
“Enter ye in at the strait gate: for wide is the gate, and broad is the way, that leadeth to destruction; and many there be which go in thereat:
“Because strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it.” Matt. 7:13,1413Enter ye in at the strait gate: for wide is the gate, and broad is the way, that leadeth to destruction, and many there be which go in thereat: 14Because strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it. (Matthew 7:13‑14).
“Passing onward, quickly passing;
Yes; but whither, whither bound?
Is it to the many mansions,
Where eternal rest is found?”
Can you say, “Yes”? You can if you have put your trust in Christ, Who is the Way, the Truth, and the Life.
ML 01/01/1933