“All’s well that ends well but what if the way be such that it must end amiss- must lead to the blackness of darkness for ever, must land us “where their worm dieth not, and their fire is not quenched”? Oh! then it will be terrible to have been found in such a way, terrible for our souls to meet such a doom. More important still is it that we should choose the right way because of the right end. Servants, neighbours, brethren, sisters, and if we are very young, playmates and schoolfellows under our influence, any or all of these will be affected for good or evil by our choice our following the wrong way will lead them to the wrong, and we shall become a ministry of evil unto them if we choose evil unto ourselves. Little ones who gather around our knee will think “father’s way” must be the way for them. We have need of the right way, also, because whatever the way we pursue, others will be affected by it. We have need, then, to find the right way, that we may be happy pilgrims along it. The ways of righteousness are ways of pleasantness, and all her paths are peace the good is growing and the pleasure deepening where the wise in heart are walking, but nowhere else. To-day the path of sin leads us through flowery meads, and groves resounding with song of birds, but to-morrow it will wind among the desolations of many generations where souls and all their joys are withered as the green herb in the summer sun. Since we must have a way, it is of the highest importance that our way should be a right one important, because if it be not right we shall not long be happy in our course, since the happiness of those who follow the path of evil is fleeting as a meteor, mocking as a will-o’-the-wisp, deceptive as the mirage, frail as a bubble on the wave, and unsubstantial as a phantom of the night. As the round earth never pauses but perpetually revolves, as the stars never halt in their courses but traverse incessantly their ordained orbits, as the rivers evermore seek the sea, as the ocean waves unrestingly pursue each other, even so feel we the common motion, and ever must we move onward, onward through this life unto the next - onward for ever and ever.
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We cannot abide in any one stay, “forward” is the word of command. WE must all of us have a “way,” we must be journeying, for this is not our resting-place. “Lead me in the way everlasting.”- Psalm cxxxix. At The Metropolitan Tabernacle, Newington.