WHICH WAY ARE YOU GOING?

Seventh-Day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · March 18, 1880

FromThe Advent Review and Sabbath Herald, Vol. 55, No. 12

WHICH WAY ARE YOU GOING?

A LITTLE girl went home from Sabbath-school full of what she had seen and heard. Sitting at the table with the family, she asked her father, who was a very wicked man, whether he ever prayed. He did not like the question, and in a very angry manner replied, “Is it your mother or your Aunt Sally that has put you up to that, my little girl?”

“No, father,” said the little creature, “my Sabbath-school teacher says all good people pray; and those who don’t pray are not going to Heaven. Father, do you pray?”

This was more than the father could stand, and in a rough way he said, “Well, you, and your mother, and your Aunt Sally, may go your way, and I will go mine.”

“Father,” said the little creature, with sweet simplicity, “which way are you going?”

This question pierced his heart. It flashed upon him that he was in the way to death. He started from his chair, burst into tears, and began to pray for mercy.—Selected.