From a sermonette in The Everett Daily Herald, Washington

As chronicled in Exodus (3:3), "Moses said, I will now turn aside, and see this great sight, why the bush is not burnt." Moses had glimpsed the light of truth, a light which never can be extinguished.

One can imagine the spiritual inspiration Moses received on that occasion. And so it is with the individual who takes the time to turn aside, whether to see roadside beauty or to turn from a previous way of life. There is a priceless reward for turning aside.

Life is a calculated plan, and the individual cannot willy-nilly disregard that plan. He must take time to turn aside to perceive its every detail. One must take time to glimpse the light of Truth or glimpse the signposts of life.

Life is full, and it is complete to him who pauses to look about him. Too many are self-satisfied. Too many are complacent. Too many are satisfied with the temporal. They forget it requires that turning off the highway to glimpse the spiritual, and until one glimpses that spiritual, one has never fully traveled the highway of life or any highway. One may travel on with good health and one's share of worldly goods. Unless one pauses to make that turn and an observation, he will travel his days without the enjoyment of an inner satisfaction —an inner peace. He will have deprived himself of something that God willingly grants to each of his children if they but seek it. He will merely see the world with the outward eye of material sense instead of seeing it with the inward eye of spiritual sense.

An editorial in The Evangelical Christian Toronto, Canada

Choice is the most important thing we do, for all else hinges upon it. ... Even in childhood many of our games are games of choice. We held out hands to each other and invited another to choose, and choosing is the game we must play. ... In childhood we delight to choose, in youth and in manhood that delight is linked with a tremendous sense of responsibility. We must choose the way in which we will walk, and we cannot see the end from the beginning. Nevertheless each new day holds out to us its closed hands and repeats its more or less important challenge, "Which will you take?"

There are choices we make that affect ourselves, and some we must make at times affecting others. There are choices that face us concerning time and others that may affect our eternal destiny. The children of Israel were continually being challenged to "choose." For a generous choice we look at Abraham and his nephew Lot surveying the land before Sodom which was like the garden of the Lord. We see the older man saying to the younger: "If thou wilt take the left hand, then I will go to the right; or if thou take the right hand, then I will go to the left" [Am. Stand. Ver.]. That was the magnanimous soul that spoke there.

The aged Joshua urged the people he loved to choose whom they would serve. He could not choose for them any more than you or I can choose for those we love in the greatest issues of life. The great prophet of God, Elijah, hurled the same challenge at a supine people: "How long go ye limping between the two sides? if Jehovah be God, follow him; but if Baal, then follow him" [Am. Stand. Ver.]. Only make up your mind and choose.

No, none of us can escape the challenge of life. We must choose whether we like it or not. There are people who shrink from assuming any responsibility as far as the direction of others is concerned, but none of us can escape the solemn responsibility of directing our own lives. ... This power to choose is our greatest dignity linking us with the Creator. All of this leads us to the great end of life which is to choose the way God has set before us. That is the way of the Cross, to choose to surrender our lives to God in repentance and faith in the Lord Jesus Christ and let His Spirit direct us in all our ways.... We will never drift into the Kingdom of Heaven. We go there by choice and that choice is Christ.

Alfred P. Price, at a meeting of editors of Protestant publications, reported in The Christian-Evangelist St. Louis, Missouri

Spiritual healing is the "neglected part of our religion," Alfred W. Price of Philadelphia told the annual meeting of the Associated Church Press in Philadelphia.

"We have discovered from our experience over the years," he said, "that there is no disease that is incurable, and no problem that cannot be solved when God is allowed to 'take over.'" Mr. Price disputed the position taken by "many good people" that spiritual healing is the "cheap and easy way out of one's troubles and therefore there cannot be much to it."

"There is nothing cheap or easy in fulfilling the essential conditions upon which healing depends," the clergyman declared. "Absolute relinquishment of self and personal ambition is not easy. The elimination of all reservations, wrong motives, all self-interest is not easy. It is not easy to lose one's resentment; it is not easy to make thankfulness a constant habit of our minds, but that is what is required in order to create the proper conditions for spiritual healing."