Editorial September 17, 1979 ISSUE

If we make a mistake

NATHAN A. TALBOT

There was little doubt in my mind. Surely I had made the right decision. After all, I had prayed quite a bit over the step. But once I had made the decision, there was a tendency to confirm it and hold rigidly to it just because so much prayer had led to my conclusion.

The temptation was to feel that a change would be disloyal to what I was sure God had originally told me. But finally I was led to alter my direction. And the reversal proved right.

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