UNGUIDED FEET

A certain boy in a Sunday School made things very difficult for his teachers. The last one went to the Superintendent and submitted the ultimatum to him, "Either that boy goes, or I go! Make your choice." The Superintendent escorted the boy to the door and said, "There's the street. Go! And don't you ever come back to this Sunday School!" The boy went into the world and led a life of crime which has possibly never been paralleled in the history of this nation. He left a trail of blood behind him wherever he went. Large rewards were offered for his capture, either dead or alive. At last, one night, as he emerged from a Chicago theatre, a hail of bullets riddled his body. In one of the Chicago papers a most unusual picture appeared - that showed only the feet of the criminal. In bold type the caption read THESE ARE THE FEET OF JOHN DILLINGER, followed by the searching question, Who knows where these feet might have gone if someone had guided them aright? How essential it is to guide young feet into paths of righteousness! "Let no man despise thy youth" (1 Tim. 4:12). And how essential it is for youths to heed the admonition, "Remember now thy Creator in the days of thy youth, while the evil days come not, nor the years draw nigh, when thou shalt say, I have no pleasure in them" (Ecclesiastes 12:1). - Railway Messenger July/August 1997.