“Captain, I understand you want a pilot to take you out of this difficulty?”
The captain said, “Are you a pilot?”
“Well, they call me one.”
“Do you know where the snags and sand-bars are?”
“No sir,”
“Well, how do you expect to take me out of here if you don’t know where the snags and sand-bars are?”
“I know where they ain’t!” was the reply.
Begin to sow the good seed while the children are young, and thus prevent the weeds getting a start. Satan does not wait till they grow up, and no more should we.
There are many fishing nets so constructed as to allow none but full grown fish to be caught, the immature escaping. Satan has none such. He catches the weakest and youngest.
“We must care for our boys or the devil will,” said a young Sabbath School teacher.