"When two men are walking down the road and a dog following them, you cannot tell whose dog it is until the road forks. Then you can tell. The dog will follow his master." It may seem for a time that the Lord's interests and ours are running side by side. But there unavoidably comes a time when the ways part. Then watch. Then it will appear beyond a contradiction who the real master is--whether God or mammon, whether Jesus or self, whether Christ or the world. When it comes to the point that one or the other must be neglected; that one or the other of the two interests must be sacrificed; that one or the other of the two masters must be slighted--that is the day that distinguishes the wheat from the tares. Few men reject Christ entirely at such a crisis; but if they push his claims into the background, or if they make aught else beside his will the paramount issue, the choice of masters is unmistakable. [45]

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