"Choose ye today"

 

This morning I have added another mark to “Choose ye.”  I am taken with the idea that “the iron in human nature rusts away” (p.4).

 

By the way, I am interested that the chapter title, "Choose ye", is in inverted commas. As far as I can see it is not a complete quote but rather part of a sentence in Joshua 24:15, and using “you” rather than “ye.”

 

14 Now therefore fear the Lord, and serve him in sincerity and in truth: and put away the gods which your fathers served on the other side of the flood, and in Egypt; and serve ye the Lord.

 

15 And if it seem evil unto you to serve the Lord, choose you this day whom ye will serve; whether the gods which your fathers served that were on the other side of the flood, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land ye dwell: but as for me and my house, we will serve the Lord.

 

However, we do find “Choose ye” in Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures where it appears as the Marginal Heading “Choose ye to-day” (p. 360).

 

Dear reader, which mind-picture or externalized thought shall be real to you, — the material or the spiritual?  Choose ye to-day Both you cannot have. You are bringing out your own ideal. This ideal is either temporal or eternal. Either Spirit or matter is your model. If you try to have two models, then you practically have none. Like a pendulum in a clock, you will be thrown back and forth, striking the ribs of matter and swinging between the real and the unreal.

Joyce Voysey