follow--all based on actual experience in driving over the route we intend to follow. Then we watch the signs along the way: "Twelve Miles to Pleasantville," "Turn Right for Delight Valley," "This Way to Big Vision Mountain," "Slow--Sharp Turn," "Steep Hill--Go into Second Gear," "Crossroad," " School--Slow," "Men at Work," "Fresh Oil," "Toll Bridge Ahead," "Gingergas and Smoothoil," "Welcome to Ourtown," "Drive Carefully, Please," "Thank You." Road signs, these, put up by people who came this way before we did, and who made it their business or thought it a privilege to make the road safe and easy and pleasant for us!
All this for our guidance. All we have to do is to observe simply and follow instructions quietly and easily and naturally, and we "get along fine"! If we follow this guidance simply and naturally. Guidance!
But what do we do about guidance on a long, long road, very little of which we can commonly see from any height, the road we call life? Do we get a road map, ask people who know from experience, watch and obey the signs along the way?
Some of us do strange things. Some of us spend hours, weeks, years turning over road maps, skeptical concerning their dependability. Some of us distrust everybody who tells us his experience. Some of us "don't believe in signs." Some of us pull up beside the road and stop and wait and guess and worry. We seem to have an idea that some good angel is going to come along and take us in tow, or do
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