The Choice of Life

Therefore choose life, that both thou and thy seed may live. Deut. 30:19b All-embracing choice! Choose, therefore, life! But life …. what is it? With apology to a certain Dutch poet we may well exclaim: Life! What is life? …. Heights of the heavens! Depths of the oceans! Answer, O, answer me! What is life? …. And what may life be as an object of my choice? Or is it, perhaps, mere folly to place before a man's consciousness the alternative of life and death, then to admonish him to...