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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Little Rivers by Henry van Dyke: choose the things that are pure and lovely and of good report, make
as fair an image as we can find of that loving, patient Wisdom
which must be above us all if any good is to come out of our
childish race.
Now this was the way in which the boy came into possession of his
undreaded rod. He was by nature and heredity one of those
predestined anglers whom Izaak Walton tersely describes as "born
so." His earliest passion was fishing. His favourite passage in
Holy Writ was that place where Simon Peter throws a line into the
sea and pulls out a great fish at the first cast.
But hitherto his passion had been indulged under difficulties--with
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