...is inserted, " a little," means " not none," or some." In like manner, when it is said, " Strait is the " gate, and narrow is the way, and few there be " that find it;" few is opposed to many. Thus also, " Many are called, butyea; are chosen." But when it is said, " Tarry...

...Some are ready for the call, and he might have been of the number of those blessed ones." " Strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, and few there be that find it;" yet he might have been one of those few. And was he one ? It was but to mention his name to any one...

...is inserted, " a little" means " not none," or " some." In like manner, when it is said, " Strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, and few there be that find it '"few is opposed to many. Thus also, "Many are called, butjew are chosen." But when it is said, " Tarry...

...of literature. I dislike one expression in a very fine passage: " strait is the gate (to excellence) and narrow is the way : and few there be, that find it 1" And, on a review of the whole, I cannot but think the late Bishop of Durham's praise of the Lectures...

...fight Of brilliant glory; cheer thee, we shall have A merry supper with the Lord to-night. Strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, And few there be that find its guiding ray." Thus waned, thus ended this their mortal life, An inward calm amid an outward strife;...

...high condition, and by a painful submission to the gloomy and fearful announcement, that ' strait is the gate and narrow is the way, and few there be that find it? " If man's general unworthiness be a trial of our faith and of our patience, the most poignant anguish...

...that there are many mansions in my Father's house. How often do I hear people say, " Ah ! straight is the gate and narrow is the way, and few there be that find it. There will be very few in heaven; there will be most lost." My friend, I differ from you. Do you think...

...that there are many mansions in my Father's house. How often do I hear people say, " Ah ! straight is the gate and narrow is the way, and few there be that find it There will be very few in heaven ; there will be most lost" My friend, I differ from you. Do you think...

...our Lord spoke, and, alas ! at the present time, is this description awfully applicable. " Strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, and few there be that find it." And what is the reason of this? Havo only a few been redeemed ? Nay, but " he gave himself a ransom...

...way; and He alone can give us a desire to walk in it. It is written concerning this road, " Strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, and few there be that find it." It is uphill at times. There are here and there rugged and steep places, where we need the arm of Some...