IT is impossible for a man to be walking upon two different roads. He cannot be walking on the broad road which leadeth to destruction and on the narrow one leading to life at the same time. It is easy to deceive oneself, but self-deception is deception of the most fatal form.
“Enter ye in at the strait gate: for wide is the gate, and broad is the way, that leadeth to destruction, and many there be which go in thereat: because strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it” (Matt. 7:13, 1413Enter ye in at the strait gate: for wide is the gate, and broad is the way, that leadeth to destruction, and many there be which go in thereat: 14Because strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it. (Matthew 7:13‑14)).
Reader, which road are you on? the broad road, or the narrow one? Say not lightly, “It will all come right in the end.” It will come blessedly right at the end of the narrow road, but think of the end of the broad road—blackness and darkness forever. Who in his senses would sow wild oats and expect a profitable wheat harvest? Ah! indeed,
What will the harvest be?
“Sowing the seed on the way-side high,
Sowing the seed on the rocks to die;
Sowing the seed where the thorns will spoil,
Sowing the seed on the fertile soil:
Oh! what shall the harvest be?
Sowing the seed of a ling’ring pain,
Sowing the seed of a maddened brain,
Sowing the seed of a tarnished name,
Sowing the seed of eternal shame.
Oh! what will the harvest be?”
W. R. C.