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The broad and the narrow way.
Matt. 7:13, 14.
Broad is the road that leads to death;
And thousands walk together there;
But wisdom shows a narrow path,
With here and there a traveler.
2 “Deny thyself, and take thy cross,”
Is the Redeemer’s great command;
Nature must count her gold but dross,
If she would gain this heavenly land.
3 The fearful soul that tires and faints,
And walks the ways of God no more,
Is but esteemed almost a saint,
And makes his own destruction sure.
4 Lord, let my hopes be not in vain,
Create my heart entirely new;
This hypocrites could ne’er attain;
This false apostates never knew.
Watts.