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 STUDY XL

THE THREE WAYS THE BROAD WAY, THE NARROW WAY, THE HIGHWAY,

THB BROAD ROAD TO DESTRUCTION. TE NARROW WAV TO LIFB WHAT xs LIFE? THB DIVINB NATURE THE RELATIONSHIP OP THB BIVXNB AND HUMAN NATURES THB REWARD AT THE END OF THE NARROW WAY. THB HIGH CALLING LIMITED TO THE GOSPEL ACE. DIFFICULTIES AND DANGERS OP THB NARROW WAY. THB HIGHWAY OP HOLINESS.

^TITTDE is the gate of destruction, and broad that way leading VV thither j and many are they who enter through it. How nar- row is the gate of life! how difficult that way leading thither! and how few are they who find it!" Matt 7 : 13, 14, Diaglott translation.

"And a highway shall be there, and a way, and it shall be called the way of holiness; the unclean shall not pass over it; but it shall be for those: the wayfaring men, though fools, shall not err therein. No lion shall be there, nor any ravenous beast shall go up thereon, nor be found there; but they that walk there shall be delivered." Isa 35 : 8, 9.

Three ways, the "broad road," the "narrow way" and the "highway," are thus brought to our attention in the Scriptures.

THE BROAD ROAD TO DESTRUCTION.

This road is thus named because it is most easy to the degenerate human race. Six thousand years ago, as a sin- ner condemned to destruction, Adam (and the race repre- sented in him) started upon this road, and after nine hun- dred and thirty years he reached its end destruction. As years and centuries have rolled on, the downward path has become more and more smoothly worn, and the race has sped more and more rapidly to destruction, the way becom- ing daily more glazed and slimed and slippery with sin,

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