Whatever otiiers may do in religion the Lord Jesns would haye us know ihat our duty is elear. The gate is strait. The work is great. The enemies of our souls are many. We must be up, and doing. We are to wait for nobody. We are not to inquire what other people are doing, and whether many of our neighbours, and relatives, and friends, are serving Christ. The unbelief and indecisbn of others will be no excisse at the last day. We must never follow a multitude to do evil. If we go to heaven alone we must resolve that by God's graee W€ will go. Wheth^ we have many with us or a few, the 'Command before us is plain, — " Strive to enter m.
Whatever others may Ihink in rdigion the Lord Jesus would have us know that we are responsible for exertion. We are not to sit BtiSl in 43in and woddliness, waiting for the grace of God. We are not to go on still in our wickedness, sheltering ourselves under the vain plea that we can do nothing till God draws us. We are to draw near to Him in ike use of means of grace. How we can do it is a question wiOi which we have nolhing to do. It is in obedience that the knot will be untied. The com- mand is express and unmistakeable, — *' Strive to enter m.
We see, Ihirdly, in these veiBes, a d(xg ^ awjul mhm^ mty described. We are told of ja time when '^the master of the house shall rise and shut the door,'^ when eome shall *^ sit down in the kingdom of Gk>d," and others be '^ shut out " for evennore. About the meaning of these words ti^re can be no doubt. They describe the second coming of Christ and the day of judgment.