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34 Tffl': fOPRING.TUIE OF J.If'R
tbe other. 1\ny proper appreciation of your
danger would send you to the mercy-S(>atwith
:ill importunity that would take no denial, nnd
elnthe yonr sense of peril in the prayer, u .:\Iy
Father, be thou tbe guiJe of my youth." n,lt
thou~alld5 Jearn too late, that "strait is the
gale and narrow is the way which leadeth
unto life."
I cannot bnt fear for incxpcrienc\:J. YOlll1l r
~ellt abroad into a world all inviting ill it."I
promises, but all deceitful in its performances.
Could they know beforehand what periJs Leset
tllC way, ho\y they JHU~t encount~r l\ aulcd
song at one corneT, and a hoan;c menace nt
another, with what fa15c hopL'Ji they will 00
:l.ssailed to-llay, amI with what discol1Tngc_
menL"! to-morrow; we !'Ihould lJot ~ee them
bounding forth ,.... ith such wild and lIeedlc~s
al:tcrity. A titho of the real danger, anticipated
at the beginniug, could not fail to i~p:lrt
a degree of sobriety to the mo,