My Prayer Book_LASANCE - the Catholic Kingdom!

Lord, Are Then Few Saved?
E'en so I love Thee, and will live,
And in Thy praise will sing;
Solely because Thou art my God
And my eternal King."
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UR LORD was journeying through the towns and
villages on the way to Jerusalem, there to suffer
death for us, when some one came up and asked Him
exactly the question that we should have liked to put:
Lord, are tke few saved? What was He to reply?
Suppose He had answered: "Oh, no, nearly all men
will be saved, very few will be lost." What easy going,
what laxity would have followed upon such a declaration!
He answered, therefore, not to the gratification of our
curiosity but to the profit of our souls: Strive ye io enler
in at the narrmu gale: for nurny, I say urzto you, shd
seek lo en& in, and shall not be able (Luke xiii. 24).
They s M not be able, because they have not striven:
they have sought the Kingdom of God after a fashion,
but not vith sufficient earnestness; and, Our Lord
warns us, there shall be many such. How many?
Shall there be many more saved? Shall the lost be
comparatively few? Our Lord has left His Church
no revelation upon this subject: consequently no answer
returnable to these inquiries carries the certainty
of faith. On such an open question preachers have
said strong things, and theologians have divided on this
side and on :hat, with more or less of probability.
Father Faber in his Creator and Creatz~re argues that
"the great mass of believers" are saved. But there is
one class of people who are all saved. Who? All
priests? No. A11 Religious? No. Who then? All
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