"With verses thirteen and fourteen," she replied.

The angelic interpreter then read them in a fine resonant voice.

"'Enter ye in at the strait gate: for wide is the gate, and broad is
the way, that leadeth to destruction, and many there be which go in
hereat: Because strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leadeth
unto life, and few there be that find it.'"

"If these words are really true," quickly commented Miss Church-Member,
"we must be traveling in the wrong way. Does it not appear so?" she
queried, as she looked with increasing interest at the angelic being.

"Naturally it does," he shrewdly answered, "especially if you look
merely at the surface of the text; but the pearls of truth lie deeper."

"I well know that the King's Highway is called the 'Narrow Way' and
this, whereon we journey, the 'Broad Way.' Surely this part of Scripture
is against us," insisted Miss Church-Member, as her countenance grew
more troubled.

"Thou needst not stumble at such easy Scripture; behold, the meaning
is quite clear! They who travel on the so-called King's Highway are
continually exaggerating the _merits_ of the way, thereby making it
appear greater and broader than it really is. They go so far as to
claim that the way is broad enough to accommodate all the people of
the world, were they minded to travel thereon. Therefore those who
thus make the way broad by their own conceits will meet with
destruction. This is the meaning of verse thirteen."