things that are specially to be remembered and
laid to heart by the laird of Rusco.

1. Remember, in the first place, my dear brother, those most solemn and
too much forgotten words of our Lord, that there are but few that be
saved. Is that really so? said a liberal-minded listener to our Lord one
day. Is that really so, that there are but few that be saved? Mind your
own business, was our Lord's answer. For there are many lost by making
their own and other men's salvation a matter of dialectic and debate in
the study and in the workshop rather than of silence, and godly fear, and
a holy life. Yes, there are few that be saved, said Samuel Rutherford,
writing again the same year to Farmer Henderson, who occupied the home-
steading of Rusco. Men go to heaven in ones and twos. And that you may
go there, even if it has to be alone, love your enemies and stand to the
truth I taught you. Fear no man, fear God only. Seek Christ every day.
You will find Him alone in the fields of Rusco. Seek a broken heart for
sin, for, otherwise, you may seek Him all your days, but you will never
find Him. And it is not in our New Testament only, and in such books as
Rutherford's _Letters_ only, that we are reminded of the loneliness of
our road to heaven; in a hundred places in the wisest and deepest books
of the heathen world we read the same warning; notably in the Greek
Tablet of Cebes, which reads almost as if it had been cut out of the
Sermon on the Mount. 'Do you not see,' says the old man, 'a little door,
and beyond the door a way which is not much crowded, for very few are
going along it, it is so difficult of access, so rough, and so stony?'
'Yes,' answers the stranger. 'And does there not seem,' subjoins the old
man, 'to be a high hill and the road up it very narrow, with precipices
on each side? Well, that is the way that leads to the true instruction.'
'A cause is not good,' says Rutherford in another of his pungent books,
'because it is followed by many. Men come to Zion in ones and twos out
of a whole tribe, but they go to hell in their thousands. The way to
heaven is overgrown with grass; there are the traces of but few feet on
that way, only you may see here and there on it the footprints of
Christ's bloody feet to let you know that you are not gone wrong but are
still on the right way.'

2. Remember also that other word of our Lord,--that heaven is like a
fortress in this, that it must be taken by force. O