Excerpt from Twelve Sermons: Preached at Verulam District Church, Lambeth, London After this our Lord relates under a parable of a Great Supper how persons who live and die heed less of His word are shut out of the kingdom of heaven. In the 25th verse, it is said, there were great multitudes with Him, whom He addressed, pointing out to them that those who followed Him would have to make great personal sacrifices that they would have to practice self-denial, and to follow Him even unto death if necessary. If their religion could not bear this test they could not be His disciples. The chapter closes thus: He that hath ears to hear let him hear. Now read the opening of the 15th chapter: Then drew near unto Him all the publicans and sinners for to hear Him. There may have been some of these in the multitudes when He addressed them. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.