The Narrow Way

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I storm the gate of strife

Author: Joseph McCreery
Tune: DUNBAR (Dunbar 13215)
Published in 11 hymnals

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1 I storm the gate of strife,
I force my passage through;
And, all intent on endless life,
The narrow way pursue.

Refrain:
I take the narrow way;
I take the narrow way:
With the resolute few who dare go through,
I take the narrow way.

2 I have the world behind,
After my Lord to go,
Renouncing with a steadfast mind,
Its pride and pomp and show. [Refrain]

3 The tinselry of earth,
The trappings of its pride,
Unworthy of my heav'nly birth,
I spurn them all aside. [Refrain]

4 I cannot slack my pace,
For earth's fantastic show,
For like a flint I've set my face,
That I'll to Zion go. [Refrain]

Source: Hymns of the Living Faith #364

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Author: Joseph McCreery

McCreery, Joseph. (Brutus, New York, April 8, 1814--December 2, Elgin, Illinois). His father was a Methodist preacher. He was married to Sidney Barnes. He graduated from the Wesleyan University, Middletown, Connecticut, and taught school for several years. He was ordained in the Methodist Episcopal Church in 1849 and served in that church from 1847-1858. He joined the Illinois Conference of the newly organized Free Methodist Church in 1865, and was appointed to the Marengo circuit. He left the active ministry in 1869. He was a writer, poet, and composer. For a while he, with a brother, edited a political paper in New York City, named The Plebian. His "A Lament for Ichabod Crane" appeared in the first volume of the New York Tribune. Two o… Go to person page >

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First Line:	I storm the gate of strife
Title:	The Narrow Way
Author:	Joseph McCreery
Language:	English
Refrain First Line:	I take the narrow way
Copyright:	Public Domain