Strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it.
Matthew 7:14
Words: Laura B. Hunter, in The Best Gospel Songs and Their Composers (Dalton, Georgia: Anthony J. Showalter, 1904), number 41.
Music: John M. Dye (🔊 pdf nwc).
If you know where to get a better photo of Dye,
From duty’s straight and narrow way,
O never turn aside;
It is the path to endless day,
O never turn aside.
Refrain
O never, never turn aside,
O never, never turn aside;
Be firm for God and truth and right,
And never turn aside.
Tho’ comrades jeer with silly talk,
O never turn aside;
In wisdom’s path it pays to walk,
O never turn aside.
Refrain
Someone is stepping in your track,
O never turn aside;
From death and ruin keep him back,
O never turn aside.
Refrain
Life’s prospects fair, why should you blight?
O never turn aside;
Take Christ to be your guide and light,
O never turn aside.
Refrain