Scarcely Saved

And if the righteous scarcely be saved, where shall the ungodly and the sinner appear? I Peter 4:18 Scarcely saved? Can it be, perchance, that the whole precious matter of the salvation of the righteous be a matter of uncertainty? Did God provide but a mere chance of salvation, leav­ing it to the freedom of our frail and whimsical and unstable wills to embrace the opportunity and to cling to it till the end? To some the words of the apostle Peter seem to con­vey such thoughts. The...