Identifier: pathwayoflifetow00thom (find matches)
Title: The pathway of life ... to which is added a biography of Dr. Talmage
Year: 1888 (1880s)
Authors: Thomas De Witt Talmage
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Publisher: Historrical pub. Co.
Contributing Library: Gumberg Library, Duquesne University
Digitizing Sponsor: Lyrasis Members and Sloan Foundation

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or where he might go and get cured of the leprosy,which at his seventh plunge in the Jordan, was left at the bottom of the river. Itwas to the cradle of leaves in which a child was laid rocked by the Nile that Godcalled the attention of history. It was a sick child that evoked Christs curativesympathies. It was a child that Christ set in the midst of the squabbling disciplesto teach the lesson of humility. We are informed that wolf, and leopard, andlion shall be yet so domesticated that a little child shall lead them. A childdecided Waterloo, showing the army of Blucher how they could take a short cutthrough the fields when, if the old road had been followed, the Prussian Generalwould have come up too late to save the destinies of Europe. It was a child thatdecided Gettysburg, he having overheard two Confederate Generals in a conver-sation in which they decided to march for Gettysburg instead of Harrisburg, andthis, reported to Governor Curtin, the Federal forces started to meet their
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JESUS, THE CARPENTERS SON.—From the Painting by J. E. 3Iillais. (317) 318 THE PATHWAY OF LIFE. opponents at Gettysburg. And the child of to-day is to decide all the greatbattles, make all the laws, settle all the destinies and usher in the worlds salvationor destruction. Men, women, nations, all earth and all heaven, behold the child !Is there any velvet so soft as a childs cheek? Is there any sky so blue as achilds eye? Is there any music so sweet as the childs voice? Is there anyplume so wavy as a childs hair ? SCIENCE HONORED. Notice also that in this Bible night-scene God honored science. Who are thethree wise men kneeling before the divine Infant ? Not boors, not ignoramuses, butCaspar, Belthasar and Melchior, men who knew all that was to be known. Theywere the Isaac Newtons and Herschels and Faradays of their time. Theiralchemy was the forerunner of our sublime chemistry, their astrology the motherof our magnificent astronomy. They had studied stars, studied metals, studiedphy

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