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
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and He can heal our bodies, and if our soul is all twisted, and misshapenof revenge, and hate, and inflamed with sinful proclivity He can straighten thatalso and make it well and clean. A boy in Sparta, having stolen a fox, kept him under his coat, and thoughthe fox was gnawing his vitals, he submitted to it rather than expose his misdeed.Many a man with a smiling face has under his jacket an animosity that is gnaw-ing away the strength of his body and the integrity of his soul. Better get rid ofthat hidden fox as soon as possible. There are hundreds of domestic circles wherethat which is most needed is the spirit of forgiveness. Brothers apart, and sistersapart, and parents and children apart. Solomon says a brother offended is harder THE PATHWAY OF I.IFE. 471 to be won than a strong city. Are there not enough sacred memories of yourchildhood to bring you together? The Rabbins recount how that Nebuchad-nezzars son had such a spite against his father that after he was dead he had his
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THE YOUNG PRINCES IN THE TowER.—From the Painting by Paul Delaroche. The princes were Edward V. and Richard, Duke of York, sons of Edward IV.; being in rightful successionto the throne of England, they were secretly murdered in the Tower by their unnatural uncle, who, uponassuming the crown, took the title Richard III. father burned to ashes, aud then put the ashes into four sacks and tied them tofour eagles necks which flew away in opposite directions. And there are now 472 THE PATHWAY OF LIFE. domestic antipathies that seem forever to have scattered all parental memories tothe four winds of heaven. How far the eagles fly with those sacred ashes ! Thehour of sundown makes to that family no practical suggestion. Thomas Carlyle,in his biography of Frederick the Great, says the old king was told by the con-fessor he must be at peace with his enemies if he wanted to enter heaven. Thenhe said to his wife, the queen: Write to your brother after I am dead that I for-give him. RolofF, the

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