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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overnment. I•doubt not that they would willingly have yielded their olfice and dignity for thethousandth part of that true heroism which beamed in the eye and beat in theheart of the unconquerable apostle. The infidel and worldling are compelled tohonor in their hearts, though they may not eulogize with their lips, a Christianfirm in persecution, cheerful in poverty, trustful in losses, triumphant in death. I find Christian men in all professions and occupations and I find themrespected and honored, and successful. John Frederick Oberlin alleviating igno-rance and distress; John Howard passing from dungeon to lazaretto, with healing-for the body and soul; Elizabeth Fry coming to the profligates of Newgate Prison (383) 384 THE PATHWAY OF LIFE. to shake down their obduracy, as the angel came to the prison at Philippi, drivingopen the doors and snapping locks and chains, as well as the lives of thousandsof the followers of Jesus who have devoted themselves to the temporal and spiritual
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ELIZABETH FRY PLEADING EOR THE PARDON OF CONVERTED CRIMINALS. From the Painting by Emile Wauters. welfare of the race, are monuments of the Christian religion that shall not crumblewhile the world lasts. A man in the cars said: I would like to become a Christian if I only knewwhat religion is. But if this lying and cheating, and bad behavior among menwho profess to be good, is religion, I want none of it. But, my readers, if I aman artist in Rome, and a man comes to me and asks what the art of painting is, Imust not show him the daub of some mere pretender. I will take him to the THE PATHWAY OF I.IFE. 385 Raphaels and the Michael Angelos. It is most unfair and dishonest to take theignominious failures in Christian profession instead of the glorious successes. PERSECUTIONS BRING ABOUT VICTORIES. I go into another department and I find that those great denominations ofChristians which have been most abused have spread the most rapidly. No goodman was ever more vilelymaltreated than John

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