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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ooklyn and New York,and of all this land, and of all lands, revere the Christian religion, and are notashamed to say so before juries and legislatures and senates. All geology will yetbow before the Rock of Ages. All botany will yet worship the Rose of Sharon.All astronomy will yet recognize the Star of Bethlehem. And physiology andanatomy will join hands and say: We must, by the help of God, get the humanrace up to the perfect nerve, and perfect muscle, and perfect brain, and perfectform of that perfect Child before whom nigh 2000 years ago Caspar, and Belthasar,and Melchior bent their tired knees in worship. Behold also in that first Christmas night that God honored the fields. ,.^ Comein, shepherd boys, to Bethlehem and see the Child. No, they say; we arenot dressed good enough to come in. Yes, you are; come in. Sure enough,the storms, and the night dew, and the brambles have made rough work with theirapparel, but none have a better right to come in. They were the first to hear the
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A STREET SCENE IN POMPEII. - From a Painting by R. Botnpiani. (319J 320 THE PATHWAY OF LIFE. music of that Christmas night. The first announcement of a Saviours birth wasmade to those men in the fields. There were wiseacres that night in Bethlehemand Jerusalem snoring in deep sleep, and there were salaried officers of govern-ment, who, hearing of it afterward, may have thought that they ought to havehad the first news of such a great event. Some one dismounting from a swiftcamel at their door and knocking until at some sentinels question, Who comesthere ? the great ones of the palace might have been told of the celestial arrival.No; the shepherds heard the first two bars of the music, the first in the major keyand the last in the subdued minor: Glory be to God in the highest, and on earthpeace, good will to men. THE FIELDS HONORED. Ah, yes; the fields were honored. The old shepherds with plaid and crookhave for the most part vanished, but we have grazing—our United States pasturefie

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