Identifier: pathwayoflifeint00talm (find matches)
Title: The pathway of life ; Intended to lead the young and the old into paths of happiness, and to prepare them for a holy companionship with him whose kingdom is as boundless as his love
Year: 1894 (1890s)
Authors: Talmage, T. De Witt (Thomas De Witt), 1832-1902
Subjects: Christian life and character
Publisher: Philadelphia, Pub. and manufactured by Historical Pub. Co. for the Christian Herald
Contributing Library: Princeton Theological Seminary Library
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oyes because it was so heavily garrisoned, Joan ofArc entered the room and told them they would be inside the castle in three days. We would willingly wait six days, said one of the leaders. Six! she cried out; you shall be in it to-morrow. And, under herleadership, on the morrow they entered. Though Joan afterwards sufferedmartyrdom at the stake, her glorious deeds will live in the grateful remem-brance of the descendants of those who so cruelly executed her. On a smallerscale every man has garrisons to subdue and obstacles to level, and every wifemay be an inspired Joan of Arc to her hu.sband. So that whatever be his suc-cesses he will always bless her name for the helpfulness she gave him. What a noble, wifely ambition, the determination, God helping, to accom-pany her companion across the stormy sea of this life and together gain thewharf of the Celestial City ! Coax him along with you ! You cannot drive himthere. You cannot nag him there ; but you can coax him there. That is Gods
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EXECUTION OF JOAN OF ARC. 162 THE PATHWAY OF LIFH. plan. He coaxes us all the way—coaxes us out of our sins, coaxes us to acceptpardon, coaxes us to heaven. If we reach that blessed place it will be through aprolonged and divine coaxing. By the same process take your companion, andthen you will get there as well, and all your household. Do just the opposite toyour neighbor. Her wifely ambition is all for this world, and a disappointed andvexed and unhappy creature she will be all the way. Her residence may be betterthan yours for the few years of earthly stay, but she will move out of it as to herbody into a house about five and a half feet long and about three feet wide andtwo feet high, and concerning her souls destiny you can make your own prognos-tication. Her husband and her sons and daughters, who all, like her, live forthis world, will have about the same destiny for the bod)- and the soul. Youhaving had a sanctified and divinely ennobled wifely ambition, will pass up intopal

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