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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the solution of amathematical problem, how will you feel leaping from the fountain of a Savioursmercy and pardon, washed clean and made white as snow, when the question hasheen solved: How can my soul be saved? Naked, frost-bitten, storm-lashedsoul, let Jesus throw around thee the garments that smell of myrrh, and aloes,and cassia, out of the ivory palaces. IVORY PALACES. You know, or if you do not know, I will tell you now, that some of the pal-aces of olden time w^ere adorned with ivory. Ahab and Solomon had their homesfurnished with it. The tusks of African and Asiatic elephants were twisted intoall manners of shapes, and there were stairs of ivory, and chairs of ivory, andtables of ivory, and floors of ivory, and pillars of ivory, and windows of ivory,and fountains that dropped into basins of ivory, and rooms that had ceilings ofivor3^ Oh ! white and overmastering beauty. Green tree-branches sweeping thewhite curbs. Tapestry trailing the snowy floors. Brackets of light flashing on
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the; Transfiguration.—i^row the great Raphael Painting. (493) 494 THE PATHWAY OF LIFE. the lustrous surroundings. Silvery music rippling to the beach of the arches.The mere thought of it almost stuns my brain, and you say, Oh, if I could onlyhave walked over such floors ! If I could have thrown myself in such a chair !If I could have heard the drip and dash of those fountains ! You shall havesomething better than that if you onl) let Christ introduce you. From that placeHe came, and to that place He proposes to transport you, for His garments smellof myrrh, and aloes, and cassia, out of the ivory palaces. Oh, what a place heaven must be ! The grotto of the lyUxembourg or theTuilleries of the French, the Windsor Castle of the English, the Spanish Alham-bra, the Russian Kremlin, dungeons compared with it ! Not so many castles on

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