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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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s, they have only to go over and ask Andrew Melville. If they wantto know more about the old-time revivals, they have only to go over and askWhitefield, and Wesley, and Livingston, and Fletcher, and Nettleton, and Finney.Oh ! what a place to visit in. It eternity were one minute shorter it would not be long enough for suchsociality. Think of our friends who in this world were passionately fond offlowers, turned into paradise ! Think of our friends who were very fond of raisingsuperb fruit, turned into the orchard where each tree has twelve kinds of fruit atonce, and bearing fruit all the year round ! What are our departed Christian friends doing in heaven, those who on earthfound their chief joy in the gospel ministry ? They are visiting their old congre-gations. Most of those ministers have got their people around them already.When I get to heaven—if by the grace of God, as I hope, I am destined to go tothat place—I will come and see you all. Yes, I will come to all the people to
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UI5J 416 THE PATHWAY OF I^IFE. whom I have administered in the gospel, and to the millions of souls to whom,through the kindness of the printing-press, I am permitted to preach everyweek in this land, and in other lands—and to the friends who find pleasure, andI hope profit, in The Pathway of IvIFE. I will visit them all. I give themfair notice. Our departed friends of the ministry are engaged in that delectableentertainment now. A PLACE OF PERPETUAL LABOR OF LOVE. But what are our departed Christian friends who, in all departments of use-fulness were busy, finding their chief joy in doing good—what are they doingnow? Going right on with their work. John Howard visiting dungeons; thedead women of Northern and Southern battlefields still abroad looking for thewounded; George Peabody still watching the poor; Thomas Clarkson still lookingafter the enslaved—all of those who did good on earth busier since death thanbefore. The tombstone not the terminus biit the starting post. What a

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