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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
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t crowd, judging from the countenance, was the woman who sat at the apple-stand knitting. I believe real happiness oftener looks out of the window of anhumble home than through the opera-glass in the gilded box of a theatre. I find Nero growling on a throne. I find Paul singing in a dungeon. I findKing Ahab going to bed at noon through melancholy, while near by is Nabothcontented in the possession of a vineyard, Haman, Prime Minister of Persia,frets himself almost to death because a poor Jew will not tip his hat; and Ahitho-phel, one of the greatest lawyers of Bible times, through fear of dying, hangs him-self. The wealthiest man, forty years ago, in New York, when congratulatedover his large estate, replied: Ah! 5ou dont know how much trouble I have intaking care of it. Byron declared in his last hours that he had never seen morethan twelve happy days in all his life. I do not believe he had seen twelve min-utes of thorough satisfaction. Napoleon I. said: I turn with disgust from the
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I OPi < wp< inWPi o w o Ah 98 THE PATHWAY OF I.IFE.- cowardice and selfishness of man. I hold life a horror; death is repose. What Ihave suffered the last twenty days is beyond human comprehension. While, on the other hand, to show how one may be happy amid the most dis-advantageous circumstances, just after the Ocean Monarch had been wrecked inthe English Channel, a steamer was cruising along in the darkness, when the cap-tain heard a song, a sweet song, coming over the water, and he bore down towardsthat voice, and found it was a Christian woman on a plank of the wrecked steamer,singing to the tune of St. Martins. Jesus, lover of my soul,Let me to Thy bosom fly,While the billows near me roll,While the tempest still is high. The heart right toward God and man, we are happy. The heart wrongtoward God and man, we are unhappy. Another reason why we should be filled with the spirit of content is the factthat all the differences of earthly condition are transitory. The houses you bu

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