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 . THE FIRST STEP.—Froui the Painting by Frank Pen/old. preface of every young life under their charge, and not only the preface, but theappendix, whether the volume be a poem or a farce. Families, and schools, andlegislatures are in our day busily engaged in what is the best mode ofeducating children. Before this question almost every other dwindles into insig-nificance, while dependent upon its proper
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 . THE FIRST STEP.—Froui the Painting by Frank Pen/old. preface of every young life under their charge, and not only the preface, but theappendix, whether the volume be a poem or a farce. Families, and schools, andlegislatures are in our day busily engaged in what is the best mode ofeducating children. Before this question almost every other dwindles into insig-nificance, while dependent upon its proper solution is the welfare of governmentand ages eternal. Macaulay tells of the vvar which Frederick II. made against. (337) ^3« THE PATHWAY OF LIFE. Queen Maria Theresa. And one da} she appeared before the august Diet wearingmourning for her father, and held up in her arms before them her child, the Arch-duke. This so wroughtupon the officers anddeputies of the peoplethat with half-drawnswords they broke forthin the war cry, Let usdie for our Queen, MariaTheresa ! So realizing that thebo} of to-day is to be theruler of the future, thepopular sovereign, I holdhim before the Americanpeople to arouse theirenthusiasm in his behalf,and to evoke their oathfor his defence, his edu-cation, and his sublimedestiny. If a parent, you willremember when j-ou werearoused to these great re-sponsibilities, and whenyou found that jou hadnot done all requiredafter you had admiredthe tiny hands, and theglossy hair, and thebright eyes that lay inthe cradle, you suddenlyremembered that thathand would yet be raisedto bless the world withits benediction, or tosmite it with a curse. In Ariostos greatpoem there is a characte
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