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 . hisonly a proph-ecy of a largeryield whenwe shall comeon with lon-ger trains and :more minersand strongermachinery todevelop, togather up, totransport andto employ allthis this cal-culation for yourselves if you can make it: If Englands coal field, thirty-twomiles long by eight miles wide, can keep, as it does, seventeen million sixhundred thousand spindles at work in that small island, what ma)^ we
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 . hisonly a proph-ecy of a largeryield whenwe shall comeon with lon-ger trains and :more minersand strongermachinery todevelop, togather up, totransport andto employ allthis this cal-culation for yourselves if you can make it: If Englands coal field, thirty-twomiles long by eight miles wide, can keep, as it does, seventeen million sixhundred thousand spindles at work in that small island, what ma)^ we notexpect of our national industries when these one hundred and sixty thousandsquare miles of coal shall unite with the one hundred and sixty tliousand squaremiles of iron, both stretching themselves up to full strength and height, twoblack, world-shaking giants ? Eift up your eyes, O nation of Gods right hand, and see the approach of afuture grand with success ! Build larger your barns for the harvests ! Dig deeperthe vats for the spoil of the vineyards ! Enlarge your warehouses for the mer-chandise ! Build larger your galleries of art for statues and pictures ! But remember. xlviii INTRODUCTION. that national wealth iinsanctified is voluptuous waste, is magnificent woe, issplendid rottenness, is gilded death. Woe to us for the wine vats if Drunkennesswallows in them ! Woe for the harvests if Greed sickles them ! Woe for the mer-chandise if Avarice swallows it! Woe forthe cities if Misrule ravages them ! Woe tothe land if God-defying Crime debauches it!Our only safety is more Bibles, more pulpits,more free schools, more Christian printing-presses. And therefore I contribute my miteto the cause by sending forth this book. And now my hearty greeting is to thepeople. Great is the responsibility of publish-ing a book, especially in this case, where thepublishers, a month before the book is published, have sold250,000 copies thereof, an unprecedented occurrence in thehistory of li
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