The pathway of life ..to which is added a biography of DrTalmage . an whose transgressions are forgiven and whose sins arecovered. So, very often, in our worldly business or in our spiritual career, we start offon a very dark path. We must go. The flesh may shrink back, but there is avoice within, or a voice from above, saying: You must go, and we have todrink the gall, and we have to carry the cross, and we have to traverse the desert,and we are pounded and flailed with misrepresentation and abuse, and we have tourge our way through 10,000 obstacles that must be slain by our own right
The pathway of life ..to which is added a biography of DrTalmage . an whose transgressions are forgiven and whose sins arecovered. So, very often, in our worldly business or in our spiritual career, we start offon a very dark path. We must go. The flesh may shrink back, but there is avoice within, or a voice from above, saying: You must go, and we have todrink the gall, and we have to carry the cross, and we have to traverse the desert,and we are pounded and flailed with misrepresentation and abuse, and we have tourge our way through 10,000 obstacles that must be slain by our own right have to ford the river, we have to climb the mountain, we have to storm thecastle; but, blessed be God, the day of rest and reward will come. On the tip-topot the captured battlements we will shout the victory; if not in this world, thenin that world where there is no gall to drink, no burdens to carry, no battles tofight. How do I know it ? Know it ! I know it because God says so: Theyshall hunger no more, neither thirst any more; neither shall the sun light on. CO oo n E (65) 66 THE PATHWAY OF LIFE. them, nor any heat; for the Lamb which is in the midst of the throne shall lead them to living fountains of waters: and God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes. It was very hard for Noah to endure the scoffing of the people in his day, while he was trying to build the ark, and was every morning quizzed about his old boat that would neverbe of any practicaluse; but when thedeluge came, andthe tops of themountains disap-peared like thebacks of sea mon-sters, and the ele-ments, lashed up infuiy, clapped theirhands over adrowned world,then Noah in theark rejoiced in hisown safety and inthe safety of hisfamily, and lookedout on the wreck ofa ruined earth. Christ, hound-ed of persecutors,denied a pillow,worse maltreatedthan the thieves oneither side of thecross, human hatesmacking its lipsin satisfaction afterit had been drainingHis last drop ofblood, the sheetedTHE CHRISTIAN MART
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