The pathway of life ..to which is added a biography of DrTalmage . hris-tian communion ? Who would you rather have for your pall-bearers—the eldersof a Christian church or the companions whose conversation was full of slang andinnuendo ? Who would you rather have for your eternal companions—those menwho spend their evenings betting, gambling, swearing, carousing, and telling vilestories, or your little child, that bright girl whom the Lord took ? Oh, you wouldnot have been away so much nights, would you, if you had known she was goingaway so soon ? Dear me, your house has never been the same p
The pathway of life ..to which is added a biography of DrTalmage . hris-tian communion ? Who would you rather have for your pall-bearers—the eldersof a Christian church or the companions whose conversation was full of slang andinnuendo ? Who would you rather have for your eternal companions—those menwho spend their evenings betting, gambling, swearing, carousing, and telling vilestories, or your little child, that bright girl whom the Lord took ? Oh, you wouldnot have been away so much nights, would you, if you had known she was goingaway so soon ? Dear me, your house has never been the same place since. Yourwife has never brightened up, she has never got over it. She never will get overit. How long the evenings are with no one to put to bed and no one to whom totell the beautiful Bible stories. A ROPE THAT REACHES HEAVEN. What a pity it is that you cannot spend more evenings at home in tryingto help her bear that sorrow. You can never drown that grief in the wine can never break away from the little arms that used to be flung around your. (503) 504 THE PATHWAY OK LIFE. neck when she used to say: Papa, do stay with me to-night. Do stay wnth me to-night. You will never be able to wipe away from your lips the dying kiss of yourlittle girl. The fascination of a bad secret society is so great that sometimes aman has turned his back on his home when his child was dying of scarlet went away. Before he got back at midnight the eyes had been closed, theundertaker had done his work, and the wife, worn out with three weeks watch-ing, lay unconscious in the next room. Then the returned father comes up-stairs,and he sees the cradle gone and the windows up, and says: What is thematter ? On the day of judgment he will find out what was the matter. Oh, man astray, God help you ! I am going to make a very stout know that sometimes a ropemaker will take very small threads and windthem together until after a while they become a ship cable. And I am going
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