The pathway of life ..to which is added a biography of DrTalmage . , the altar, the flowers, the congratulating groups are scattered, andthere is nothing left but a trembling hand holding a faded rosebud, which is putinto the paper, and then into the box, and the box carefully placed in the bureau,and with a sharp, sudden click of the lock the scene is over. Ah, my friends, let not the prophecies of the flowers on your wedding day befalse prophecies. Be blind to each others faults. Make the most of each othersexcellences. Above all, do not both get mad at once? Remember the vows, thering on th
The pathway of life ..to which is added a biography of DrTalmage . , the altar, the flowers, the congratulating groups are scattered, andthere is nothing left but a trembling hand holding a faded rosebud, which is putinto the paper, and then into the box, and the box carefully placed in the bureau,and with a sharp, sudden click of the lock the scene is over. Ah, my friends, let not the prophecies of the flowers on your wedding day befalse prophecies. Be blind to each others faults. Make the most of each othersexcellences. Above all, do not both get mad at once? Remember the vows, thering on the third finger of the left hand and the benediction of the calla lilies. FLOWERS FOR THE DEAD. If 5^ou insist on asking me the question: What are flowers good for? Ianswer, They are good to honor and comfort the obsequies. The worst gash evermade into the side of our poor earth is the gash of the grave. It is so deep, it isso cruel, it is so incurable that it needs something to cover it up. Flowers for thecasket, flowers for the hearse, flowers for the AN OFFERING OF FI,OWERS. (53) 54 THE PATHWAY OF LIFE. What a contrast between a grave in a country churchyard, with the fencebroken down and the tombstone aslant and the neighboring cattle browsing amidthe mullein stalks and the Canada thistles, and a June morning in Greenwood, thewave of roseate bloom rolling to the top of the mounds, and then breaking intofoaming crests of white flowers all around the pillars of dust. It is the differencebetween sleeping under rags and sleeping under an embroidered blanket. Wewant Old Mortality with his chisel to go through the graveyards of Christendom,and while he carries a chisel in one hand we want Old Mortality to have someflower-seed in the palm of the other hand.
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