The pathway of life ..to which is added a biography of DrTalmage . ounted, and the air was redolent withthe spicery of tropical gardens and resonant with the music that made the nightglad as the day. You may rejoice, O woman ! that you are not a Cleopatra andthat the one to whom you may be affianced had none of the sins of Caesar, theconqueror. But it suggests to me how you, a soul exiled from happiness andpeace, may find your way to the feet of the conqueror of the earth and it may be a dark night of spiritual agitation in which you put out, intothe harbor of peace you may sail, an
The pathway of life ..to which is added a biography of DrTalmage . ounted, and the air was redolent withthe spicery of tropical gardens and resonant with the music that made the nightglad as the day. You may rejoice, O woman ! that you are not a Cleopatra andthat the one to whom you may be affianced had none of the sins of Caesar, theconqueror. But it suggests to me how you, a soul exiled from happiness andpeace, may find your way to the feet of the conqueror of the earth and it may be a dark night of spiritual agitation in which you put out, intothe harbor of peace you may sail, and when all the wrappings of fear and doubtand sin shall be removed, you will be found at the feet of Him who will put youon a throne, to be acknowledged as His in the day when all the silver trumpetsof the sky shall proclaim, Behold the bridegroom cometh, and in a barge oflight you shall sail with Him the river whose source is the foot of the throne,and whose mouth is at the sea of glass mingled with fire. 33Jount)ri^5^r UToXtje^ THE BROKEN PROMISES OF ENERAIv JEPHTHAH, the commander-in-chief of the Israel-itish forces is buckling on the sword for the extermination ofthe pestiferous Ammonites, and looking up to the sky, hepromises that if God will give him the victory he will put todeath and sacrifice as a burned offering the first thing thatconies out from the door of his homestead when he hurrahing of triumph soon runs along the line of all thecompanies, regiments and divisions of Jephthahs army. Aworse beaten enemy than those Ammonites never strewed any plain with their car-casses. General Jephthah, fresh from his victory, is now on his way home. Ashe came over the hills and through the valleys the whole march homeward for hismen is a cheer, but for him a great anxiety, for he remembers his vow to slay andburn the first thing that comes forth from his house to greet him after his it may be the old watch-dog that shall first come out, an
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