The pathway of life ..to which is added a biography of DrTalmage . SONGS FOR YOUNG AND OLD, FOR AFFLICTION AND DEATH. HARMONY ON EARTH AND IN HEAVEN. IRST and last let Christ be our song. Christ ought to be thecradle song. What our mothers sang to us when they putus to sleep is singing yet. We may have forgotten thewords, but they went into the fibre of our soul, and willforever be a part of it. It is not so much what you formallyCJ^^ teach your children as what you sing to them. A hymn hasV----^3 wings and can ^y everywhither. One hundred and fifty years after you are dead, and Old Mortality
The pathway of life ..to which is added a biography of DrTalmage . SONGS FOR YOUNG AND OLD, FOR AFFLICTION AND DEATH. HARMONY ON EARTH AND IN HEAVEN. IRST and last let Christ be our song. Christ ought to be thecradle song. What our mothers sang to us when they putus to sleep is singing yet. We may have forgotten thewords, but they went into the fibre of our soul, and willforever be a part of it. It is not so much what you formallyCJ^^ teach your children as what you sing to them. A hymn hasV----^3 wings and can ^y everywhither. One hundred and fifty years after you are dead, and Old Mortality has worn out his chisel in recuttingyour name on the tombstone, your great-grandchildren will be singing the songwhich you now sing to your little ones gathered about your knee. There is aplace in Switzerland where if you distinctly utter ^^our voice there come back tenor fifteen distinct echoes, and every Christian song sung by a mother in the ear ofher child shall have 10,000 echoes coming back from all the gates of heaven. Oh,if mothers only knew the power of
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