The pathway of life ; Intended to lead the young and the old into paths of happiness, and to prepare them for a holy companionship with him whose kingdom is as boundless as his love . inden, and acacia,the tables are arranged. The breath of honeysuckle and frankincense fills the leap up in the light, the spray struck through with rainbows falling incrystalline baptism upon flowering shrubs, then rolling down through channels ofmarble, and widening out here and there into pools swirling with the finny tribesof foreign aquariums, bordered with scarlet anemones, hypericums and many-
The pathway of life ; Intended to lead the young and the old into paths of happiness, and to prepare them for a holy companionship with him whose kingdom is as boundless as his love . inden, and acacia,the tables are arranged. The breath of honeysuckle and frankincense fills the leap up in the light, the spray struck through with rainbows falling incrystalline baptism upon flowering shrubs, then rolling down through channels ofmarble, and widening out here and there into pools swirling with the finny tribesof foreign aquariums, bordered with scarlet anemones, hypericums and many-colored ranunculus. Meats of rarest bird and beast smoking up amid wreaths ofaromatics. The vases filled with apricots and almonds. The baskets piled upwith ajiples and dates, and figs, and oranges, and pomegranates. Melons taste-fully twined with leaves of acacia. The bright waters of Eulaeus filling the urns, (142) THE PATHWAY OF LIFE. H3 and sweating outside the rim in flashing beads amid the traceries. Wine from theroyal vats of Ispahan and Shiraz, in bottles of iridescent shell, and lily-shapedcups of silver, and flagons and tankards of solid gold. The music rises higher,. MEETING OF THE TRUSTEES OF A BACK SETTLEMENT SCHOOL—EXAMINING THE TEACHER. By Robert Harris. and the revelry breaks out into wilder transport, and the wine has flushed thecheek and touched the brain, and louder than all other voices are the hiccough ofthe inebriates, the gabble of fools, and the song of the drunkard. 144 THE PATHWAY OF IJFE. In another part of the palace Queen Vashti is entertaining the princesses ofPersia at a banquet. Drunken Ahasuerus says to his ser\ants: You go out andfetch Vashti from the banquet with the women and bring her to this banquet withthe men, and let her display her beauty. The ser\ants immediately start toobey the kings command, but there was a rule in Oriental society that no womanmight appear in public without having her face veiled. Yet, here was a mandatethat no o
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