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 . ? But the east wind blew all night; thewaters gathered into two glittering palisades on either side. The billows rearedas Gods hand pulled back upon their crystal bits. Wheel into line, O Israel !March ! March ! Pearls crash under the feet. The shout of hosts mounting thebeach answers the shout of hosts mid-sea, until, as the last line of the Israeliteshas gained the beach, the shields clang, and the cymbals clap
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 . ? But the east wind blew all night; thewaters gathered into two glittering palisades on either side. The billows rearedas Gods hand pulled back upon their crystal bits. Wheel into line, O Israel !March ! March ! Pearls crash under the feet. The shout of hosts mounting thebeach answers the shout of hosts mid-sea, until, as the last line of the Israeliteshas gained the beach, the shields clang, and the cymbals clap, and as the waterswhelm the pursuing foe, swift-fingered winds on the white keys of the foam playthe grand march of Israel delivered, and the awful dirge of Egyptian we go forth; and stretchout the hand of prayer and Christian effort over thesedark, boiling waters of crime and sin. Those who resist and deride and pursue uswill fall under the sea, and there will be nothing left of them but here and there,cast high and dry upon the beach, the splintered wheel of a chariot, and, thrustout from the surf, the breathless nostril of a rideless charger. ^ IStnllxn^ St^r^. ATTILA, THE SCOURGE, AND NATIONS THAT HAVE PERISHED. ^ANY commentators, like Patrick and I/Dwth, Thomas Scott,Matthew Henty, Albert Barnes, agree in saying that the starWormwood, mentioned in Revelation, was Attila, King ofthe Huns. He was so called because he was brilliant as astar, and, like wormwood, he embittered everjthing he have studied the Star of Bethlehem, and the Morning Starof the Revelation, and the Star of Peace, but my present sub-ject calls us to gaze at the star Wormwood, and my thememight be called Brilliant Bitterness. A more extraordinary character history does not furnish thanthis man thus referred to, Attila, the King of the Huns. One daya wounded heifer came limping along through the fields, and a herds-man followed its bloody track on the grass to see where the heifer w
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