The pathway of life ..to which is added a biography of DrTalmage . a maniacal rage, and orderedhis swiftest horses hooked up tocarry him to the Prussian palace. That despicable passion ofjealousy led Napoleon I. to leavein his will a bequest of 5000 francsto the ruffian who shot at Welling-ton when the victor of Waterloo waspassing through Paris, That sta-tioned the grouty elder brother atthe back door of the homesteadwhen the prodigal son returned,and threw a chill on the familyreunion while that elder brothercomplained, saying: Who everheard of giving roast veal to sucha profligate? Ay, that
The pathway of life ..to which is added a biography of DrTalmage . a maniacal rage, and orderedhis swiftest horses hooked up tocarry him to the Prussian palace. That despicable passion ofjealousy led Napoleon I. to leavein his will a bequest of 5000 francsto the ruffian who shot at Welling-ton when the victor of Waterloo waspassing through Paris, That sta-tioned the grouty elder brother atthe back door of the homesteadwhen the prodigal son returned,and threw a chill on the familyreunion while that elder brothercomplained, saying: Who everheard of giving roast veal to sucha profligate? Ay, that passionrose up and under the darkestcloud that ever shadowed the earth, THE PATHWAY OF LIFE. 227 and amid the loudest thunder that ever shook the mountains, and amid thewildest flash of lightning that ever blinded or stunned the nations, hung up ontwo pieces of rough lumber back of Jerusalem the kindest, purest, lovingestnature that Heaven could delegate, and stopped not until there was no powerleft in hammer, or bramble, or javelin to hurt the dead Son of DEATH BED OF COPERNICUS.—Fioui tJic Painting by E. Blair Leighton. A PASSION THAT ANNOYS THE WORLD. That passion of jealousy, livid, hungry, unbalked, rages on, and it now piercesthe earth like a fiery diameter and encircles it like a fiery circumference. It wantsboth hemispheres. It wants the heavens. It would, if it could, capture the palaceof God, and bethrone Jehovah, and chain the Almighty in eternal exile, and after 2 28 THE PATHWAY OF LIFE. the demolition of the universe would cry: Satisfied at last, here I am, alone, theundisputed and everlasting I, me, mine, myself! That passion keeps all Europeperturbed. Nations jealous of Germany, of England, of Russia, and those jealousof each other, and all of them jealous of America. Go into all occupations and professions, and if you want to know how muchjealousy is yet to be extirpated, ask master builders what they think of eachothers houses, and merchants what their
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