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 . covering diamonds larger than the Kohinoor, and I think thatour joy will continue to increase until nothing short of the everlasting jubilee ofheaven will be able to express it. Horatio Greenough, at the close of the hardest life a man ever lives—the lifeof an American artist—wrote: I dont want to leave this world until I give somesign that, born by the grace of God in this land, I have found life to be a veryche
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 . covering diamonds larger than the Kohinoor, and I think thatour joy will continue to increase until nothing short of the everlasting jubilee ofheaven will be able to express it. Horatio Greenough, at the close of the hardest life a man ever lives—the lifeof an American artist—wrote: I dont want to leave this world until I give somesign that, born by the grace of God in this land, I have found life to be a verycheerful thing, and not the daik and bitter thing with which my early prospectswere clouded. Albert Barnes, the good Christian, known the world over, stood in his pulpitin Philadelphia, at seventy or eighty years of age, and said: This world is sovery attractive to me, I am very sorry I shall have to leave it. (163) 164 THE PATHWAY OF LIFE. I know that Solomon said some very dolorous things about this world, andthree times declared: Vanity of vanities, all is vanity. I suppose it was a refer-ence to those times in liis career when his 700 wives almost pestered the life out of. 1 Rut „ , MiseiIIi;K AND HIS THACIIICK .--Z^> //. Ili-lliiuk. him. But I would rather turn to the description he gave after his conversion, whenhe says in another place: Her ways are ways of pleasantness, and all her pathsare peace. THE PATHWAY OF 165 It is reasonable to expect it will be so. The longer the fruit hangs on thetree, the riper and more mellow it ought to grow. You plant one grain of com
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