The pathway of life ..to which is added a biography of DrTalmage . mythology said that the fountain of Hippocrene was struck out bythe foot of the winged horse Pegasus. I have often noticed in life that thebrightest and most beautiful fountains of Christian comfort and spiritual life havebeen struck out by the iron-shod hoof of disaster and calamity. I see Danielscourage best by the flash of Nebuchadnezzars furnace. I see Pauls prowess bestwhen I find him on the foundering ship under the glare of the lightning in thebreakers of the Melita. God crowns His children amid the howlingof wild beasts
The pathway of life ..to which is added a biography of DrTalmage . mythology said that the fountain of Hippocrene was struck out bythe foot of the winged horse Pegasus. I have often noticed in life that thebrightest and most beautiful fountains of Christian comfort and spiritual life havebeen struck out by the iron-shod hoof of disaster and calamity. I see Danielscourage best by the flash of Nebuchadnezzars furnace. I see Pauls prowess bestwhen I find him on the foundering ship under the glare of the lightning in thebreakers of the Melita. God crowns His children amid the howlingof wild beastsand the chopping of blood-splashed guillotine and the crackling fires of martyr-dom. It took the persecutions of Marcus Aurelius to develop Polycarp and JustinMartyr. It took the worlds anathema to develop Martin Luther. It took all thehostilities against the Scotch Covenanters and the fury of Lord Claverhouse todevelop James Renwick, and Andrew Melville, and Hugh McKail, the gloriousmartyrs of Scotch history. It took the stormy sea, and the December blast, and. SAD MEMORIES. l6i) 62 THE PATHWAY OF IvIFE. the desolate New England coast, and the war-whoop of savages, to show forth theprowess of the Pilgrim Fathers. When amid the storms they sang, And the stars heard, and the sea ;And the sounding aisles of the dim wood Rang to the anthems of the free. It took all our past national distresses to lift up our nation on that high careerwhere it will march along after the foreign aristocracies that have mocked, andthe tyrannies that have jeered, shall be swept down under the omnipotent wrathof God, who hates despotism, and who, by the strength of His own right arm,will make all men free. And so it is individually, and in the family, and in thechurch, and in the world, that through darkness and storm and trouble men,women, churches, nations are developed. THE ROYALTY OF FRIENDSHIP. I also see in the example of Ruth the beauty of unfaltering friendship. Isuppose there were plenty of fr
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