The pathway of life ..to which is added a biography of DrTalmage . u say, I have more than I can bear; too much is put upon me andI am not to blame if I am somewhat revengeful and unrelenting. Then I thinkof the little child at the moving of some goods from a store. The father wasputting some rolls of goods on the childs arm, package after package, and someone said: That child is being overloaded, and so much ought not to be putupon her, when the child responded : Father knows how much I can carry,and God, our Father, will not allow too much imposition on His children. Inthe day of eternity it
The pathway of life ..to which is added a biography of DrTalmage . u say, I have more than I can bear; too much is put upon me andI am not to blame if I am somewhat revengeful and unrelenting. Then I thinkof the little child at the moving of some goods from a store. The father wasputting some rolls of goods on the childs arm, package after package, and someone said: That child is being overloaded, and so much ought not to be putupon her, when the child responded : Father knows how much I can carry,and God, our Father, will not allow too much imposition on His children. Inthe day of eternity it will be found you had not one annoyance too many, not oneexasperation too many, not one outrage too many. Your heavenly Father knowshow much you can carry. When Mme. Sontag began her musical career she was hissed off the stage atVienna by the friends of her rival, Amelia Steininger, who had already begun todecline through her dissipation. Years passed on, and one day Mme. Sontag, inher glory, was riding through the streets of Berlin, when she saw a little child. (475) 476 THE PATHWAY OF LIFE. leading a blind woman, and she said: Come here, my little child, come is that you are leading by the hand ? And the little child replied: Thatsmy mother; thats Amelia Steininger. She used to be a great singer, but she losther voice and she cried so much about it that she lost her eyesight. Give mylove to her, said Mme. Sontag, and tell her an old acquaintance will call onher this afternoon. The next week in Berlin a vast assemblage gathered at a benefit for thatpoor blind woman, and it was said that Mme. Sontag sang that night as she hadnever sung before. And she took a skilled oculist, who in vain tried to giveej-esight to the poor blind woman. Until the day of Amelia Steiningers death,Mme. Sontag took care of her, and her daughter after her. That was what thequeen of song did for her enemy. But, oh, hear a more thrilling storj^ still. Blind immortal, poor and lost, thou, who, w
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