The pathway of life ..to which is added a biography of DrTalmage . THK FIRST STEP.—FvoDi the Painting by Frank Pen/old. preface of every young life under their charge, and not only the preface, but theappendix, whether the volume be a poem or a farce. Families, and schools, andlegislatures are in our day busily engaged in discussing what is the best mode ofeducating children. Before this question almost every other dwindles into insig-nificance, while dependent upon its proper solution is the welfare of governmentand ages eternal. Macaulay tells of the war which Frederick II. made against. (33
The pathway of life ..to which is added a biography of DrTalmage . THK FIRST STEP.—FvoDi the Painting by Frank Pen/old. preface of every young life under their charge, and not only the preface, but theappendix, whether the volume be a poem or a farce. Families, and schools, andlegislatures are in our day busily engaged in discussing what is the best mode ofeducating children. Before this question almost every other dwindles into insig-nificance, while dependent upon its proper solution is the welfare of governmentand ages eternal. Macaulay tells of the war which Frederick II. made against. (337) 338 THE PATHWAY OF LIFE. Queen Maria Theresa. And one da} she appeared before the august Diet wearingmourning for her father, and held up in her arms before them her child, the Arch-duke. This so wroughtupon the ofl&cers anddeputies of the peoplethat with half-drawnswords they broke forthin the war cry, Let usdie for our Queen, MariaTheresa! So realizing that theboy of to-day is to be theruler of the future, thepopular sovereign, I holdhim before the Americanpeople to arouse theirenthusiasm in his behalf,and to evoke their oathfor his defence, his edu-cation, and his sublimedestiny. If a parent, you willremember when you werearoused to these great re-sponsibilities, and whenyou found that you hadnot done all requiredafter you had admiredthe tiny hands, and theglossy hair, and thebright eyes that lay inthe cradle, you suddenlyremembered that thathand would yet be raisedto bless the world withits benediction,, or tosmite it with a curse. In Ariostos greatpoem there is a charac
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