The pathway of life ..to which is added a biography of DrTalmage . 10 1^o!m icf pri:rlon0 PRACTICAL HINTS AND EXAMPLES BY WHICH OUR DAYS MAY BEBOTH LENGTHENED AND BLESSED. the mistake of its friends religion has been chiefly associatedwith sick beds and graveyards. The whole subject to manypeople is odorous with cholorine and carbolic acid. There arepeople who cannot pronounce the word religion without hear-ing in it the clipping chisel of the tombstone cutter. It is hightime that this thing were changed, and that religion, instead ofbeing represented as a hearse to carry out the dead,


The pathway of life ..to which is added a biography of DrTalmage . 10 1^o!m icf pri:rlon0 PRACTICAL HINTS AND EXAMPLES BY WHICH OUR DAYS MAY BEBOTH LENGTHENED AND BLESSED. the mistake of its friends religion has been chiefly associatedwith sick beds and graveyards. The whole subject to manypeople is odorous with cholorine and carbolic acid. There arepeople who cannot pronounce the word religion without hear-ing in it the clipping chisel of the tombstone cutter. It is hightime that this thing were changed, and that religion, instead ofbeing represented as a hearse to carry out the dead, should berepresented as a chariot in which the living are to triumph. Religion, so far from subtracting from ones vitality, is a gloriousaddition. It is sanative, curative, hygienic. It is good for the eyes,good for the ears, good for the spleen, good for the digestion, goodfor the nerves, good for the muscles. When David pra^-ed thatreligion might be dominant, he did not speak of it as a mild sick-ness, or an emaciation, or an attack of moral and spiritual cramp;he spoke of it as the saving


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