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 . When the shepherdscrook was that famous night stood against the w^all of the Bethlehem khan, it wasa prophecy of the time when threshers flail, and farmers plow, and woodmansaxe, and oxs yoke, and sheaf-binders rake shall surrender to the God who madethe country as man made the town. THE MOTHER. Behold also that on that Christmas night God honored motherhood. Twoangels on their wings might have brought an infant
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 . When the shepherdscrook was that famous night stood against the w^all of the Bethlehem khan, it wasa prophecy of the time when threshers flail, and farmers plow, and woodmansaxe, and oxs yoke, and sheaf-binders rake shall surrender to the God who madethe country as man made the town. THE MOTHER. Behold also that on that Christmas night God honored motherhood. Twoangels on their wings might have brought an infant Saviour to Bethlehem withoutMarys being there at all. When the villagers, on the morning of December 25,awoke, by divine arrangement and in some unexplained way, the child Jesus THE PATHWAY OF LIFE. 321 might have been found in some comfortable cradle of the village. But no, no !Motherhood for all time was to be consecrated, and one of the tenderest relationswas to be the maternal relation, and one of the sweetest words Mother. In allages God has honored good motherhood. John Wesley had a good mother; had a good mother; Samuel Budgett a good mother; Doddridge a good. THE YOUNG FARMER.—Frovi thc Painting by J. C. Ihhetson. mother; Walter Scott a good mother; Benjamin West a good mother. In a great audience, most of whom were Christians, I asked that all those who had been blessed of Christian mothers arise, and almost the entire assembly stood up. Dont you see how important it is that all motherhood be consecrated ? Why did Titian, the Italian artist, when he sketched the Madonna, make it an Italian face ? Why21
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