The pathway of life ..to which is added a biography of DrTalmage . ctories turning out valuable fabric, the printing-presses preparing book and newspaper, and all the ten thousandwheels in motion. On a clear day this vapor spoken of mountswith such buoyancy and spreads such a delicate veil across thesky, and traces such graceful lines of circle and semicircle, andwaves, and tosses, and sinks, and soars, and scatters with suchaffluence of shape, and color, and suggestiveness, that if you havenever noticed it you are like a man who has all his life lived inParis and yet never saw the lyuxembourg
The pathway of life ..to which is added a biography of DrTalmage . ctories turning out valuable fabric, the printing-presses preparing book and newspaper, and all the ten thousandwheels in motion. On a clear day this vapor spoken of mountswith such buoyancy and spreads such a delicate veil across thesky, and traces such graceful lines of circle and semicircle, andwaves, and tosses, and sinks, and soars, and scatters with suchaffluence of shape, and color, and suggestiveness, that if you havenever noticed it you are like a man who has all his life lived inParis and yet never saw the lyuxembourg, and all his life inRome and never saw the Vatican, and all his life at lyockport andnever saw Niagara. Forty-four times the Bible speaks of the smoke, this strange,weird, beautiful, elastic, charming, terrific and fascinating vapor. Across theBible sky floats the smoke of Sinai, the smoke of Sodom, the smoke of Ai, thesmoke of the pit, the smoke of the volcanic hills when God touches them, tosymbolize the glorious Church of God coming up out of the MARTYRDOMS AND PERSECUTIONS. Pillars of smoke may be likened to the suffering the Church of God hasendured. What do I mean by the Church ? I mean not a building, not a sect,but those who in all ages and all lands, and of all beliefs, love God and are tr^dngto do right. For centuries the heavens have been black with the smoke of martyr-dom. If set side by side you could girdle the earth with the fires of Taylor burned at Hadleigh; Latimer burned at Oxford; John Rogers (432) THE PATHWAY OF LIFE. 433 burned at Smithfield; John Hooper burned at Gloucester; John Huss burned atConstance; Lawrence Saunders, burned at Coventry; Joan of Arc, burned atRouen. Protestants have sometimes pointed at Catholics as persecutors, but bothProtestant and Catholic have practiced infamous cruelties. The Catholics duringthe reign of Hunneric were by Protestants put to the worst tortures, stripped oftheir clothing, hoisted
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