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 . you have, by the power of a right influence, won whole kingdoms for would be absurd for me by elaborate argument to prove that theworld is off the track. You might as well stand at the foot of an em-bankment, amid the wreck of a capsized rail-train, proving by elaborateargument that something is out of order. Adam tumbled over the embankmentsixty centuries ago, and the whole race, in one long train, has go
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 . you have, by the power of a right influence, won whole kingdoms for would be absurd for me by elaborate argument to prove that theworld is off the track. You might as well stand at the foot of an em-bankment, amid the wreck of a capsized rail-train, proving by elaborateargument that something is out of order. Adam tumbled over the embankmentsixty centuries ago, and the whole race, in one long train, has gone on tumblingin the same direction. Crash ! crash ! The only question now is, bj^ whatleverage can the crushed thing be lifted ? By what hammer may the fragmentsbe reconstructed ? I want to show you how we may turn many to righteousness, and what willbe our future pay for so doing. We may turn them by the charm of a right example. A child, coming froma filthy home, was taught at school to wash its face. It went home so muchimproved in appearance that its mother washed her face. And when the fatherof the household came home and saw the improvement in domestic appearance, (277). 278 THE PATHWAY OF IJFE. he washed his face. The neighbors happening in saw the change, and tried thesame experiment until all that street was purified, and the next street copied itsexample, and the whole city felt the result of one schoolbcjy washing his is a fable by which we set forth that the best way to get the world washedof its sins and pollution is to have our own heart and hfe cleansed and man with grace in his heart, and Christian cheerfulness in his face, and holyconsistency in his behavior, is a perpetual sermon; and the sermon differs fromothers in that it has but one head, and the longer it runs the better. There arehonest men who walk down Wall street, making the teeth of iniquity are happy men who go into a sick-room, and, 1)y a look, help the brokenbon
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