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 . le. But that tiny craft on the Nile seems to be armed with allthe guns of thunder that bombarded Sinai at the law-giving. On how fragile acraft sailed how much of historical importance ! AN INCIDENT IN JOHN WESLEYS LIFE. The parsonage at Epworth, England, is on fire in the night, and the fatherrushed through the hallway for the rescue of his children. Seven children areout and safe on the ground, but one remains
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 . le. But that tiny craft on the Nile seems to be armed with allthe guns of thunder that bombarded Sinai at the law-giving. On how fragile acraft sailed how much of historical importance ! AN INCIDENT IN JOHN WESLEYS LIFE. The parsonage at Epworth, England, is on fire in the night, and the fatherrushed through the hallway for the rescue of his children. Seven children areout and safe on the ground, but one remains in the consuming building. Thatone wakes, and finding his bed on fire and the building crumbling, comes to thewindow, and two peasants make a ladder of their bodies, one peasant standing onthe shoulder of the other, and down the human ladder the boy descends—^JohnWesley. If you would know how much depended on that ladder of peasants ask themillions of Methodists on both sides of the sea. Ask their mission stations allround the world. Ask their hundreds of thousands already ascended to jointheir founder, who would have perished but for the living stairs of peasants* A gUIVER FULL OF CHILDREN. (539) 540 THE PATHWAY OF LIFE. An English ship stopped at Pitcairn Island, and right in the midst of sur-rounding cannibalism and squalor the passengers discovered a Christian colony ofchurches and schools and beautiful homes, and the highest style of religion andcivilization. For fifty years no missionary and no Christian influence had landedthere. Why this oasis of light amid a desert of heathendom ? Sixty years beforea ship had met disaster, and one of her sailors, unable to save anything else,went to his trunk and took out a Bible which his mother had placed there, andswam ashore, the Bible held in his teeth. The book was read on all sides untilthe rough and vicious population were evangelized, and a church was started, andan enlightened commonwealth established, aud the wo
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