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 . e excite-ment of a luxurious life has been the vortex that has swallowed up moie soulsthan the Maelstrom of Norway ever destroyed ships. What room for elevatingthemes in a heart filled with the trivial and unreal ? TUMBLING INTO RUIN. Who can wonder that in this haste for sun-gilded baubles and winged thistle-down, men and women should tumble into ruin? The travelers to destructionare not all clothed in rags. On
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 . e excite-ment of a luxurious life has been the vortex that has swallowed up moie soulsthan the Maelstrom of Norway ever destroyed ships. What room for elevatingthemes in a heart filled with the trivial and unreal ? TUMBLING INTO RUIN. Who can wonder that in this haste for sun-gilded baubles and winged thistle-down, men and women should tumble into ruin? The travelers to destructionare not all clothed in rags. On that road chariot jostles against chariot, andbehind steeds in harness, golden-plated and glittering, they go down, coach andfour, herald and postilion, racketing on the hot pavements of hell. Clear thetrack ! Bazaars hang out their colors over the road, and trees of tropical fruitful-ness overbranch the way. No sound of woe disturbs the air, but all is light, andsong, and wine, and gorgeousness. The world comes out to greet the dazzlingprocession with: Hurrah! Hurrah! But suddenly there is a halt and anoutcry of dismay, and an overflow worse than the Red Sea tumbling upon the. FASHIONS OF HEAD DRESS AMONG DIFFERENT NATIONS IN THE FIFTEENTH CENTURY. (139) I40 THE PATHWAY OF LIFE. Egyptians. Shadow of gravestones upon finest silk ! Wormwood squeezed intoinipearled goblets ! Death with one cold breath withering the leaves and freezingthe fountains. In the wild tumult of the last day—the mountains falling, the heavens flying,the thrones uprising, the universe assembling; amid the boom of the last greatthunder-peal, and luider the cracking of a burning world—what will become ofthe disciple of unholy fashion ? But watch the career of one thoroughly artificial. Through inheritance, orperhaps his own skill, having obtained enough for purposes of display, he feelshimself thoroughly established. He sits aloof from the common herd, and looksout of his window upon the poor man and say
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