The pathway of life ..to which is added a biography of DrTalmage . smoke of our nations ruin; the pillars of ournational and State capitols will fall more disastrously than when Samson pulleddown Dagon; and future historians will record upon the page bedewed with gen-erous tears the story that the free nation of the West arose in splendor which madethe world stare. It had magnificent possibilities. It forgot God. It hated jnsticd. 222 THE PATHWAY OF LIFE. It hugged its crime. It halted on its high march. It reeled under the blow ofcalamity. It fell. And as it was going down, all the despotism


The pathway of life ..to which is added a biography of DrTalmage . smoke of our nations ruin; the pillars of ournational and State capitols will fall more disastrously than when Samson pulleddown Dagon; and future historians will record upon the page bedewed with gen-erous tears the story that the free nation of the West arose in splendor which madethe world stare. It had magnificent possibilities. It forgot God. It hated jnsticd. 222 THE PATHWAY OF LIFE. It hugged its crime. It halted on its high march. It reeled under the blow ofcalamity. It fell. And as it was going down, all the despotism of earth from thetop of bloody thrones began to shout, Aha, so would we have it, while strug-gling and oppressed people looked out from dungeon bars with tears and groansand cries of untold agony, the scorn of those and the woe of these uniting in theexclamation, lyook yonder! there fell a great star from heaven, burning as itwere a lamp, and it fell upon the third part of the rivers and upon the fountainsof waters; and the name of the star is called Wormwood !. $i^^iiyiX^^^


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