Identifier: pathwayoflifeint00talm (find matches)
Title: 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
Year: 1894 (1890s)
Authors: Talmage, T. De Witt (Thomas De Witt), 1832-1902
Subjects: Christian life and character
Publisher: Philadelphia, Pub. and manufactured by Historical Pub. Co. for the Christian Herald
Contributing Library: Princeton Theological Seminary Library
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maniacal rage, and ordered his swiftest horses hooked up to carry- him to the Prussian palace. That despicable passion ofj ealousy led Napoleon I. to leave in his will a bequest of 5000 francs to the ruffian who shot at Welling-ton when the victor of Waterloo was passing through Paris. That sta-tioned the grouty elder brother atthe back door of the homesteadwhen the prodigal son returned,and threw a chill on the familyreunion while that elder brothercomplained, saying: Who everheard of giving roast veal to sucha profligate? Ay, that passionrose up and under the darkestcloud that ever shadowed the earth, THE PATHWAY OF LIFE. 227 and amid the loudest thunder that ever shook the mountains, and amid thewildest flash of lightning that ever blinded or stunned the nations, hung up ontwo pieces of rough lumber back of Jerusalem the kindest, purest, lovingestnature that Heaven could delegate, and stopped not until there was no powerleft in hammer, or bramble, or javelin to hurt the dead Son of God.
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DEATH BED OF COPERNICUS A PASSION THAT ANNOYS THE WORLD. That passion of jealousy, livid, hungr)-, unbalked, rages on, and it now piercesthe earth like a fiery diameter and encircles it like a fiery circumference. It wantsboth hemispheres. It wants the heavens. It would, if it could, capture the palaceof God, and bethrone Jehovah, and chain the Almighty in eternal exile, and after 228 THE PATHWAY OF LIFE. the demolition of the universe would cry: Satisfied at last, here I am, alone, theundisputed and everlasting I, me, mine, myself! That passion keeps all Europeperturbed. Nations jealous of Germany, of England, of Russia, and those jealousof each other, and all of them jealous of America. Go into all occupations and professions, and if you want to know how muchjealousy is yet to be extirpated, ask master builders what they think of eachothers houses, and merchants what their opinion is of merchants in the same lineof business in the same street, and ask doctors what they think of doc

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