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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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rning him say: Hush, brother ! we are turning this spit forthe glory of God and the good of your soul, and you must be quiet while v/e•close the service with: Blest be the tie that bindsOur hearts in Christian love. The earth is diametered and circumferenced with discord, and the music thatwas rendered at the laying of the worlds corner-stone, when the morning starssang together, is not heard now; and though here and there, from this and thatpart of society, and from this and that part of the earth, there comes up a thrillingsolo of love, or a warble of worship, or a sweet duet of patience, they are drowned•out bv a discord that shakes the earth. THK PATHWAY OF LIFE. 365- Paul says: The whole creation groaneth. And while the nightingale, andthe woodlark, and the canary, and the plover sometimes sing so sweetly that theirnotes have been written out in musical notation, and it is found that the cuckoo-sings in the kej^ of D, and that the cormorant is a basso in the winged choir, yet
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THE BOAT SONG. sportsmans gun and the autumnal blast often leave them ruffled and bleeding, ordead in meadow or forest. Paul was right, for the groan in nature drowns outthe prime donne of the sky. THE DEVILS SONATA. Tartini, the great musical composer, dreamed one night that he made acontract with Satan, the latter to be ever in the composers service. But one nighthe handed to Satan a violin, on which Diabolus played such sweet music that thecomposer was awakened by the emotion and tried to reproduce the sounds, and 366 THK PATHWAY OF LIFE. therefrom was written Tartinis most famous piece, entitled the Devils Sonata,a dream ingenious but faulty, for all melody descends from heaven, and onlydiscords ascend from hell. All hatreds, feuds, controversies, back-bitings andrevenges are the devils sonata, are diabolic fugue, are demoniac phantasy, aregrand march of doom, are allegro of perdition. But if in this world things in general are out of tune to our frail ear, howmuch more so to ears

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