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Title: Rills from the fountain of life, or, Sermons to children
Year: 1867 (1860s)
Authors: Newton, Richard, 1813-1887
Subjects: Episcopal Church Children's sermons Sermons, American
Publisher: New York : Robert Carter and Brothers
Contributing Library: Princeton Theological Seminary Library
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No, indeed. The want of a plea-
sant prospect would make it as uncomfortable as it
well could be. We should be all the time thinking
about some of the beautiful roads we had travelled
in our own country, like the shady lanes about Ger-
mantown, or that most charming road along the
Wissahickon; and the remembrance of them would
make the desert seem gloomier still by contrast.
Switzerland, you know, is a country famous, all over
the world, for its beautiful scenery. Hundreds, and
thousands, of people go there, every year, just for
the purpose of admiring its beauties. And those
who travel through that country find their ways
made ways of pleasantness, simply by the pleasant
prospects which are before them there. They see
mountains whose tops are covered with snow.
Sometimes the clouds gather round them, and then,
again, the sunbeams are reflected from them in all
the varying colors of the rainbow. Other moun-
tains are seen clothed with dark green woods, and
streams of water are gushing down their sides like
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SWISS MOUNTAINS p. 20

THE PLEASANT PROSPECTS IN WISDOM'S WAYS. 21

threads of silver, and wild torrents dash themselves
into foam and spray. The prospect varies, and
changes continually, and affords unceasing plea
santness to those whose ways lead them through
that land of beauty.
But now, you may be ready to ask, What sort of
prospects are afforded to those who walk in Wis-
dom's ways ? Oh, here are pleasant prospects in-
deed ! Nothing in all the world can be compared
to these, for interest and beauty. Prospects of hea-
ven are to be seen from these ways. Did you ever
read Bunyans Pilgrims Progress? Next to the
Bible, it is one of the best books in the world.
Everybody ought to read it. It represents the
Christian, in one part of his journey, as reaching an
elevated region called, " the Delectable Mountains,"
and looking through a telescope, and getting a view
of heaven. Now, there are many of these moun-
tains in Wisdom's ways, and heaven can be clearly
seen from the top of them. The promises which
these mountains.


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