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Title: The pathway of life ... to which is added a biography of Dr. Talmage
Year: 1888 (1880s)
Authors: Thomas De Witt Talmage
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Publisher: Historrical pub. Co.
Contributing Library: Gumberg Library, Duquesne University
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" But," you say, I have more than I can bear; too much is put upon me and,
I am not to blame if I am somewhat revengeful and unrelenting. Then I think
of the little child at the moving of some goods from a store. The father was
putting some rolls of goods on the child's arm, package after package, and some
one said: " That child is being overloaded, and so much ought not to be put
upon her," when the child responded : " Father knows how much I can carry,"
and God, our Father, will not allow too much imposition on His children. In
the day of eternity it will be found you had not one annoyance too many, not one
exasperation too many, not one outrage too many. Your heavenly Father knows
how much you can carry.
When Mme. Sontag began her musical career she was hissed ofi the stage at
Vienna by the friends of her rival, Amelia Steininger, who had already begun to
decline through her dissipation. Years passed on, and one day Mme. Sontag, in
her glory, was riding through the streets of Berlin, when she saw a little child
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RESTARUATION OF JAIRUS' DAUGHTER—Drawn by Albert Keller.

(475)

476 THE PATHWAY OF LIFE.

leading a blind woman, and she said: " Come here, my little child, come here.
Who is that you are leading by the hand ?" And the little child replied: " That's
my mother; that's Amelia Steininger. She used to be a great singer, but she lost
her voice and she cried so much about it that she lost her eyesight." " Give my
love to her," said Mme. Sontag, " and tell her an old acquaintance will call on
her this afternoon."
The next week in Berlin a vast assemblage gathered at a benefit for that
poor blind woman, and it was said that Mme. Sontag sang that night as she had
never sung before. And she took a skilled oculist, who in vain tried to give
eyesight to the poor blind woman. Until the day of Amelia Steininger's death,
Mme. Sontag took care of her, and her daughter after her. That was what th
equeen of song did for her enemy.
But, oh, hear a more thrilling story still. Blind immortal, poor and lost,
thou, who, when the world and Christ were rivals for thy heart, didst hiss thy

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