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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
Digitizing Sponsor: Lyrasis Members and Sloan Foundation

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ship 200 miles off her right course, and suddenly theman on the lookout cried : Land ho ! and the ship was halted within a fewyards of her demolition on Nantucket shoals. A six-penny nail came near wreck-ing a Cunarder. Small ropes hold mighty destinies. A minister seated in Boston at his table, lacking a word, puts his handbehind his head and tilts back his chair to think, and the ceiling falls and crushesthe table, and would have crushed him. A minister in Jamaica at night, by thelight of an insect called the candle fly, is kept from stepping over a precipice 100feet. F. W. Robertson, the celebrated English clergyman, said that he enteredthe ministry from a train of circumstances started by the barking of a dog. Hadthe wind blown one way on a certain day, the Spanish Inquisition would havebeen established in England ; but it blew the other way, and that dropped theaccursed institution, with 75,000 tons of shipping, to the bottom of the sea, orflung the splintered logs on the rocks.
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HOME AT LAST 544 THE PATHWAY OF LIFE. Nothing unimportant in your life or mine. Three naughts placed on the right side of the figure one make a thousand, and six naughts on the right side ofthe figure one a million, and our nothingness placed on the right side may beaugmentation illimitable. All the ages of time and eternity affected by the basketlet down from a Damascus balcony. And now, dear reader, we know of no better conclusion to this volume thanthe prayer of the Apostle Paul, when he says: I bow my knees unto the Fatherof our lyord Jesus Christ, of whom the whole family in heaven and earth is named,that He would grant you according to the riches of His glory, to be strengthenedwith might by His spirit in the inner man; that Christ may dwell in your hearts byfaith; that ye, being rooted and grounded in love, may be able to comprehendwith all saints what is the breadth, and length, and depth, and height; and toknow the love of Christ, which passeth knowledge, that ye might be fi

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