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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is to have a concert atmidnight. The black window-shutters of a December night were thrown open,and some of the best singers of the world stood there, and, putting back thedrapery of cloud, chanted a peace anthem, until all the echoes of hill and valleyapplauded and encored the hallelujah chorus. At last the world has a Christ, and just the Christ it needs. Come, let usgo into that Christmas scene as though we had never before worshiped at themanger. Here is a Madonna worth looking at. I wonder not that the mostfrequent name in all lands and in all Christian centuries is Mary. And there areMarys in palaces and Marys in cabins, and though German and French and Italianand Spanish and English pronounce it differently they are all namesakes of theone whom we find on a bed of straw with her pale face against the soft cheek ofChrist in the night of the nativity. All the great painters have tried on canvasto present Mary and her Child, and the incidents of that most famous night of the (312)
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(313) 314 THE PATHWAY OF I^IFE. worlds history. Raphael in three different masterpieces celebrated them. Tin-toretto and Ghirlandajo .surpassed themselves in the Adoration of the Magi. Cor-reggio needed to do nothing more than his Madonna to become immortal. TheMadonna of the lyily, by Leonardo da Vinci, will kindle the admiration of all ages.Murillo never won greater triumph by his pencil than in his presentation of theHoly Family. But all the galleries of Dresden are forgotten when I think of thesmall room of that gallery containing the Sistine Madonna. Yet all of them werecopies of St. Matthews Madonna, and Lukes Madonna, the inspired Madonna ofthe Old Book, which He had put into our hands when we were infants, and thatwe hope to have under our heads when we die. MANS CRUELTY TO ANIMALS. Behold, in the first place, that onthe first night of Christs life Godhonored the brute creation. You cannotget into that Bethlehem barn withoutgoing past the camels, the mules, thedogs, the oxen.

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