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Subject Matter Featured/Illustrated in this Work (General/Partial Only, Please See Full Contents in Main Description Below): Pathway of Life Antique Illustrated Pictorial Reverend Thomas DeWitt Talmage Preacher Writer Victorian Religion Christian Christianity God Jesus Christ Holy Spirit Evangelical Reformer New York City Tabernacle Holy Scripture Family Bible Art History Theology Paintings Sculpture Virtue Ideals Morals Easter Flowers Mortality Sepulchre Symbolism Resurrection Angels Bethlehem Harvest Gleaners Persecution Job Martin Luther Bereavement Vanity Wealth Poverty God’s Kingdom Division of Heaven Julius Caesar Rome Health Wealth Nero Caesar Lycurgus Xerxes Nebuchadnezzar Cleopatra Savior Women Womanhood Occupations Romance Justice Ammonites Jephthah's daughter Robert Burns Betrothal Divorce Queen Elizabeth Ahasuerus' Palace Persia Queen Vashti Goethe Shakespeare Martyrs Galileo Copernicus Ahab Naboth Jezebel Elijah Prophecy Andrew Jackson Joan of Arc Solomon Napoleon Josephine Grandmothers George Muller Isabella Graham Profanity Sinners Attila the Hun Star Wormwood Tyre Ancient Thebes Babylon Jealousy Caligula Columbus Dionysius Jacob Esau Marc Antony Cicero Tiberius Soul Agnostic Agnosticism Clytemnestra Paganism Homer Ossian Milton Alexander Pope Demosthenes Bacon Byron Scott St. Modobert Drunkenness Intemperance Joshua Israel St. Bartholomew Massacre Lady Jane Grey Execution Protestants Santa Anna Gibraltar Stars Planets Shipwreck St. Paul Christmas Waterloo Gettysburg Science American History Amusements Temple of Dagon Samson John Milton John O'Groat Industry Honey Bee Temperance Viking Funeral Secret of Success Ezekiel's Vision Heaven Afterlife Delusions Divination Paul Ephesus The Sea Ocean Ships Vessels War Lepanto Actium Salamis Admiral Farragut Admiral Foote Star-Spangled Banner Statue of Liberty Hunting Nimrod Bow and Arrow Forgiveness Pompeii Mohammed Death Church of Notre Dame Secret Societies Mary Queen of Scots Mormons Anti-Mormon Policy Henry VIII Gustave Dore

THE PATHWAY OF LIFE A Book for the Home, A Blessed Guest at the Fireside. Destined 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. A Series of Matchless Essays Abounding with Beautiful Precepts, and Counsel from a Rich Experience. Teaching How to Attain Success and Honor Among Men, with Practical Lessons Gleaned from Examples of History in Peace and War. Including Sketches, Incidents, and Thrilling Episodes in the Lives of the Mighty Men, Celebrated Women and the Heroes of Martyrdom. With Descriptions of the Most Famous Battles in the World’s History. A Collection of Grand and Splendid thoughts for Fireside Reading, Sacred Reflection, and the Elevation and Happiness of the Home Circle, Leading to Higher and Nobler Lives. By Reverend DeWitt Talmage, D.D., the World’s Most Eloquent Preacher and Writer. Published in 1889 by B.F. Johnson & Co., Richmond, Virginia. 10.5” x 8” decorated cloth hardcover. “Magnificently Illustrated with Nearly Three Hundred Engravings from the Masterpieces of the World, and Superb Color Plates. 576 pages.

Condition: GOOD ANTIQUE CONDITION. This one has become rare in recent years. Exterior as shown in photo, some rubbing at edges and extremities. Inner hinges cracked, text block still well seated. Text is generally clean and complete (some pencil markings). One color plate has wear along the edges. Occasional small edge tears from casual handling. No loose or missing pages. Decent example of this increasingly highly illustrated, hard to find Victorian volume.

Description:

THE PATHWAY OF LIFE is an oversized, handsomely decorated and elaborately illustrated volume built on themes of Christian spirituality, morality, national pride and how to live a long and beautiful life. It is a gorgeous example of a type of book that was very popular during the Victorian era, the subscription book, which people would order in advance of publication.

In many ways, books of this type were the forerunners of today’s “coffee table book.” With their bright gilt and vividly painted covers, they were as much a delight to behold as they were to read. A book like THE PATHWAY OF LIFE would have been proudly and prominently displayed in a Victorian parlor or sitting room as part of the décor. There it could be seen and enjoyed by guests even as it added to the room’s ambiance and attested to the good taste and moral fiber of the family who owned a copy.

The author of THE PATHWAY OF LIFE was Reverend Thomas DeWitt Talmage, whom this book hails as, “The World’s Most Eloquent Preacher and Writer.” He was indeed one of the most prominent religious leaders in the United States during the mid- to late-19th century, equaled as a pulpit orator perhaps only by Henry Ward Beecher. He was a well-known reformer in New York City and was often involved in crusades against vice and crime.

Attending Talmage's sermons became one of the most popular religious experiences of the era. In 1870, his congregation at the Central Presbyterian Church in Brooklyn, New York, built a tabernacle solely to accommodate the large crowds who attended his church services. The building was built over an old church structure then being used as a Sunday School. The demand for his sermons helped with the raising of funds, and construction was completed in only three months. Although the tabernacle had been built to seat large crowds, seating was free of charge and hundreds were turned away every Sunday.

In the later years of his life, Dr. Talmage ceased preaching and devoted himself to editing, writing, and lecturing. At different periods he was editor of the Christian at Work (1873–76), New York; the Advance (1877–79), Chicago; Frank Leslie's Sunday Magazine (1879–89), New York; and the Christian Herald (1890–1902), New York. Each week he was said to have preached to audiences of 8,000 people, and for many years his sermons were published regularly in more than 3,000 journals, through which he was said to reach 25,000,000 readers.

THE PATHWAY OF LIFE is a profusely pictorial volume, illustrated with “three hundred and thirteen gems,” as Dr. Talmage puts it, including full-color plates. Dr. Talmage was a strong believer in the persuasive power of art.

He writes:

Pictures are not only a strong but universal language. The human race is divided into almost as many languages as there are nations, but the pictures may speak to people of all tongues.

What a poor world this would be if it were not for pictures! I refer to your memory and mine when I ask if your knowledge of the Holy Scriptures has not been mightily augmented by the wood-cuts or engravings in the old family Bible, out of which father and mother read, and laid on the table in the old homestead when you were boys and girls. The Bible scenes which we all carry in our minds were not gotten from the Bible typology, but from the Bible pictures.

A blaze of splendor is the pictorial part of this book, an art gallery on the wing. You need not visit New York, or Dresden, or Berlin, or Rome to see the masterpieces, for the best part of them is now, my reader, between your forefinger and thumb. The publishers of this book have ransacked the earth for these three hundred and thirteen gems. No subscription book ever published has had such beautiful pictures. Let me open the door for these queens of art.

The narrative style in the PATHWAY OF LIFE is unique, for like a path, it meanders among many different themes as it leads you to the truths Reverend Talmage wishes you to arrive at. There are 48 individual chapters ranging from Biblical stories, to accounts of historic battles, domestic life, daily business, vices, God and the afterlife, secrets of success and happiness, personal morality and responsibility, the wonders of art and architecture and much, much more. All described in the timeless rhetoric of Dr. Talmage, one of the most famous and eloquent preachers of the 19th century.

The rich pictorial content follows the example of the text and counts among the 313 illustrations many scenes from the Bible, historical incidents, scenes of home and farm life in the Victorian era, pictorial representations of virtues and ideals, romanticized Victorian women, and numerous other themes. This beautiful book also contains a series of full-page, full-color plates.

It is difficult to define a book of this type as it embraces so many facets of life in order to deliver its multi-layered message. For that reason I have included some helpful details below, starting with a detailed summary of the book’s contents, followed by a generous sampling of the more than 300 incredible illustrations featured in this stunning antique volume.

I hope you will take a few moments to have a look.

Contents Are:

CHAPTER ONE ~ EASTER MORNING: The Angels Of the Grass * John Bunyan, the dreamer * Sermon of the lily * The lily family * A banquet on Nightingale's tongues * Evangels of the sky * Flowers for the bridal day * Dear memories * Flowers for the dead * Old Mortality among the gravestones * The floral gospel * The sepulchre in the garden * Religious symbolism * Death of the flowers * Christ the rose and the lily * Emblems of the Resurrection * Bursting the sepulchre door * Resurrection morn * The last sleep * The dead aroused * The procession of immortals

CHAPTER TWO ~ BLESSINGS IN ADVERSITY: Harvest Time in Bethlehem * The gleaners * Effects of trouble * The sweetness of sorrow * Adversity the great educator * Beside the death-bed * A winged horse * Tried by the fires of persecution * The royalty of friendship * Job's troubles * Destruction of reputations * Faithfulness of the Marys and of Ruth * Darkness and dawn * The harvest field of God's mercy * Drinking the gall * The scoffers at Noah * Persecutors of Christ * Little incidents that change lives * Martin Luther * Female industry * Greatness from small beginnings

CHAPTER THREE ~ THE VALUE OF BEREAVEMENTS: The Scourging of Jesus * Vinegar for the Dying Christ * Bitter sweet * The worm in Solomon's staff * What is fame? * The great sympathizer * The sourness of pain * To whom shall be given the brightest crowns? * The cup of bitterness * The vanity of wealth and of genius * Goldsmith's poverty * The poverty of Jesus * The crape on the door * The trinkets that will be used no more * Christ in grief * Wailing for Lazarus * The hour of death * The season of everlasting love * Taking the sorrows of the world * Herschel, the astronomer * Nana Sahib and his precious ruby

CHAPTER FOUR ~ CHRIST'S KINGDOM ON EARTH: Christians Devoured by Lions * Division of the earth * Evangelization of the world * Greenland once a blooming garden * All flowers descended from the Arctic region * Deserts to be reclaimed * A new apportionment * What of certain buildings? * Imported abominations * Livingstone in Africa * The richness of China * Christian farmers * Julius Caesar and King Juba * The division of heaven * Apostolic residences in the skies * Meetings in heaven * Dividing the spoils * As ye sow, so shall ye reap * Squeezing into heaven * Crowns for the patient invalid * The twelve gates * The last day * Queen Victoria distributing the Crimean prizes * The final reward * Medals for bravery * A magnificent pageant of Roman victors * Procession of the redeemed

CHAPTER FIVE ~ SWEET CONTENT: The Hegira of the Rich * Our fashionable summer resorts * The luxury of health * Napoleon and his gout * Original and the copy * God's glory in the skies and pictures on canvas * Cheerful in poverty * An old apple woman * Disappointments in Wall street * Nero growling on his throne * A song from the wreck * Where ambition sleeps * Weeds cover the gravestone * Egyptian guano * Departed greatness * Caesar, Lycurgus, Xerxes, Nebuchadnezzar, Cleopatra, Cromwell, the czars and kings of history * The robe of a Saviour's love * The rest that shall be ours * I am the resurrection

CHAPTER SIX ~ TO YOUNG WOMEN: The True Position of Woman * Man's better part * Drones that afflict society * Unhappy marriages * The dove that married a vulture * The hand of the inebriate * Sacrifices to rum and war * Why so many unmarried women * Masculine companionship not necessary to happiness * The science of self-support * False dependence * Appropriate occupations * Female employments * How to reach the top * Romantic ideas * Apprenticeships necessary * Two sad sights * Broken vessels * Woman's wages to increase * Justice to women * Women who have won their way * Daughters of the regiment

CHAPTER SEVEN ~ TO THE WOMEN OF AMERICA: The Drunken Jabal * An insult to David * Abigail, the beautiful * The courtship of Nabal * A June morning smiling on a March squall * An every-day tragedy * Mme. Roland, of history, and her sad death * Lengthening the average of human life * Prayer in lordly castles * Great men as evangelists * Our literary companions * A picture from life * Rich but profligate * The master and slave * A broken heart * A prisoner in a gilded castle * Woe, woe * Two ducal palaces * Villains to be expurgated and fumigated * An unclean foreign dignitary * The drunken bridegroom * A royal marriage * Cleopatra's ruse to see Caesar * Behold the bridegroom

CHAPTER EIGHT ~ WOUNDED LOVE: General Teplltliah's Vow * His defeat of the Ammonites * Meeting with his daughter * A wave of sorrow and the sting of regret * The sacrifice of Jephthah's daughter * Broken promises * Victims to false vows * The sacredness of a promise * The family of furies * Exceptional cases * Marriage of Robert Burns * The recreant captain * Betrothal a solemn act * Infamies of history * No excuse for making mistakes * Insincerity * Divorce a last resort * Make the best of a bad bargain * Incompatibility * The patience of Job * What a wife can do * A brave engineer * Death of Queen Elizabeth

CHAPTER NINE ~ DOMINION OF FASHION: True Accomplishments * Sin of rudeness * Ancient Scythians * Value of a crest * Vanity in dress * Poor butterflies * Revelations of high life * Physical disease, mental imbecility and spiritual withering * Harvest of death * Tumbling into ruin * Shadows of gravestones upon finest silk * Tumult of the last day * Fashion in church * Death of the vain man * A wandering star * Close of a life of fashion * Death-beds of noted Christian women * Queen Elizabeth and King Ferdinand

CHAPTER TEN ~ TO THE FEMALE TEACHER: Among the Splendors of Ahasuerus' Palace * The gathered magnificence of Persia * The gleaming glories of Shushan * The revelry of inebriated feasters * Queen Vashti and the Princesses of Persia * Mandate of the King * Vashti's disobedience * Vashti the sacrifice * The glory of a true woman * The great female heroes of history * A tribute to female teachers * Father is dead * Thrown on her own resources * A teacher's life * A noble old school-marm * Anecdote of Scarron * Goethe and Shakespeare's ideas of women * Heroines of the two great poets * Vashti the veiled * Great women of history * Women clothed in a hurricane of millinery * "Vashti has lost her veil" * The injustice of our laws * Discriminations against women * Can't wait for female suffrage * Vashti, the outcast * Martyrs to duty * Burning of the " Prairie Belle " * The scoffers at Galileo * Copernicus reviled * Martyrdom of the reformers * The frozen crew on duty * An incident in the siege of Rome

CHAPTER ELEVEN ~ AHAB AND JEZEBEL: Ahab Covets Naboth's Vineyard * Wicked Jezebel's advice * The stoning of Naboth * Elijah's prophecy * Horrible fate of Ahab and his queen * The result of a wife's bad advice * The dogs devour Jezebel * Wifely ambition * Illustrious examples of wifely devotion * Judith slays Holofernes * The wife of Andrew Jackson * The mother of Washington * Pliny's guardian spirit * Testimonies to wifely virtues * Thomas Carlyle and his neglected wife * The bulls and bears of Wall street * American politics * Ruined by his wife's social ambition * Deborah's Shibboleth * In the teeth of public opinion * Home influence on husbands * Great men who have left no descendants * The siege of Troves * Execution of Joan d'Arc * Faithful wives' reward * Consecrated women

CHAPTER TWELVE ~ POSITION IN LIFE: An Important Question * A popular error * Our joys ever increasing * Greenough, the artist, happy in his poverty * Solomon's vexations * The metaphor of a grain of corn * Mistakes about happiness * Little satisfaction in social position * Napoleon and Josephine * A fine prospect * A sad awakening from a joyous dream * Observation of a rich English lord * Usefulness in home circles * Gathering wrinkles * Bitter repentance * Ghastly memories * Personal charms of women * The hoof-marks of time * An affecting scene in a hospital * The wounded drummer boy's message * Abominable fashions * The robe of righteousness * Good night to tears and poverty * Death of the orphan * Good morning in heaven

CHAPTER THIRTEEN ~ GRANDMOTHER: Timothy's Good Grandmother * Margaret, the mother of criminals * Good women whose tombstones mark a gracious influence * Old times * Women of the last century * Volney's opinion of American women in 1796 * Depreciating our grandmothers * The march of improvement * Blessed grandmother Lois * A picture gallery of wrinkled faces * Maternal influence * The ocean of eternity into which the streams of life empty * Rolling on and forever * Reckoning the end of time * A beautiful tradition * Honesty in our care of children * -Good examples * George Muller, the philanthropist * A familiar sight explained * Isabella Graham's letter to God * Seeking the beloved face in heaven * My grandmother * Respect for old age * The golden city * The Song Echoes in our Hearts * Music in the household * The empty cradle * Bitter desolation * Death of a child * The old man's song * The old meeting-house * Doherty’s Description * The resurrected hymn * The night song * The night of trouble * "Jesus, Lover of My Soul " * Songs for the sick * For the desolate heart * For the soldier in camp * All tongues in praise * The everlasting song * The harvest song * A sailor's song * Millions of little ones before the throne * Sacrifice of the innocents * The great singers of history * The choir of heaven * Listening to the music of angels * Henry V. at Agincourt

CHAPTER FOURTEEN ~ PROFANITY: The Story of Job * His afflictions and vexations * Profanity everywhere * A traveller's memoranda * Youthful sinners * No manliness in swearing * Where children learn to swear * How the habit begins * The vocabulary of good and more expressive words * No excuse for using vile language * Profanity on the increase * Kissing the book * Irreverence of the oath * How I overcame the habit * Profanity accurses this life * A swearer struck dead * Blasphemers punished * Injustice to God * End of sin and crime * A storm on the mountain * Stemming the tide * Destruction of the Israelites

CHAPTER FIFTEEN ~ A FALLING STAR: Attila, King of the Huns * The star wormwood * Legend of the wounded heifer * The scourge of God * Overrunning the east with 700,000 followers * A ttila's death * The brilliancy of his armor * Slain by his bride * Buried in three coffins, of iron, silver and gold * The bitterness in our lives * Destruction of great cities * The end of Tyre and of ancient Thebes * Relics of former splendors * Why Babylon fell * Incomparable magnificence * The land of dazzling beauty now a waste of desolation * Where the nation's safety lies * Results of drunkenness and licentiousness * The falling star

CHAPTER SIXTEEN ~ JEALOUSY: The Haggard, Furious and Diabolical Sin * Grief at the superiority of others * The first case of jealousy * Jealousy of Caligula * Spanish courtiers jealous of Columbus * Crimes of Dionysius * Jacob and Esau * Antony against Cicero * Infamy of Tiberius * Jealousy of Napoleon * The Prodigal Son * A passion that annoys the world * Jealousy of nations * Efforts to depreciate great men * Garfield's death-bed * Jealousy in the clerical and all other professions * Like cutting a roasted ox * Dissecting a character * Punishment of Albert Barnes * Some good counsel * The Duke of Danzig * A substitute * How Jesus answered His accusers * Timothy Poland's poem

CHAPTER SEVENTEEN ~ THE SOUL: The World a Grand Property * Exquisite descriptions of God's beautiful creations * The heart of the world a burning coal * Geologists and astronomers searching out God's secrets * Apples of ashes * Troubles of great men * How to measure a man's property * The undertaker called in * The soul, its delicacy, and not to be repaired * The value of a soul * The victor crowned * A great diamond * A procession of the ages * Story of an heroic sailor * Vicarious suffering

CHAPTER EIGHTEEN ~ AGNOSTICISM: Solar Eclipse at the Destruction of Jernsalem * The archangels of malice * Destruction of the sun * Terrible results * The world a glacier * Infidelity belongs to tragedy * The degradation of womanhood * The fury of a Clytemnestra * Women in Christianity and Paganism * The fear of Punishment * A voice crying, "There is no hell !" * Bible restraints * As the Infidels would have it * The army of atheists * Hewing down the Cross * Desecration of sacred shrines * A nefarious plot * Obliteration of Great works * The world a mad-house, a lazaretto and a pandemonium * Stand back from the chasm * The sun that shot out like an electric spark from God's finger * Christianity to capture the world

CHAPTER NINETEEN ~ MARVELS OF GENIUS: Demolition of the Assyrian Host * The lame must do their duty * The blind poets, Homer, Ossian and Milton * Prescott, the historian * Alexander Pope's infirmity * The afflictions of Demosthenes, Bacon, Byron and Scott * Columbus and Ferguson * The great invalids * The deaf and dumb * Legend of St. Modobert * The toilers, and the rejected of men * A lame old man * A good deed abundantly blessed * The letter that was never posted * Emerging from difficulties * What workingmen have done * Great engineering feats * Sabbath-school teachers * Saving a little child * The royal family * The dying pilot * In the harbor

CHAPTER TWENTY ~ DRUNKENNESS: Saturday Afternoon Closing * How the poor man may become a capitalist * Expenditures for rum * A dreadful showing * Effects of liquor on the system * Abstainers healthier than drinkers * A Russian inspection * Saturday afternoons free but sober

CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE ~ GENERAL JOSHUA: The Siege of Ai * Joshua's strategy * Capture of the city * About face and charge * Cheer for the triumphs of Israel * Victorious retreat * What are you reading ? * -St. Bartholomew massacre * Execution of Lady Jane Grey * Persecution of the Protestants * Jesus of the ages * Santa Anna's retreat * The powers of darkness * Triumph of the wicked * Destruction of the wicked * Importance of taking good aim * The bravery that confronts steel and bullet * Parade soldiers * Which side are you on?

CHAPTER TWENTY-TWO ~ CONSTELLATIONS OF THE REDEEMED: Every Man has a Thousand Branches * The force of evil influence * How a Community was changed by good example * The swift feet of prayer * An incident of the Mexican War * Prayer swifter than electricity * George Miiller's efficacious prayer * How to pray * The resources of the Lord * Capture of Gibraltar * Christian bombardment * Luminosity of the planets * A tour of redemption * Like the stars * Graves of the unknown * The solar system likened to a company of children * Galaxy of joy * Flight of worlds * Measuring the planets * A glory that never fades * Burial of the stars * Cohorts tumbling out of heaven

CHAPTER TWENTY-THREE ~ HOW TO PROLONG LIFE: Religion Associated with Sick Beds and Graveyards * The saving health of all nations * Remarkable longevity * Mere dwarfs * Distinguished descendants of the African race * Curiosities of the body * Paul in need of an overcoat * Physical health * Body and soul Siamese twins * Dead from excitement * Upholstery of the midnight heavens * The human body is God's watch * Dissipations that destroy health * Religion promotive of longevity * Byron his own Mazeppa * Poe putting the raven in his soul * Napoleon killed by a snuff-box * Worry and trouble * God rich enough to provide for all our wants * A beautiful sickness * A wound that was the badge of honor * Frederick Frelinghuysen * Comforting assurances * A series of experiments * The sacrifice to accept * All things shall be given to the righteous

CHAPTER TWENTY-FOUR ~ A SHIPWRECK: A Memorable Storm on the Mediterranean * Shipwreck of Paul * Destruction of the vessel * Escape of the crew * Thank God, all are here * The great Gospel ship * Creeds and articles of faith * The Andover controversy * Take to the plank * Not only faith, but good works necessary to salvation * One who doesn't believe in hell * Another who condemns revivals * Settling difficulties * Believe in something * Nelson's blind eye * Vicarious suffering * Lost at sea trying to save others * Come in on the Cross * Once a skeptic * Death-bed scenes

CHAPTER TWENTY-FIVE ~ CHRISTMAS: The Ages Cry for a Christ * The most poetic figure of the centuries * The coming of Christ * Man's cruelty to animals * Jesus cradled among the speechless animals * A plea for humane treatment * The birth of Christ * Honoring childhood * Not only a child, but an immortal * ;A recess in heaven * How a child decided Waterloo * How a child decided Gettysburg * Science honored * Great men who are Christians * The fields honored * Distinguished men of American history * The mother * Artists whose ideals are found in their mothers * The death of mother * We are coming * Calm land beyond the sea

CHAPTER TWENTY-SIX ~ AMUSEMENTS: In the Temple of Dagon * Samson, the blind giant * Pulling down the temple upon his tormentors * Sinful amusements * The world for God's own children * Proper recreation * Cultivation of the voice and of music * Raising up the depressed soul * How Waterloo was won * The gymnasium commended * Effects of food upon the body * Martin Luther mighty in mind and body * Parlor games commended * Bounding health * Out-door sports * The pleasure and healthfulness of doing good * Cheerful looks and words * Moravian missionaries * Result of sinful amusement * A wasted life * Prophesying death

CHAPTER TWENTY-SEVEN ~ CHILDREN: Judge Eli and His Two Bad Boys * Receipt of ill news * Death of the two sons and a fatal shock to Eli * An all-conquering army * An incident of the war between Frederick II. and Maria Theresa * The boy of to-day to be ruler of the future * A shield of insufferable splendor * Errors in the training of children * John Milton's domestic blunders * The drudgery enforced on his daughters * A cruel father * John O'Groat's eccentricity * The family scapegoat * Dangers of over-indulgence * Necessity of studying a child's disposition * Adapting yourself to requirements * Godls hints to parents * Treasures in a shattered casket * Religious restraint essential * Suppression of childish sportfulness * Let them romp * Study and play * The beauty of early piety * The dying mother's request

CHAPTER TWENTY-EIGHT ~ JESUS: Are the Planets Inhabited? * Proofs that they are * A glimpse of heaven * Gardens in perpetual bloom * What is death ? * The wealth of the prince * Solomon's riches -A fallen world * Christ's arrival on earth * His great poverty * A chilling reception * Pompey's glory * Treading the wine-press alone * Cleopatra's banquet * The grace of God * Story of the old Scotchman * Anecdote of Artaxerxes * The seven wise men of Greece * An apothegm for each

CHAPTER TWENTY-NINE ~ CONCORD AND DISCORD: Laying of the Corner-Stone * Svmphonies of nature * A musical portfolio * The harp-string broken * Infirmities of society * A shipwreck of harmonies * Svmbolisms of nations * Fond of contention * The Devil's sonata * A singular dream * Anecdote of Bach * Moral discord * The Dusseldorf jubilee * The cost of war * Overture of the morning stars * Mozart's greatest composition * An instrument to attune the world * The anvil chorus * Compass of the human voice * A new song * The Great Peace Jubilee in Boston * A thrilling incident * Parepa Rosa's Star-Spangled Banner

CHAPTER THIRTY ~ FORBIDDEN HONEY: Ingenuity of the Honey Bee * Celebration of the bee in fable * Some wonderful facts * The forbidden honey * Jonathan's disobedience * Pernicious literature * Corrupt influence of bad books * Filling life with husks and cinders * Good books * The false honey of stimulants * Recipes for curing the drunken habit * Neetmok * Ominous names of intoxicants * False security * Infatuation for strong drink * The gamester's indulgence * Faro and card playing * Stock gambling * Victims of Wall street * Fatal accident * Seek only the honey of heaven * The ambrosia of life * Fuueral of a Norse king * End of the Poet Shelley

CHAPTER THIRTY-ONE ~ THE SECRET OF SUCCESS: Nothing can Keep a Good Man Down * The success of Joseph * Chrysostom's brave answer to Eudoxia * Monuments of the Christian religion * An unfair comparison * Persecutions bring victories * The fires of the stake * Crime will out * The sale of Joseph * Saul's cupidity discovered * Easier to sin than to escape the consequences * All events linked together * A small incident that defeated Napoleon's Egyptian expedition * God's plans beyond our comprehension * Defeats and victories are twin brothers * Anecdote of Dr. Kennedy * Every famine has a storehouse

CHAPTER THIRTY-TWO ~ ROYAL WOMANHOOD: The Imperial Character of a Good Woman * The coronation of women * The widow's son * The ministers of home * A hard death * The blessed home * Woman's heroism * Friends of the poor * Dangerous fruit * God protects the charitable * Helen Chalmers among the poor * Soliciting charities * Tell your troubles to your wife * A friend in every emergency * Woman's opportunity * Rest in heaven * Winning the crown

CHAPTER THIRTY-THREE ~ EMPLOYMENTS IN HEAVEN: Ezekiel's Vision of Heaven * What are our departed friends doing? * Effects of conversion * How to determine the occupations in heaven * Surfeited with good things * Continuing our trades and professions * The celestial art gallery * The soul shall sing * Musical instruments of heaven * An anecdote of Haydn * The church militant * The mathematics of heaven * Brave spirits who sought to reach the North Pole * Astronomers and chemists in celestial inquiry * Authors in heaven * A wonderful place to visit * Meeting with noted people * The Scotch Covenanters * A place of perpetual love * The tombstone the starting-post * The cathedral bell of heaven * A dream of heaven * Home! Home! Home!

CHAPTER THIRTY-FOUR ~ DELUSIONS: Divination to Find the Will of God * Two modes practised in Babylon * Oracles and Sibyls * The Delphic oracle * An impostor in New York * Is Christianity a delusion ? * Anecdote of Admiral Farragut * Swaying noble intellects * Testimonies of great men * The death-bed filled with happy anticipations * "Mother, catch me, I am coming" * A sustaining belief * Last words of dying Christians * A glorious delusion * The reclaimed drunkard * Some rich fools

CHAPTER THIRTY-FIVE ~ BOOKS: Paul in Ephesus * A big bonfire of bad books * A great agency for good or bad * The printing-press * Pernicious literature filling our jails and poor-houses * The tree of life and of death * Books that are good * Baleful novels * The truly great novelists * Moral and physical effect * A woman who devotes her time to novels * Great evils from small causes * Torn by a leopard * Corrupting the imagination * A terrible curse * The clock strikes midnight * A spectre of the night * Make a bonfire of bad books

CHAPTER THIRTY-SIX ~ PILLARS OF SMOKE: The Architecture of the Smoke * Beautiful comparisons * Martyrdoms and persecutions * Catholics and Protestants alike practise inhumanities * Intolerance of both * Other persecutions * Horrible atrocities in the name of religion * Groans of the martyrs * Has persecution ceased? * A complaint from the theatres * A terrible vengeance * A beautiful symbol * The gates of the church * The smoke of peace * Lincoln's wise proposition * The horrors of war * Down with Moloch * Burning of the world

CHAPTER THIRTY-SEVEN ~ HEROES OF THE SEA: Behold the Ships * Our war vessels * Memorable sea fights * The neglected sailor * The fight of Lepanto * Battle of Actium * And of Salamis * Wonderful things accomplished during our late war * Deeds of naval heroes * The ocean cemetery * From picturesque display to death * Sinking of the Weehawken * Keep your flag flying * Four years of martyrdom * A review of three great conflicts * Epigrammatic messages * Death of Farragut * Conversion of Admiral Foote

CHAPTER THIRTY-EIGHT ~ WARS OF THE AGES: Military Science Set forth in the Bible * Early weapons of warfare * Fighting from the backs of elephants * Armed chariots * The noise of advancing hosts * Foreign nations jealous of us * A sacrifice for my country * Contrast 1862 with 1888 * The " Star-Spangled Banner " and "Way Down South in Dixie " * War contrasted with peace * The Statue of Liberty * The rivalry of commerce * Off for the war * Thrilling scenes and heart-burnings * Thanksgiving day in camp * News from the battle * Harrowing sobs and agonies * Glorious contrasts * The dove of peace * Progress in North and South * Buried heroes * The number that have fallen in battle

CHAPTER THIRTY-NINE ~ A MIGHTY HUNTER: Hunting as a Sport * Formerly it was to destroy dangerous wild beasts * Nimrod, the mighty hunter * An affecting story * Archers of olden times * Battles fought with the long bow * Arrows from wood of the Cross * In the armory of the Earl of Pembroke * The men who have bravely faced danger * The monster of intemperance * The Church of God * The Bengal tiger of drunkenness * Great tun of Heidelberg * A death bed repentance * A singular vision * Visited by the spirit of his dead mother * An inexpressibly sad scene * Five acts of a tragedy * A grand hunt in the India jungles * Domitian's skill as an archer * The sinner's death-trap * Roland the trumpeter * A marvellous tomb

CHAPTER FORTY ~ FORGIVENESS: Pillow of the Dying Day * Glorious sunset * Life's exasperations * Misrepresentations and persecutions * An anecdote of Henderson * A faith cure * A boy whose vitals were eaten by a fox * Vindictiveness of Nebuchadnezzar's son * Murder of the young princes * Shakespeare's genius * Magnanimity of Aristippus * The duty * Ruins of Pompeii * A child's trustfulness in its father * A provider and defender * Mohammed's idea of power * The clock of earthly existence * The sunset of earth is the sunrise of heaven

CHAPTER FORTY-ONE ~ THE BLACK GIANT: Easter Mornings of the World * The royal court of the Sabbaths * The black giant * Invading every domicile with the pestilence of death * Christ the good Physician * The abolition of death * At a king's banquet * Reconstruction of the body * Cremation may become necessary * God shall raise the dead * Resurrection of seed life * Seeds from the mummy pits of Egypt * The apparent death and resurrection of Rev. Win. Tenneut * Evidence of a final resurrection * The Olympic games * Meeting of body and soul * A cruel heathen * Emptied graves

CHAPTER FORTY-TWO ~ PALACES OF SPLENDOR: The Church of Notre Dame * Magnificent relics there preserved * Jewelled raiment of kings and queens * The odors of Christ's garments * Exquisite comparisons * Ivory palaces * Solomon's splendors * Healing all ills * Claiming the flowers of earth for transplanting in the eternal garden * Open your gates for a new soul to come in

CHAPTER FORTY-THREE ~ SECRET SOCIETIES: " Discover not a Secret to Another " * Why Solomon gave this injunction * People who can't keep their mouths closed * Gossip in Solomon's household * Effects of a secret divulged and of a secret kept * Associations for goodly purposes commended * The necessity of secrecy * Resistance to monopoly * Mary, Queen of Scots * Good accomplished by secret societies * Sacrificing the home * Ruined by social excesses * The two roads * A rope that reaches to heaven

CHAPTER FORTY-FOUR ~ A STAIN ON THE ESCUTCHEON: National Parties * Need of an Anti-Mormon policy * The great lazaretto in the West * Recruited from foreign shores * The demand of the age * Extirpation by the sword recommended * Bigamy on a colossal scale * Inducing a laxity in the marital relation * Divorce made easy * Protect the emigrants * Intermarriage of nationalities * The Constitution and the Bible to be studied * A recognition of God * Anarchy condemned * No dependence in political promises * Loyalty to God * The voice of prayer * A handclasp round the world

CHAPTER FORTY-FIVE ~ RESPONSIBILITY OF RULERS: Baseness of Henry VIII. * The sinners of the world enthroned * Our land blessed with good men * David reproved by Nathan * Incompetency of officials * Ignorance elevated to place * Drunkenness in the halls of legislation * Slain by strong drink * Examples of the evils that have come upon our country through intoxication * A cry from the land * God's indignation * Bribery and corruption * How bills are passed * Revolution ahead * Your duty to your country * God save the United States!

CHAPTER FORTY-SIX ~ GOD'S CIRCLE: The Universe Made on the Plan of a Circle * Shapes in nature * Greatness of the past * Noah's ark * Centuries behind old artists * Relics from an exhumed English city * The world swinging in a circle * Ezekiel's wheel * The mutations of time * Building of the pyramids * Effects of goodly influence never destroyed * Thy sins will discover you * Disrespect to parents * A shocking illustration * Influence of Voltaire and Marat * A glad theory * Christ the centre of the circle

CHAPTER FORTY-SEVEN ~ A PURPOSELESS LIFE: Idolatry of the Ancients * He feedeth on ashes * Lady Jane Grey and other unfortunates * The vanity of riches * The voluptuaries of history * A wasted life * Infidelity * The hunger of restlessness * What is wealth ? * Help cometh not from this world * Anecdote of a rich merchant * The faithful watch-dog * The end of the world * The confiding murderer

CHAPTER FORTY-EIGHT ~ SMALL THINGS: The Eye of the East * Paul's persecution of the Christians * His conversion * Pursued by the mob * Refuge on the housetop * The escape * An incident in John Wesley's life * How Pitcairn Island was reclaimed * The manger in Bethlehem * Miriam's rejoicing * In a storm at sea * Success at last * John in the wilderness * Holding the rope * A nail nearly wrecks a Cunarder * The Spanish inquisition * Paul's prayer * Amen

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