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 . larhabitations. But this shall not be, for whatever else I let go, I hang on to my Bible, whichtells me that the blacksmiths shop shall yet come to its grandest use when thewarrior and the husbandman shall enter it side by side, and the soldier shall throwinto its bank of fires his sword, and the farmer shall pick it up a plowshare, andthe straightest spear shall be bent into a crook at each end, and then cut in
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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 . larhabitations. But this shall not be, for whatever else I let go, I hang on to my Bible, whichtells me that the blacksmiths shop shall yet come to its grandest use when thewarrior and the husbandman shall enter it side by side, and the soldier shall throwinto its bank of fires his sword, and the farmer shall pick it up a plowshare, andthe straightest spear shall be bent into a crook at each end, and then cut in two, and what was one spear shall be two pruning forks. Down with Moloch and upwith Christ! Let no more war-horses eat out of the manger where Jesus was born. Peace ! Forever roll off the sky the black pillars of smoke from the Marengos, and Salamancas, and Borodinos, and Sedans, and Gettysburgs of earth ! And THE PATHWAY OF I, IFE. 439 right after them roll into the heavens the peaceful vapors from the chimneys offarm houses, and asylums, and churches, and capitals of Christian nations, and, asthe sunlight strikes through these vapors they vi^ill write in letters of jet and gold. CRUCIFIXION OF ST. PETER.St. Peter accompanied Paul on his last trip to Rome, and there preached the gospel until the uprisingagainst the Christians, at the instigation of Nero, when he was crucified, head downwards, while the Romanpopulace glutted their bloody vengeance for the burning of the city by destroying thousands of innocentChristians. all over the sky from horizon to zenith: Glory to God in the highest, and on earthpeace, good will to men ! Then let all the men-of-war fire a broadside, and all the forts thunder forth aresounding volley, and the earth be girdled with the cannonade over the finalvictory of the truth. 440 THE PATHWAY OF LIFE. BURNING OF THE WORLD. Oh, come into the Church through Christ, the door—a door more gloriousthan that of the Temple of Hercules, which had two pillars, and