Identifier: pathwayoflifetow00thom (find matches)
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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han of the Arctic explorerand on the catafalque of great cathedral; written in capitals of azalea and calla-lily, written in musical cadence, written in doxology of great assemblages; writtenon the sculptured door of the family vault, is Victory. Coronal word, emban-nered word. Apocalyptic word, chief word of the triumphal arch under whichconquerors return. THE ABOLITION OF DEATH. The Bastile was a formidable fortress of wrong for a long time, but thecommon people at last laid siege to and took it, and emptied its dungeons.Victory ! Word shouted at CuUoden, and Balaklava, and Blenheim, at Megiddoand Solferino, at Marathon, where the Athenians drove back the Medes; atPoictiers, where Charles Martel broke the ranks of the Saracens; at Salamis,where Themistocles in the great sea-fight confounded the Persians, and at thedoor of the eastern cavern of chiseled rock, where Christ came out through a recessand throttled the King of Terrors, and put him back in the niche from which the f>yr^
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482 THE PATHWAY OF LIFE. Celestial Conqueror had just emerged. Aha ! when the jaws of the eastern mauso-leum took down the black giant, Death was swallowed up in victory. I pro-claim the abolition of death The old antagonist is driven back into mjthology, with all the lore aboutStygian ferry and Charon with oar and boat. Melrose Abbey and KenilworthCastle are no more in ruins than is the sepulchre. We shall have no more to dowith death than we have with the cloak-room at a Governors or Presidents levee.We stop at such cloak-room and leave in charge of a servant our overcoat, ourovershoes, our outward apparel, that we may not be impeded in the brilliant roundof the drawing-room. Well, my readers, when we go out of this world we are going to a Kings ban-quet and to a reception of monarchs, and at the door of the tomb we leave the cloakof flesh and the wrappings with which we meet the storms of this world. At theclose of an earthly reception, under the brush and broom of the porter, the

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