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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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the wickedness of men has filled with pollu-tion and shame ? Shall we mire in impurity and chase fantastic Will-o -the-wispsacross the swamps, when we might walk in the blooming gardens of God? Oh,no ! For the sake of our present and everlasting welfare we must make an intelli-gent and Christian choice. BOOKS THAT ARE GOOD. Standing, as we do, chin-deep in fictitious literature, the first question thatmany of the young people are asking me is: Shall we read novels? I reply:There are novels that are pure, good. Christian, elevating to the heart, andennobling to the life. But I have still further to say that I believe that ninety-nine THE PATHWAY OF UFE. 427 out of the hundred novels in this day are baleful and destructive in the. lastdegree. A pure work of fiction is history and poetry combined. It is a historyof things around us, with the licenses and the assumed names of poetry. Theworld can never pay the debt which it owes to such fictitious writers as Hawthorne piiipw^^^^^^^^^^^^^
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THE WAYWARD DAUGHTER.—Frow the Paiuting by H. Hehnick. and McKenzie, and Landor and Hunt, and Arthur and Marion Harland, andothers whose names are familiar to all. The follies of high life were never betterexposed than by Miss Edgeworth. The memories of the past were never morefaithfully embalmed than in the writings of Walter Scott. Coopers novels are 428 THE PATHWAY OF LIFE. healthfully redolent with the breath of the seaweed, and the air of the Americanforest. Charles Kingsley has smitten the morbidity of the world, and led a greatmany to appreciate the poetry of sound health, strong muscles, and fresh air.Thackeray did a grand work in caricaturing the pretenders to gentility and highblood. Dickens has built his own monument in his books, which are an everlast-ing plea for the poor, and the anathema of injustice. Now, I say, books like these, read at right times, and read in right propor-tion with other books, cannot help but be ennobling and purifying; but alas forthe loathsome

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