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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
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ing along fast enough in the retreat, the general jumpedout and took it afoot, and ran till he came to a place where a woman first gave hima drink of milk and then sent a spike through his skull, nailing him to the floor. Sonie of us could tell of what influence upon us has been a wifely ambitionconsecrated to righteousness. I have often been called of God, as I thought, torun into the very teeth of public opinion, and all outsiders with whom I advisedtold me I had better not, it would ruin me and ruin my church, and at the sametime I was receiving nice little letters threatening me with dirk and pistol andpoison if I persisted in attacking certain evils of the day, until the Commissioner ofPolice considered it his duty to take his place in our Sabbath ser\-ices with fortyofficers scattered through the house for the preservation of order, but in my homethere has always been one voice to say: Go ahead, and diverge not an inch fromthe straight line. Who caresif only God is on our side ?
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(i59) i6o THE PATHWAY OF I.IFE. And though sometimes it seemed as if I was going out against 900 ironchariots, I went ahead, cheered by the domestic voice. A man is no better than his wife will let him be. O wives of America, swayyour sceptres of wifely influence for God and good homes ! Do not urge yourhusbands to annex Naboths vineyard to your palace of success, whether right orwrong, le.st the dogs that come out todestroy Nabotli come out also to devour you.Righteousness will pay best in life, will pay best in death, will pay best in thejudgment, will pay best through all eternity. HOME INFLUENCE ON HUSBANDS. In our efforts to have the mother of every household appreciate her influenceover her children we are apt to forget the wifes influence over the husband. Inmany households the influence upon the husband is the only home influence. Ina great multitude of the best and most important and most talented families of theearth there have been no descendants. There is not a child or a

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