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Title: Finger Posts on the Way of Life

Author: T. S. Arthur

Posting Date: August 14, 2009 [EBook #4587]
Release Date: October, 2003
First Posted: February 12, 2002

Language: English

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FINGER POSTS ON THE WAY OF LIFE.

BY

T. S. ARTHUR.

BOSTON:

PHILADELPHIA:

1853

PREFACE.

OUR title, though savouring of quaintness, is yet in keeping with
the object of this volume. As we press onward in the journey of
life, to each of us the path is new and strange. Often it is rough
and thorny; often it winds through places beset with difficulties
and danger; often the sky is so dark that we can scarcely see the
narrow line upon which our advancing footsteps may rest in safety.
As "Finger-Posts on the Way of Life," pointing the wary traveller in
the right direction, has this little book been written. It does not,
professedly, take the high mission of the preacher; yet, while its
end is to guide in natural life, the author is never unmindful of
the fact that all natural life is for the sake of spiritual life,
and that no one can live well in the true sense, who does not live
for Heaven. He trusts, therefore, that while these "finger-posts"
indicate the path in which to walk safely through the world, they
will point, as well, to the narrow way that leadeth to Life Eternal.

CONTENTS.

SHADOWS FROM A CLOUDED BROW
GENTLE HAND
WILL IT PAY?
THE LAY PREACHER
HOW TO DESTROY A GOOD BUSINESS
THE TWO INVALIDS
MARRYING WELL
BLESSING OF A GOOD DEED
PAYING THE DOCTOR
THE LITTLE BOUND-BOY.
EUTHANASY
THREE SCENES IN THE LIFE OF A WORLDLING
MATCH-MAKING
THE RETURN; OR, WHO IS IT?

SHADOWS FROM A CLOUDED BROW.

A LITTLE thing clouded the brow of Mrs. Abercrombie--a very little
thing. But if she had known how wide the shadows were often
diffused, and how darkly they fell, at times, on some hearts, she
would have striven more earnestly, we may believe,