num_pages: 108
description: Excerpt from Fifty Great CartoonsT the brink of Niagara where the mists rise above tons of water which fall two hundred feet below, there is a rainbow seen almost constantly when the sun is shin ing, and within the circle of color some have seen the form of a beautiful 'maiden. One who was in a boat above the falls might see this entrancing vision and drop his oars and gaze rapturously, until, all unconscious, his boat glides over the brink and to destruction. The Christian also is in danger of such a fate. The world offers beauty and pleasure, and in such fascin ating forms that it' takes resolute will to keep from dropping the oars and drifting with the current of temptation and letting the good boat, which would save us, glide over the precipice into sin and into death. So will not we go back from thee; quicken us. And we will call upon thp name. (turn us again.
language: English
title: Fifty Great Cartoons
publisher: Forgotten Books