The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1875-06-10

reading matter Of great ipicres., the tu'
ture forecast by prophets and the Lord OF
prophets may properly have a Place. Owe
all the cloud of Witnesses, the shining
OF cs, the saints in light, the great arch
angel should find aplace. Some Of these
are partially represented. The missionary
! literature is as well represented as any
/ other, and this promises to furnish choice
and profitable reading us that great cause
advar ces.
The scriptures of course hold a con-
spicuous place. 1t is tie Book. ltclassi-
fies like its author with no other 1t is
the central light till the light given here,
like the light of the world is merged IN
the light of t. G great white throne. All
our literature should shine in this great
light. Were going TO select Sunday
| Schcol library, would 90 with the Bible,
and Would look above, and cast my eyes
far down the ages and having called up
the saved and lost before my mind, say
am here to selec literature for earth and
| heaven blended III one institution, select
| for young and old, select to suit the great
commission. ! select for the best inter-
ests of time and eternity. We are going
to heaven one and all or we shall make Il
sad failure Some of the libraries have
| been relieved of Objectionable works, and
vet there is work OF expurgation called for.
One of the reasons why we have occasion
to complain is that we have not let our
wants be known, and writers and book
men have written and published to meet
the demand as they understood it. If we
want novels here they are. Book men
will give two hundred dollars for a love
story if Sunday Schools will buy it. We
are all in fault. But the time of our ignor-
ancc is past and we are now called to re-
pcntance. We should have a standard;
we may be slow in coming to the mark,
vet there is profit in having standard
before us. am asked what do you want?
Well, want ideas, give me at times a
moral carthqu l<e, slant lightning, clouds
with rain, sunshine, thought, principles,
facts, logic, something for spirit to feed
upon, something to rouse me to think vast
thoughts, to lift me above dull mortality.
But sir YOU are upon Sunday School
Literature, do you want the elements OF
heaven and earth and he'll flashing upon
the minds of the Young? yes, | am will
ing to make them all feel they are on en-
chanted ground, on earth where the Sa-
vor trod and taught, and wept, and died,
and where with heart and voice they shout
Hos anna to tie Oh If David. Would you
over shadow us with a dark cloud? No,
| would introduce Il literature that will
| elevate above the dark, where the sun
never sets. If thoughts of Christ will
spoil our joys they ought to be spoiled.
If the spirit that moved on the face of the
! deep were t. draw aside the curtain and
reveal the celestial city and its gloritied
ones to our immortal gaze, all the inStitu-
! tions that would not bear the revelation
and blush at the sight ought to be troubl, d.
We shall yet have a literature that will
! drive folly and infdehty as the sun dis
poses of darkness, / am not suggesting
for other departments. The Sunday
School is peculiar. 1t has a peculiar day
and peculiar characteristics and work
of wide significance, and its faith, hope
and charity opens the grand panorama
beyond the dispensa'ien of time. The
and gather his people from the foul
winds, from the uttermost parts of the
earth to the uttermost parts of heaven.
7. MORE,