The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1875-01-04

sne H. hatr dishevell00s c0uneouAnce vacant.
at midnight over the late OF s0ne unfortunate
lover. In the daytime, when she osgnt TO be busy.
she stares by the half-hOur ct notning. biting her
hnger nails into the quick. The carpet that was
pain before win be palmer after wadinx through
sea nails Of Your co os
paniOn will be more unattracttve than ever. now
that you have walked in the romance through
parks or with blooming prince5se5, or lOunged In
the ar,or with the polished desperate. on, those
novei-readers Ill mean those people who read
aud their mental pabuum. They are unified for
this life which 10 tremendous discipline. They
they U
ntted for the lie where everything we gain we
achieve by hard, long ICON lnued and exhaustive
work. Again, l charge you to abstain from oil
those books winch. while they nave some good
things about them, have also an admixture OF
which let's the small particles Of gold tall through,
but keeps the great cnders. Once IN q while
amid steel and brass nllngs, gathers up tho steel
and repes the brass. But 1t is generally Just the
opposite yoa attempt to ppnss through
viii get more burrs than blackberries.
You cannot AFFORD TO read . bad book,
as many DO, you pry into an evl book your curt
osity Is as dangerous as that OF the man who
so see Mona up or
you to stand or rom all those books which cor.
rupt the imaginstion and inaame the passions. I
do not refer TO that kind OF BOOK which
THE VILLAIN HAS UN DER HIS COAT,
waiting for the scn0o to get out, and then looking
around tie block, offers the book TO your SON on
literature, but that which evades the law and
comes out in polished style, and, with acute
plot sounds the tocsln that rouses up all
the baser passions OF the soul Years ago
under the assumed name OF George sand" She
smokes cigars. she wears gentlemen's apparel.
WITH S'sps style Un srusn eoquena mgssy cr is
gloom; horrible for Its unchasty; glowing for It's
verbiage; VIVID for ITS portraiture; damning In
homes OF the world an evil that has not even begun
to relent, and she has ner cOpylsts In oil lands.
decent, crime attractive and hypocrisy nobiei
Cursed be the books That swarm with h0ertlnes
and aesperadoes5;who MAKE the brains Of the
distribute them, snail % cut to pieces, { DOT at
last by the hail OF DIv.ne vengeance.
which shall sweep to the lowest pis OF
escape in tins world you viii be iOund al last, I'M
der the hool Of eternal caiamlsles, and you Will oe
chained TO the rock. and you will have tue vui-
whom en you AVE destroyed viii cone around to
torment you and to scatter Goals OF Jury upon your
head and rejoloe etel naiy in the GU cry OF our
pam and the howl Of your damnaton. consider
that tho
LASCIvIoUs PICTORIAL LITERATURE
OF the day is tremendous for ruin. Fnere Is no one
who can like good PICTURES better than do. Fine
paintings are the arstOcracy OF art; engraving is
bhc uculOCTaCJ VI dIt-duu lOVo w bco VIC kVOu
pct0rlals scattered through the rail trains and in
tue housea but obscene pictOrials, lasctvOuS pct0
rails, such as are flooding our great cities, these
are damnable The queen Uf death holds nightly
banquet and unclean plctoriil5 are the printed
invitations to her guests. Alas, that the lair brow
oil America should be blOtched with such plague
spot, ana that reiOrmers and phIian pistS,
bOtnerlng themselves about smaller evils 10 not
ra.ye their voice against thls OverwnelMinA ma
tional calamity. CHERISH good bOOks and news
papers and beware OF bad ones. One column may
save your soul one paragraph may ruin IL. The
reverend speaker then urged his hearers 10 cast
from thoir libraries all Objectionable books and
plctOrals that might perchance have iound
place IN their collections.
Mr.. Tamage announced that on Sunday next he
would talk upon tine subject OF the GOd.defying
posed to plough 0tner burrows in the field Oi dis.
course upon which be had entered. Mr. Taimage
alluded 10 MIR. Vandenh0n who mad taken pains to
lecture in public about him ar. Talmage). He SAID
"Mr. Vandenn II first demolished me IN Brooklyn,
In the Academy OF Mu &c, and two nights after he
demolished me In Stcinway han, New YORK. In
the audience room OF our beautiful Academy OF
beggarly audience OF $50 people. Laugh.
teri That was his first demollshing.
Then he went to new YORK, and IN a vast han,
that holds between 1000 ana 1900 people, had
another audience OF $50. Out OF pocket some $500
or $500. Poor man. am sorry LOT MN. laugh
teri Ii he Will come 10 me will help to pay ehe
deficit But he has sh0 xn to all this country that
million population. there can be got together
only 500 people on the side OF immortality and
against the church OF the Eternal G0d.v
Alter his sermon MIR. Taalage prayed that grace
be vOuchsaied In the discaarge vi their profess
siOnal duties to all editors anu reporters.