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

reading matter Of great ipiefes:, the iu-
ture forecast by prophets and the Lord of
prophets may properly have a Place. Over
all the cloud of Witnesses, the shining
O, es, the saints in light, the great arch
angel should find aplace. Some of these
are partially represented. Tic missionary
literature is as well represented as any
other, and this promises to furnish choice
and profitable reading as that great cause
| advai ces.
| The scriptures of course hold CON
spicuous place II Is tie Book. 1t CLASH
| 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! great white throne. All
our literature should shine in this great
light. Were going TO select Sunday
Schco library, would 20 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 seIec literature for earth and
heaven blended IN 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 a
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 arc. 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-
ance 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 earthquake, slant lightning, clouds
with rain, sunshine, thought, principles,
facts, logic, something for a 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 hell 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 Sal
vior trod, and taught, and wept, and died,
and where with heart and voice they shout
| Ucs anna to t e Oh Of David. Would you
| over shadow us with a dark cloud? No,
! would introduce literature that vii!
| elevate above the dark, where the sun
never sets. II 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 infdelIty as the sun dis
poses of darkness, I am not suggesting
| for other departments. The Sunday
School is peculiar. 1t has a peculiar day
and peculiar characteristics and Il work
of wide significance, and its faith, hope
and charity opens the grand panorama
beyond the dispensa'ien of time. The
| Son of Man will send out his messenger.
and gather his people from the foul
winds, from the uttermost parts of the
earth to the uttermost parts of heaven.
T. MORE,
Secretary pro tenn.