Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1881-02-14

lion. What the author accomplishes by
fifty pages the artist does by a flash.
The best part OF q painting that
costs ten thousand dollars, you
may buy for ten cents. Fine
paintings belong to the sristocracy Of
art. Engravings belong to the demo-
cracy Of art. You do we'll to gather
good pictures in your home. Spread
them before your children after the
tea hour is past and the evening circle
is gathered. Throw them on invalid's s
couch. Strew them through the rail
train 10 cheer the traveller on bis jour
ney. Tack them on the wall OF the
nursery. Gather them in albums and
portfolios. God speed the good pic
lures on their way with ministries OF
knowledge and mercy. But what shall
| say of the prostitution OF this ant to
purposes Of iniquityP
These Death Warrants Of the Soul
are at every street corner. They smite
the vision OF the young with pollution.
Many young man buying a copy has
bought his eternal discontinue. There
may be enough poison in one bad pic.
ture TO poison one soul and that soul
NAV poison ten and the ten fifty and the
hundreds thousands, until nothing but
the measuring line OF eternity can tell
the height and depth and ghastliness and
horror OF the great undoing. The
work of death that the wicked author
does in a whole book, the bad engraver
nay do on half side OF pictorial. I'm
der the disguise OF pure mirth a young
man buys one Of these sheets. He un-
rolls it before his comrades amid roars
of laughter, but long after the paper is
gone the result may perhaps be seen in
the blasted imaginations OF those who
saw it. The Queen OF Death every
night holds banquet and these period.
icals are the printed invitations to her
guests. Alas that the fair brow of
American art should be blotched with
this plague-spot,' and that philanthro-
pists, bothering themselves about
smaller evils, should lift up no united,
vehement voice against this calamity.
Young man! Buy not this moral strych-
nine for your soul! Pick not up this
nest OF coiled adders for your pocket!
Patronize no news stand that keeps
them! Have your room bright with
good engravlngs, but for these outrage.
Gus pictorials have not one wall, not one
bureau, not one pocket. A man is no
better than the pictures he loves TO look
at. II your eyes are not pure, your
heart cannot be. By news stand one
can guess the character OF a man by the
kind Of pictorial he purchases. When
the devil fails to get man to read bad
book, he sometimes succeeds in getting
him to look at bad picture.
When Satan Goes a-Fishing.
he does not care whether it is a long
line or a short line, il he only draws his
victim in. Beware OF unclean pictorials
young man; in the name of Almighty
God, | charge you. II | have this morn.
ing successfully = laid down any princi.
plies by which you may judge in regard
TO books and ne Tspapers, then | have
done something of which shall not be
ashamed on the day which shall try
every mans work OF what sort it is.
Cherish good books and newspapers.
Beware of the bad ones. One column
may save your soul; one paragraph may
ruin it. Benjamin Franklin said that
the reading OF Gotten Mather's Essay
to do Good" moulded his entire life.
The assassin OF Lord Russell declared
that he was lead into crime by reading
one vicious romance. The consecrated
John Angel James, than whom Eng.
land never produced better man, de-
clared in his old days that he had never
vet got over the evil effects Of having for
fifteen minutes once read bad book.
Go home to-day and LOOK over your
library, AMI then having looked through
your library, look on the stand where
you keep your pictorials and newspa.
pers and apply the Christian principles
have laid down this morning. lfthare
is anything in your home that cannot
stand the test do not give it away, for
it might spoil an immortal soul; do not
sell it, Tor the money you get will be the
price OF blood; but rather kindle fire
on your kitchen hearth or in your back
yard, and then
Drop the Poison in 1t,
and keep stirring the blaze until from
preface to appendix, there shall not be a
single paragraph left.