The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-10-29

| chandelier would be glowing ana warm
and looked at by strolling groups with cata-
logue in hand Oh the Janury night, when
the metropolis where the body sleeps is all
showed under The tower of David was
hung with one thousand dented shields of
| battle: but you, oh man OF wealth, may
have a grander tower named after you, one
| that shall be hung not with the symbols OF
carnage, but with the victories OF that art
which was so long ago recognized In my
| text as pleasant pictures" Oh, the power
of pictures! | cannot deride, as some have
done, Cardinal Mazarin, who, when told
that he must die, took his last walk
through the art gallery of his palace,
saving: Must l quit all this! Look
at that Titan Look at that Cor.
regio! Look at that deluge OF
Carracci Farewell, dear picturesw AS
this text will scrutinize the pictures, i'm
plore all parents to see that in their house
holds they have neither in book or news
paper or on canvas anything that VIII de-
brave. Pictures are no longer the exclusive
posse sion of the fluent. There is not
respectable nome in these cities that has not
specimens Of wood-cut or steel engraving,
if not of painting, and your whole family
will feel the moral uplifting or depression
Have nothing on your wall or in books
that will familiarze the young with scenes
of cruelty or wa. sail; have only those
sketches made by artists in elevated moods,
and none of those scenes that seem the
Dro luction Of artistic delirum tremens.
Pictures are not only a strong but
universal language. the human race is
divided into almost as many Ian
guages as there are nations, but the pictures
may speak to people of all tongues Nola-
Duk. many have hoped, with little reason,
would become a worldwide language; but
the pictorial is always worldwide lau-
guaga, and printers types have no en-
DhaSis compared with it. We say that
children are fond of pictures; but notice
any man when he takes up book, and you
will see that the first thing that he looks at
is the pictures. Have only those in your
house that appeal to the better nature. One
engraving has sometimes decided an eter-
nal destiny Under the title of fine arts
there have come here from France class
of pictures which elaborate argument has
tried to prove irreproachaDle. They would
disgrace n barroom, and they need to be
confiscated Your children will carry the
pictures of their fathers house with them
clear on to the grave, and, passing that
marble pillar, will take them through
eternity.
Furthermore, let all reformers, and all
Sabbath school teachers, and all christian
workers realize that ii they would be effec-
tive for good, they must make pictures. if
garten designs, or by pencil on canvass,
then by words. Arguments are soon for
gotten; but pictures, whether IN language
or in colors, are what produce strongest
effects Christ was always telling what
thing was like, and his sermon on the mount
was great picture gallery, beginning with
sketch of a 'city on hill tn at cannot be
hid, :" and ending with a tempest beating
against two houses, one on the rock and the
other on the sand. The parable of
the prodigal son, picture parable of the
sower, who went forth to sow, picture
parable of the unmerciful ser
want, picture; parable of the
ten virgins, picture; parable of the tai
ents, picture. The world wants pictures,
and the appetite begins with the child, who
consents to go early to bed If the mother
will sit beside him ard rehearse a story
which is only picture. When we see how
| much has been accomplished in secular
directions by pictures-Shakespeare TRACE
dies a picture, Victor Hugo's writings all
pictures, John Ruskin's and Tennyson's and
| Longfellow's works all pictures-why not
| enlist, as far as possible, for our churches
| and schools and reformatory work and
| evangelstic endeavor, the power Of thought
that can be put into word pictures, if not
| pictures in color? Yea, why not all young
men draw for themselves on paper, with
| pen or pencil their coming career, of vir-
| tue if they prefer that, of vice if they pre-
| fer that After making the picture, put it
on the wall, or paste it on the fly leaf of
some favorite book, that you may
have it before you. | read the
| other day of a man who had been executed
for murder and the jailer found afterward
| a picture made on the wall of the cell by
the assassin's own hand-a picture of a
| flight of stairs. On the lowest step he had
written Dsobedience of parents" on the
second, sabbath breaking;n on the third,
drunkenness and gambling: :" on the fourth,
Murder" and on the fifth and top step,
"A galows." If that man had made that
| picture before he took the first step, he
never would have taken any of them. Oh,
man, make anoi her picture; bright pict-
ure, an evangelical picture, and | will help
| you make it! | suggest six steps for this
| flight of stairs. On the first step write the
| words, "A nature changed by the Holy
| Ghost and washed in the blood Of the
Lamb" on the second step, Industry and
! good companionship" on the third step, "a
| christian home with family altar on the
| fourth step, Ever widening usefulness; y
on the fifth step. "a glorious departure
| from this world; y on the sixth step, Heaven
! heaven! heavenm Write it three times, and
| let the letters of the one word be made up
| of banners. the second of coronets, and the
| third Of thrones Promise me that you will
do that, and | will promise to meet you on
! the sixth step, if the Lord will, through his
pardoning grace, bring me there too
And hers | am going to say word of
cheer TO people who have never had a word
of consolation on that subject. There are
men and women in this world by hundreds
of thousands, and some of them are here to-
day, who have a fine natural taste, and yet
all their lives that taste has been suppressed,
ard although they could appreciate the gal
leries of Dresden and Vienna and Naples
far more than nine hundr ed and ninety
nine out OF one thousand who visit
them, they never may go. for
they must support their households, and
bread and schooling for their children are
of more importance than pictures. Though
fond Of music, they are compelled to live
amid discord, and though fond of architect
ure, they dwell in clumsy abodes, and
though appreciative of all that engravings
and painting can do, they are in perpetual
deprivation. You are going, after you get
on the sixth step of that stairs just spoken
of to find yourselves in the royal gallery of
the universe, the concentrated splendors of
all worlds before your transported vision.
In some way all the thrilling scenes through
which we aud the church of God have
passed in our earthly state will be pictured
or brought 70 mind At the cyclorama Of
Gettysburg, which We had in Brook
Ign, one day blind man, who
lost his sight in that battle, was
with his child heard talking while standing
| before that picture The blind man said IN