The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1888-10-30


tried to prove irreproachable. They would
disgrace a barroom, and they need to be con-
liscated. Your children viii carry the pictures
Of their fathers house with them clear on to
the grave, and, passing that marble pillar,
VIII take them through eternity.
Furthermore, let all reforners, and all Sab
bath school teachers, and all Christian workers
realize that If they would be effective for good
they must make pictures, if not by chalk on
black boards or kindergarten designs or by
pencil on canvas, then by words. Arguments
are soon forgotten; 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 'city on a hin that 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 prodi-
gal son, a picture; parable Of the sower, who
went forth to SOW, picture parable of the un-
merciful servant, a picture; parable OF the
ten virgins, picture parable OF the talents,
picture. The world wants pictures, and the
appetite beginswlth the child, who contents
to 90 carly TO bed If the mother will sit beside
him and rehearse story. which Is only pic
tnre When we see how much has been ac-
complished in secular directions by pictures
Shakspeare's tragedies picture, Victor Hugos
writings all pictures, John Ruskin's and Ten
nyson's and Longfellow's works all pictures
why not enlist, as far as possible, for our
churches and schools and reformatory work
and eyangelistic 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 virtue If they
prefer that, Of vice If they prefer that. After
making the picture. put it on the wall, or paste
it on the fly leaf OF some fayorite book that
you may have 1t before you. | read the other
day OF a man who had been executed for
murder and the jailer found afterward pic
ture made ON the wall of the cell by the assas-
sins own hand, picture of fight of stairs
On the lowest step he had written: "Disobe-
dience OF PARENTS Oh the second; Sabbath
breaking % on the third drunkenness ana
gambling )" on tile fourth Murder" and on
the fifth and top step: "A gallows." If that
man had made that picture before he took the
first step, he never would have taken any of
them, Oh, man, make another picture bright
picture, an evangelical picture, and ! will help
you make 1t. ] 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 y
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" on
the fifth step "a glorious departure from this
world" on the sixth step: "Heaveni heaven
heavenr Write 1t three times, and let the
letters Of the one word be made mp of banners
the second Of coronets, and the third of
thronesi Promise me that you will do that
and will promise to meet YOU on the sixth
step, If the Lord will, through His pardonng
grace, bring me there too.
And here am going to say word of cheer
TO people who have never had word of con-
ISOLATION on that subject. There are men and
women in this world by hundreds Of thousands
and some of them are here today, who have
fine natural taste, and yet all their lives that
taste has been suppressed and although they
could appreciate the galleries of Dresden
and Vienna and NapleA far more than
nine hundred and ninety-nine out of one
thousand who visit them, they never may 90
for they must support their house.
holds, and bread and schooling
for their children are of more impor-
lance than pictures Though fond OF music,
they are compelled to live among discord, and
though fond OF architecture, they dwell in
clumsy abodes, and though appreciatve of
all that engravings and paintings can do they
arc in perpetual deprivations. 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 coneen-
tered splendors of all worlds before your
transported vision. In the same way all the
thrilling SCIENCES through which we and the
Church. of God have passed in cur earthly state
will be pictured or brought to mind. At the
cycloranla OK Gettysburg, which We had
IN Brooklyn one day, & blind man, who
had lost his sight in that battle, was
with his child heard talking while standing
before that picture. The blind man said TO the
daughter: "Are there at the right of tho
picture some regiments marching up hill?"
Eyes" she said. "Well, " said the blind man,
sis there general on horseback leading them
on ?" Eyes" she said. well, is there rush
ing down on these men a cavalry charged"
"Yes," was the reply. '.And do there seem to
be many dying aud dead?" "Yes,' was the
answer. "Well, now, do You see she'll from
the woods bursting near the wheel of
cannon?" YES" she said. "Stop right
therel" said the blind man. "That is the last
thing l ever saw ON EARTH What
time it was, Jenny, when I lost my
eyesightl' But when you, who have
found life hard battle, very Gettysburg.
shall stand in the Royal Gallery OF
Heaven, and with your new vision begin TO see
and understand that which in your earthly
blindness you could not see al all. you viii
point out to your celestial comrades, perhaps
to your own dear children who have gone be-
foro, the scenes of the earthly conflicts in
which you participated, saying There from
that hill of prosperity / was driven back in
that valley of humiliation / was wounded
There l lost my eye-sight That was the way
the world looked when l last saw it. But
what grand thing TO get celestial vision. and
stand there before the oyclorama Of all the
worlds whilo the rider on the white horse goes
ON "conquering and to conquer the moon
under his feet and the stars of heaven for his
tiaral
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