Charlotte messenger. [volume] (Charlotte, Mecklenburg Co., N.C.) 1882-18??, 1888-11-17

nations, but the pictures may speak to
| people Of all tongues. Volapuk many have
hoped, with little reason, would become q
worldwide language; but the pictorial is
always a worldwide language. and printers
/ types have no emphasis compared with it
/ We say that children are fond Of pictures:
but notice any man when he takes up book.
and you win see that the first thing
appeal to the better nature. One
| engraving has sometimes decided an eternal
destiny Under the title OF fine arts there
have come here from France class Of pic
prove irreproachable They would disgrace
q barroom, and they need to be coniiscated.
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
Sabbathschool teachers, and all Christian
workers realize that IL they would be effec-
tive for good, they must make pictures,
/ il not by chalk on black-boards,
or kindergarten designs, or by pen
Gil 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 q great picture gallery beginning
/ with q sketch of a "city ON a hill that cannot
be hid" and ending with tempest beating
against two houses. one on the rock and the
| other on the sand. The parable of the prodi-
gal son, picture parable Of the sower, who
/ went forth to SOW, a picture; parable OF the
i unmerciful servant, a picture; parable OF the
Ten virgins picture; parable OF the talents,
a picture The world wants pictures, and the
i appetite begins with the child, who consents to
| 60 early to bed if the mother will sit beside
him and rehearse a story, which is only
/ picture. When we see how much has been
/ accomplished in secular directions by pictures
-Shakespeare's tragedies q picture, Victor
Hugo's writings all pictures, John Ruskin's
and Tennyson's and Longtellow's
works all pictures-why not enlist, as
| far as possible, for our churches and schools
| and reformatory work and evangelistic en-
deavor, the power Of thought that can be
put info word pictures, ii not pictures in
colors Yea, why not all young men draw
for themselves on paper, with pen or pencil
| their coming career, of virtue IL they
prefer that. of vice il they prefer 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 il before you. /
read the other day OF man who had been
executed for murder. and the jailor found
| afterward apicture made on the wall Of the
/ cell by the assassin's own hand, D pict-
ure OF a flight Of stairs On the lowest
step ne had written: Diso6edlence
of parents;n on the second; sabbath break
| ing" on the third: drunkenness and gam
/ bling:n on the fourth: Murder and on the
fifth and top step: "a galloHs." If that man
had made that picture before he took the
first step, he never would have taken any or
them. Oh, man, make another picture, 9
bright picture, an evangelical piqturet will
help you make it'll suggest six steps for this
fight 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
companionsnlp;" on the third step: "a Christ
ian home with q family altar on the fourth
step: "Ever widening usefulness; p on the fifth
step: "a glorious departure from this
world y on the sixth step: "Hesvenf heaveni
heavenIn Write it three times, and let. the
letters of the one word be made up Of ban
ners, the second Of coronets, and the third Of
thronesl Promise me that you will do that,
and will promise to meet you on the sixth
step, If the Lord will through His pardohng
| grace bring me there too
And here am going to. say word of
cheer TO people whp have never bad a'wofd
| Of consolation on that subject. Theras are
men and women in this world by hundreds
of thousands and some Of them arr hsfe to-
day, who have O fine natural taste, and yet
all their lives that taste has been anp-
pressed, and although they could appreciate
the galleries of Dresden and Vienna and
Naples for more than nine hundred and
ninety-nine out of one thousand who visit
them, they never may 60, for they most sup
| port their households and bread and school
/ ing for their children are Of more importance
than pictures. Though fond Of music. they
are compelled to live amid discord, and though
fond of architecture, they dwell in clumsy
abodes, and though appreciative Of all that
| engravings and paintings 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 con-
| conferred splendors Of all worlds before
/ your transported vision. In some way all
the thrilling scenes through which we and
| the Church of God have passed in our earth
| ly state will be pictured or brought to mind.
At the cycloraina of Gettysburg, which we
had in Brooklyn 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 to the
daughter: Are there at the right OF the
ayes" she said well" said the blind
leading them ont" Yes she said.
well, is there rushing down on these
men cavalry charger YES" was
dying and deadF' "Yes.s was the answer.
well, now, do you see a shell FROM the
woods bursting near the wheel Of q cannonfn
"Yes," she said. stop right therei,, said
the blind man, THAI is ,ths last thing
il was. Jenny, when I[lost niyssyelsightIS
But wieny who have found life q 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 j. you
could not see at all, you will point
out to your celestial comrades. perhaps
TO your own dear children VINO have gone
before, 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 I lost my eyesight That
was the way the world looked when
/ last saw it, But what grand thing to get
celestial vision, and stand here before the
cyclorama OF all worlds while the Rider on
the white horse goes on "conquering and to
conquer" the moon under His feet and the
efa,-s ~ 'Haavar, for hia ffnral