The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1888-11-08
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nations, but the pictures may speak tt
people OF all tongues No,arux many nave
nopei, with little reason, would becunis @
worldwide language; out the pictorial 10
always worldwide language, and printers
types have no emphasls compared witn it,
We say that children are ION Oi pictures
but notice any man when he takes up "A BOOK,
ana YOU viii sec that the first thing
that he looks at Is tho pictures. Have
only those in your house that
appeal TO the better nature. Ons
engraving has sometimes decided AN eternal
destiny. Under the title of fine arts there
have come here from France class of pic.
lures which elaborats argument has tried to
prove lrreproacnable. They would disgracs
barroom, and they need to be coniiscatei
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 ali
Sabbath school teachers, aud all Christian
workers realize that IL they would bo eliec
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 great picture gallery, beginning
with sketch of n city ON "A hill that cannot
bo hid" and ending with tempest beating
against two houses, one on the rock aud the
other on the sand. The parable o. the prodi.
gal son. picture; parable OF the sower, who
went forth TO SOW, n picture; parable ot the
unmercltul servant "A picture; parable of the
ten virgins. p.cturc, parable OF the talents,
n picture. The world wants pictures, AM the
appetite begius with the child, who con ,ents &c
80 early To bed II the mother will SIT beside
him and rehoarse u story, when is only a
picture. When we see how much has been
accomplished IN secular directions by pictures
--Shakespeares tragedies IA picture. Victor
Hugo's writings all pictures, John Ruskin's
ami Tennyson's and Longfellow's
works all piCtures-wuy not enlist as
far as possible, for our churches and schools
and retormatOry work and evangelistic en-.
deavor, the power of Thought tnat can he
put INTO word pictures, II not pictures in
co.ori Yea, why not ali young men draw
Tor themselves on paper, with pen or pencil.
their coming career, of virtue II they
prefer that. OF vice IL they prefer that,
After making the picture put IT on the wall,
or paste 10 on the ny leaf of some tavorits
book, that you may have 1t before you. |
read the otner day or a man VINO had beon
executed for murder, aud the jtlor found
atierward apicture made ON the wa | of tho
cell 10y the as,aSsin's own hand, a pct.
ure OF Hight of stairs. On the lowest
step he had written: "DlsobedieuCe
OF parents;n on the second "Sabuath break.
Ing;" on the third: drunkenness and gam.
bling" ON tho fourth: Murder. and on the
nth and top step "A gallows." IL that man
had made that picture before he took the
nrst step, he never would have taken any OF
them. Oh. man, make another picture, o
| bright picture, AN evangelical picture, will
| help you make i'll suggest six steps for this
| light of stairs On the first step write the
words: "A nature changet 10y the Holy
| Ghost aud washe in the blood of the Lamb y
on the second step: Industry and good
cdmpauionshp, on the third step: "a Christ
| IAN home with "A family altar, on the fourth
| step; EVER widening use lulness; on the fifth
| step: "A glorious departure from this
world :" on the sixth step: "Heavenl heaven I
| heaVenl' Write II three times, and let the
| letters of the one word bo made up OF ban
| ners, the second of coronets, and the third Of
thrones Promise me that you will do that.
anu viii promise to meet you on the sixth
| step, II the Lord will through His pardoning
| grace bring me there too.
And here am going to say word Of
| cheer to people VINO 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-
| dhy, VINO have u line natural taste, and vet
| all their lives that taste has been sup.
| pressed, and although they could appreciate
| the galleries of Dresden and Vienna and
| Naples for more than nine hundred and
| nlnety-nne ont of one thousand who visit
| 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 appreciativc of all that
engrnvings 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-
/ "a a4I Of all
your transported vision. In some way all
the thrilling scenes through which we and
| the Church OF Sod have passed in our earth
| ly state will Toe pictured or brought TO mind
| AT the cycloraina of Gettysburg, whicn we
had IN Brooklyn, ono day blind man, who
lo't his sight in that battle, was with hm
child heard talking while standing before
! that picture. The blind man SAID to the
| daughter; Are there at the right of the
! picture some regiments marching up hillF'
"Ge',' she said. We'll said the blind
man, "is there General on horseback
leading them onn YES" she said
We'll, is there rushing down on these
| men cavalry charge" YES was
tine reply, And do there seem to be many
dying and deldf Yes was the answer
"Ncll, now, do you sea "A shell from tho
wool, bursting near the wheel of "a cannon Z"
| "NcS, she SAID. stop right thcre!n said
! tho hliui man. THAT is the last thing
| | ever saw ON earth! What "a time
! 10 was, Jenny When ! lOst my eye'Sght!' ~
| But when YOU, who have found life a hard
| battlo, "A very Gettysburg, shall stand in the
/ ROYAL Gallery ot Heaven, and with your
new vision begin to see and understand that
wnlch IN your earthly blindness you
could not see Mt all, you will point
'"t 20 vour celestial comrades nerhans
To your own dear children who have gone
before the scenes of the earthly conflicts IN
which you participated, saying: "Thera
from that hill Of prosperity was driven
/ back; in that valley of humiliation | was
wounded. There | lost my eyesight. That
was tho way tho world looked when
! / last saw it. But what n grand thing To get
celestial vision, and stand here before the
| cyc,orama ot all worlds while the Rider on
! the White horse goes on "conqueTng and tc
conquer the moon under His feet aud the
stars OF Heaven for his tiara!
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