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people Il a. ta1gaes k0lspuk many have
hoped with htlle reason, would beoofne
world VIDE lznguage; bUt tie pictorial y
always = worh vide language, ana printers
types have uo emphasis compared ~lth a.
We sav ta4t children are f0nd of pictures,
but notice any mail when ne takes up box.
and you i'll see thai TIE first thiag thai he
looks az Is tie pictures. Have osily those in
your house that appeal 10 the better nature.
One engraving has sometimes docidsd an
eternal destiny. Under the title of fn0
arts thee have come here from France
O class of pictures which elabOrate ar
Cumcnt las trlea 10 proye irrsprosehabls.
They would disgrace bar rom, aud they
need 10 be conhscated. Your children will
carry the picturesOf their fathers house with
them clear On 70 the grave, and, passing that
marble pillar, Will take them through stsr-
nifty
Furthermore, let all retorners, and all
sabbath school teachers. and al CHRISTIAN
workers realize that II they would 10 effect
i've FOR good they must make pictures, II not
by chalk on blackboards, or kindergarten de
signs, or by pencil on canvas, then by words.
Arguments are soon forgotten, but pictures,
whether IN language or IN coloTs, are what
produce strongest effects. Christ was always
telling what thing was like, and his Ser
mon on the Mount was a great picture
gallery, beginning with a sketch Of a
''city on a hill 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 prodigal
son. a picture; parable of the sower, who
went forth 10 sow. picture: parable oftthe
unmerciful servant, picture; parabeof the
ten virgins, picture; parable OF the talents,
a picture The world wants pictures, and
the appetite begins with the child, who con-
sents to 60 early 70 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 picture,
Victor Hugo's writings al pictures, John
Rnskins and Tennyson's and Longfellows
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 car be put into
word pictures, IL not pictures in color. Yea,
why not al Young men draw for themselves
on paper. with pen or pencil, their coming
career, of virtne if they prefer that, of vice
If they prefer thati After making the pic
leaf OF some favorite book, that you may
have it before you. l 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 assassins
own hand, a picture of fight of stairs On
the lowest step be had written: ''Disobedi-
ence of parents;" on the second: Sabbath
breaking;n on the third: drunkenness and
rl,a "A
the fifth and top step: "A gsllows" II that
man had made that picture before he took
the first step, he never would have taken
any OF them. Oh, man, make another pic
ture, bright picture, an evangelical picture,
and / will help you make It'll l suggest six
steps for this fight of stairs. On the first
step write the words, "A nature changed by
the Holy Ghost aud washed in the blood Of
the Lamb" on the second step, Industry
and good companioaship;' 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
heaveni heavenr' 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 thronesl Promise me that you will do
that, and will promise to meet you on the
sixth step, IL the Lord will, through his par
| doning grace, bring me there, too.
And here l am going to say q word Of
cheer to people who have never had q 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
an their lives that taste has been suppressed,
and although they could appreciate the gal
leries Of Dresden and Vienna and Naples far
moro than nine hundred ana ninety-nine out
OF one thousand who visit them, they never
may go, for they must support their house
holds, and bread and schooling for their
children are of more importance than pictr
ureS Though fond Of music, they ore com
PEELED to live amid discorc, ard though fond Of
architecture they dwell in clumsy sbodss. and
though appreciativo of all that engravings
and paintings can do. they are in perpetual
deprivation Yol are going, after you get on
the sirth step n thnt Stair just spoken Of. 70
f1d yourselves in the royal gallery Of the
universe. the coucrntered splensors of ell
worlds before your Transported vision In
some way all toe thrilling scene@ through
which we and the Church 81 God have passed
In our earthly s-ste viii he pictured or
brought to mind. A. tee cyclcrana of
Gettysburg, which we had IN Brooklyn one
dav blind man. vho lost bis sight IN that
battle. was with his child beard taking
while standing before that pictgrs The
blind man said TO ths daughter. Are tbers
a. tbe right II the picture sons
regiments marching ID hinf Yes"
she ssid We'll said The blind usn,
sis there a geaeral on h0rseback leading
them onT- Yes shs said ''Nell. i thers
rushing down oe these men cavalry charge 2
Yes was ths reply. Ard 60 tasre seeu