The Penn's Grove record., 1888-11-17

Will SCtlcS VI CRUELTY Ut WdSSdli, udft
only those sketches made by artists in
elevated moods, and Z Of thost
scenes that seem the product of artistic
dellrium tremens. Pictures are
A UNIVERSAL LANGUAGE.
The human race is divided into almost
as many languages as there are nations,
but the pictures may speak to people OF
all tongues. VOlapuk may have hoped,
with little reason, would become 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 a book, and you will see tina;
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 eternal destiny. Under the title OF
fine arts there have come here from
France a class of pictures which elabo-
rate argument has tried to prove ire.
p~roachable. They would disgrace a bar
room, 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 Chris
tian workers realize that, if they would
be effective for good, they must make
pictures, if not by chalk on blackboards,
OF kindergarten designs, or by pencil
on canvass, then by words. Arguments
are 500 forgotten; but pictures, whether
in language or in cOlors, are what pro-
duce strongest effects. Christ was
always telling what a thing was like,
and His sermon OH 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 prodi-
gu son. a picture; parable of the sower,
who went forth to SOW, a picture; par
able of the unmerciful servant, u pic
ture; parable Of the ten virgins, a pic
ture; parable of the talents, a picture.
The ,corld udnts pictures, and the APP
petite begins with a child, who consents
to go early to bed if the mother will sit
beside him and rehearse a story, which
is only a picture. When We see how
much has been accomplished in secular
directions by pictures-Shakespeare's
tragedies, u 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
evangelistic endeavor, the power OF
thought that can be put into word pic
lures. if not pictures in color? Yea.
why not all young men draw for them
selves 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
favorite book. that you may have it be-
fore you. / read the other day of a mai
who had been executed for murder, and
the jailor 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:
"Disobedience of %parents;'' on the Sec
ond: ''Sabbath breaking;" on the third:
drunkenness and gambling;" on the
fourth: "Murder;'' and on the fifth and
top set: ga gallows." If that mar HAD
made that picture before he took til.
first step, he never would have taken
any of them!. Oh, man, make another
picture, a bright picture, an evangelical
picture, and ! will help you make it! l
suggest sic steps for this flight of stars
On the first step write the words: ga
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: ga
Christian home with a family affair."
on the fourth step: "Ever widening
usefulness;" on the fifth step: "a
glorious departure from this world;'' on
the sixth step: "Heavenl heaven!
heavenl" Write it three times, and let
the letter of the one word he made W
of banners, the second Of coronets, and
the third of thronesl Promise me that
you will do that, and 1 will promise 10
meet you on the sixth step, if the Lord
will through His pardoning grace bring
me there too.
And here / am going to say a 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 hundred 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, 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 CON-
PEELED to live amid discord; and though
fond of architecture, they dwell IL
clumsy abodes, and though a~ppreciatiye
of all that engravings and paintings
can do, they are in perpetual depriva-
ton. You are going, after you get on
the sixth step of that stairs Just spoken
of, to lind yourselvesi in
THE ROYAL GALLERY OF THE UNI
VERSE,
the ~concentered 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 earthly state
will be pictured or brought to mind.
At the Cyclorama of Gettysburg, which
we had in Brooklyn, II day a blind
man, who lost his sight in that battle,
was with his child heard talking while
standing before that picture. TIE blind
man said to his daughter: 'Are there at
the right or the picture some regiments
marching up a hill?" Eyes" she sad.
swell said the blind man, sis there a
general on horseback leading them on?"
ayes she said. "Well, is there rush
ing down on these men a cavalry
charge?' "Yes," was the reply. "And
do there seem to be many dying and
deadY'' YES" was the answer. "Well,
now do you see a shell from the woods
bursting neal the wheel Of a cannOn?f
"Yes," she said. ''sStop right there!'
said the blind man. ''That is the last
thing l ever saw on earthl What a time
it was, Jenny, when / lost my eye.
sighti'' But when you, who have found
life a hard battle, a very Gettysburg.
shall stand in the Royal Gallery of
Heaven, and with your new vision be-
gin to see and understand that which in
your earthly blindness you coulG not
see at all, you will point out to your
celestial comrades, perhaps to your own