Sharp County record., 1888-11-15

dren and build an alC So" eo,,o,
shall associate your name lotonu,'
not only with the great lna1 :.1,
tors or nainting who are gone, DuV Mt'n T.n,
40 o,reat masters who are trying 10 ll'o,
and also win the admiration anu iU'o ohIe
tons Of thousands of people VINO, un"oiI ,iJ
~ have fine pictures of their own, oulu
he adyantaged by your Oeno.''S' S unt
Rnild vour own monuments anu ~
Ioaye lava if TO the whim of others. ooino ~
the hest people sleeping IN UreenWoOo
sno NV no monuments at all, or Sollo
nurn,bIino stones that in re" yea!
Iii NJ Lot the rain wash out name anu epl-
toab. while some men, whose ueaVn was
tba abatement of a nuisance, nave pilo
20 .lso ooIisbed "J Aberdeen high enough lor "
King and eulogium enough " nIth nth
ross a seraph. On, men OF lalso "U ..l'ors
irsteod of leaving to the Whlm ot o'no, ,3
ln'.u" ",,,onnmental commemoratlon anu
s,,itonhiology to be looked at wnen peopl0
oP opa LING TO and fro at the burial Oh o'n-
ore build right down in the near ~. VI o"n
oro' onoot city. or the city where you llVe "n
2 ;Tnmense free reading room, or Il10
,nusical conservatory, or u lro0 q. tho
1orr the inches for sculpture, anu u 'nS 10
rmn raiIs ,7bloom with the rise anu la Ian +ba U
nations O% md lessons OF courage ,onr iUt onI rn
diahoartene aI 4, and rest for the wsups' & on onG
uLslie", .s tIn tI,n de,,d; and one hun dreu auu
il5e lUe ears r' from now you will be welding
MY yool9 T., tLiJ world for good among
those whose grsat-gA, "N"- '''
great-grandchild ort0 there have
Under the title Of fine 4 'o,, of nict.
come here from France Q. hos fried
ures which elaborate argument wonld
to prove irreproachable. They 70 he
disgrace a bar-room and they need -rv
confscated Your children Will Ca,
the pictures of their fathers house WIN
them clear on to the grave, and' pasSins
that marble pillar, will take 'n0ln
through eternity,
When we see how much has been ac-
complisbed in secular directions by plct'
ures-Sbakspeare' tragedies picture
Victor Hugo's writings all pictures, John
Ruskin's and Tennyson's and Loh3lel'
lows works all pictures-why not enlist
as far as possible, for our churcheS anu
schools and reformatorv work ana evan
gelistic endeavor, the power OF though,
that can be put into word pictures, II not
pictures In color? YEA why not oil
Young men draw for themselves on paper,
with pen or pencil, their coming career,
of virtue if they prefer that, OF vice II
they prefer that. After making the pct
ure, put it on the wall, or paste it on the
fv-leaf Of some favorite book that you
NAV have before you. | read the other
day of q man who had been executed Tor
murder, and the jailer found atterWard
picture made on the wall Of the cell by
the assassin's own hand-a picture OF
| fight of stairs. On the lowest step he
had written: "Disobedience of parents"
on the second, sabbath 'breaking;" on
the third, drunkenness and gambllng;"
on the fourth, "Murder," and on the
fifth and TOP step, "a gallows'" 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 picture, bright
picture, an evangelical picture, and vii!
help you make it. l 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" on the second step, TN
dustry and good compauionship;" on the
third step, "a Christian home with a
family ALTAR" on the fourth step "Ever-
widening usefulness;" on the fifth step,
ga glorious departure from this world"
on the sixth step, Heaven! Heavenl
HeavenW 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 thrones. Promise me that you
will do that and will promise to meet
you on the sixth step il the Lord will,
through His pardoning grace, bring me
there too.
And here am going to say word OF
cheer to people who have never had
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 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 Naples far
more than nine hundred and ninety uine
out of one thousand who visit them, they
never may go, for they must support
their households, and bread an schooling
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
centered splendors of Iall the 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 pict-
ured or brought to mind. At the cyclo-
rama 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
picture some regiments marching I'D
hill" yes" she said. "WellD
said the blind man, 'fs there
General on horseback leading
them on" "Yes," she said. "WeIi
IS there rushing on these men cavalry
charge" yes" was the reply. "And
do there seem to be many dying and
| deadW eyes was the ancwar owl