The west Tennessee star. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1888, 1888-11-09

the pictures may speak 10 peOple OL hat
tongues. Volapuk many have hoped,
with little reason, would become world
wide language; but the pictorial 10
always a world wide language, and print
ers' 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 the first
thing that he looks at is the pictures.
Have only those in your house that ap
peal to the better nature. One engray-
ing has sometimes decided an eternal
destiny.
Under the title of Rne arts there have
come here from France GLASS of pict-
urss which elaborate argument has tried
to prove irreproachable. They would
disgrace a bar-room and they need to be
confscated. Your children win 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
tan workers realize that IL they would
be effective for good they must make
pictures, If not by chalk on blackb oHrds,
or kindergarten desi gns, or by pencil on
canvas, then by words. Arguments are
soon forgotten, but pictures, whether
In language or in colOrs, are
what produce strongest effects.
SuEA@1 Was Always bbAAAhE WHAT
a thing was like, and His sermon on
the Mount was great picture gallery,
beginning with a sketch of "clty on a
hill that can not be hid, " and ending with
tempest beating against two houses,
one on the ock and the other on the sand
The parable of the prodigal son, a plot
ure; parable of the sower, who went
forth to SOW, picture; parable OF the
unmerciful servant picture; parable OF
the ten virgins, picture; parable of the
| talents, picture. The world wants plot
ures, and the appetite begins with the
child, who consents to go early to bed IF
the mother viii sit beside him and re.
hearse a story, which is only picture
When we see how much has been ac-
comp lished in secular directions by pict-
ures-Shakspeare's tragedies n picture,
Victor HugO's writings all pictures, John
Ruskin's and Tennyson's and Longfel-
lows works all pictures-why not enlist
as far as possible, for our churches and
schools and reformatorv wor and evan
gelistiU endeavor, the power of thought
that can be put into word pictures. if not
pictures in oolOrl Yea why not all
young men draw for themselves on paper,
with pen OF pencil, their coming career,
of virtue If they prefer that OF vice IL
they prefer that. After making the ptct-
ure, put it on the wall, or paste it on the
hy-Ieaf of some favorite book that you
day of a man who had been executed Tor
murder, and the jailer found afterward
picture made on the wall Of tho oell by
the assRssiu's own hand-a picture OF
flight of stairs. On the lowest step he
had written: "Disobedienoe Of parenta;"
on the second, sabbath -Breaking;" on
the third, drunkenness and gambling;"
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 stepe he
never would have taken any of them.
Oh man, make another picture, a bright
picture, an evangelical picture and I will
| help you make it 1 suggest six steps for
| this flight OF stairs. On the first step
write the words: "a nature changed by
the Holy Ghost aud washed in the bloc.
of the Lamb;" on the second step, TN
dustry and good oOmDanio nshtp;" on TIA
third step, "a Christian home with
family altar" on the fourth st5p, "6y
| widening usefulness;" on the fifth step,
| ga glorious departure from this wOrld;"
! on the sixth step, 'Heavsnl Heaveni
| Heaven~ Write it three times, aud lot
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 ! VIII promise to meet
| you on the sixth step, II tho Lord W i'll,
| through His pardoning grace, bring me
| there too.
And here 1 a,n going to say 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 hundreds OF thousands, and some OF
them are here to-day, who have a dno
| natural taste, and yet all their lives that
taste has been suppress sod, and although
they could appreciate tho galleries OF
| Dresden, and Vienna, and Naples far
moro than nine hundred and ninety nine
out OF one thousand who visit them, they
| never may go, for they must support
| their households, and broad an schooling
for thoir 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
appre ciative of oil that enEravings
and paintings can do, they are
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 TALL the worlds
before yeur transported vision. In some
wsE all the thrilling scenes through
which we and the Church Of God have
passed In our earthly state will DO piet-
ured or brought 70 mind At the CYCLIC
rama OF Gettysburg, which VIC had in
Brooklyn, one day a blind man. who lost
his sight in that battle, was with his child
heard taking while standing before that
picture. The blind man said TO the
daughter: care there at the right Of the
picture some regiments marching up
hill?" eyes" she said "Well"
said the blind man, lis there
them onY Eyes" she said. "WeH,
is there rushing on these men q cavalry
charger ayes" was the reply. And
do there seem to be many dying ond
deadW "Yes," was the answer "WelL
now, do you see shell frem the WOODS
bursting near the wheel OF cannon, 2.
Yes" she said. stop right there ]"
gaid the blind man. "That is the last
thing / ever saw on earthl what time
it was, Jenny, when ] lost my eye-HlghtI
But when you, who have found llfe hard
! battle. a very Gettysburg, shan stand IN
the royal gallery Of Heaven, ana with
your new vision begin TO see ana undeF-
stand that which in your earthly blindness
you could not see at all, you will point out
10 your celestial comrades, perhaps to your
| own dear children who have gone De-
| fore, the scenes Of the earthly conflicts
! in which you participated Saying:
.'1here from that hill OF prosperity ]
| was driven back; in that valley u hu-
initiation / was wounded. There 4 lost
my oyesight That was the way the
world looked when l last saw It." But
VIII a grand thing % got celestial vision
and stand here before the Cyclorama Of
sIl the worlds while the rider on the
white horse goes on "conquerine aud 10
conquer" the moon ufaler his feet and
the stars Of heaven for his tiara
s--
II cne would be Of real service to others
he must expect 70 DO the sufferer by t.
There is no such thing as giving out ones
life IN effort or sympathy in behalf Of
those who need It without feeling t1e loss
Of that outlay An old adage says: He
that burns most shines most - which Is
only another way Of saying that He that
shines most burns most" And again. In