The Brookhaven leader., 1888-11-08

How much better than white marble
that chills you IL you put your hand on II
when you touch IL in the cemetery would
be monument in cclors, In beaming
eyes, In living possession, in spiendors
which Under the chandelier would be
glowing and ~arfn. and looked at by
sToL..ug groups with catalogue In hand
on the January night when the neercroA
lis where the body stseps Is oil snowe d
undcT, The tower et David was hung
with enc Thousand dehted shields Of bs -
tlei bat you, oh man Of wealth, may
have grauder tower namod after you,
one that snail be hung not with the SYM
bcls of carnage, but with the victories OF
that art which was so lerg ago recogniz ed
in my text ne pleasant pictures" Oh,
the rcwer Of pictures I can not deride,
as some have done, Cardinal MAJ arin,
who, when told be must die, took his last
walk through the art gallery of his palace,
saying: "Must qui. all this? Lock Gt
that Titiani Look at that Ccrrogi OF Lool
at that deluge Of Cairaccii Farewell, de ar
picturesP' As the way OF the Lord OF
hosts, according to this test Vii
all parents to zee that in their households
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or on canvas any thing that will depravc.
Pictures are no longer the exclusive pos
session of the afauent There Is not 6
respectable homie in these cities that he's
not specimens of wooicut or Steel en-
craving, II not OF painting, and youI
whole family will feel the moral upliftin 3
or depression. Have nothing cn your
wall or in books that vii famliarize the
young with scenes of cruelty or wassail,
have only those sketches made by articti
In elevated moods and roao of those
scenes that seen. Tho product Of artistic
deliri"~, tfemens. Pictures are not only
n strong, but q universal language, The
human race is divided iRtt almost az
many language ns there are nations. bu'
tho pictures may speak to people OF all
tongues. Volapuk many have hoped,
with little reason, would become a world.
wide language; but the pictorial il
always a world. wide language and print.
crs' types have no Emphasis compared
with It We say that children are fond of
pictures; but notice any man whom he
takes up 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 engrav.
ing has sometimes decided an eternal
destiny.
Under the Tile OF fine arts there have
ZONE here from France class OF pict-
ures which elaborate argument has tried
to prove irreproachable. They would
disgrace a bar-room and they need tc be
confscated. Your children will carry
tho pictures Of their fathers house with
them clear on to the grave, and, passing
that marble pillar, will tako them
through eternity.
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 pic ures, 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 refOsmatOrv work and evan
gelistit endeator, the power of thought
that can be put into word pictures, If not
pictures in color? Yea, why not all
young men draw for themselves on paper,
with pen or pencil, their coming career,
of virtue if they prefer that of vice il
they prefer that. After making the picts
ure, put 1t on the wall, or paste 1t on the
nys leaf Of some favorite book that you
may have before you. | read the other
day Of q man who had been executed for
murder, and the taller 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 wrtten: "Disobedience of parents -
on the second, Sabbath breaking;" on
the third, drunkenness and gambling;"
on the fourth, "Murder," and on the
fifth and TOP step, IA gallows." If
that man had made that picture
before he took the frat 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 six steps for
this flight of stairs. On the first steI
write the words: "a nature changed by
the Holy Ghost and washed in the blood
of the lamb" on the second step, '1n-
dustry and good companionship;" on the
third step, IA Christian home with q
family ALTAR" on tho fourth step, ever
widening usefulness" on the fifth step,
"a glorious departure from this world;"
on the sixth step, Heaven! Heaven
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 l will promise to meet
you on the sixth step, if tho Lord W i'll,
through His pardoning grace, bring me
there too.
And here l anu going to say word OF
cheer to people who have never hal q
word of consolation on that subject.
There are men and women in this world
by hundreds of THOUSAND DIS, and some of
them arc here to-day, who have a 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 bling
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 fiud yourselves in
the royal gallery of the universe, the con :
conferred splendors of lall 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 CYCLIC
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 up
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