Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1891-03-13

them left. Thirty books of Tacitus have
persisted. Twenty books Of Pliny have per-
ished. Lvy wrote one hundred and forty
books: only thirty-hye Of them remain.
Eschylus wrote one hundred dramas; only
seven remain. Euripides wrote over a hun
dred; only nineteen remain. Natro wrote
the biographies of over seven hundred great
Romans. All that wealth OF biography has
persisted If good and valuable books have
such n struggle to live, what must be the
fate OF those that are diseased and corrupt
and bIasted at the very start! They will die
as the frogs when tue Lord turned back the
plague. The work OF Christianization will
20 on until there will be nothing left but
good books, and they will take the supremacy
of the world. May you and live to see the
illustrous day
Against every bad pamphlet send good
pamphlet against every uncean picture send
an innocent picture; against every sour
rilous song send a Christian song; against
every bad book send good book; and then
il will be as it was in ancient Toledo, where
the Toletum missals were kept by the saints
in six churches, and the sacrilegious Romans
demanded that those missals be destroyed,
and that the Roman missals be substituted:
and the war came on, and | am glad to say
that the whole matter having been referred
to champions the champion Of the Toletum
missals with one blow brought down the
champion of the Roman missals.
So It will be in our day. The good litera-
ture, the Christian literature, in its cham
pionship for God, and the truth, will bring
down the evil literature in its championship
for the devil / feel tingling to the tips of
nv fingers AMI through all the nerves OF my
body, and all the depths Of my soul, the
certainty Of our triumph. Cheer up, oh,
men and women who are toiling for the
publication OF society! Toll with your faces
in the sunlight. III God be for us, Who
who can be against us?' -.
Lady Hester Stanhope was the daughter
of the third Earl Of Stanhope, and after her
nearest friends had died she went to the far
east. took possession of deserted convent.
threw I'D fortresses amid the mountains OF
Lebanon. opened the castle to the poor, and
the wretched. and the sick who would come
in. She made her castle home for the un-
fortunate She was a devout Christian
woman. She was waiting for the coming OF
the Lord. She expected that the Lord would
descend in person. and she thought upon it
until it was too much for her reason. In the
magnificent stables of her palace she had two
horses groomed and bridled and saddled and
caparisoned and all ready for the day in
which her Lord should descend, and be on
one of them aud she on the other snould start
for Jerusalem, the city OF the Great King
1t was a fanaticism and a delusion; but there
was romance, and there was splendor, and
there was thrilling expectation in the dream
All, my friends, we need no earthly pal,
freys groomed and sadlled and bridLed and S!
caparisoned for our Lord when He shall
come. The horse is ready in the equerry OF
heaven, and the imperial rider is ready TO
mount. "And l saw, and behold a white
horse, and he that sat on him had bowgi
and crown was given unto him, and he
went forth conquering and to conquer. And
the arm es which were liz heaven followed
Him on white horses ard on His vesture and
on His thigh were written, King OF kings,
and Lord of lords Horse men OF Heaven,
mount Cavalry of Goi ride on Charge
charge! until they shall be hurled back on
their haunches--the black horse Of famine
and the red horse of carnage, and the pale
horse of death. Jesus forever.