The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1891-03-21

per1shed. L1ivy wrote one hundred and
forty books; only thirty-five of them re-
main. Aschylus wrote one hundred
dramas; only seven remain Euripides
wrote over hundred; only nineteen re-
main. Varro wrote the Biographies of
over seven hundred great Romans All
that wealSE of biography has persisted.
If good and valuable books have such a
struggle to live, what must be the fate of
those that are diseased and corrupt and
blasted at the very start. They will die as
the frogs when the Lord turned back the
plague. The work of Characterization will
go on until there will be nothing left but
good books, and they will take the su-
premacy of the world. May you and live
to see the illustrious dayl
FIGHT THE BAD WITH THR GOOD
Against every bad pamphlet send good
pamphlet; against every unclean picture
send an innocent picture; against every
scurrilous song send a Christian song:
against every bad book send a good book;
and then it 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 liter
ature, the Christian literature, in its cham
plonship for God and the truth, will bring
down the evil literature in its champion
ship for the devil. I feel tingling to the
tips of my fingers and 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 societyi Toll
with your faces in the sunlight IF God
be for us, who, who can be against uss''
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 a deserted
convent, threw up 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 unfortunate. She was a
devout Christian woman. She was wait
ing for the coming of the Lord. She ex-
pected that the Lord would descend in per
son, and she thought upon it until it was
too much for her reason. In the magnili-
cent 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 he
on one of them and she on the other should
start for Jerusalem, the city of the Great
King 1t was fanaticism and a delusiop:
but there was romance, and there was
splendor, and there was thrilling expecta-
ton in the dreami
Ah, my friends, we need no earthly pal
freys groomed and saddled and bridled and
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 1 saw, and behold white
horse, and he that sat on him had bow:
and a crown was given unto him; and he
went forth conquering and to conquer
And the armies which were in heaven fol
lowed him on white horses, and on his
vesture and on his thigh were written,
King of kings, and Lord of lords.'' Horse
men of heaven, mount Cavalry of God,
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!