The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1891-03-11

brain" Oh, stand off from thatl Why
will you go sounding your way amid the
reefs and warning buoys, when there Is
such vast ocean in which You may
voy ge, all sails set9
We see SO many books we do not un-
derstand what book Is. Stand 1t on
end. Measure It, the height Of it, the
depth Of it, the length Of 1t, the breadth
Of it. You cannot do 1t. Examine the
paper and estimate the progress made |
from the time of the impressions on !
clay, and then on to the bark Of trees,
and from the bark Of trees to papyrus,
and from papyrus to the hide of wild
beasts, and from the hide Of wild beasts
on down until the miracles Of our
modern paper manufactures, and then
see the paper, white and pure as an in
fant's soul waiting for God is inscription.
A book! Examine the type of It. Ex-
anime the printing OF it and see the
progress from the time when Solon's
laws were written on oak planks
and Hesiod's poems were written
on tables Of lead, and the Siniatic
commands were written on tables
Of stone, on down to Hoes perfecting
printing press. A book! II took all
the universities of the past, all the mar
tyr fires, all the civilizations, all the
battles, all the victories, all the de-
feats; the glooms, all the bright
nesses, all the centur es to make it pos
sible. A book! 1t is the chorus OF the
ages-it is the drawing room in which
kings and queens and orators and poets
and historians and philosophers come
out to greet you. II | worshiped any
thing on earth would worship that. IL
If burned incense to any idol, would
build an altar TO that. Thank God for
good books, hcalthful books, inspiring
books, Christian books books of men,
books of women, Book of God. 1t Is
with these good books that we are to
overcome corrupt literature. Upon the
frogs swoop with these eagles. de-
pend much for the overthrow of iniqui-
tous literature upon the mortality OF
books. Even good books have hard
struggle to live. Polybius wrote forty
books; only five of them left. Thirty
books Of Tacitus have perished. Twenty
books of Pliny have perished. Livy
wrote one hundred and forty books;
only thirty-fve of them remain.
Eschylus wrote one hundred dramas;
only seven remain. Euripides wrote
orer hundred; only nineteen remain.
Varro wrote the biographies of over
seven hundred great Romans. All that
wealth Of biography has perished. II
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
christianization will go 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
alustrious dayl
Against every bad pamphlet send a
good pamphlet; against every unc can
picture send an innocent picture; against
every scurrilous song send Christian
song; against every good book send
good book; and then IL will be as II was
in ancient Toledo, whepe the Toletum
missals were kept by the saints in siA
churches, and the sacrilegeous Romans
demanded that these missals be de
stroyed, and that the Roman missals be
substituted; and the war came on, and
lam glad TO say that the whole matter
having been referred toehampions, the
champion OF the Toletum missals with
one blow brought down the champion
of the Roman missals. So IL will
be in our day. Tho good lit
eraGure, the Christian literature, in ia
championship for God andthe truth. will
bring down the evil literature in iti
championship for the devil. | feel ting.
ling 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, o, men and women
who are toiling for the purifcation Of
society! Toll with your faces in the
sunlight "If God be for us, who, who
can be against us?n
Lady Hester Stanhope was the daugh-
ter 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 up fortgcsses
amid the mountains Of Lebanon. opened
the castle to the poor and the wrctchcd
and the sick who would come in. She
made her castle home for the un-
fortunate. She was 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 1t until
IL was too much for her reason.
In the magnificent stables of her
palace she had two horses groomed
and bridled and saddled and capar-
isoned, and all ready for the day In
which her Lord shouldsdescend, and He
on one OF them and she on the other,
should start for Jerusalem, the city OF
the Great King. IL was a fanaticism
and delusion: but there was romance,
and there was splendor, and there was
thrilling expectation In the dream. Ali
my friends, we need no earthly palfreys
Rroomed and saddled and bridled and
caparisoned for our Lord when He shall
come. The horse Is ready In tho
esquerry Of heaven, and tho i'm
perial rider Is ready 10 mount And I
saw, and behold white horse, and he
that sat on him had bow, and
crown was given unto him; and he
went forth conquering and TO conquer.
And the armies which were In heaven
followed him on white horses, and on
his vesture and on his thigh were writ
ten, King Of kings and Lord Of lords"
Horsemen OF heaven, mount! Cavalry
men OF God, ride onl Chargel Charged
until they shall be hurled back on their
haunches--the black horse Of famine,
and the red horse of carnage. and the