The Yazoo sentinel. (Yazoo City, Miss.) 1878-1916, 1891-04-02

' monster seizod him, and he drew forth hand
= torn and mnnglod and bleeding.
i Oh, touch not the evil even with the faint
, est gfrokel Though = may b glossy and
E beautiful, touch Il not lest you pull forth
our so1l torn and hleedlng under the clutch
can find out whether book 4 GOOD or bad
3 without reading itr THERE'S always some.
I thing suspicious about bad book. / never
: knew an xception-something suspicious Ia
J the index or styleof illustration. This ven.
omons reptile almost always carries a warn
ing rattle
The clock strikes midnight. A fair form
bends over romance. The eyes flash
fire. The breath e quick and irregular.
Occasionally the color dashes to the cheek
and then dies out. The hands tremhle a.
though guardian spirit were trying to
shake the deadly book out OF the grasp. Hot
tears fall. She laughs with a shrin voico
that drops dead at its own sound The
sweat on her brow Is the spray dashed no
from the river OF death. The clock strikes
four, and the rosy dawn soon after begins To
look through the lattice upon the pale form
that looks like a detained specter Of the
night. Soon IN a madhouse she win mistake
her ringlets for curling serpeants, and thrust
her white hand through the bars Of the
prison, and smite her head rubbing It back
as though to push the scalp from the skull,
shrieking: MY brain my brainp Oh
stand off from that Why viii you go
sounding your way amid the reefs and warn
ing buoys when there is such a vast ocean
in which you may voyage. all sail setg
We see so many books we do not under.
stand what q book is. Stand it on end.
Measure 1.-THE height of 1t. the depth Of IT.
the length Of it. the breadth of il. You cam
not do 1t. Examine the paper and estimate
| the progress made from the time Of the inn
pressions on clay, and then ON the bark Of
trees and from the bark of trees to papyrus.
and from papyrus to the hide of wild beasts1
and from the hide of wild beasts on downs
until the miracles Of our modern paper man.
ufactories, and then see the paper, white and
pure as an infants soul, waiting for Gods i'm
scription.
A book Examine the type of it. Examine
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 bookl 1t took all the universities of the
past. all the martyr fires, all the civilizations,
all the battles, all the victories all the de-
feats, all the glooms, all the brightness, all
the centuries to make it possible.
book 1t is the chorus Of all ages; it il
the drawing room in which kings and queens
and orators and poets and historians come
out to greet you. II worshiped anything
ON earth would worship that II burned
incense to any idol would build an altar to
that Thank God for good books, healthfuI
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 depend much for
the overthrow Of iniquitous literature upon
the mortality of books Even good books
have hard struggle to live.
Polyhius wrote forty books; only five of
laff Of
persisted. Twenty books of Pljny have per-
ished. Livy wrote one hundred and forty
books; only thirty-hve of them remain.
Hschylus wrote one hundred dramas; only
seven remain. Euripides wrote over a hum
dred; only nineteen remain. Vatro wrote
the biographies of over seven hundred great
Romans. All that wealth of biography bas
persisted. If good and valuable books have
such struggle to live, what must be the
fate Of those that are diseased and corrupt
and blasted at the very startl They win die
as the frogs wnen the Lord turned back the
plague. The work OF Contamination wiz
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
illustrious day
Against every bad pamphlet send a good
pamphlet; against every unclean picture send
an innocent picture; against every sour
rilous song send Christian song; against
every bad book send a good book; and then
it Will be as il 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 mlssals be substituteds
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-
pionship for God, and the truth, win bring
down the evil literature in its championship
for the devil. l feel tingling to the tips OF
my fingers and through all the nerves of my
body. and all the depths of my soul, the
Of cur triumph. Cheer up, OH.
publication OF society Toll with your faces
IN the sunlight. If God be for us. who.
who can be against usg'
Lady Hester Stanhope was the daughter
IF the third Earl of Stanhope, and after hen.
nearest friends had died she went to the far
east, took possession of deserted convent.
threw up tortresses amid the mountains of
Lebanon. opened the castle to the poor, and
the wretched, and the sick who would come
N. She made her castle home for the un-
She was a devout Christian
woman. She was waiting for the coming of
he 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
lorses groomed and bridled and saddled and
aparisoned and all ready for the day in
which her Lord should descend, and be on
me of them and she on the other should start
or Jerusalem, the city of the Great King.
{ was a fanaticism and delusion; but there
vas romance, and there was splendor, and
here was thrilling expectation in the dreaml
All, my friends, we need no earthly pal
reys groomed and saddled and bridled and
aparisoned for our Lord when He shall
ONE. The horse is ready in the equerry of
eaven and the imperial rider is ready to
lount. And | saw, and behold a white
orse, and he that sat on him had a bow:
nd crown was given unto him; and he
tent forth conquaring and to conquer. And
be armies which were IN heaven followed
linn on white horses ard on His vesture and
n His thigh we're written, King of kings,
nd Lord of lords.s Horse men Of Heaven.
lountl Cavalry Of God, ride on Charged
hargel until they shall be hurled back ON
heir haunches-the black horse of famine,
I'D the red morse Of carnage and the pale
orse Of death. Jesus foreverl