The Penn's Grove record., 1891-03-20
PENIS GROVE, N. j. FRIDAY. MARCH 20. 1891

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OF the trains
Many Of the citiss hsvs succsssfully pr
hibitsd the most Of that literature even fro
going on the news stands. Terror has seize
upon the publishers and tbs dealers IN impur
literature, from the fact that over . thos
sand arrests have been made and ths aggr'
gate time for which the convicted have bee
Sentenced to the prison IL over one hundrs
and ninety years, n from the fact ths
about two millions Of their circulars ha0
been destroyed, and the business Il not I
profitable as 1t used to be.
How have 30 many Of the new stands {
our greet cities been purified How has
much Of this iniquity been balkedt B
moral suasiont Oh, no. You might as We
70 into the jungle Of the East Indies and pa
a cobra on the neck, IND with profound a
guncnt try to persuade It that it Is MORAL
wrong to bite and TO sting and to poiso
anything. The only suswer to your argl
ment would be an uplifted head aud . hi
and a sharp. re~kinx tooth struck into you
arteries. Tne My argument for Q cobra II
a shott IN. and the only argument for thss.
dealers III IN ,ure literature is the clutch ot
2hs Iolics and the bean SOU in a psniteu'
tisry. rhs lswr The lawl Invoke to con
srinmats the work so grandly begunl
Another May in which We are to drive
back his plague Of Egyptian frogs II BY
filing the minds Of our young people with
a heslthful literature. do not mean to say
that I'll this books and newspapers In oul
fun'hss ought to be religious books and
newspapers, or that every song ought to be
IL to h. tune of ''Old Hundred" I havs
no sympathy with the attempt 70 make ths
Joung old. 4 would rather Join in q crusade
to keep the young young. Boyhood aud girl
hool must not be abbreviated. But there
are good books, good histories, good btogrs,
phies, goo1 works Of fiction, good books Of
all styles with which we are to hil the mind
OF ths young, so that there viii be no more
room fer the useless and the vicious thar
there is room for chaff in . bushsl measure
which is already allied with Michigan
wheat
Why are fifty par cent. Of the criminals IN
the jails aud p~eniteutiaries OF the United
States to-day under t~wenty-ons years oil
age' Many Of them under seventeen, under
sixteen, under fifteen, under fourteen, under
thirteen. Walk along one Of the corridor
OF the Tonbs prison in New York and looi
for yourselves. Bad books, bad newspapers
bewitchei them as soon a. they got out Of
the cradle. Beware of all those storiei
which end wrong. Beware Of all thoss
books which make the road that ends ID
perdition seem to end In Paradise. Do moi
glority the dirt and the pistol. Do not cal
the desperate brave or the libertine gallant.
Teach our young people that II they go down
into the swamps and marshes TO watch thu
jack-o'-lanterns dance on the decay and
rottennsss they will catch the malaria aud
death.
.ob," says some one, II am a bushes.
man, and l have no tins to examine what
my children read. have no time toinspect
the books that come into my household u
your children were threatened WITH typhoid
fever, would you have time tn go for the doc
tori Would you have time to watch the
pi y. ess Of the diseased Would you have
time FOR the fuueralf In the presence OF my
Gcd l warn you Of the fact that your chill
dren are threatened with moral and spirit.
ual typhoid, and that unless the thing BIS
stopped it will be to them funeral OF body,
funeral Of mind, funeral OF o Three
funerals in one day.
NY word is TO this vast multitude OF young
people; Do not touch, do not borrow, do
not GUY a corrupt book or q corrupt picture.
A book viii decide a lar destiny for good
or for evil. The book you read Yesterday
may have decided you for time and for eter-
nity, or il may be q book that may come
INTO your possessions tomorrow.
A good book--who can exaggsrate tts
powerf Benjamin Franklin said that hii
reading of Cotton Matnsr's Essays 70 Dc
Good" in childhood gave him holy aspira.
tions for a ! the rest OF his life. George Law
declared that a biography he read In child
hood gave him all his subsequent prosperi'
hlco n Nv NAhobt - fr
to the far west, stopped ata hotel He Jaw
4 oma copying sonssthing from Dodd.
ridges "Riss and Progress" Il seemed that
she had borrowed the book, and there were
some thinys sue wanted especially to re-
alember.
The clergyman had In bis sachel a copy Of
Doddridge's Rise aud Progress" aud 90 he
made her a present OF t. Thirty years
oassei on: The clergyman came that way,
49, he nsLal tu thu wSO,nan go Gharn
ae had seen so long ago. she lives yonde,
n chat beautiful house" Hs'went thsrs and
aid to her, DO vow remember mel" She
aid, mo, ! do not" He said, "Do you re-
member a man gave you Doddridge's .Riss
aud Pro2ress' thirty years a2oy' "On, yes;
{ remember. That book savsd my soul. ]
oaned the book to all my ~nsigh6ora and
and we had a revival Of religion which swept
through the whole community. We bulls q
church and called a pastor. You see that
ipire yondsr, don youf That church
vas built as the result Of that book you gave
ne thirty years ago" Oh, the rover OF .
rood bookI But, alasl for the inhusncs OF q
Dad book.
John Angel James than whom England
never had a boiler minister, stood in his pull
Dit at B birmingham AMI said; twenty-five
Fears ago a lad loaned to me an infamous
,ook. He would loan IL only fifteen min
ties, ami then I had to give 1t back, but that
,oox has haunted me like . specter ever
ince. | have in agony OF soul, on my knees
,.iore God, prayed that he would obliterate
rom my soul tine memory OF It. but I shall
AIRY the damage Of 1t until the day Of my
ieath." TIE assassin OF Sir William Rus
ell declared that he got the inspiration for
lis crims by reading what was then . new
md popular novel, Jack Sheppard"
IoneI's "Iltad" made Alexander ths war
ror. Alexander said 80. The story Of
alexander male julius Cesar aud Charles
XII. both msu OF blood. Have you In yont
rocket or in your trunk, or in your dssk ar
business a bad boos, q bad picture, . bad
>amphletf In Gods name warn you to de.
troy it.
Another way IN which Ne shall deht back
his corrupt literature and kill the frogt Of
Egypt is.by rolling over them tbs Christian
| printing pres, which shall give plenty oil
,enlthful reading to all adults. All thess
men and women are reading msu and wo-
nsn. What are you readingf Abstain from
III those books which, while they had some
rood things about them, had also m admix.
ure OF evil. You have read books that had
TWO dement's in tasm-ths good and the bad.
Which stuck TO your Tbs badi The heart
IT most people Ia like q sieve which lets the
Keeps the great cindsrs. Ones IN q whis
there is a mind like . l~oadstons, which.
plunged amid steel and brass fliugs, gatherd
ip ths steel aud repe.s the brasa But IL ID
generally the opposite. II you attsmpt q
3lungs through a fencs OF burrs 70 get one
blackberry, you will get more burrs than
olacSbsrrieS
You cannot afford 10 read q bad book,
however good you ara You say, "rhs in,
dusnce is Insignificant" l tell you that thu
scratch @: g pin has sometimes produced lock.
law. Alas, II through curiosity, - many do,
you pry INFO an evil book, your curiosityS y
Is dangerous as that Of the man who would
take a loren nj a gunpowder mill merely
to see whether IL would really blow up Of
not. In a mensgeris a man put his arm
through the bars OF . blacx leopard's cage
The animals hide looked 20 siSek and brighl
and beautiful He Just stroksd 1t encs Tn,
monster seized him AMI ne areN .V...a--.,
torn and n~lauglsd and b.eeding
Oh, touca not the evil even with the IAiut,
est stroaei Though It may be glossy all
beautiful, touch &c not lest you pull forsn
-FOUR soul torn and bleeding under the clutch
If tbs black sopsrd. "BueH you say, 'how
IAN | dnd out whether a book Is COOL or ba
without reading itf' There Is always some
thing suspicious about q bad book. nevar
Knew an excsption-something susniclous ~
the index or stvle Of illustration. This ven
omous reptile almost always carries a warn
ing rattle.
Ths clock strikes midnight. A fair forHl
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