The Red Cloud chief., 1891-03-20

end. Measure Il, the height Il q, Ehs
depth Of it the langth Of It the breadth
Of it You cannot do It. Examine the
paper and estimate the progress made
from the time Of the impressions on
clay, and then on 70 the bark OF the
trees, and from the bark Of trees 20
papyruA and from papyrus 20 the hide
of wild beast. and from the hide Of
wild beasts on down until the miracles
Of our modern paper m~anufactoSies, and
then see the paper. white and pure a.
an infants soul waiting for Gods in
scription. A booki Examine the type
of it. Examine the printing OF IL and
see the progress from the time when
Solon's laws were written on oak
planks. and Hesiod's poems were writ
ten On tables Of lead. and the Siraiic
commands were written on tables of
stone, OF down TO Hoes perfecting pr esA
A book! II took ali tie universe ties
Of the past, all the martyr fires. all the
civilizations, all the battles. all the vic
tories, all the defeats all the glooms, all
the brightncsses, all the centuries 70
make it possible A book. IL 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 70 greet you II
! worshiped anything on earth, / would
worship that II ] burned incense To
any idol. ! would build an altar TO thai
Thank God for good books. healthf'I
books, inspiring books, Christian boob,s,
books of men, books of women, boot: OF
God. IL Is with these good books that
we are 10 overcome corrupt literature.
Upon the frogs swocp with these eagles.
! depend much for the overthrow of
ubiquitous literature upon the mortality
of books. Even good booixs have
a hard struggle to live. Polybius
wrote forty books; only five of them
left Thirty books of Tacitus have
persisted. Livy wrote 14o books; only
t~hirty-fve of them remain. Hschylu~
wrote 100 dramas; only seven remain.
Euripides wrote over a hundred; onl'
nineteen remain. Varro wrote the b.
o~graphies of over seven hundred greao
Romans All that wealth Of biograph.
has persisted. IL good and valuable
books have such a struggle To live, wha.
must be the fate Of those that are dis.
eased and corrupt and blasted at the
very start? They will die H. the frogs
when the Lord turned back the plague.
The work of Christianization will 90
on until there will he nothj ny left but
good books, and they will take the SUI
preInacy Of the world.
Against every bad pam phlet 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 wilrbe ~ IL was
in ancient Toledo. where the Toletum
missals were kept by the saints in six
churches, and the sacruegious Romans
demanded that those missals be de-
stroyed, and that the Roman missals be
substituted; and the war came on, and
] am glad 20 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 missala.
So IL will be in our day. The good
literature, the Christian literature, in
its championship for God and the truth.
will bring down the evil literature in
its championship for the devil. l fee
tingling TO the tips OF fingers and
through all the nerves of my body. and
all the depths Of my soul, the certainty
Of our triumph. Cheer up, .. men aud
women who are toiling for the purifica-
ton of society. Toll with your faces in
the sunlight. 'If God be for us. who,
who can be against us?"
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
a deserted convent, threw up fortresses
amid the mountains of Lebanon, opened
the castle 10 the poor and the wrctched
and the sick who would come in. She
made her castle a home for the unfor-
tunate. She was n devout Christian
woman 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 bridlcd 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. IL was
a fanaticism and a deiusion: but there
was romance, and the re was splcndor,
and there was thrilling expectation in
the dream. All. my friends, we need
no earthly palfrcys eroomed and sad
died and bridled and caparisoned for
our Lord when lie shall come. The
horse Is ready in the equerry Of Heaven.
and the imperial rider is ready to
mount "And I Jaw. and behold n
white horse, and he that sat on him had
q bow; and . crown was given unto
him; and he went forth ~conquering and
~ conquer. And the armies that were
in Heaven followed him on white
horses, and on his vesture and on his
thigh was written: King Of kings, and
Lord of lords" Horsemcn of Heaven,
mount. Cavalrymen Of God, ride on.
Charge! Charged 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!