The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1891-03-13

H.
Rev DR.. Talmage on Sunday deiiy-
cred the third OF the series he is preach
ing on the t'Ten Plaques of the Cities. ,
In the course OF his sermon DR.. Tai
mage said:
why are so per cent. of the crimi-
nails in the jails and penltentialieb OF
the United States to-day under twenty
one years of age? Many Of them uh-
der seventeen, under sixteen, under
fifteen, under fourteen, under thirteen.
Walk along one the corridors of the
Tombs prison in New York and look
for yourselves. Bad books, bad news
papers, bewitched them as soon as they
got out Of the cradle. Beware of all
those stories which end wrong. Be-
ware of all those books which make
the road that ends In perdition seem to
end In Paradise. Do not glorify the
dirk and the pistol. Do not call the
desperate brave or, the libertine gal
they go down into the swa1nps and
marshes TO watch the jack-o'-lanterns
dance on the decay and rottenness
they. wilIcatch the malaria and death.
my word Ia to this vast multitude
OF young people: Do not touch, do not
borrow, do not buy q corrupt book or
O corrupt picture. A book will decide
a mans destiny for good or for evil
The book you read yesterday may
have decided you for time and for
eternity, or 1t may DO book that may
come into your possession tomorrow.
Against every bad pamphlet send a
good pamphlet; against every unclean
picture send an Innocent picture;
against every scurrilous song send q
Christian song; against every bad
hnnL canl afnnl hnAl. anJ thar
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 mlSSalS he substituted; and
the war came on, and am glad to say
that the whole matter having been re-
ferred 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
literature, the Christian literature, in
its championship for God and tho
truth, will bring down the evil litera-
ture in its championship for the devil.
| feel tlngling to the tips of my fingers
and through all the nerves Of nv
body and all the depths of my soul
the certainty of our triumph. Cheer
up, o, men and women who are toiling
for the publication of SOCIETY," Toll
with your faces in the sunlight. IF
God be for us, who, who can be against
usY"
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 posses
sion OF deserted covent, threw up for
tresses amid tho mountains of Leba-
non, opened the castle TO the poor and
tho wretched and the sick wonld come
in. She made her eastlc home for
the unfortunate. She was davout
Christian woman. She WINS waiting for
the coming 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 sho had two horses
groomed and bridled and saddled and
caparisoned, and all ready for the day
in which her Lord should descend, and
lie on one of them and she on the other
should start for Jerusalem, the city of
the Great King.
ut was fanaticism and delusion;
but there was romance, and there was
splendor, and there was thrilling
expectation in the dreaml
''Ah! my friends. we need no earthly
palfrys groomed and saddled bridled
ana euparisoned 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 1saw,
and behold a white horse, and he that
sat on him had bow; ard a crown
was given unto him; and went forth
conquering and to conquer And tho
armies which were in heaven followed
him on white horses, and on his ves-
ture and on his thigh were written,
King. Of kings, and Lord of lords
horsemen OF heaven. mount! Cavalry
men of God, ride on! Charged 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.p