The morning news., 1891-03-09

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warn you 70 destroy IL
/ Another way II which We shall dzht back
this carrupt literature and XII the frogs Of
EEyps e By rolling over trsu the chris
tan printing pres, which shall give p-e1ry
% healthfll reading 70 al adults. Al
these men and women are reading men and
women What are yoQ readings Abstain
some good things about them, have also Gn
admiKturs Of evil You have rssd books
tha. bad two elements IN then-tbe good
and the bad. Which struck y0ui The
badl Tee heart Of most people is Ike q
Save, which lets the small particles Of gold
fail through, bat keeps the greater
cinders. Oncs ia awhile there Is
mind ike g lodesto1e, which,
plunged amid sssel and brass filings, gathers
up the steel and repels the brass. But II i
generally Just the opposits II you attempt
% plunge through . fence Of burrs 70 Est
ous blackberry, you viii get more burrs
thAn blsckbs-rlsz You cannot afford 70
read . bad book, however good you are.
You say: The influence IL insignih ant "
] tsI. you that the scratch Of q pin has some
az1ss pTc1acsd Iock-jsE. Alas, il through
curiosity. a. many DO. yo1 pry into al evil
bcok, yOur curiosity is a. dangerous as that
os tes InAn who would take torch into g
gunPoudsr nil merely 20 see whether II
would really bloS Up or not IL q msne>
gsris, q man pEt his arm through the
bars ok q black lsopard's cage. The AMI
mails blts booked 50 sleek and bright and
bea1tsGL BE Just strOked II once. Tee
monster seiEed him, and be drew forth a
hand torn, and mAnglsd, and bleeding. o.
touch NOT evil even with the faintsst stroke /.
Though it may be glossy and beautiful,
toacn it not, lest you pull forth your soul
torn and bleeding under the clutch Of the
black leopard. But you say, 'how can
/ hnd out Whistler a book il good or bad
without reading itT" There Is always some
thing suspicious about g bad book I never
knew an xceptlon-something suspicio s
in the index or style of illustration This
venOmous reptile almost always carries q
warning rattle.
The clock strikes midnight A fair form
bends over romance. The eyes fash fire.
The breath Is quick and irregular. Occa-
sionally the color dashes 70 the cheek and
then dies out The hands tremble as
though a guardian spirit were trying 70
shake the deadly book out Of the grasp.
Hot tears fall. She laughs with q shrill
voice that drops dead at its own sound.
The sweat on her brow Is the spray dashed
strikes four, and the rosy dawn soon after
begins 10 look through the lattice upon the
pale form that looks like detained spectsr
Of the night. Soon in a mad-houss she viii
mistake her ringlets for curling ssrpents,
and thrust her white hand through the bers
Of Tbe prison, and smite her head, rubbing
is back ss though 70 push the scalp from
tbs skull, shrisking: my brainl my
brainp o, stand of from that! Why
viii you go sounding your way amid the
reefs and warning buoys, when there ii
such vast ocean in which you may voy.
age. all sail setl
We see 50 many books We do not under
stand what q book is. Stand il on end.
Measure st, the hight Of it. the depth Of it,
the length Of It, the breadth Of it. You
cannot do IL. Examine the paper and esti
mate the progress made from toe time OF
the impressions on clay, and then on d
the bark of trees, and from the bark Of
trees 10 papyrus, and from papyrus t0 the
hide OF wild beasts, and from the hide Oi
wild beasts Oh down until the miracles oi
our modsrn paper manufactures, and theE
see the paper, white and pure as an infant
soul waiting for Gods inscription. A book
Examine the type Of II. Examine the print
ing OF 10 and see the progress from the time
whsz Solon's laws were written on oal
planks aud Hesiod's poems were written OF
tables Of lead, and the Siniatic command
were written on tables of stone, On down u
Hoes perfecting printing press. A book
1t took all the universities OF the past, al
| the martyr fires, all the civilizations. all tn
battles, all the victories, all the defeats, al
the glooms, all the brightnesses, all tn
| centuries to make it possible. A bookl
| is the chorus Of the ages-it Is the drawing
room in which kings and queens and orator.
and poets and historians and philoso opheri
come out to greet you. II i worshiped any
thing on earth / would worship that II
burned incense 70 any idol, would build al
altar to that. Thank God for good books
healthful books, iaspiring books, christian
| books, books Of men, books of women, Bool
of God. 1t is with these good books that "
are to overcome corrupt literature. Upol
the frogs swoop with these eagles. depen
much for the overthrow OF intQuitous liters
ture upon the mortality of books. Eve
| good books have a hard struggle to live
| Polybius wrote forty books; only five O
| them left Thirty books Of Tacitus hav
| persisted. Twenty books Of Pliny have PEI
ished. Livy wrote one hundred and fort,
| books; only thiTty-five Of them remain
| Aschylus wrote one hundred dramas; onl,
| seven remain. Euripides wrote over a hun
| dred; only nineteen remain. VArro wrot
| the biographies OF over seven hundred grea
| RoInans All that wealth of biography ha
| persisted II good aud valuable BOOKS hav
| such a struggle to live what must be th
fate Of those that are diseased and corrup
and blasted at the very startl They vii
| die as the frogs when the Lord turned bac
the plague TIE work OF chris.ianizatio
will 20 on until there will be nothing lef
but good books, and they will take th
supremacy Of the world. May you and
| live to see the illustrious day.
Against every bad pamphlet send goo
| pamphlet; against every uncleAn pictur
send an innocent picture; against ever
| scurrilous song send christian song
| against every bad book send a good book
and then 1t will be as it was in ancient II
lsdo, where the "roletum" missals wer
kept by the saints in six churches and tt
sacrilegious Romans demanded that thos
missals be destroyed, and that the Roma
miSsals be substituted; and the war cam
on, and | am glad to say that, the whol
| matter having been referred to champion
the champion of the "Toletum" missa
| with one blow brought down the champio
| of the Roman missals. So it will b
10 our day. The good literature, the chril
tian literature, in its championship for &c
and the truth, will bring down the evil Ii
erature in its championship for the devi
/ feel tingling TO the tips Of my fingers an
through all the nerves OF my body, and a
the depths Of my soul, the certainty Of oil
triumph. Cheer up, o men and wome
who are toiling for the publication of S
cietyl Toll with your faces in the sunligh
"If God be for US, who, who can be again
us7n
Lady Hester Stanhope was the daughtt
of the third Earl of Stanhope, aud after h
Dearest friends had died she went to the fs
East, took possession of deserted conven
threw up fortresses amid the noun tains
| Lebanon opened the castle to the Door ar