Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-03-09

tiOn of railroad literature gave warning TO the
publishers and warning to railroad companies,
and warning tos conductors, and warning 10
neTsbOys 10 keep the internal stut on the
trains.
Many of the cities have successfully pro-
hibited the most of that literature even from
gong on the news stands Terror has selzed
upon the publishers and the dealers in impure
literature, from the fact that over l,VOO
arrests have been made. and the aggregate time
for which the convicted have been sentenced
to the prison is over 100 years. and from the
fact that about 1000, 900 of their circulars nave
been destroyed, and the business is not as
profitable as it used to he.
How have so many of the news stands of our
great cities been purified? How has much
of Tins iniQuity been baked? BY moral suaSlon? ?
Oh, no. You might rs well go into jungle OF
the East Indies and pat cobra on the neck,
and with profound argument try to persuade IL
that 1t is morally wrong to bite and to sting and
to poison anything The only answer to your
argument would be an uplifted head and hiss.
and sharp, reeklng tooth struck into your
arteries. The only argument for cobra is 4
shotgun. and the only argument for these
dealers in impure literature is the clutch OF the
police and bean soup in a penitentiery. Inc
law! The Law! l invoke to consummate the
work so grandly begun!
A Healthful Literature Necessary.
Another way in which we are to drive back
this plague of Egyptian frogs is by filling the
minds of our young people with healthful
literature. ! do not mean to say that all the
books and newspapers in our families ought 10
be religious books and newspapers, or that
every song ought to be sung to the tunc of "Old
Hundred" 1 have no sympathy with the at
tempt to make the young old. i would rather
ioin in a crusade to keep the young young.
Bovhood and girlhood must not be abbreviated.
But there are good bonks, good histories, good
biographies good works of fiction, good books
of all STYLES with which we are to fill the minds
of the Young, so that there will he no more
room for the useless and the vicious than there
Is roam for chatf in bushcl measure which is
already flied with Michigan wheat.
Why are 80 ncr cent of the criminals in the
iails ana penitentiaries cf the United States to-
day under q years of age? Many OF them
under IL under l6. under 10 under IA,
under l.. Walk along one of the cor
rdors of the Tnmbs 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 these stories which
end wrong Beware of all these books which
make the road which ends in perdition seem
to end in Paradise Do not glorify the dirk
and the pistol Do not call the desperate brave
or the lihertine gallant.
We see so many books we do not understand
what a book is Stand it on end. Mea-ure it
the height of IT. the depth of it, the length of
it, the breadth of il. 1ou cannot do it. EX-
anime the paper and estlmate the progress
made from the time of the impressions on clay.
and then onto the bark of trees, and from the
bark of trees to papyrus, and from papyrus to
the hide of wild beasts. and from The hide OF
wild beasts on down until the miracles of our
modern paper manufactures, and then see the
paper, white and pure as an infants soul
waiting for Gods inscription. 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 plauks and Hesiod's poems were writ
ten on tables of lead, and the Sinaitic COM
mandS were written on tables OF stone, on down
to Hoes perfectinG printing press A book!
II r,,D1-n 1.l,a rrniv nf hp Il
martyr fires, all the civilizations. all the bat
ties. all the victories. all the defeats, all the
glonmS all the brightneSses all the centuries
to make il possible A bookl 1t is the chorus
of the age.--it is the drawing room in which
kings and queens and orators and poets and
historians and philosophers come out to greet
YOU. If worshIped anything on earth would
worship that. If burned incense to any idol,
l would build an altar to that.
The Path to Victory.
Thank God for good books. heaIthfui books,
inspiring books, Christian hooks, books OF men,
books of women Book of God. 1t is with
these good books that we are to overcome cor
rupt 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. PolybiuS wrote 40 books; only of
them are left. Thirty books of Tacitus have
persisted. Twenty hooks of Pliny have per-
ished. Livy wrote l40 books; only 35 of them
remain. -Eschylus wrote 100 dramas; only
EuriDides wrote over 100; only l9 re-
main. Narro wrote the biographies of over 200
great Romans. All that wealth of biography
has perished. Ii good and valuable books have
such a struggle to live, what must be the tate |
of those that are diseased and corrupt and |
blasted in the very start? They will die as the |
frogs when the Lord turned back the plague. |
The work of Characterization will 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 illustr1ous dayi
Against every bad pamphlet send a good |
pamphlet; against every uncean picture send |
an innocent picture; against every scurrilous |
song send Christian song; against every bad |
book send good book: and then it will be as it |
WAS in ancient Toledo where the Toetum mis-
sails were kept by the saints in six churches
and the sacrilgious Romans demanded that
those missals be destroyed. and that the Roman
misSals be substituted; and the war came on,
and l am glad to say that the whole matter
having been referred to champions the cham
pioD of tile Toletum mIssals with blow
brought down the champion of the Roman
missals. SO it will be in our day. The good
literature the Christian literature, in its cham
pionship for God aud the truth, will bring
down the evil literature IN its championship for
the devil. l feel tlngl1ng to the tips of my
fingers and through all the nerves of my body,
and ali the depths of my soul the certainty of
our triumph. Cheer up, o, men and women
who are toiling for the purihcatIon of society!
Toll with your faces in the sunlight. If God
De LOT US NuO, WHO can De against US
A Fanaticism and a DeluSiOn.
Lady Hester Stanhope was the daughter of
the third Earl of Stanhope. and after her near
est friends had died she went to the far East,
took possession of deserted convent, throw
up fortresses amid the mountains OF Lebanon
opened the castle to the poor and the wretched
and the sick who would come il. She made
her castle home for the unfortunate. She
WAS deyout Christian woman. She was wait
ing for the coming of the Lord. She expected
that the Lord would descend in person, and she
thought upon II until it was too much for her
reason. In the magnificent stables of her pal
ace she had two horses grOomed and brided
and Saddleu and comparIsoEed, 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.
1t was q fanaticism and delusion: but there |
was romance, and there was splendor, and |
there was thrilling expectation in the dreaml |
rrOomed and saddied and bridled and capar- |
Suned 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 l |
saw. and behold white horse, and He that sat |
ON him had bow; and a crown was given unto |
him; and ID went forth conquerInG and to con. |
luer. And the armies which were in heaven |
followed Him white horses. and on His |
vesture and on His thigh were written, King
Of kings, and Lord of lords" Horsemen of |
heaven, mount. Cavarymen of God, ride on! |
Charge! 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!