The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1891-03-13


her That book saved my soul ]
loaned the book to aII.Eny neighbOrs and
they read II and they were converted
70 God, and we had = revival OF religion
which swept through the whole com
znunitv. We built church and called
pastor. You see that sPire yOnder, don't
youg That church was built as the re
suit of that book yOu gave me thirty
years ago O, the power OF good
book, But, alas! for the influence OF a
bad book
The assassin of Sir William Russell
declared that he got the inspiration for
his crime from reading Jack Shep-
pard- Homer's HAD made Alex
ander the warrior. Alexander said So
The story of Alexander made Julius
Caesar and Charles III both men OF
blood
Another way in which we shall fight
back this corrupt literature and XIII the
frogs is by rolling over them the
Christian printing press, which shall
give plenty of healthful reading to all
adults Abstain from all those books
which, while they have some good
things about them have also an admix-
ture OF evil
But, - you say, ''hOw can md out
whether a book Is good or bad without
reading it?" There IS always some
thing suspicious about bad book
never knew an exceptions mething
suspicious in the index or style OF Illus
tration- This venemous reptile almost
always carries q warning rattle
We see so many books we do not I'M
derstand what a book is Stand it on
end Measure it, the height of it, the
depth of it, the length Of 1t, 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 to the bark of the
| 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 in
| scriPtion- a 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
| planISs, and HesiOd's poems We're writ
| ten on tables Of lead, and the Sinaitic
| commands were written on tables Of
| stone, on down to Hoes perfecting press.
A book! 1t took all the universities
| 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 brightnesses, all the centuries to
| make it possible. A book! II 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 to greet you If
I wOrshiped anything on earth, I would
| worship that. If / burned incense TO
| any idol, I would build an altar to that.
| Thank God for good books, healthful
| books, inspiring books, Christian books,
/ books of men, books OF women, book of
| God II is with these good books that
! we are to overcome corrupt literature.
! Upon the frogs swOOp with these eagles.
I oh -
| Ubiquitous literature upon the mortality
| of books Even good books have
| a hard struggle to live. Poly bus
wrote forty books; only five OF them
left Thirty books of Tacitus have
persisted. Livy wrote 40 books; only
thirty-five of them remain H2schyIus
wrote 100 dramas; OnLg seven remain
Euripides wrote over a hundred; only
nineteen remain VarrO wrote the bi.
OgraPhies of over seven hundred great
| Romans. All that wealth of biography
has persisted. If good and valuable
books have such a struggle to live, what
must be the fate of those that are dis
eased and corrupt and blasted at the
very start? They viii die as the frog,
when the Lord turned back the plague
/ The work OF ChristianizatiOn will 20
on until there wall be nothing left but
good books, and they viii take the su
premacy of the world.
/ 30 II Will De II our day The gOOC
. literature, the Christian literature, II
: its championship for God and the truth
! viii bring down the evil literature il
its championship for the devil
Lady Hester StanhOpe was the daugh
ter of the third earl of Stanhope, anS
after her nearest friends had died sht
went to the far east, took possession O
a deserted convent, threw up fortresse
amid the mountains Of Lebanon, OpeneS
the castle to the poor and the vretches
and the sick who would come in Sh,
Z made her castle a home for the unfor
{ tunate- She was a devOut Christian
= woman She expected that the Lor,
: would descend in person, and sh,
thought upon it until It was too nucl
for her reason In the magnificen
{ stables of her palace she had two horse
S grOOned and bridIed and sadd1ed an,
4 | caParisOned, and all ready for the da,
$ in which her Lord should descend an,
= He on one Of them and she on the othe