The Red Cloud chief., 1891-03-20

end Measure Il, the height a q. fhs
depth Of IL, the langth Of It. the breadth
Of it. You cannot do It. Examine the
paper and estimate tho progress made
from the time Of the impressions on
clay, and then on 20 the bark Of the
trees, and from the bark Of trees "a
papyrus, and from papyrus 70 the hide
Of wild beasts. and from the hide Of
wild beasts on down until the Iuiraclcs
Of our modern paper manufactures. and
then sec the paper, white and pure y
an infants soul waiting for Gods in
scription- A book 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 If lead. and the Sipaiac
commands were written on tables Of
stone, on down 70 Hoes perfecting pr esA
A book! 1t took all the universe ties
OF b past. al the martyr fires all the
civilizations, all the battles, all the vic
tories, all the defeats all the glooms, all
the brigh:nesses, all the centuries 70
make it possible. A book. il Is the
chorus Of the ges-it is the drawing
room in which kings and queens, and
orators and poets, and historic rs and
philosophers come out 20 greet you IL
] worshiped anything on earth, / would
worship that II ] burned incense IN
any idol, ] would build an altar to thai
Thank God for good books. healthfrI
books, inspiring books, Christian boots
books of men. books Of women. boob. OF
God IL Is with these good books that
we are TO overcome corrupt literature.
Upon the frogs sweep with these eagles
] depend much for the overthrow of
ubiquitous literature upon the mortality
of books Even good bodxs have
a hard struggle TO live. Polybius
wrote forty books; only five of them
left Thirty books of Tacitus nave
persisted. Livy wrote l4O books; onlt
thirty-fve Of them remain. Aschylu-
wrote 100 dramas; only seven remain
Euripides wrote over a hundred: oni'
nineteen remain Earro wrote the b.
~ographics Of over seven hundred grca0
Romans All that wealth Of biography
has perished. II 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 will die - the frogs
when the Lord turned back the plague.
The work Of Christianization Will 20
on until there will be moth ny lef, but
good books, and they will take the SUI
premacy Of the world
Against every bad pam phlet send .
good pamphlet; against every u~nclean
picture send an innocent picture; against
every scurrilous song send a Christian
song; against every bad book send q
good book; and then IL wilrb as 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 DE
substituted; and the war came on, and
] am glad - 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, ia
It's championship for God and the truth,
will bring down the evil literature in
it's championship for the devil. / feel
tingling 10 the tips OF fingers and
through all the nerves Of my body. and
all the depths % my soul, the certainty
OF our triumph. Cheer up, .. men aud
wonen who are toiling for the purifica-
ton of society. Toll with your faces in
| tho Sru-lf,ht sTf CD D.. Cor ,C xrbn
who can be against u.s."
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 wretched
and the sick who would come IN. She
made her castle a home for the unfor-
tunate. She was a devout Christian
woman. She expected hat the Lord
would descend in person, and she
thought upon il until it was too much
for her reason. In the magnificent
stables of her palace She 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. Ii was
a ~fanaticism and u deiusion; but there
was romance, and the re was splendor.
n there was thrilling expectation in
the dream. All. my friends, we need
NO earthly palfreys sroomed 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 10
mount And ] saw. and behold n
white horse, and he that sat on him had
a bow; and q crown was given unto
him; and he went forth ~conquering and
10 conquer. And the armies that were
in Heaven followed him on white
horses, and on his vesturc and on his
thigh was written: King of kings, and
Lord of lords" Horsemcn Of Heaven,
mount, Cavalrymen Of God, ride on.
Charge. Chargel until they shall he
hurled back on their haunches-the
black horse of famine. and the red horse
of carnage, and the pale horse of death
Jesus forever.