The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1891-03-13

A book! 1t took all the universities
QEthe past, all the martyr fires, all the
d valuations, all the battles, all the vic
tories, all the defeats, all the glooms, all
the brightnesses, all the centuries
to make it possible. A bookl 1t is the
chorus of the ages-it is the drawing
room in which king and queens, and or
ators and poets, and historians and phi
losophers come out to greet you. III
worshipped anything on earth I would
worship that. II l 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. 1t is with these good books that
we are to overcome corrupt literature.
Upon the frogs swoop with these eagles.
l depend much for the overthrow Of in
Ubiquitous literature upon the morality
Of books. Even good books have Q hard
struggle to live. Polybius wrote forty
books; only five of them left. Thirty
books of Tacitus have persisted. Tween
ty books Of Pliny have persisted. Livy
wrote 40 books; only thirty-five Of them
remain. Eschylus wrote 100
dramas, only seven of them re-
main. Euripides wrote over hundred,
only nineteen remain. Varro wrote
the biographies Of over seven hundred
great Romans. All that wealth of biog-
raphy has persisted. II good and valu-
able books have such a struggle to live,
what must be the fate of those that are
diseased and corrupt and blasted at 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 suprema-
cy Of the world May you and live to.
see the iliustrious dayl
Against every bad pamphlet send
good pamphlet; against every unclean
picture send an innocent picture, against
every scurrilous song send a Christian
song; against every bad book, send
good book; and then it will be as it was
in ancient Toledo, where the Totetam
missals were kept by the saints in six
churches, and the sacrilegius
Romans demanded that those
missals be destroyed, and
that the Roman missals be substi-
tuted: and the war came on, and am
glad to say that the whole matter hav-
ing been referred 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 the truth, will
down the evil literature in its cham
pionship for the devil. I feel tingling
to the tips of my fingers and through all
the nerves of my body, and all the
depths of my soul, the certainty OF our
triumph. Cheer up, o, men and wo-
men who are toiling for the publication
OF society! Toll with your faces in the
sunlight. "God be for us, who, who can
be against u.s."
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 a deserted convent, threw up for
tresses amid the mountains OF Lebanon,
opened the castle to the poor and the
wretched and the sick who would come
in. She made her castle home for the
unfortunate. She was devout Chris
tian woman. 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 sta
bles 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
He on one of them and she
on the other should start for
Jerusalem, the city OF the
Great King. 1t was fanaticism and a
delusion; but there was romance and
there was splendor, and there was thrill
ing expectation in the dream! All! my
friends, we need no earthly palfreys
groomed and saddled and bridled and
caparisoned for our Lord when He shall
come. The horse is ready in the equer-
ry of heaven, and the imperial rider is
ready to mount. "And / saw, and be-
hold white horse, and he that sat on
him had a bow, and a crown was given
unto him: and he went forth conquering
and to conquer. And the armies that
were in heaven followed him on white
horses, and on his vesture and on his
thigh were written, King of kings and
Lord of lords" Horsemen OF heaven,
mount! Cavslrymen of God, ride oni
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!