Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1891-03-13


found argument try TO PERSUADE 1t that 1t
Is morally wrong TO bite and TO sting and
10 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 argu-
ment for cobra Is Il shotgun. and the only
ar yument for these dealers in impure ltor-
allure is the clutch of the poi CO and bean
soup in pen.tentiary. The lawt The
lawl invoke 10 consummate the work
80 Rrandly begunl
Another way in which we are To drive
back this plague Of Egyptian frogs Is by
filling the minds of our young people with
a healthful literature. l do not mean to
say that all tho books and newspapers In
our families ought 10 be religious books
and newspapers. or that every song ought
to be sung 10 the tune Of ''Old Hundred"
have no sympathy with the attempt TO
TO make young old. would rather Join in
q crusade to keep the young young. Boy
hood and girlhood must not be abbreviated.
But there are good books, good histories,
good Ogrdphies, good works OF Acton,
good books of all sty les with which we are
TO fill the IN 'nds of the young, so that
there will be no more room for the useless
and the Vicious thar there is room for
CnaH IN OuSnel measure winch
is already filed with Michigan wheat.
A good book can exaggerato its
power? Benjamin Franklin said that his
reading of Cotton Mather Essays To Do
Good in childhood gave him holy aspra-
tons for the rest of his life. George Law
decl red that biography he read in caild-
! hood gave him all his subsequent propen-
sites. Oh the power of a good book! But.
alasl for the influence of bad book. John
Angel james, than whom England never
had holier minister, stool IN his pulpit
IN Il rmingham and SAID twenty-five
years ago | ID loaned to me an infamous
book. He would loan it only fifteen MN
utes and then had TO give it back. but
that book has haunted me like a spectre
ever since. / have in agony o. soul and
on my knees before God, prayed thaG he
would obliterate from. my soul tho memory
! of IL; out shall carry the damage OF 1t UNI
| Ill the day OF my Ceath." The ass .ssin of
| Sir William Russell declared that he got
the lisp Ration for his crime by reading
what was then new and popular novel,
ia TX Sheppard" Homer's "ll.ad made
| Alexander the Warrior. Alexander said
so. The story of Alexander made Julius
Caesar and Charles XII, both men of blood.
Have you in your pocket or in your trunk,
or in your desk at business IA bad book, a
bad picture bad pamphlet? In Gods
name ! warn you to destroy it.
| We see so many books we do not under
! stand what "a book is Stand II on end
Measure it, the height of it, the depth of
it, the length OF it, the breadth of it. You
cannot do it. Examine the paper and e5-
innate the progress ma @ from the time OF
the impressions on clay, and then on to
| the bark OF trees, and from the bark OF
trees TO plpyrus, and from papyrus 10 the
! hide OF Wild beasts. and from the hide of
! Wild beasts Oh down until the miracles of
our modern paper manuiactor es, and then
see the paper, white and pure as an in
fants soul, waiting for Gods inscription.
A b okl Examine the type of it,. Exam
inc rhe printing Of it and see the progress
| from the time when Solons laws were
written on oak pl.nks, and Hesiod poems
were written on tables of lead, and the
| Siniatic commands were written on tablei
| OF stone, on down to Hoes perfecting
| printing press. A booki 1t took all tho
! universities of the past, all the marty
fresS all the civilizati rs. all the battles,
all the victories, all the defeats. all th1
! gloCms, all the brightnesses, all tho csu.
! turGes TO make IL possible. A book " IS
the chorus OF the ages-it is the drawing
room in which kings and queens and ora
tors and poets and historians and philoso-
! piers coC,e out to greet you. If 1
worshlpped anything on earth
would worship that If l burned in
cense to any idol, would build
an altar - that. Thank God for
good books, healthful bOo6s, inspiring
| books, Christian books, books of men,
books of women, Book Of God. 1t is with
these COOL books that we are to overcome
corrupt literature. Upon the frogs swoop
the eagles. depend much for the overthrow
of iniquitou3 literature upon the morality
Of books. Even good cooks have hard
struggle to live. Polybius wrote forty
books; only five of them left. Tn rty
books of Tdcitus have persisted. Twenty
books of Pliny have persisted. Livy wrote
one hundred and forty BOOKS; only thirty
five of them rerain. Kschylus wrote one
hundred dramas; only seven remain.
Euripides wrote over hundred; only
nineteen remain. Varro wrote the biogra-
phies Of over seven hundred great Romans
All that wealth of biography has persisted
If good and valuable books have such
struggle TO live what must DO the fate of
those that are diseased Ppd corrupt aud
blasted at the very start? They will die
10 tuS AIOSS WITCH Iuc IOIu bdCh
the plague. The work OF Characterization
will go on until tn re VIII be nothing left
but good books, and they will take the
supremacy of the world. May you and l
live TO see the illustrious davl
Against every bad pamphlet send a good
pamphlet; against every unclean picture
send an innocent picture; against every
scurrilous song send n Christian song;
against every bad book send good book;
and then it will be as it WIS in ancient
Toledo, where the Toletum miss us were
kept by the saints in six churches, and
sacreligious Romans demanded that these
NJ ssals be destroyed and that the Roman
missals be subst tuted and the war came
on and am glad to say that the whole
matter having boon referred TO champ ons
the champion OF the Toletum missals with
one blow brought down the champion of
the Roman missdls. So il will DO ia literl-
ture today. The good literature, the Chris
tian literature, in its champ onship for God
and the truth. will bring down the evil lit
erature in its championship for the devil.
feel tingl.ng TO the tips of my fingers and
through all the nerves OF my body, and all
tho depths of my soul, the certainty OF our
triumph. Cheer un q men and women who