Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1895-07-06
GATES TO PERDITION.
HOW THEY SWING IN TO GIVE EN-
TRANCE TO THE DOOMED.

Rev. DIR. Talmaec ON Impure Literature
the Dissolnte Dance, Indiscreet Attire
and Alcoholic Beverage Great Evils OF
society--God's Infinite Mercy.
NEW YORK, June 50-In his sermon
for today DR.. Talmagc chose momen-
tons and awful topic, ''Thc Gates Of
He'll. (" the text selected being the "a
miliar passage in Matthew xvi, is, 'sThe
gates of he'll shall not prevail against
lit. -
Entranccd, until we could endure nc
moro of the splendor, we have often
gazed at the shining gates, the gates Of
pearl, the gates Of heaven. But we are
for awhile to look in the opposite direc-
tion and see, swinging open and shut, the
gates of hell.
remember, when the Franco Prussian
war was going on, that stood one day
III Paris looking at the gates Of the TUT
leries, and was SO absorbed in the
sculpturing at the top of the gates-the
masonry and the bronze-tllat / forgot
myself, and after awhile, looking down,
saw that there were officers of the law
scrutinizinS me, supposing no doubt
was German and looking at those gates
for adverse purposes But, my friends,
we shall not stand looking at the out
side of the gates Of hell In this sermon
! shall tell you Of both sides, and ]
shall tell you what those gates arc
made OF. With the hammer of God IS
truth shall pound on the brazcn panels,
and with the lantern Of Gods truth /
shall flash light upon the shining
hinges.
A Mighty Gate For the Lost.
Gate the First Impure literature
Anthony Comstock seized 20 tons of
bad books, plates and letterpress, and
when our Professor Cochran of tho Poly
technic institute poured the destructive
acids on those plates they smoked in the
righteous annihilation, and yet great
deal of the bad literature of the day is
not gripped of the law. 1t is strewn in
your parlors. 1t is in your libraries
Some of your children read it at night
after they have retired, the gas burner
swung as near as possible to their pill
low. Much of this literature is under
the title of scientific information. A
book agent with one of these Internal
books, CLOSED over with scientific no.
menclature, went into 4 hotel and sold
in one day 100 copies and sold them all
to women! 1t is appalling that men
and women who can get through their
family physician all the useful infor-
nation they may need, and without any
contamination, should wade chin deep
through such accursed literature under
the plea of getting useful knowledge.
and that printing presses, hoping to be
called decent, lend themselves to this
infamy Fathers and mothers, be not
deceived by the title, medical works -
Nine-tenths of those books come hot
from the lost world, though they may
have ON them the names of the publish
ing houses of New York, Chicago and
Philadelphia. Then there is all the nov
elette literature Of the day flung over
the land by the million. As there are
good novels that are long, so, suppose,
there may be good novels that are short,
and so there may be good novelette,,
INT Il 10 tl,e axcart;op No one-,,a,l,
tb;s-po ono srctor,. tica111- roods tho
AVERAGE novelette, If tbis dav and icons
either integrity or y;rtna rho mot If
tboso uoreiattee arc WRITES, Nv hrol,op
down literary men for small compensa-
ton, on the principle that, having fail
od in l;ta,,t,,ro elev.+ed ond n,,re 10,
ho,,o 70 o,,,.,ood l., tl,a ;,,t,a a,,a ,,o,t,,
on this is n wide gate of bellt Everv
nonel is made ont Of n had bool, NV
ne,vsnanor Fve,v bingc is fine intor-
;o;nod tvDa ~ a co,~,,,,,f ,r;n+i,,o ,,.oss
Eyer holt or Iorl, of fbat oa+o- e ,,,aao
ONT If tbe nlate of an ,,nclea-, n;c+o,;,l
T., ot,e,. xva,.ls ,lero o,.o +, wilton, ,,,o,,
and woman in tha ITn;4ed sta+os +of,,x.
reading themselves info balli
When in one of our cities nrosnerops
fanilv foil into rims tbropgh tbe mis-.
dsea.. of enc If ;,s members Tho op,a1od
mother said 70 fine officer Of tbe law.
"Wbv 7 meyer s,,nnosed tbera was a,,v-
tbine, wrong Inever tbouobt tbere conid
he ANYTHING WRONG y Then she sat xveen-
ing in silence for some time and said !.
"Oh. I lave got il nowl know. 7
knovl found in her burean after she
went away n had hook That's what
slew her. !, These lemons booksellers
have gathered nm the catalogues of all
the male and female seminaries in the
United States, catalogues containing the
names and residences of all the students,
and circulars of death are sent to every
one, without any exception. Can You
imagine anything more beautiful? Their
is not young person, male CT female,
or an old person, who has not had offer
ed to him or her bad book or bad
picture Scour your house to find out
whether there are any of these adders
coiled ON your parlor center table, OF
cooled amid the toilet set on the dressing
case. / adjurc you before the sun goes
down to explore your family libraries
with an ineyQrablp sp1utjuy Remember
.,ia' one pau pooA " paI picture may ~