The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1895-07-13
TIE GATES OF HE'LL.
Rev. DR.. Talmage Describes Their
Component Parts -.
Thcy Arc Constructed. with Great Skill. OF
Aliuring Materials for the HUI
msu Mind UnImbued with
Gods Grace.

the following discourse on 1.-THE Cate
of He'll" ut Mason City, Ia, sbasing !
upon the text:
The gates OF hell sha IL not prevail against II
! Matthew xvi. 10.
Entranced, until we could endure NJ
more of the splendor. we have Otter
! gazcd at the shining gates, the gate
/ of pearl, the gates of Heaven. But Wa
nre for awhile to look in the opposite
direction, and see swinging open ane
shut the gates of hell.
/ remember, when the Franco Ger
man war was going on, that stood
Ole day in Paris looking at the gates
of the Tuillcries, and l was so absorbed
In the sculpturing at the top of the
gates-the masonry and the bronze
that forgot myself, and after awhile
looking down, saw that there were
officers of the law scruitinizing me,
supposing, no doubt, was German,
and looking at those gates for adverse
purposes. But, my friends, we shall
not stand looking ut the outside Of the
gates OF hell. In this sermon shall
tell you of both sides, and / shall tell
you what those gates are made Of
With the hammer of Gods truth ]
shall pound on the brazcn panels, and
with the lantern of Gods truth ] shall
fash light upon the shining hinges.
Gate the first: Impure literature.
Anthony Comstock seized twenty tons
OF bad books, plates and letter press.
and when our Professor Cochran, OF
the Polytechnic institute, poured the
destructive acids on those plates, they
smoked in the righteous humiliation.
And yet a great deal of the bad litera-
ture of the day is not gripped of the
law. ItisssEewn in our parlors; it is
In your libraries. Some of your chill
.drcn Sread' it at night after they have
retired, the gas-burner swung as near
as possible to their pillow. Much of
this literature is under the title of sci
entific information. A book agent
with one of these Internal books,
CLOSED over with scientific nomen-
clature, went into hotel and sold in
one day a hundred copies, and sold
them all to women! 1t is appalling
that men and women who can get
through their family physician all the
useful information they may need, and
without any examination, should wade
chin deep through such accused liter
nture under the plea of getting
useful knowledge, and that print
ing 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 from the lost world, though they
may have on them the names of the
houses of New York, Chi
cago and Philadelphia. Then there is
all the novelette, 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
shat arc short, and so there may be
good novelette,, but it Is the exception
No one mark this-no one system
ntically reads the average novelette, of
this day and keeps either integrity or
virtue The most of these novelettes
are written by brolien-down literary
men for some compensation, on the
principle that, having failed in litera-
ture elevated and pure, they hope to
succeed in the tainted and the
nasty. Oh! this is wide gate
Of hell. Every panel is made
put of q bad book, or newspaper.
Every hinge is the interjoined type OF
! corrupt printing press. Every bolt
Or lock of that gate Is made out of the
plate of an unclean pictorial. In other
words, there are a million men and
in the United States to-day
,eading themselves into hell! When,
IN one of our cities, prosperous fam
ly fell into ruins through the mis-
leeds of one of its members, the |
amazed mother said to the officer Of
he law: "Why, Inever supposed there
vas anything wrong. 1 never thought
here could be anything wrong" Then
she sat weeping in silence for some
time, and said: ''Oh! have got it
now! l know. know! I found in her
bureau, after she went away, bad |
book. That's what slew her." These
eprous booksellers have gathered up
The catalogues Of all the male
md female seminaries in the
United States, catalogues contain
ng the names and residences of all
The students, and circulars of death
IRE sent to every one, without any ex-
,eption. Can you imagine anything
more dreadful? There is not a young
person, male or female, or an old per-
son, who has not had offered 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 comfortable, or coiled
amid the toilet set on the dressing
case. l adjure you before the sun
goes down to explore your family
libraries with an memorable scrutiny
that one bad book or bad
picture may do the work for eternity.
| want to arouse all your suspicious
about novelties. want to put you
on the watch against everything that
may seem like surreptitious corre-
spondence through the post Office.
want you to understand that impure
literature is one of the broadcast, high
est, mightiest gates of the lost
Gate the second: The dissolute
dance. You shall not divert me to the
general subject of dancing. Whatever
you may think Of the parlor dance or
the methodic motion of the BODY to