The Olneyville times. (Olneyville [Providence, R.I.]) 1887-1917, 1900-08-03

IN this world, you will be- ground At last
under the hoOi Of eternal cdlamltlcs, and
you viii be- chained 10 the rock, and You
will have the vulturcs OF despair claWing
at your soul, aud those whom you have
destroyed viii come around 20 torment
you and 10 pour hotter Goals OF fury upon
your head and rejoice ctcrudlly n the
Outory Of your pain and the howl Ot your
damnation "God shall wound the hairy
scalp Of him that gooth on IN his tres
passes
The clock strikes midnight. \ fair form
bends over a romance. The eyes fash fire.
The breath rs quick and irregular Occd
siOually the color da-hcs to the cheek and
then dies out. The hands trcmble a.
though guardian spirit was trying 10
shake the boOl, out Of the grasp. Hot tears
tall. She laughs with shrll voice that
drops dead al its own sound. The sweat
on her brow is the spray dashed mp from
the river OF death. The clock strikes I,
and the rosy dawn soon after begins 10
look through the lattice upon the pale
form that looks like detained specter
oi the night. Soon IN mddhousc she
will mistake her riuVcts for curling ser
pcuts, and thrust her white hand through
the bars of the prison and smitc her
head rubbing II back ~ though 10 push
the SCALP from the skull, shrickng. My
BRAIN Nv hraln,' Oh, stand of from
that, Why will YOU go sounding your way
amid the rects, when there is such vast
ocean IN which YOU may voyage, all san
set
Much OF the impure pictorial literature
is most tremendous for ruin. There ls no
one who can like good pictures better
than ! do. The quickest and most con.
dcnscd way of impresslng the public mind
is 10y a picture. What the painter does
10y his brush for few tavortcs the. en-
gravcr does by his knife for the million.
What the author accomplishcs hy fifty
pages the artist does by flash. The best
part OF painting that costs $4,000 you
may buy for ten cents. Fine paintings
belong TO the democracy of art, You
do well 20 gather good pictures IN your
homes.
But what shall say of the prostitution
OF art To purposes OF inlqmtyf These
death warrants of the soul are at every
street corner. They smltc the vision of
the young man with pollution. Many
a young man buying a copy has bought hIs
eternal discontinue
There may hc enough poison IN one bad
picture TO poison one soul, and that soul
may poison ten and fifty and the fifty
hundreds and the hundreds thousands
until nothing but the measuring light of
eternity can tell the height and depth and
ghastlincss and horror of the great undo
ing,
The work of death that the wicked
gravcr may do on hall side of a pic
toral. Under the guise ot pure mlrth the
young man buys one OF these sheets. lie
unrolS II before his companions amid
roars OF laughter, but long after the paper
Is gone the result may perhaps be seen IN
the blasted imagnatlons OF those who
saw It,
The queen of death holds a banquet
every night, and these periodicals are the
invitation to her guests.
Young man, buy not this moral stryCh-
nine for your soul Pick not up the nest
of coilcd addcrs for your pocket. Pat
rouizc no newsstand that Keeps them,
Have your room bright with good en-
cravings. but for these outrageous p'ctorl-
ais have not one wall. one bureau, not
one pocket.
\ man is no better than the pictures
hc loves 20 look at II your eyes are not
pure, your heart cannot bc. At news
stand one can guess the character OF
man 10y the kind of pictorial he pur-
Chascs.
When the devil fails to get a man TO
read a bad book he sometimes succccdN
iu getting him to look at q bad pictUl b"
When satan goes a.hshug, he does not
care whether It is a long line or a short
line II ne only draws his victim m. he
ware ot Ro,yious plctorlals, young man,
IN the name OF Almighty God, / charge
YOU
Cherish good books and newspapers;
beware ot bad ones The assassin ot Lord
Russell declared that he was led into
crime hy reading one vivid romance. The
cousccratcd John Angel James, than
whom England never produced better
man. declared in his old age that he had
never got over the evil effects OF having
Tor fifteen miuutcs once read a had book.
But | need not go So TAR of / could tell
YOU ot comradc who was great hearted,
noble and generous lie was studying tor
an honorable profession, bat nc had an
uhdcl book IN his trunk, and ne sand 60
me one dav. DE Witt. would YOU like
to read itt" | said, Yes; ! would. |
took the book and read 1t only Tor a few
minutes | was really startled with what
| saw there. and | handed the book back
to him and said You had better destroy
that book No, he kept Y. tic read II.
lie rcrcad IL. After a while hc gave up
a uoucutity. lie gave NJ the Bible as
fable lie gave up the church OF Christ
as a useless institution. He gave up good
morals as being unnecessarily stringent.
have heard OF him but twice IN many
years The time before the last | heard
OF him he was a confirmed mcorate' Inc
last | heard ot him he was coming out ot
an insane asylum. IN body. mind and soul
an awful wreck. | believe that one iuhdcl
book killed HIM for two worlds.
Go home to-day and loob through your
hhfarv. and then having looked through
your library. look on the stand where YOU
keen your pictorals and newspapers aud
apply the Christian principles | have laid
down this hour. II there Is anything M
your home that cannot stand the test. do
not give it away. for 10 might sloii an
immortal soul DO not sell u. Tor the
money YOU get would be the price ot
blood. but rather kindlc a fire on your
kitchen hearth or M your back yard and
then drop the poison in it, and the bon
hre In your city shall bc as consuming
a. that one I'M Ephcsus