The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1900-08-15
heveled. countenance vacant. cheeks pale,

quick. Ihe c; tnat was plaln peiore
will be palmer after having wandered
lated halls of castles. And your indus.
trious companion will be more unattrac..
tive than ever, now that you have walked
in the romance through parks with
plumed princesses, or lounged in the arbor
with polished desperado Oh, these con.
firmed no. | readers They are unified
for this life, which is tremendous. dis.
cipline. They. know not how to 60
through the furnaces of trial through
which they must pass, and they are un-
fitted for a world where everything we
gain we achieve by hard and long continu-
ing work.
Again, abstain from all those. books
which, while they have some good things,
have also an admixture Of evil. You have
read books that had two elements in
them-the good and the bad. Which
struck You? The bad. The heart of most
people is like sieve which let's the small
particles of gold fall through. but keeps
the great cinders. Once in awhile there is
amid steel and brass filings, gathers up
the steel and repels the brass. But it is
generally exactly the opposite. If you
attempt to plunge through hedge OF
burs to get one blackberry, you will get
more burs than blackberries. You cannot
afford to read a bad book. however. good
YOU are. You say, "The influence is insig.
nifcant." I tell you. that the scratch Of
pin has sometimes produced lock-jaw.
Alas, if through curiosity, as many do.
you pry into an evil book your curiosity.
is as dangerous as that OF the man wnn ~,
would take torch into gunpowder mill
to see whether it would really blow up
i or not! ~.
A. Tn a menaperie in New York a. man
put his arm through the bars Of a black
leopard's cage. The animals hide looked
SO sleek and bright and beautiful. He just
stroked it once. The monster seized him.
and he drew forth hand torn and man.
gled and bleeding. Oh. touch not evil
with. the faintest stroke! Though it may
be glossy and beautiful. touch it not lest
ing under the clutch of the leopard.
"But." you. say, chow can I find out
whether book is good or bad without
reading it," There. is always something
suspicious about bad book. never
knew an exception something suspicious
in the index or style Of illustration. This
venomous reptile always carries warning
Again. abstain from those books which
are apologeticsof crime. It is sad thing
that some ofsthe best and most beautiful
bookbindery and some of the finest rhet.
oric have been brought to make sin at.
tractive. 3 Vice is horrible thing any
how. 1t is born in shame. and it dies
bowling in the darkness. In this world
it is scourged with whip of scorpions,
but afterward the thunders of Gods wrath
pursue it across a boundless desert, peat.
ing 1t with ruin and woe. When you come
to paint earnallty, 90 not naint IL as iook.
ing from behind embroidered CURTAINS OF
through iattiee OF royal seragnoi % nu; IA ds
writhng in the agonles OF city hospltal.
Cursed be the books that try to make
i impurity decent and crime attractive ana
Hypocrisy noble! Cursed be the DOCKS
that swarm with llbertlnes and; despera
does.sw make the brain OF the young
people whiri with Vlllalny! re autnors
who write them; ye puplishers WHO prlnt
them, vel oksellers who distribute them;
shall be cutie pieces, II not. py an aro9sea
community, then at last by the nan OF
divine vengeance, which shall sweep TO the
lowest nit Of perdition all ye murderers OF
souls. l tell you. though you may escape
in this world, you will be ground at last
under the .hoof of eternal calamnitles; and
you will be chained to the rock: anc yon
will have the vultures of despair cawin2
at your soul. and those whom you have
destroyed will come Ground to torment
you and to pour hotter Goals OF fury upon
your head and rejoice eternally IN the
outcry OF your pain anu clie nov VI ~.
damnatiop. God shall shall, wound the Si. nary tras
scalp OF him that goeth on IN his tres
passes: -,
Much OF the impure plctoriaI nterature
Is most TREMENDOUS for rum: lnere Is nc
one VINO can like g9od pictures ueIIel
than | do. Inc qulcKesti ana In3se con
densed way OF lmPTeSsins the puolc mlnu
IS by a picture. Wnat tne IhIn't[ e ooes o
by his brush Tor rev 1avoriGes tng en-
graver does by, his knife for the million. on
What the author aecomPaiishheS Pah 19S, Ty lily lily
pages the artist ooes oy % .as'i s,o aHo UeS, ,.n
part OF paintlng that COSTS slO,o3o YOU
may buy TOT ten cents. fine paintsngs
belong, to the democracy OF arr: LOU
DO well to gather good pictures IN your
homes.
| But what shall say OF the prostl[Mtion M,
Of art to purposes OF lniqulty! Ihesc
deatn warrants OF the soul nle a. eNelf
street corner They ,smite, the vision OF
the young man with poiutlon. Many
young man buyIng copy mas houSht his
eternal discontinue.
There may be enough poison IN one pau
picture 10 poison one s3,' SOU alt ta' t Sst,, SG,
may poison ten ana MY ana t Lne my
handreas anu tne nu.ureuS n'an,;,G ."G GGi't of
until nothlng nut the measuring ILL, rEn. ~ ",
eternity can tell the heignt aru ueptn uhu
ghasthness and horror Oh thc great unuo'
ing, ~ -, ..,,
The work OF death thaG the wicked
author does IN whole 6ook the oad en-
graver may 90 on a nan sue vi a p. pt'.
torial. Under tie guise o; pure, mlrth the
young man buys cne. OF these sheets. lie
unrolls it before, his eomppanions amid
roars of laughter; but long after the paper
is gone the result may perhaps he seen mn IN
the blasted imagnat'ons OF those who
saw it. . ,u LII. ,o,.
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