The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1900-08-04

impurities decent aud crime .ttr...
and hypocrisy nobel Cursed bs -.
books that swarm with libertines sns
desperadoes, who make the brain
the young people whirl with uS
lainy! Ye authors who write e."
ye publishers who print tbem
booksellers who distribute them. ,,sWv
be cut to pieces, if not by an aronsas
community, then at last by the bs,
OF Divine vengeance, which shall swaan
to the lowest pit Of perdition all -
murderers of souls. I tell -
though you may escape in this wor,d
you will be ground at last under en-
hoof of eternal calamities. and =
will be chained to the rock, and w.,
will have the vultures of desnsir
clawing at your soul, and those WHOM
you have destroyed will come aroma
to torment you, and to pour botts.
Goals of fury upon your head, and ~.
joice eternally in the cutlery of vor,
pain, and the howl of your damna.
ton. God shall wound the ba;rr
scalp of him that goeth on in hi,
trespasses."
The clock strikes midnight. A fa;,
form bends over a romance. tn.
eyes flash fire. The breath is ou,cL
and irregular. Occasionally the color
dashes to the cheek and then dies ont
The hands tremble as though a guar.
dian spirit were trying to shake IN.
deadly book out of the grasp. Hot
tears fall. She laughs with a shrill
voice that drops dead at its own
sound. The sweat on her brow is tina
spray dashed up from the river ~
DEATH The clock strikes four, and
the rosy dawn soon after begins to
look through the lattice upon tho
pale form that looks like a detained
specter of the night. Soon in a mad.
house she will mistake her ringlet,
for curling serpents and thrust her
white hand through the bars of the
prison and smite her head, rubbing
it back as though to push the scalp
from the skull, shrieking: "My
brain! My brain!" Oh, stand of
from that! Why will you go sound.
ing your way amid the reefs when
tnClC 10 odSh q Noob OSCdh Ill WHICH
you may voyage, all sail set?
Much of the impure pictorial liter
ature is most tremendous for ruin.
There is no one who can like good
pictures better than I do. The quick.
E est and most condensed way of i'm.
pressing the public mind is by pic.
t ture. What the painter does by his
!, - r. k~-u -----
graver does by his knife for the mil.
: lion. What the author accomplishes
e by so pages the artist does by a fash.
: The best part of a painting that costs
8 s. 10000 you may buy for ten cents.
: Fine paintings belong to the aris-
e tocracy of art. E~ngravings belong to
e the democracy of art. You do we'll
t to gather good pictures in your
: homes.
q But what shall 1 say of the prostitu.
9 ton of art to the purposes of iniquityi
L These death warrants of the soul are al
n every street r They smite the
vision of the young man with pollu,
ton. Many a young man buying a copy
l. has bought his eternal discontinue
e There may be enough poison in one bat
e picture to poison n soul and tina
u soul may poison ten, and ten fifty, ant
o fifty hundreds and the hundreds thou
e sands, until nothing but the measurin!
u line of eternity can tell the height an
r depth and ghastliness and horror o
v the great undoing. The work of dealt
e that the wicked author does in a Who'll
rs book the bad engraver may do on
H. half side of a pictorial. Under tn
N guise Of pure mirth the young ma
he buys one of these sheets. He unrolls
before his comrades amid roars
et laughter, but long after the paper
gone the result may. perhaps, be see
O.. in the blasted i~maginations of thoS
who saw it. The queen of death holds
US banquet every night, and these perio'
We icals are the invitation to her guests.
g., Young man, buy not this NOR
W strychnine for your soul! Pick not l
this nest of coiled adders for yo'
-, pocket! Patronize no news stand th'
:. keeps them. Have your room brig
with good e~ngravings, but for the
~ outrageous pictures have not one wa
not one bureau, not one pocket. m
-. is no better than the picture he Low
10 to look at. If your eyes are not pu
y" your heart cannot be. At the new
stand one can guess the character
man by the kind of pictorial he pr
oH chases. When the devil fails 10 get
II. man to read a bad book, he sometlm
as succeeds in getting him to look at
sat bad picture. When Satan goes a-ff
las ing he does not care whether 1t is
Dol long line or a short line, if he OF
'th draws his victim in. Beware OF iasc
ious EDITORIALS, young man, in !
name of Almighty God, / charge you
10 Cherish good books and newspape
re, Beware of bad ones. The assassin
Lord Russell declared thai he was
IN into crime by reading n vivid
nance. The consecrated John Ane
= James, than whom England never p
duced a better man, declared in his
en- age that he had eve yet got over
" evil effects of having for Is minu
once read a bad book. But / need
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