The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1900-08-02

'.''i w li'NiANi hlitI ndNln9 wandered
through q romance all night long in teasel.
lated halls OF castles. And your indus.
trious companion win he more unattrac.
tive than ever, now that YOU have walked
IN the romance through parks with
piumed Processes. or lounged in the arbot
with polished desperate. Oh. these con.
nrmed no, ! readers! They are untitled
Tor TINS lie. which is n tremendous dis.
cplne They know not how 60 go
through the furnaces of trial through
winch they must PASS. and they are nm.
htted for n world where everything we
gam 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 admxture of evil. Won have
read books that had two elements in
them-the good and the bad Which
struck YOU? The bad. The heart of most
peoDle Is like a sieve which lets the small
particles OF gold fall through. but keeps
the great cinders. Once in awhile there is
mind like n loadstonc which plunged
amid steel and brass filings. gathers un
the steel and rcpcls the brass. But it is
generally exactly the opposite If Won
attempt TO plunge through a hedge OF
burs TO get one blackberry, YOU will get
more burs than blackbcrres. You cannot
ahord to read bad book. however good
Nou are. You say. "The influence is insir.
nliicant.' ] tell you that the scratch OF
pm has sometimes produced lockiaw.
Alas, IT through CURIOSITY. rs many do
you prv into an evil book your curiosity
is as dangerous as that OF the man who
would take torch into a gunuowdcr mill
to see whether 1t would really blow M
or not
In menarere in New York man
put his arm through the bars OF blacl;
leopard's cage. The ANIMALS hide looked
so sleek and bright and beautiful. He inst
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 strokel Though it may
Jbe glossy and beautiful touch it not lest
You pull forth your soul torn aud bleed.
ing under the clutch of the leopard
But" you say, "how can find out
whether book is good or bad without
reading it?' There is awavs something
suspicious about a bad book. never
knew an eNception-somethug suspicious
IN the index or style of illustration This
venomous reptile always carries a warning
rattle
Much Of the impure pictorial literature
is most tremendous for ruin. There is no
one who can like good pictures better
than ! do. The quickest and most con.
densed way of impressing the public mind
is by a picture. What the painter does
by his brush for few favorites the en-.
graver does by his knife for the million.
what the author accomplishes hv fifty
pages the artist does by a flash The best
part of Il paintng that costs $4,000 YOU
may buy for ten cents. Fine paintings
belong to the democracy OF art You
DO wei to gather good pictures in your
homes
But what shall | say of the prostitution
OF art to purposes of iniquity? These
death warrants of the soul are at every
street corner They smite the vision OF
the young man with pollution Many
young man buying copy has bought his
eternal discontinue.
There may be 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
ghastlness and horror OF the great undo
ing.
The work of death that the wicked
author does in q whole book the bad en-.
graver may do on Il half side of n pic
torial. Under the guise of pure mirth the
young man buys one of these sheets He
unrolls it before his companions amid
roars of laughter but long after the paper
Is gone the result may perhaps be seen in
the blasted imaginations 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, buc not this moral strych-
nine for your soul! Pick not up the nest
of coiled adders for your pocket! Pat
ronize no newsstand that keeps theml
Have your room bright with good en-
cravings, but for these outrageous pictori-
ais have not one wall, one bureau, not
one pocket
\ man is no better than the pictures
he loves to look at. If your eyes are not
hanpt hp a
stand one can guess the character of
man by the kind OF pictorial he pur-
Chases.
When the devil fails to get man to
read a bad book, he sometimes succeeds
in getting him to look at Il bad picture
When satan goes a-lishing he does not
care whether it is long line or a short
ware of lacivious pictorials, young man,
in the name of Almighty God, | charge
YOU
Cherish good books and newspapers;
beware OF bad ones. The assassin of Lord
Russell declared that he was led into
crime by reading one vivid romance. The
consecrated 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
for fifteen minutes once read a bad book.
But ! need not 90 so far off. | could tell
you OF COmrade who was great hearted,
noble and generous. He was studying for
an honorable profession, but he had an
infdel book in his trunk, and he said TO
me one day, DE Witt, would you like
to read it," ! said, YES ] would" |
took the book and read it only for 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 it. He read it.
He reread it, After a while he gave up
religion as a myth. He gave up God as
nonentity. He gave up the Bible as a
fable He 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 inebriate. The
last | heard of him he was coming out of
an insane asylum, in body, mind and soul
an awful wreck | believe that one infdel
book killed him for two worlds.
Go home to-day and look through your
library, and then, having looked through
your library look on the stand where you
keep your pictorials and newspapers and
apply the Christian principles l have laid
down this hour If there is anything in
your home that cannot stand the test, do
not give it away. for it might spoil an
immortal soul. Do not sell it, for the
money you get would be the price of
kitchen hearth or in your back yard and
then drop the poison in it, and the bon
fire in your city shall be as consuming
as that one in Ephesus.
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