Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1900-08-03

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lated halls of castles. And your indus
tr;ous companion will be more unattrac..
tive than ever, now that you have walked
in the romance through parks WIN
nlumed princesses, or lounged in the aroor
with polished desperate. Oh, these con,
.Grmed mol readers! They are unfltted
for this life, which is tremendous as
cipline. They know not how TO go
through the furnaces OF triai through
which they must pass, and they are un-
fitted for a world where everything we
gain we achieve by hard and long contihu'
ing work - H. bools
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. Winch
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
a mind like loadstone which, plunged
amid steel and brass filings, gathers up
fhe steel and repels the brass But it is
generally exactly the opposite. u you
attempt to plunge through a hedge; OF
burs to get one blackberry, you Will get
| more burs than blackberries. You cannot
afford to read bad book, however good
Won are You say, "The influence is insig:.
nificant." l tell you that the scratch OF
pin has sometimes produced lock-Jaw'
| Alas, if through curiosity, as many 40,
YOU pry into an evil book your curiosity
is as dangerous as that OF tne man MIL Mil
| would take torch into gunpowder NH
to see whether it would really blow up
or not! ~ "
Tn menagerle in New York man
mt his arm through the bars OF black
| ieopard's cage. The animals hide looked
so sleek and bright and beautiful. lie Just
stroked it once. The monster seized hlm'
and he drew forth hand torn ana man,
With With the faintest stroke Though it may
be glossy and beautiful, touch it not lest
| Won null forth your soul torn and bleed'
inc under the clutch of the leopard,
But" YOU say, chow can | find out
whether book is good or bad without
reading it," There is always something
suspicious about bad book. never
knew an exception-somethlng SUSPICIOUS
in the index or style of illustration. his
venomous reptile always carries warning
rattle.
Much of the impure pictorial literature
is most tremendous for ruin. There rs no
one who can like good pictures better
than | do. The quickest and most con,
densed way of impressing the public MIND
, is by picture. What the painter does
by his brush for a few favortes the ne, en-
praver does by his knife for the million
What the author accomplishes by fifty
pages the artist does by Hash. The best
part of painting that costs $4,000 you
NAV buy for ten cents. Fine paintings
belong to the democracy OF art. You
do we'll to gather good pictures IN your
homes. ,.,
But what shall j say of the PROSTITUTION
of art to purposes OF lniqinty ines.
death warrants OF the soul are ao ever,
treet corner They smite the VISION o.
the Young man with pollution. MANY
Young man buying a copy has bought his
eternal discontinue.
There nav be enough poison in one baf
| picture to poison one soul, and that sou
NAV poison ten ard fifty and the MY
: hundreds and the hundreds thousand
until nothing but the measuring liHhI
eternity can tell the height and depth an'
phastliness and horror of the great undo
l ing. , -, i'll,
e The work of death that the wicke'
e author does in whole book the bad en-
a grayer NAV do on half side of a pic
S torial. Under the guise OF pure, mlrth Tn IN
y young man buys one OF these sheets. II
+ unrolls it before his companions ami
: roars of laughter, but long after the paps
: l. zone fine result NAV perhaps be seen 1
s the blasted imaginations OF those WI
n The queen of death holds a. banqu.e
8 every night, and these periodicals are IN
invitation to her guests. -,
t Young man. buy not this moral strycf
= nine for your soul! Pick not up the mes
It of coiled adders for your pocket! IA
? ronize no newsstand that keeps thehn
s. Have your room bright with good Ell
d cravings. but for these outrageous plctor
IS ais have not one wall, one bureau, nc
y one pocket.
If he loves to look at. If your eyes are ne
o pure. your heart cannot be: At new
e. stand one can guess the character OF
If man by the kind of pictorial ne pu
g chases.
u When the devil fails to get man
;! read bad book, he sometimes, succeed
l. in getting him to look at a bad pictur
IS When satan goes a-fshng, he does NJ
g care whether it is long line or a sh0
Re line if he only draws his victim IN b
re ware of lacivious pictorials, young ma
n in the name of Almighty God, L chari
!; you! ,nor
ig beware of bad ones. The assassin OF tol
', Russell declared that he was led IN n,
lie consecrated John Angel James, thu
'e whom England never produced bett
1T man. declared in his old age that ne hi
" never cot over the evil effects of havil
st for fifteen minutes once read bad boo
~ But I need not 90 so far off. | could t.
OF Won of a comrade who was great,hearte
ID noble and generous He was studying
10 an honorable profession, but ne nag
u inidel book in his trunk ana ne ga saiG il
ID me one day, "De Witt; would you i !,
I'd TO read it%' | said, Eyes; | would.
IL took the book and read it only for f
re minutes I was really startled with VIII
e. I saw there. and handed the book ba
eI to him and said, "You had better destr
it. that book" No; he kept it. He read
re He reread it. After while he gave,
OF religion as a myth. He gave up GOD
ID nonentity. He gave up, the biole -, as
ne fable. He gave up the church OF Onr
az as a useless institution. lie gave up go
if. I have heard of him but twice in ma
IT. wears. The time before the last L hea
yb of him he was confirmed inebrlate. L
u last | heard of him he was coming out
ne an insane ASYLUM, in body, mind and sc
nd an awful wreck. / believe that one lnflt
ay book killed him for two worlds.
is Go home to-day and look through yo
library, and then, having looked throu
at your library. look on the stand wnere y
n apply the Christian principles l have Ia
he down this hour. If there is anything
as vour home that cannot stand the test,
et NOT give it away, for it might spoil
nd Immortal soul. Do not sell it, for
I'M money YOU get would be the price
ne blood. but rather kindle a fire on yc
tc kitchen hearth or in your back yard a
ell then drop the poison in 1T, and Inc D:
OF fire in your city shall be as consumi
20 as that one in Ephesus.