SM PGW DR. TALMAGE'S SERMON. Books and Pictures “Mroy of them also which used curious arts their books together, and burned hem before all men : and they counted the rice of them. and found it thousand fs ACTS 10: 10 ywonught fifty aco | P Al witli sins of iver. had been stirring up Ephesus lively sermons about the that place. Among the more s0Ime mportant results itizens brought out their BAD BOOKS, ic place made a bontire of } Il of Ephesian literature, into the flames. 1 hea standipg by, and saying. wa Here are seven thou hundrcd 11 you You nls ste, dollars’ do propose t If don’t vourselves, sell ymebody read | the people, “if these for us, they are not good for any se, and we shall stand and watch last leaf has turned to have done us a world of wall never do i | the flames crackle and , ny irie 1 one ot of this country 1s 1 else are not } 1 DOORS tl ashes, +} i ey nds, EAT DOXVFIRE Wel make a blaze two Many Id do well t i entire th the insufferabls nd let it and newspapers lanche of horror and ondon plague was no fx % iLO Of uly dead. ever rar tracks was not 1 Tm or large enough to and the putrefaction gathered up in newspapers of this | CAITY beastliness ich have been and twent kg ast ¥ years. is amid such his morning a question ng importance to vou and What circumstances books and news { we read? Yousee | hem together. A newspaper is « n a swifter and more portal hape, and the same rules which + pply to book-reading will apply vspaper reading, group MILY B UK WHAT SHALL WE READ? ur minds be the receptacle of that an author has a mind Shall there be no distinction the tree of life and the death ? Shall we stoop drink out of the trough 16 wickedness of men has filled poliution and shame? Shall we and +4 $5 } with will-o’-the-wisps across the swamps, when we might walk in the blooming gardens of God? Oh, no! For the sake of our present and everlasting wel- tare we must make an intelligent and ( ‘hristian cholee, Standing, as we do, liin-deep in fctitious literature, the juestion that young people are asking ¢, “Shall we read NOVELS?" [ reply, There are novels that are pure, good, Christian, elevating to the heart and enpobling to the life, But I have still farther to say that I believe that ninety-nine out of the one hundred novels in this day are baleful and de- structive to the last degree. A pure work of fiction is history and poetry combined, It Is a history of things wound us with the liceoses and the as- sumed names of poetry. The world can never pay the debt which it owes to such fictitious writers as Hawthorne ind McKenzie, and Landon and Hant, and Arthur and Marion Harland, and others, whose names are familiar to all, I'he follies ot high life were never bet ter exposed than by Miss Edgeworth, The memories of the past were never more faithfully embalmed than in the wiitings of Walter: Scott. - Cooper's Sr Ahan | novels aire healthful F breath of the seaweed, and the air the American forest, Charles Kingsley | has smitten the morbidity of the world, and led a great many to appreciate the poetry of sound health, strong muscles, and fresh air, Thackeray did a grand work in caricaturing the pretenders to | gentility and high blood. Dickens has built his own monument in his books, which are a plea for the poo and the anathema of injustice, Now, I say, books like these, read at ight times, and read in right propor- | tion with other books, cannot help but be ennobling and purifying; but, alas | for the loathsome and IMPURE LITERATUR! { that has come upon tl shape of novels, 1 bv redolent with the ol 1 the flow- com from brated publishing I'l are 8 country, i eshet ney OYCl and coming 111 i lint ing all the banks o Ion Sense i Some of houses | COL ing wit! our reli | your centre and blast with their infernal erations Y ou find the some of on tH Fille ures geil ¢ books elemer wents in th gol and the bad. Wh 3 I'he bad! The heart of most people is liké a sieve, which lets the small particles gold | fall through, but keeps the great cin- ders, Once in a while there 18 a mind i like a loads.one which, plunged amid steel and brass filings, gathers the steel and repels the brass, jut it is generally exactly the opposite, If you attempt to plunge through a hedge of burrs to get one blackberry, you will get more burrs than blackberries. You cannot afford to read a bad book, however good you are. You say, “The influence is msignificant.” 1 tell you | that the scratch of a pin has sometimes produced the 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 who would | take a torch into a gunpowder-mill | merely to see whether it wonld really | blow up or not. | Ina menagerie in New York, a man { put his arm through the bars of a bla ‘k leopard’s cage. The animal’s hide looked so sleek and bright and beauti- i ful, He just stroked it once. ich of up { hand torn, and mangled, and bleeding. | Oh, touch not evil, even with the faint- | est stroke! Though it may be glossy and beautiful, touch it not, lest you pull forth your soul torn and bleeding ander the clutch of the black leopard, | “But,” you say, “*howean 1 find out whether a book is good or bad without reading it?” There is always something suspicious about a bad book, 1 never knew an exception--something sus- picious in the index or style of illustra- tion, This venomous reptile always carries a warning rattle, Again, 1 charge you to stand off from all those BOOKS WHICH CORRUPT the imagination and inflame the pass —— I do not refer now to that kind which the villain has under waiting for the school to get and then, looking both ways 10 see that there is policeman offers the book to vour son on his | wav home, I do not speak of that kind | of literature, but that which evades the law and comes out in polished style, and with acute plot sounds the toesin that up all the baser passions of To-day, under the nostrils of there is a fetid veeking, unwashed enough to all the of public virtue, and smite ur sons and daughters as thie wing of a destroving angel, and it Is | time that the ministers of the Gospel blew the trumpet and rallied the fore { all armed to this a depraved literature tof a book hi out cont 10 around { block FOUR oul, land, literature, fountains POISON righteousness, great y against wiain from thos DOOR DY rhetorie sin attractiy ng anvhow, it dies howling world it Orpiol (rnd i Wi { § enougn poison in one and th and ten fifty, and and the hundreds thousands | LA “i Ol Satis. poison ter hundreds, eternity can and ghastliness ; The 1 1 3 unaoing. ' anthor wicked the bad engraver may de of a pictorial. Und mirth, the young man buvs one o He unrolls it before his rades amid roars of laughter, but long result av, perhaps, be seen in the blasted imagina { tions of those who saw it, The tof death holds a banquet every { and these periodicals are the to her guests, Young man, buy not this MORAL STRYCHNINE | for your soul! | coiled adders for your pocket! ize no newsstand that keeps them! Have your room bright with good en- gravings, but for these outrageous pic- torials have not one wall, not one bureau, not one pocket, A man is no better than the pictures he loves to look at. If your eyes are not pure, vour heart cannot be, At a newsstand one can guess the character of a man by the kind of pictorial he purchases. When the devil fails to get a man to read a bad book, he sometimes succeeds in getting him to look at a bad picture WHEN SATAN GOES A-FISHING he does not care whether it is a long line or a short line, if he only draws his victim in. Beware of lascivious pie- torials, young man, in the name of Almighty God 1 charge you. | Cherish good books and newspapers, i (Oes sheets, after the paper is gone the queen night, invitation Patron- sin of bad The Russell declared that wis lead crime by reading vivid romance. The consecrated John Angell James, than England never pro duced a better man, declared in his old i. that he had never yet got over the of having fo nomi read a bad book. ned Ww far off, 1, bE VR he Oe Lord whom day 11114 (aie e TO I could tell vou of A COMBRADI s great-hearted, noble, and gel He for profession; his trunk, lay, “DeWitt ad it? I said wk and rea WHO Wis ino HE Wa s] st ud but he 1 and CTOs, able book in One up sup God a8 4 none? the Bible as bi hurch of -» Abbotsford A ————— The Best Way for Farmers to Fight Dealers in Adulterated Goods. ook points on A.J. ( oe comparatively little maple syrup is made, it is possible fo go into any of the t of out finding fraud and adu i «1 as that practiced by the oleomargarine people, (Glucose selis for less than 20 cents per gallon. Mixed and doctored with a little maple flavoring, it 18 sold for $1.00, This glucose is made from corn. The grain is ground, the starch washed out and heated with sulphuric acid. The acid is afterward removed never knows how complete this removal is or whether any of the acid remains When poorly prepared-and the cons sumer never knows when this condition contains a virulent poison which will surely injure the sys- Makers of pure maple The sweet they prepare in its pure state will always command the ———— — Queer Things About Money. A woman §who bought an old- fashioned bureau at a second-hand store in Cincinnati discovered a secret drawer in it which contained $1,300 in gold and old bank bills The unsuccessful striver may lose his property, his situation, his means of livelihood; all has plans may come to naught and all his efforts be frus. trated; but until he lose his courage, be hes not lost all SUNDAY SCHOOL LESSON. BONDAY, May 22, 1987 The Passover. LESSON TEXT. ¥ x LESSON Tori rity and Deli eranee, GOLDEN TEXT YOR THE There i8 no other Ciod that can delive after thi irl Dan. 3:29 (Gl CJITALTEDR i { \ ITER On © i.1 ‘ Delivered Death. 2 Lamb Provided i 2 4 Iw £3 ' II. A Lamb Without Blemish i ¢ {He he Blood Sprinkled iil. The Flesh Eaten They sha at tl } ) 6 taking, The preserva provision; (2 » Glori- shall eat the flesh in that 1} Defended $ } i } hot by the blood: ¢ flesh, bs they shall inder of ed by t tier bondage; liverance, 111, TH} I. Terrific Doom: I will go through... and » all the firstborn (12 All the firstborn in the land of shall die (Exod. 11 : 0 PASSOVER Exod, 12 : land 20), Jn. chief of : 36). . +» the strength (Psa. 106 IL. Saving Blood: When I see the blood, T will pass over you (13). When he seeth the blood the will pass over { Exod, 12 : 23). This is my blood ... which is shed for many (Matt, 20 : 28), The blood of Jesus his Son cleanseth us {1Jobn 1:7). Loosed us from our sins by his blood (Rev. 1: 5). 115 Sparing Grace: There shall no plague be upon you to destroy you (13), I will spare all the place for their sake (Gen. 18 : 26), I will put a division betwoen my people and thy people (Exod, 8 : 23). A difference between the Egyptians and Israel (Exod, 11 : 7). all their Lord 1 eo i 1 will spare them, as 4 man spareth his own son (Mal, 3 / }. Xe Ready shall Glad to olx 11... smite all the Hix 1} An angry doom: (3 This matters 1 we ( ans of Egvpt simply as leight of hand, as we lay that land loits in legerde- we adopt the view lowed to assist his was afterwards al ['estament In of ““Jannes and J %) and the other complete ; they being « d to say, when the third plague oc- the finger of was also a thorough hamiliation f Egypt as represented in the person of its sovereign, It is said that in the progress of t plagues “‘Pharaoh’s heart was han 7:22: 8: 19); again, that hether sys n, as he n New POSSESSIONS, curred, ‘This is God.” There { hose ien- ed’ (Exod. 7 ;: a2; ‘haraoh hardened his heart’’ (Exod. 15, 32; 9: 34); and yet again, that Lord hardened the heart of Phar- ach’ (Exod. 9: 12: 11: 10). Allthese simple truth, that in the order of God's providense a heart that resists the pres- sure of God's hand upon it grows hard instead of tender under that pressure, At last, however, there was to come The first-born in every home m Egypt was to die in a single night; “from the firstborn of Pharaoh that sit. teth upon his throne, even unto the hind the mill ; and all the firstborn of That plague was to make Pharaoh and all his people urgent that the Hebrews, whose detention was a It is at this point that the lesson opens, with the Lord's directions for the guarding of the homes of the He brews against a share in the ue he was to send upon Egypt. The is Goshen in eastern Lower Egypt. The time is, according to the chronology of our Bible margins, B, C, 4901, There is a great deal of ches cheap counsel about being contented with one's lot. Out nu that contentment that is with the imperfect !| It is » sign of weakness, not of wisdom,
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