Greenfield Republican, Greenfield, Hancock County, 13 March 1891 — Page 3
THE THIRD GREAT CU98E CP
Now that plague of froga has come back upon the earlh. It is abroad to. day. It is smiting this Nation. It eomes in the shape of corrupt literature. These frogs hop into the store, the shop, the office, the banking house, the factory, into the home, into the cellar, into the garret, on the drawing room table, on the shelf of the lib' ary. While the lad is reading the bad book the teacher's face is turned the other way. One of these frogs hops upon the page. While the young woman is reading the forbidden novelette after retiring at night, reading by gaslight, one of these frogs leaps upon the page. Indeed, tl.ey have hopped upon the newsstands of the couutry, and the mails at the postoffice shake out into tetter trough hundreds of them. The plague has taken at different time9 possession of the country. It is one of the most loathesome, oue of the most frightful, one of the most ghastly of the ten plagues of our modern cities. There is a vast number of books and newspapers printed and published tfhich ought never to see the light. They are filled with a pestilence that makes the laud swelter with a moral epidemic. The greatest blessing that ever came to this Nation i3 that of an elevated literature, and the greatest •courge has been that of unclean liter, ature. 1 his last has its victims in all occupations and departments. It has helped to fill insane asylums and penitentiaries and alms houses and dens of lhame. Tbe bodies of this infection lie in the hospitals and in the graves, while their souls are being tossed over Into a lost eternity, an avalanche of hcrror and despair. The London plague was nothing to it. That count. Edits victims by thousands, but this moral pest has already shoveled its millions into the charnel bouse of the morally dead. The longest rail train that ever ran over the Erie or Hudson tracks was not long enough nor large enough to carry the beastliness and khe putrefaction which have been gathered up in bad books and newspapers Df this land in the last twenty years. The literature of a nation decides the Fate of a nation. Good books, good morals. Bad books, bad morals.
I begin with the lowest of all the literature, that which does not even pretend to be respectable—from cover to cover a blotch of leprosy. There tire many whose entire bjsinass it is to dispose of that kind of literature, irhey display it before the school boy %a«iiis way home. They get the cata. logues of schools and colleges, take tbe oames and postofflce addresses, and send their advertisements and their eirculars and their pamphlets and their books to every one of them.
In the possession of these dealers in bad literature were found 900,000 names and postoffice addresses to whom It was thought it might be profitable to send these corrupt things. In the year 1873 there were 165 establishments engaged in printing cheap, corrupt liters ftture. From one publish ng house Iheie went out twenty different styles of coi rupt books. Although over 30 Ions of vile literature have been de»troyed„ by tbe Society for the Suppression of Vice, still there is enough of it lelt in this country to bring down upon us the thunderbolts of an incensed God.
In the year 1868 the evil had become eo great in this country that the Congress of the United States passed a law forbidding the transmission of bad literature through the United States mails but there were large loops in tbac law through which criminals might crawl out and the law was a desd failure—that law of 1868. But in 1876 another law was passed by the Congress of the United States against the transmission of ccnupt literature through the mails—a grand law, a po-
that law multitudes of these scoundrels have been arrested, their property confiscated, and they themselves thrown into the penitentiaries, where they belonged.
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A Plagne of th- land of Eeypt With Us 1 l»r y— now it an be Driven Baok— Dr. Talmage's Sermon.
Dr. Talma^e preached at Brooklyn and New York, Sunday and Sunday eight, the third of the Beries on the "Plagues of the Great Cities." Text, Exjjdus vifl., 6*7. He referred at iome length to the plague of frogs in Egypt, and then said
tent law, a Christian law—and under yesterday may have decided you for time and for eternity, or it may be a book that may come into your posses* sion to-morrow.
Wake vp tbe law. Wake up all its penalties. Lei every court room on thiB subject be a Sinai thunderous and aflame. Let the convicted oiTenders be sent for the full term to Sing Sing or Harrisburg.
I am not talking about what cannot be done. I am talking about what is being done. A great many of the printing presses that gave themselves en irely to the publication of vile literature have been stopped or have gone into business less obnoxious. What has thrown off, what has kept ol tbe rail trains of this country for some time back nearly all the leprous periodicals? Those of us who have been on the railroads have noticed a great change in the last few months and the last year or two. Why have nearly all those vile periodicals been kept off the rail trains for sometime back? Who effected it?
These societies for the purification of railroad literature gave warning to the publishers and warning to railroad companies, and warning to conductors and warning to newsboys, to keep the infernal stuff off the trains.
How have so many of the newsstands of our great cities been purified? How has so much of this iniquity been balked? By moral suasion? Oh, no. You might as well go into a jungle of the East Indies and put a cobra on the neck, and with profound argument try to persuade it that it is morally wrong to bite and to sting and to poison any thing. The only answer to your argument would be an uplifted head and a hiss and a sharp, reeking tooth struck into your arteries. The only argument for a cobra is a shotgun, and the only argument for these dealers in impure literature is the clutch of the police and bean soup in a penitentiary. The law! The law! I invoke to consummate the work so grandly begun!
Another way in which we are to drive back this plague of Egyptian frogs is by filling the minds of our young people with a healthful literature. I do not mean to say that all the books and newspapers in our families ought to be religious books and newspapers, or that every song ought to be sung to the tune of ''Old Hundred." I have no sympaty with the attempt to make the young old. 1 would rather join in a crusade to keep the young young. Boyhood and girls hood must not be abbreviated. But there are good books, good histories, good biographies, good works of fiction, g' od booKS of all styles, with which we are to fill the minds of the young, so that there will bo no more room for the useless and the vicious than there is room for chaff in a bushel measure which is already filled with Michigan wheat.
Why are 50 per cent, of the criminals in the Jails and Penitentiaries of tbe United States to-day under 21 years of age? Many of them under 17, under 16, under lo, under 14, under 13. Walk along the corridors of the Tombs prison in New York and look for yourselves.
Bad books, bad newspapers, bewitched them as soon as they got out of tbe cradle. Beware of all those stories which end wrong. Beware of books which make the road that ends in perdition seem to end in paradise. Do not glorify the dirk and the pistol. Do not call the desperado brave or the libertine gallant. Teach our young people that if they go down into the swamps and marshes to watch the jack-o'-lanters dance on the decay and rottenness, they will catch malaria and death. •'Oh!" says some one, 'lama busi" ness man and I have no time to exam' ine what my children read. I have no time to inspect the books that come in to ray household." If your children were threatened with typhoid fever, would you have time to go for the doctor? VN ould you have time to watch the progress of the disease? Would you have time for the funeral? In the presence of my God I warn you of the fact that your children are threatened with moral and spiritual typhoid, and that unless the thing be stopped, it will be to them funeral of body, funeral of mind, funeral of soul. Three funerals in one day. My word is to this vast multitude of young people: Do not touch, do not borrow, do not buy a corrupt book or a corrupt picture. A book will decide a man's destiny for good or for evil. The book you read
Another way in whioh we shall fight back this corrupt literature and kill
Now. my friends, how are we to war the frogs of Egypt is by rolling over against this corrupt literature,and how them the Christian printing press. nre the frops of this Egyptian plague to bo slain First of all by the prompt and inexorable execution of the law. Let all good postmasters and United States District Attorneys and detectives and reformers concert in their action to stop this plague. When Sir Rowland Hill spent his life in trying
which shall give plenty of healthful reading to all adults. All these men and women are reading to all adults. All these men and women are reading men and women. What are you reading? Abstain from all those books which, while they had some good things about them, have also an ad-
to secure cheap postage, not only for mixture of evil. You have read books England but for all the world, and to that had two elements in them, the open the blessing of the post-office to good and the bad, which struck to you all honest business, and to all messages The bad! The heart of most people is of charity and kindness and affection, I lik a sieve, which lets the small parti* for all healthful intercommunication cles of gold fall through, but keeps he did not intend to make vice easy or the great cinders. Once in awhile to fill tbe mail bags of the United there is a mind like a loadstone, which States with the scabs of such a leprdsy. I plunged amid steel and brass filings.
It ought not to be in the power of gathors up the steel and repels the every bad man who can raise a one brass. cent stamp for a circular or a two cent But it is generally just the opposite. «tamp fur a letter to blast a man or If you attempt to plunge through a destroy a home. The postal service of fence of burrs to get one blackberry, this country must be kept clean, and you will pet more burrs than ackwe must all understand that the swift berries. You can not afford to read a retributions of the United States gov- bad book however good you are. You ernment hover over every violation of say: ••The influence is insignificant." the letter box. 11 tell you that the scratch of a pin has
There are thousands of men and wo-' sometimes produced the lock-jaw. men in this country, some for personal Alas, if through curiosity, as many do, gain, some through innate depravity, you pry into an evil book, your curlgome through a spirit of revenge, who osity is as dangerous as that of the wish to use this great evenue of con- man who would take a torch into, a •enience acd intelligence for purposes gunpowder mill, merely to see whethrevengeful, salacious and diabolic, er il would really blow up or not. In a
menagrte. a man put his arm through the bars of the black opard's cage. The animal's hide looked so sleek, and bright and beautiful. He just stroked it once. The monster seized him, and he drew forth a hand torn, and mangled, and bleeding. O, touch not evil even with tbe| faitest stroke! Though it may be glossy and beautiful, touch it not, less you pull foith your sou' torn and bleeding under the clutch of the black serpent. ••But." you say. •'how can I find out- whether a book good or bad without reading it?'' There Is always something suspicious about a bad book. I never kne»v an exception—something susnicious in the index or style of illustration. Thi venomous reptile almost carries a warning rattle.
This clock strikes midnight. A fair form bends over a romance. Eyes flash lire. The breath quick and irregular Occasionally the color dashes to the cheek.andthendieso.it. The bandtremble as though a guardian spirit were trying to shake the deadly boo» out of the grasp. Hot tears fall. S laughs, with a shrill voice that drops dead at its own sound. The sweat on her brow is the spray dashed up from the river of death. The clock strike four, and the rosy dawn soon after begins to look through the latitude upon the pale form that looics like a detained specter of the night. Soon in a mad house she will mistake her ring lets for curling serpents, and thrust her white hand through the bars oi the prison and smite her head, rub bing it back as though to push the scalp from the skull, shrieking: "My brain, my brain!" Ob, stand off from that! Why will you go sounding your way amid the reefs and warning buoys,when there is such a vast ocean in which yoj may voyage aH sail set?
We see so many books we do not understand what a book is. Stand it on end. Measure it, the height of it. the depth of it, the length of it, the breadth of it. You can not do it. Examine the paper and estimate the progress made from the time of the impression on clay, and then onto barks of trees to papyrus, and from the papyrus to the hide of wild beasts, and from the hide of wild beasts on down until tbe miracles of our modern paper manufactor. ies, and then see the paper white and pure as an infant's soul waiting for God's inscription. A book! Examine tbe type* Examine the printing of it, and see the progress from the time when Solon's laws were written on oak planks and Hesiod's poems were written on tables of lead and the Siniatic commands were written on tables of stones, on down to Hoe's perfecting printing-press. Abooi! It took all the universities of the past, all the martyr fires, all the civilizations, all the battles, all the victories, all the defeats, all the glooms, all the brightness, all the centuries to make it possible. A book! It is tbe chorous of the ages—it is the drawing-room in which Kings and Queens, and orators and poets and historians and philosophers come out to greet you. If I worshiped anything I would worship that. If I burned incense to an idol, would build an altar to that. Thank God for good books, healthful books, inspiring books. Christian book, books of men, books of women, books of God.
It is with these good books that we are to overcome corrupt literature. Upon the frogs swoop with these easles I depend much for the overthrow of iniquitous literature the mortality of books. Even good books have a hard struggle to live. Polybius wrote forty books: only five of them left. Thirty books of Tacitus have pe ished. Livy wrote 140 books: only thirty-five remain. iEschylus wrote 100 dramas: only ninteen remain. Varro wrote the biographies of over 700 great Romans: all that wealth of biography has perished. If good and valuable books have such a struggleto live, what must be the fate of that are deceased and cor rupt and blasted at the very start? They will die as the frogs when the Lord turned back the plague. The work of Christianization will go on until there will be nothing left but good books, and they will take the supremacy of the world. May you and I 6ee the illustrious day.
Lady Hester Stanhope was the daughter of the third Earl of Stanhope, and after her nearest friends had died she went to the far East, took possession of a deserted convent, threw up fortresses amid the mountains of Lebanon, opened the castle to the poor and the wretched and the sick who would come in. She made her castle a home for the unfortunate. She was a devout Christian woman. She was waiting for the coming of the Lord. She expected that the Lord would descend in person, and she thought upon it until it was too much for her reason. In the magnificent stables of her palace she had two horses groomed and bridled and saddled and caparisoned, and all ready for the day in which her Lord should descend and He on one of them and she on the other should start for Jerusalem, the city of the Great King, It was a fanaticism and a delusion, but there was romance and there was splendor, and there was thrilling expectation in the di eain!
Ah. my friends, we need no eart'ily palfreys groomed and saddled ami bridled and caparisoned for our Lord when He shall come. The horso is ready in the equerry of heaven, and the imperial rider is ready to mount. ••Andl saw, and behold a white horse, and He that sat on him had a bow and a crown was given unto Him and He went forth conquering ami to conquer. And the armies which were in heaven followed Him on white horses and on His vesture and on His thigh were written, 'King of kings, and Lord of lords.'" Horsemen of heaven, mount Cavalrymen of God, rid on! Charge! Charge! until they shall be burled back on their haunches, the black horse of famine, and the red horse of carnage and the pale horse of death. Jesuc forever!
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