Newspaper Page Text
The Christian Index.
Vol. 57 —No 41.
Table of Contents.
First Page—Alabama Department: Memory;
The Newspaper as an Educator; The St.
Louis Embroglio; Spirit of the Religious
Press.
Second Page—Correspondence: Reports on
Sunday-Schools—A. B Campbell; Rev W
H Davis—Gß McCall; Rev A Sherwood,
D. D., —J H Campbell; Friendship Asso
ciation; Revivals; How to Raise Funds—
C. Sunday-School— Lesson for November
9—“ The Perfect Savior.”
Third Page—Children's Corner: Where is
Your Boy To-night ? Poetry; Polly’s
Temptation.
Fourth Page—Editorials : The Music of
Christian Life; The Barbarians of Melita;
A Calculation; Rehoboth Association;
Georgia Baptist News; Honesty in Poli
tics.
Fifth Page—Secular Editorials; News Para
graphs; To Sweden the Crown; Literary
Notes and Comments; Georgia News; etc
Sixth Page Obituaries ; New Advertise
ments.
Seventh Page—The Farmers' Index: The Use
of Commercial Fertilizers; Farm Notes;
Keeping Up Flesh.
Eighth Page—Florida Department: Lacon
ics; A Minister's Wife Speaks; Cousin
Ruby’s Letter. Marriage Notice.
Alabama Department.
RY SAMUEL HENDERSON.
MEMORY.
It is a theory based upon a vast col
lection of facts, that under given cir
cumstances, memory may be made to
reproduce every impression made
upon it through the whole period of
life, even to the lightest shade of
thought that ever passes through the
mind. Like the palimpsest, it may be
written upon, and counter-written, time
and again, yet some process will bring
out every syllable ever impressed upon
it. Before printing was invented, those
old parchments that contained the
writings of hundreds of years, writings
that had lost their interest to the liv
ing, were subjected to a process by
which those writings were so blotted
out, or erased as that the parchment
could be used'again ; and then, in after
generations, the like process would
prepare them for still another story,
poem, legend, or what not. A discov
ery was made by which all that had
eyerbeen written, on them wii£ restored.
These parchments are called palimp
sests. One, of the most impressive pa
pers of the late Mr. DeQuincy is on
this subject. So it is with memory.
One may think that impressions of
thirty, forty, fifty or sixty years have
been lost in the rubbish of so many
decades. But some incident will oc
cur that will bring to the surface
events, facts, persons, words and
thoughts with all the vividness of a
present reality. The effect is some
times startling, and we pause to muse
over the astonishing powers of a fac
ulty that can preserve so faithful a
record of the minutest details of our
lives, and even of our mental processes.
A faculty so vast in the compass of its
power—so faithful in fulfilling its office—
that carries with it so much of hu
man happiness and human woe—that
preserves sacredly every trust—that
stands ready to yield up the contents
of every chamber in its immense
store-house the moment the right key
is presented—that can flush the cheek
of despair itself with radiance, or strike
dismay upon the face of the most ex
ultant—a faculty, wc say, so marvel
lous in its capacities, may be made un
questionably, nay is, one of the grand
est gifts God has bestowed upon the
human soul. It is the repository of
every thing that is to constitute our
bliss or woe for time and eternity. It
is the connecting link that binds the
old man of four-score years bending
over the tomb, with the little prattling
boy as he was around his mother’s
knees. Nay, it will survive the shock of
death, uniting his destiny in heaven or
perdition in with his moral probation
on earth. “Son, remember," said Abra
ham to the rich man in the gospel,
“that thou in thy life-time hadst thy
good things, and Lazarus his evil
things ; but now he is comforted, and
thou art tormented.” 0, it is the
“worm that never dies” that gnaws the
conscience of the lost, and it is also the
spring of the most ecstatic joy that
shall thrill the hearts of the redeemed
in glory. What can equal the
pang that comes from the recollec
tions of mercy slighted, or what can
surpass the joy that shall arise as we
remember the grace that “snatches us
as brands from the eternal burning!”
Cases of resuscitated animation, from
drowning for instance, arc on record,
in which the whole life of the party
passed in instant review—all, all its
chequered scenes compressed into a
single moment. Memory needs no re
cording angel to preserve her archives.
Whether good or evil, she guards them
with miserly care. No changes how
ever sudden, no events however start
ling, can obliterate these records groov
ed as with a diamond pen upon a plate
of adamant. One might as well un
dertake to make that not to bo that has
been, as to annihilate any of the hord-
SOUTH-WESTERN BAPTIST.
of Alabama.
j cd treasures of this wonderful faculty.
Os all biographers, it is the most faith
ful and impartial. Reader, realize it!
; All its contentswill one day le unfold
: ed, and confront you, telling out your
doom for weal or woe. No Daniel will
be needed to interpret its “hand-writ-
I ing.” What chemical appliances can
do in restoring the erasures upon the
palimpsest, the light of “that day” will
do in bringing out its records, its “every
secret thing, whether it be good or
evil.”
We have said that no mortal process
can blot out the recollections of the
past beyond the power of some agency
to restore. Os course we except that
divine power that proposes to blot out
our offenses,” and to "separate our sins
from us as far as the east is from the
west.” This power, and this only, can
cut us loose from our sins, and “through
the blood of Jesus Christ his S< n,”
cleanse us, and make us as though we
had never sinned. Ungodly reader,
invoke that power while you may!
Impose not the dreadful task upon your
memory to “treasure up wrath against
the day of wrath.” Pause ere the ter
rible catalogue of offences shall be
completed that shall convert your
memory into a hell whose fires shall
meet and mingle with the fires of the
bottomless pil!
THE NEWSPAPER AS AN EDU
CA TOR.
Some time since we mentioned inci
dentally that a good newspaper, con
ducted with ability and proper dis
cretion, is worth more in a fa mily
than any teacher that could be em
ployed in expanding the mind, and
storing it with that kind of information
it most needs in all the praciieal
affairs of life. We recur to the subject
again because we believe it is worthy
of a more extended notice.
Os course it is far from our purpose
to depreciate the advantages of an aca
demic or collegiate education. Those
advantages are invaluable. What wo
mean to say is, that conceding all that
can be claimed for the tuition of the
schools, the tuition of the newspaper,
secular, religious, scientific, agricultu
ral, etc., has incomparably more to do
in developing the intellectual and
moral manhood of the country
than our halls of learning. When
the young man finishes his academic
course, or receives his college diploma,
what is ho, and where does he stand?
He is simply fitted to begin the career
of life. His capacities have been just
sufficiently developed to give him a
start in the particular line of business
to which he proposes devoting his
efforts. The real information, the
practical ideas which arc to shape his
character, measure his success, and de
termine his destiny, are yet to be ac
quired. And even in this initiative
process of education he has acquired
“under tutors and governors,” by' his
constant contact with the current lit
erature of the age as found in the news
paper, he has vastly augmented his
stores of knowledge. But when he
strikes out for himself and begins the
task of “self-development;” when he
first attempts to grapple with the living
questions of a living world ; when he
enters the arena of life’s battle to dis
pute the palm with a thousand con
testants; when temptation in its innu
merable insidious forms shall assail him,
luring him to wreck and ruin ; it is !
then that this manifold agency comes
to his relief, with its counsels, its warn- j
ings, its words of cheer, its living
thoughts from the wisest heads, em-1
bracing a range of topics broad and
varied as the praticalities of life,
To realize the truth of what we have ,
said, we have but to make a fancy visit
to a family of half a dozen children, all
within the age of school training. We
have but to imagine the head of the
family all alive to the importance of
home education, and that he takes
such newspapers,religious and secular,
as are adapted to inspire the habit ami
cultivate the taste for reading. The
weekly supply of matter fresh from the
press, and prepared by the best and
wisest thinkers, is relished by that
household, and is assimilated into a
part of their permanent intellectual
property, far more readily than the
contents of their text books. It is
thought that stimulates thought. It
is the freshness and vigor of those
thoughts, too, that captivate the young
mind, and fill it with that noble am
bition, which augurs future success.
For unless a manly ambition can be in
spired in youth, the whole after career
will be a failure. Those ideas, princi
ples, facts and the like, that are em
braced in a live journal, find a ready
lodgment in the youthful mind,because
they are generally brought out in that
concrete form that gives them all the
attractiveness of novelty. And we
hesitate not to say that those children,
reared under such auspices, will be the
men and women of their day. They
will give tone to society, they will fill its
highest and best positions, and make
Atlanta, Georgia, Thursday, October 23, 1879.
I both Church and State all that will be
I made of them in the future.
As a simple means of educating our
children, we repeat, an adequate sup
ply good, subs tantial newspapers,
religious and secular, is far superior to
the best training we can give them
jin our Academies, Colleges or Uni
versities. Incomparably more of prac
tical wisdom is learned from them than
from all the text books of our college
•curriculums.
THE ST. LOUIS EMBROGLIO.
We have said nothing in our depart
ment up to this time, in regard to the
late deflections of Dr. Boyd and his
(2nd) church in St. Louis, for the rea
son that the chief editor of this paper
has so exactly expressed our views that
we felt that it would have been unnec
essary. But as other papers are giv
ing out such “uncertain sounds” upon
the vital questions involved, we cannot
well escape the obligation to say here
ami now, once and forever, that any
body of Christians calling itself a Bap
tist church, that squares its worship to
suit Jewish prejudices, by eliminating
from that worship all reference to the
“only name given under Heaven
whereby we can bo saved,” Jesus
Christ, and then deliberately invites to
the Lord’s table a Unitarian minister,
one who denies the divinity of Christ,
denies the Lord who bought us has
betrayed thq faith of God’s elect, no
matter what its pub’ished creed may
be. The creed may be sound, but the
practice is the grossest heresy. “They
say, and do not." “The voice is the
voice of Jacob, but the hand is the
hand of Esau.” We always interpret
a man’s words by his acts. That is a
worthless creed—it is not worth the pa
per and ink employed to publish it—
that does not control the conduct of
those who profess to accept it. If
there be one single truth in God’s
Word that towers above all other truths
in moral grandeur and vital importance
to every hu nan being, it is that which
claims for Jesus Christ the supremest
fealty of the human soul. Iscari
ot was as loud in his protestations of
regard to Christ, doubtless, as any of
the twelve, ami yet one act nullified all
these protestations and consigned »
“to his own place.” And while we do
not place Dr. Boyd and nis church in
the same category with Iscariot, we
do mean to say that that act which
strikes the name of Christ from our
hymnology, our prayers, and our ser
mons—that shares the memorials of
His dying love with those who strike
from His character the only element
that gives virtue and power to His a
tonement and intercession, His divini
ty, has done that which, to say the
least of it, calls for as bitter tears of peni
tence as marked the restoration of Pe
ter. We therefore say, and we say it
with emphasis, that the St. Louis As
sociation did right in cutting loose
from a preacher and church that
wounded our Savior in the house of
His reputed friends. No excuse short
of a public acknowledgement of the sin
can atone lor an offense that smites the
very central truth of the whole redemp
tive plan. “The fact of to-day be
comes the precedent of to-morrow,” and
no man can tell whither such a radi
cal divergence from the faith once de
livered to the saints will lead, if not
strongly rebuked. “If the foundations
be removed, what can the righteous
do?” If Jesus Christ be “the chief
corner stone,” and that be taken away,
where and what is our hope of salva
tion? “Though we or an angel from
Heaven preach any other gospel than
that we have preached, let him be ac
cursed.” And if it be such an act of
treason to Christ to compromit His
honored name to angels, is it less so to
men? Thousands, nay, millions of
martyrs have gone to the stake, the
rack, and gibbet, rather than betray by
word or deed that which some of our
religious papers beg us to excuse in the
pastor and Second Baptist church in St.
Louis. We cannot join the cry of
“Crucify Him! crucify Him!” We
only regret that the Baptist denomin
ation has furnished a ch urch which,
while professing to hold the old faith,
has in act denied it. And not until
there is a recantation of that act, or
those acts, which involve the very
quintessence of the Gospel, can that
church and its pastor ever be restored
to the fellowship of a denomination,
which, whatever else may be said of it,
has never trailed its banner to the be
hests of any earthly authority.
Rev. IL A. Williams, writing from
Cross Pains, Ala., October 10th
says: “When I located at this place,
first of January, 1878, there were only
about fifteen members in our Baptist
church, and no meeting house. I have
been working among the Methodists
and anti-Missionaries, until we now
have a membership of forty-eight, and
a neat house of worship. Hitherto
has the Lord helped us. lam expect
ing some to join to-morrow.”
The Religious Press.
The Cause of Church Difficulties—
The Fundamental Cause. —While there
are mat>y church difficulties, and many
things in churches leading to them, there
are not many causes. Really there is hut
one fundamental cause. Sin lies at the
bottom of these difficulties. All sin put away,
there would be r.o elements of discord. Re
move all sin from earth and hell, and all
divisions and sorrows will cease. Says Bun
yan :
“Sin is the living worm, the lasting fire ;
Hell wow'd soon lese its beat, could sin ex
pire.
Untold evils result from church difficul
ties. And they are the legitimate outcome
of the alienation of the hearts of certain
member's from God. There is sin some
where. And when sin gets into the heart,
there often come out many evil things.
Unchristian words are spoken, and unchris
tian acts me performed, and the church rent.
It is humiliating to think that there are to
many dissensions in the churches. And
that they are often perpetuated until sinful
prejudices and ill-feelings become chronic.
Nor are the evils here complained of con
fioed to the churches. They are observed,
taken up—and often magnified—by parties
outside of the church. They furnish gossip
for street and neighborhood mischief
makers, and a feast of fat things for skeptics ;
and much that the self-righteous use to
“justify themselves before men” for their
practical opposition to religion. Many vir
tually charge' these evils to the Christian
religion itself. Hence they keep aloof from
the churches, and even from the Savior.
I do not excuse them for such conduct.
They know better; at least, they ought to.
The sins of church members cannot be
pleadej against Christ or his religion. Christ
would say to such as be said to Peter:
“What‘is that to thee? Follow thou me.”
Still, man will do these things. They must
plead vain excuses, if any, for they have no
others to plead.
So says a correspondent of the Ex
aminer and Chronicle, who, in propos
ing a remedy for the evil, says :
Nojftr.it is evidently for the want of a
and proper Christian education, I
by w^yWklhristianlprinciples are understood
and VS/aril, that ifre have so mucl? trouble iu ,
our churches. The bonds of union with
Christ and the church are not strong enough |
to preserve the church in peace and prosper
ity. We must believe that there is a radical
defect in the religion of those members who
“flare up” for every slight offence, and refuse
either to walk with the church, or Io follow
theplain teachings of the Scriptures in order
to effect reconciliation.
With very rare exceptions, if any,
those church members who are at the
bottom of church difficulties, are men
who are by no means spiritually mind
ed. When unconverted men are
brought into the church, they are al- I
most sure, sooner or later, to give;
trouble. To cure church difficulties is j
no easy thing; but one of the best [
means of preventing them, is to baptize
and receive into the chinch none but j
converted persons. The good old Bap
tist doctrine, which declares for a con
verted church membership, is the true
doctrine. In practice, we have de
parted from it, and this is the cause of
the greater part of our church troubles.
When we get back to the old ways, we
shall perhaps have fewer converts, so
called, but we shall certainly have more
peace, and in due time, a larger num- •
be.r. of real converts.
Fifteen Missionaries Setting Out for
the Mission Field. —Services preliminary
to the departure of fifteen missionaries to
India, sent out by the American Baptist
Missionary Union, were held Friday, Oc'o
ber 10th, at the Central Baptist church in
Forty second street. The exercises were
conducted by the Rev. Dr. J. D. Herr, pas
tor of the Central church. There were short j
addresses by several of the missionaries.
Two of the number, Miss E. E. Mitchell
and Miss A. M. Barkley, are going to open i
a hospital in the town of Maulmain. This |
is a “new departure” for the Union, but it
was necesary to open the way for spiritual |
work, Dr. Murdoch said, by taking care of
the body, and by breaking up the supersti
tions connected with the science of medicine
in heathen countries. The Rev. J. A. I
Spurgeon said that they should always have
the greatest hoj»e of winning these who of
fered the greatest resistance at first. The
roan who said “yes’* to everything never could ’
be reached ; but the man who swore at you
showed he had heart enough to get angry.
Some studies may be more valuable for
the invigoration of the intellect than for the
importance of the truths acquired. Lessing ’
said, and Hamilton adopted the saying, that
“if any one offered him truth with one hand, I
and inquiry after truth with the other, he
would prefer the second.” The remark may
be regarded as a confession by eminent phi
losophers that what we may know by the
light of nature is not to be compared in real
worth with the soul that obtains the knowl-
THE CHRISTIAN HERALD;
of Tennessee.
edge. But when such a saying is applied to
moral, and especially to spirilual truth,
which makes us free and brings salvation,
its groundlessness is obvious. The strength
ening of the intellect is a trifle compared
with the possession of eternal life, and the
truth, not the work of inquiring after it,
brings the latter. He who would find the
whole value of studying God's revelation to
man in the mere mental exercise would not
hold fast the truth acquired as the precious
treasure which it is. “Ye shall know the
truth, and the truth shall make you free.”
He that appreciates divine tru.h will never
place the pursuit above the possession.
“How would you answer those who contin
ually place over against the belief of Chris
tians concerning the conversion of the
world, the vast numbers unconverted and
the feebleness and fewness of the means em
ployed ? Subscriber.”
By a single sentence in the Apostles’
Creed, “I believe in the Holy Ghost.” It is
easy to calculate the numbers of the world’s
inhabitants not even nominally Christians,
and the long series of years which, accord
ing to the present employment ot men and
money, it will take all our missionary socie
ties to Christianize them. Such statistics are
useful, and we should thank their anthe rs if
they may but excite to us greater liberality
and prayer. But here is a power above
statistics, as it was a power above statistics,
which suddenly enlarged the infant church
from a hundred and twenty to hundreds of
thousands, and brought all their gold into
one treasury. Let this power go forth, and
it is like sunshine which lightens all lands,
and melts a thousand snows at once. “This
is the purpose that is proposed upon the
whole earth ; and this is the hand that is
stretched out upon all the nations, for the
Lord of hosts hath purposed, and who shall
disannul it? and his hand is stretched out,
and who shall turn it back ?”
The above question and answer are
from the Illustrated Christian Weekly,
and having read the latter, we feel en
couraged. When we regard human
agencies only, the outlook for the fu
ture of the world is gloomy indeed.
The thoughts suggested by our article
on another page, entitled A Calculation,
are rather depressing ; for it shows that
on a very limited basis, the whole pop
ulation, of the United States might be
converted to God it(.thirty years, yefr
the fact is apparent that the work is
progressing at a much slower rate than
that; and this again shows either that
there are not now one hundred thou
sand genuine Christians in the United
States, or that they fall immeasurably j
short of their duty. But we are glad i
to be reminded that there is a power i
above that of man, and that God in his ■
own time, and in his own way, will be
sure to make his word and work pre
vail. Some rejoice with us in this,
and so contentedly sit down and do j
nothing. Let them read the article
which follows this.
The Do-Nothing Curse.— “ Curse ye \
Meroz," said the angel of the Lord (Judges 1
5:13.)
What had Merozdone? Nothing.
Why, then, was Mercz to be cursed ? Be- !
cause Meroz did nothing.
What ought Meroz to have done ? Come '
to the help of the Lord.
Could not the Lord do without Meroz ?
The Lord did do without Meroz.
Did the Lord, then,sustain any loss? No;
but Meroz did.
Was Meroz, then, to be cursed ? Yes, and
that bitterly.
Is it right that a man should be cursed for
doing nothing ? Yes, when he ought to be
doing something.— Watchword.
And we shall probably have more to
answer for at the day of judgment on i
account of what we have not done,
than on account of what wc /mredone. j
We know before hand what will be \
said in that great day. Here it is:
“Depart from me ye cursed into ever- j
lasting fire prepared for the devil and .
his angels; for I was an hungered and |
ye gave me no meat; I was thirsty |
and ye gave me no drink; I was a
stranger and ye took me not in; nuked
and ye clothed me not; sick and in
i prison, and ye visited me not. Mat.
25 :42. Not the least mention is made
of what they had done; but on the
' ground of what they have failed to do,
[ they are ordered to depart into ever-'
lasting fire prepared for the devil and |
his angels. Brother! How much have
you done lor the cause of Christ?
What have you failed to do?
Real Homes. —Il is a discouraging re
flection, even to those who habitually look Sf
the bright side of things that have any shine
to them, to think how much less home
means, in this country, than it did fifty years
ago. As a people we love to do things “by
wholesale," and “on contract.” Churches
let out revivals to peripatetic professionals.
Parents “farm out" the religious training of
their children to Bunday-school teachers
| whose very names, oftentimes, they do not
know. Education has become a matter for
schools—and schools, too, where the mind is
’ considered, and wherein that is more cram-
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med than trained. Our scanty recreations
and amusements are “enjoyed” en masse,
and paid for at so much per head. There
was a time when the home stood for all these
things and for many more. Especially in
character-building, which should be the
chief concern in life, the home influence was
paramount. Industry, frugality, independ
ence, virtue and religion had their source
and centre in the home. There was a sense
of personal responsibility on the parents,
and a need of personal effort and direction
that are not now so commonly felt. As the
time of the year approaches when the fire
on the hearth is to be rekindled—we hope
you have a hearth, or at least an open grate—
and the family life in the home is to be more
close again, will it not be well for parents to re
consider thoughtfully the question of home
making? Do your children love their home ?
Do you prize it ? Is it the “dearest spot on
earth,” or a mere boarding-house ? If there
is a fault, whose is it ? If a lack, who is to
blame? Home-making, be it remembered,
is a work in which all have a part. Fathers
may not shirk their duty by saying that it is
“woman’s business.” Neither can it be done
without forethought, direction and effort.
Oftentimes it involves the sacrifice of selfish
ccmforts and pleasures. The happy tumult
of the youngsters’ play may disturb your
after-dinner doze. A ‘ children’s hour” in
the early evening, given up to games and
entertainment, in which you are their com
panions and leaders, may not be so agreeable
as to spend the time at the play, the club, or
in neighborhood gossip. But you are under
bonds, morally, to give yourselves to your
family as the need requires. If you do no
more than to “raise” your children, you have,
before God, no right to have any. Make
your house a real home—cheerful, bright,
beautiful in spirit, happy in all its expres
sions—and you will be a good deal better
fitted to begin enjoying heaven at once, when
you get there. — Golden Rule.
Churches let out “revivals” to peri
patetic professionals! That’s it exact
ly! Parents farm out the religious
training of their children to Sunday
school teachers whose very names
oftentimes they do not know! Another
centre shot! Home and the family
are the great powers of this world, and
nothing on earth can supercede them.
Some homes that we know, are noth
ing better than boardinghouses. There
is no more religious influence in them
than there is in a hotel! Make home
pleasant; make itcharming; make it
happy; make'it instructive ; above all
make it holy. Then it will !>•’, a /•-<('
home; and when it is exchanged, it
will be for the home in heaven.
The Kentucky Methodist Conference
recently adopted the following report:
“In an age characterized as this is
by a literature which is either wholly
vicious in its character, or perverting
in its tendencies, and which is finding
its way into every nook and corner of
our social life, the cause of truth and
virtue could poorly afford to lose such
an auxiliary as our publishing house.
The devout Christian and the true
patriot must be filled with apprehen
sion for the future of our country,
when he beholds the entire land flood
ed as it is with millions of pages of
the most debauched literature, cover
ing the entire range from European
rationalism and indifferentism, to
American vulgarism in the form of
corrupt illustrated weeklies. Even
the secular journalism of the land is,
with slight exceptions, emphatically
on the side of these vitiating agencies.
The damaging results of this literature
are clearly seen upon all the enter
prises of the Church.”
The >St. Louis Republican in its com
ments upon this report maintains that
the age is not ‘characterized by a liter
ature which is wholly vicious in its
character or perverting in its tenden
cies.’ While there is more or less of
such literature—as there always has
been and probably always will be—the
latter half of the nineteenth century is
‘characterized’by literary work'of an
entirely different sort. There never
has been a period in human history
when really good books were so abun
dant and so cheap.” The Mobile Reg
ister considering both opinions very
pertinently remarks:
“While the Kentucky Conference is
entirely too sweeping in its assertions,
while its charge against secular jour
nalism is unfounded, and while the
Republican is correct in its statements
in regard to the increase of “good
books” and tile smoothing over of the
rough places on the road to learning,
still there is no doubt that the land is
Hooded with European rationalism and
American vulgarism. The same men
tal activity that, rightly directed, has
produced so much that is improving
and useful, has also produced, and con
tinues to produce, much that is hurtful
and degrading’
! “The duty of parents and guardians
I then is to keep a close watch over what
those under their charge read, and to
■ see that they drink nt pure springs of
1 knowledge, improvement and amuse
| ment, not at the cess-pools of iniquity
| that abound in the land. And it is the
duty of society also to encourage, in
I every way possible, the dissemination
I of pure aiid healthy literature.”