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THE SUNNY SOUTH
TABERNACLE SERMONS.
DI9C0TOSE BY BEY T. DeWITT
TALKAGE, OH SUNDAY,
NOVEMBER 20.
CORRUPT LITERATURE.
-And the frogs came up, and covered the land
of Egypt. And the magicians did to with their
enchantment*, and brought up frogs upon the
land of Egypt.”—Exodus, vtil., 6, 7.
There fa almost a universal aversion to
frogs, and yet with the Egyptians they were
honored, they were sacrefl, and they were ob
jects of worship while alive, and after death
they were embalmed, and to-day their re
mains may be found among the sepulchres of
Thebes. These creatures, so attractive once
to the Egyptians, at divine behest became
obnoxious and loathsome, and they went
croaking and hopping and leaping into the
of the king, and into the bread-trays
and tbe couches of the per pie, and even the
ovens, which now are uplifted above the
earth, and on the sides of chimneys, then be
ing small holes in the earth, with sunken
pottery, were filled with frogs when the
housekeepers came to look at them. If a
man sat down to eat, a frcg alighted on his
plate. If he attempted to put on a shoe, it
was preoccupied by a frcg. If he attempted
to put his head upon a pillow, it had been
taken possession of by a frog. Frogs high
and low and everywhere, loathsome frogs,
slimy frogs, besieging frogs, innumerable
frogs, great plague of frogs. What made the
matter worse, the magicians said there was
no miracle in this, and they could by sleight-
of-band produce the seme thing, and they
seemed to succeed, for by sleight-of-hand
wonders may be wrought. After Moses had
thrown down his staff and by miracle it be
came a serpent, and then he took hold of it
and by miracle it again became a staff, the
serpent-charmers imitated the same thing,
and, knowing that there were serpents in
Egypt which by peculiar preswire on the
neck would become as rigid as a stick of
wood, they seemed to change the serpent into
tbe staff, and then throwing it down, the
rtafT became a serpent. So likewise these
magicians tried to imitatethe pkgueofthe
frogs, and perhaps by smell of food attract
ing* a great number of them to a certain
™Snt or bv shaking them out from a hidden
place,’ the magicians sometimes seaned to
[Accomplish the same miracle. While these
magicians made the plague
them tried to make it batter.
up. and covered the land of Egypt. And the
P icians did so with their enchantments,
brongbt up frogs upon the land of
**?ow"that plague of frogs has come back
jpon the eaiib. It fa abroad to-day. it is
ranting this nation, it comes m the shape
if corrupt literature. These frogs hop mso
he store, the shop; the tffice, the banking
muse, the factory ; into the home, into the
:ellar. Into the garret, on the drawing-room
able, on the shelf of t_,e library. While the
&d fa reading the bad bock,and the teacher s
ace istumJr the other way, one of these
rogs hops upon the page. W hile the youDg
soman fa reading the forbidden novelette
ifter retiring at night, reading by gaslight,
me of the frogs leaps upon the page. Indeed
iey have hopped on the news ttands of the
•ountry.and the mails at the post office snake
mt in the letter trough hundreds of them,
rhe plague has taken, at different times,pos
Session of thtt countiy. It is«one ri the most
oathsome, one of the most frightful, one of
*e most ghastly of the ten plagues ot our
nodern cities. There is a vast number of
books and newspapers printed and published
vhich ought never to see the light. They are
Slled with a pesfU*-ce that makes **»e'land
.welter with a moral epidemic. The literal -
ire of a nation decides the fate of a nation,
jood boohs, good morals. Bad books, bad
norals. 1 begin witn the lowest of all the
iterature, that which does not even pretend
0 be respectable—from cover to cover a
jlotch of leprosy.. There are many whose
iitire busiuebs it is to dispose of that kiiid of
iterature. They display it before the school
toy on his way home. They get the cata-
ogues of colleges and young ladies’ semin-
iries, take the names and tbe post o ffice ad-
Iresses, and send their advertisements and
heir circulars and their pamphlets and their
rocks to every one of them, The president
if one of the finest young ladies’ seminaries
in the Atlantic coast being absent one day,
>ne of these miscreants came in and secured
1 catalogue. Tbe president returning and
tearing of it, hod hfa fears excited, and he
•t ported the case to tfficial authority. For
wo weeks that man was hunted, and he was
lunted down, and in his possession were
ound, not only the catalogues of that insti
ntion, but the catalogues of fourteen col-
eges, and in eight of them already he had
one the damning work. In the possession
f these dealers in impure literature, were
sund nine hundred thousand names and post
fflee addresses, to whom it was thought it
light be profitable to send these corrupt
lings. In the year i873 there were ono hun-
red and sixty-five establishments engag d
i publishing salacious literature. From
ne publishing houso there went out twenty
ifferent styles of corrupt books, Althuugh
wenty-four tons of salacious literature have
Ben destroyed by the Society for the Sup-
ression of Vice, still there is enough of it
■ft in this country to bring down upon us
le thunderbolts of an inceused God. W hat
as been very remarkable fa the fact that
tore of these publishers of impure literature
ve in the city of Brooklyn than in any
;ber city—lived here, did business in New
ork, had their factories some on this side
le river, some on the other side the river,
lit they dared to have their residences in
ifa City of Chur cl <«. All of them now are
riven out, or ^for the most part driven out
tese vultures will alight in other fields, and
ley must be pursued and exterminated from
brfatendom. In the year 1S68 the evil had
(come so great in this country that the
ongress of the United States passed a law
irbidding the transmission of impure liter-
;ure through the United States mails; but
lere were large loops in that law through
hich criminals might crawl out, and the
w was a dead failure—that law of iS68. But
i 1873 another law was passed by the Con-
ress ot the United States against the trans-
ifasion of corrupt literature through the
mils, a grand law, a potent law, a Christian
iw, and nnder that law multitudes of these
(oundrels have been arrested,their property
mfiscated, and they themselves thrown in-
> the penitentiaries where they belonged,
gainst that good and wholesome and Chris-
an law no good man could make any objec-
on; but it stirred up the animosity and the
idignation of a great many people, and they
■nt up a petition to Congress to compel the
ody to repeal that good, Christian law. The
etition rolled up to the door of the House of
Representatives asking for the repeal of that
iw, and the head name on tbe petition was
lotert G. Ingersoll, the champion blaspbem-
r of America. He appealed to the House of
Representatives with others. That body re
used to giant the petition. Then Mr, In-
ersoll made application to the Senate of
he United States, and that body also re
used, so that both houses of Congress re
acted the petition. Here is tbe report. The
ommittee of the House of Representatives,
lay 1, i878, sent the following report:
“The Committee on the Revision of the
laws, to whom was referred the petition of
Robert G. Ingersoll and others, praying for
tie repeal or modification of sections 1,785.
,878. 3 893, 5.389, and 2,491 of the Revised
statutes* have had the same under considera-
ion, and have heard the petitioners at length,
n tbe opinion of your committee the Post
'ffice was not established to carry instru-
lents of vice or obscene writings, indecent
ictures, or lewd books. Your committee
elieve that the statutes in question do not
violate the Constitution of the United States,
and ought n»t to be changed. They recom
mend, therefore, that the prayer of said pe
tition be denied.”.
That application for tbe repeal of that good
law against the transmission cf corrupt and
obscene literature through the mails of the
United States only demonstrates what you
and I know, that the same infidelity which
wipes its feet on the Bible and spits in tbe
face of God fa the worst foe of American so
ciety. I do not wonder that when Robert
G. Ingersoll applied to the Mayor of Toronto
for permission to lecture in that city, the
Mayer of Toronto replied: “ No, sir.—
You may have no God in the United States,
but we have one np here In Canada, and
yon shall not stand here and blaspheme Him.”
One of ihe filthiest creaenres who had been
sending corrupt literature through the mails
of the United States was arrested, tried,
condemned, and pat in the penitentiary. A
petition went to President Hayes asking him
to pardon the culprit. President Hayes looked
over tbe whole case, saw there was no excuse
for the infamy, that there were no extenua
ting circumstances, and he declined to par
don the miscreant. Then a company of what
are called “Liberalism” got together in a
meeting and passed a resolution of “deepest
sympathy” — these were the two words,
“deepest sympathy”—for that culprit, and
the resolution of deepest sympathy for that
culprit was offered by Robert G. Iuger-
80II, and the resolution was passed amid great
acclamation of the people present. Ah! my
frieDds, tbe day will come when it will be
demonstrated—and if no one else will under
take the work I will—that, while Cbristiani
ty fa the mother of all the virtues, infidelity
fa tbe foster-mother of all the vices of this
century, not one excepted. Any man who
could ask for tbe repeal of that good law
against tbe sending of corrupt literature
through the mails of the United States—any
man that could do that is the enemy of every
decent home in America, and has offered an
insult to every clean-minded man and every
pure-hearted woman in Christendom.
Now, my friends, how are we to war
against this corrupt literature 1 And how
are the frogs of this Egyptian plague to be
slain ? First of all, by the prompt and inex
orable execution of the law. Let all good
postmasters, and United States district at
torneys, and detectives, and reformers con
cert in their action to stop this plague. When
Sir Rowland Hill spent .his life in trying to
secure cheap postage, not only for England
but for all the world, and to open the bless-
tug of the post office to all honest business
and to all messages of charity and kindness
and affection, for all healthful intercommu
nication. he did not mean to make vice easy,
or to fill the mail-bags of the United States
with the scabs of such a lepresy. It ought
not to be in the power of every bad man who
can raise a one-cent stamp for a circular or
tbree-cent stamp for a letter to blast a man
or destroy a home. 1 was glad when I saw
bow Jay Gould last week pounced upon tbe
culprit who was desecrating our magnificent
post office system. Because the culprit lived
on Fifth avenue instead of Elm street only
made the matter more outrageous. The
New York Post Office never did better work
than when they detailed fifty postmen to
watch tbe letter-boxe3, and the Police De
partment of New York City never did better
work than when they detailed fifty detectives
to make summary arrest. The postal service
of this country must be clean, must be kept
clean, and we must all understand that the
swift retributions of the United States Gov
ernment hover over every violation of the
letter-box. There are thousands of men and
women in this country, some for personal
gain, some through innate depravity, some
through a spirit of revenge, who wish to use
this great avenue of convenience and intelli
gence for purposes revengeful, salacious, and
diabolic, wake up the law. Wake up all
its penalties. Let every court-room on this
subject be a Sinai, thunderous and aflame.
Let the convicted offenders be sent for the
full term to Sing Sing or Harrisburg, and
hurl that Governor from his chair who shall
dare to pardon before the expiration of the
sentence. I am not talking about what can
not be done. I am talking now about what
fa being done. A great many of the printing
presses that gave themselves entirely to the
publication ot salacious literature have been
ste pped, or have gone into business less ob
noxious. What has thrown off, what has
kept off the rail-trains of this country for
some time nearly all the leprosy periodicals ?
Those of us who have been on the rail-trains
have noticed a great change in the last few
months and the last year or two. Why have
nearly all those indecent periodicals been
kept off the rail-trains for some time back !
Who effected it * These societies for the
purification of railroad literature gave warn
ing to the publishers, and warning to rail
road companies, and warning to conductors,
and warning to newsboys to keep the infer
nal stuff.off the trains. Cleveland, and Rock
Island, and Ann Arbor, and other cities have
successfully prohibited the most of that lit
erature even from going on tbe news-stands.
Terror has seized upon the publishers and the
dealers in impure literature from the fact
that over six hundred arrests have been
made, and the aggregate time for which tbe
convicted have teen sentenced to the prison
is over one hundred and fifty years, and
from the fact that over one million three
hundred thousand of their circulars have
been destroyed, and the business fa not as
profitable as it used to be. How have so
many of the news-stands of our great cities
teen purified ! How has so much of this in
iquity been balked ! By moral suasion ? Ob,
no ! You might as well go into a jungle of
the East Indies and pat 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 anything. The only an
swer to your argument would be an uplifted
head and a hiss, and a sharp, reeking tooth
struck into your arteries. The only argu
ment for a cobra fa a shotgun, and the only
argument for these dealers in impure litera
ture fa tne clutch of the police and bean soup
in tbe penitentiary. The law ! The law ! 1
invoke it to consummate the work sograudly
begun.
Another way in which we are to drive back
this plague of Egyptian frogs is by filling the
minds of our boys and girls 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 sympathy with
the attempt to make the young old. I would
rather join in a crusade to keep the young
young. Boyhood and girlhood must not be
abbreviated. But there are good books, good
histories, good biographies, good works of
fiction, good books of all styles, with which
we are to fill the minds of tbe young so tbai
there will be no more room for the useless
and the vicious than there is room fur chaff
in a bushel measure which is already filled
with Michigan wheat. Why are fif:y per
cent, of the criminals in the jails and peni
tentiaries of tbe United States to-day under
twenty-one years of age—many of them
under seventeen, under sixteen, under fif :een,
under fourteen, under thirteen ? Walk along
the corridors of the Tombs prison in New
York and .lock 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
all those books which makes the road that
ends in perdition seem to end in Paradise.
Do not glorify the dirk and pistol. Do not
call the desperado brave, or the libertine gal
lant. Teach our yonng people that if they
go down in the swamps and marshes to
watch their jack-o’-lanterns dance on decay
and rotternness they will catch malaria and
death. •'Oh!” says some man, “I am a busi
ness man, and 1 have no time to examine
what my children read. I have no time to
inspect the books that comes into my house
hold.” If your children were threatened
with typhoid fever would you have time to
go for the doctor! Would you have time to
watch the progress of the decease ! Would
you have time tor the funeral! In the pre
sence 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 fune
rals in one day. My word is to this vast
multitude of y oung people: Do not touch,
do not borrow, do not buy a corrupt book ro
corrupt picture. A book will decide a man’s
destiny for good or for evil, The book you
read yesterday m»y have decided yon for
time and for eternity, or it may be a book
that may come into your possession to-mor
row. A good book—who can exaggerate its
power 1 Benjamin Franklin said that his
reading of Cotton Mather’s “’Essays to Do
Good” in childhood gave him holy aspirations
for all the rest of his life. George Law, the
millionaire, now awaiting hfa burial, declar
ed that a biography he read in childhood
gave him all his subsequent prosperities. A
clergyman many years ago, passing to the
far West, stopped at a hotel. He saw a
woman copying something from Doddridge’s
“Rise and Progress. ” It seemed that she bad
borrowed the book, and there was some
thing she wated especially to remember.
The clergyman had in hfa satchel a copy of
Doddridge’s “Rise and Progress,” and so he
made her a present of it. Thirty years pa ssed
on. The clergyman came that way, and be
asked where the woman was whom he had
seen long ago. They said, “She lives yonder
in that beautiful house.” He went there and
saidto her. “Doyourememterm&!”Shesaid‘
“No. I do not.” He said: “Do you remem
ber a man who gave you Doddridge s ’Rise
and Progress’thirty years ago!” ‘O', ye*.
1 remember. That book saved my souL I
loaned the book to all my neighbors, and
they read it, and were converted to God, and
we had a revival of religion which swept
through the whole community. We built a
church and called a pastor. You see that spire
yonder, don’t you! That church v as built
as the result ot the book you gave me thirty
years ago." Oh! the power of a good book.
But alas! for tbe influence of a bad book.—
John Angel James, than whom England nev
er had a holier minister, stood in the pulpit
at B rmingham and said: “Twenty-five years
ago a lad loaned to me an infamous book.
H« would loan it onlv fifteen minutes, and
then I bad to give it oack; but that bock h. ■
haunted me like a spectre ever since. I have
in agony of soul, on my knees before God,
prayed that He would obliterate from my
soul the memory of it; but I shall carry the
damage of it until the day of my death.” The
assassin of Sir William Russell declared that
he got the inspiration for his crime by read
ing what-was tbeuja new and popular Dovel,
“Jack Sheppard.” Homier’s “Iliad” made
Alexander the warrior. Alexander said so.
The story of Alexander made Julius Caesar
and Charles XII. both men of blood: Have
you in your pocket, or in your trunk, or in
your desk at business a bad book, a bad pic
ture, a bad pamphlet! In God’s name I warn
you to destroy it. Have the courage of the
young man who, carrying a large package
of iufiiel books and tracts out toward his
village, felt tbe burden getting very heavy
and hfa knees knocked together. He sat down
to rest He could not understand why that
burden should so bear him down. He shoul
dered it again and started on, but was sick
ened with it. Hfa knees knocked together
again. He could not go on. He sat dow n to
rest. The third time he shouldered the bur
den, and it seemed to get heavier, until at
last he threw it down, ripped open the bun
dle, tore up the infidel books, and scattered
the fragments to the wind, Alas! the power
of a bad book.
Another way in which we shall fight back
this corrupt literature, and kill the frogs of
Egypt, fa by rolling over them the Christian
printing-press, which shall give plenty of
healthful reading to all adults. All these
men and women are reading men and wo
men. What are you reading! We see so
many books we do not understand what a
hook is. Stand it on end. Measure it; the
height of it, the depth of it, the length ot it,
the breadth of it. You cmnot do it. Ex
amine the paper, and estimate the progress
made from the time of the impressions on
clay, and then on the bark of trees, and from
the bark of trees to papyrus, and from papy
rus to the hide of wild beasts, and from the
hide of wild beasts on downuntil the miracles
of our modern paper manufactories,and then
see the paper, white and pure as an infant’s
soul waiting for God’s inscription. A book!
Examine the type of it,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 Sinaitic commands were writ
ten on tables of stone, on down to Hoe’s per
fected printing-press. Examine tbe binding
and think of the progress madewfro® tbe
oak-board covers on and on until,fifty years
ago, Mr. Pickering, the London publisher,
invented cloth binding, making a revolution
in bookbmdery. A book! It took all the
universities of the past, all the martyr-fires,
all the civilizations, all the battles, all the
victories, all the defects, all the glooms, ail
tbe brightnesses, all the centuries to make it
pcssible. A book! It is the chorus 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 any
thing on earth 1 would worship that. It I
burned iuceise to any idol, I would
build an altar to that. Thank God for
good books, healthful books, inspiring books.
Christian books, books of men, books of
women, Book of God. It is with these good
books we are to overcome corrupt literature.
Upon the frogs swoop with these eagles. I
depend much for the overthrow of iniquitous
literature upon the mortality of books. Even
good books have a hard struggle to live. Po
lybius wrote forty books; ouiy five of them
left. Thirty books of Tacitus have perished.
Livy wrote one hundred and forty books;
ouly thirty five of them remain. Escbylus
wrote one hundred dramas; only seven re
main. Euripides wrote over a hundred; only
nineteen remain. Varro wrote the biogra
phies of over seven hundred great Romans.
All that wealth of biography has perished.
If good and valuable bookshavesuch a strug
gle to live, what must be the fate of those
that are diseased, and corrupt, and blasted
at the very start! They will die as the frogs
when the Lord turned back the plague. The
work of Christianizing 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 live to see the illustrious day”!
Against every bad pamphlet send a good
pamphlet, against every unclean picture set d
an innocent picture, against every; scurrilous
song send a Christian sor.g, against every
bad book send a good book, and then it will
be as it was in ancient Toledo, where the
Toletum missals were kept by the saints in
six churches, and the sacrilegious Romans
demanded that these missals be destroyed
and the Roman missals be substituted, and
the war came on, and 1 am glad to say that,
the whole matter having been referred to
champions, the champion of the Toienm m s-
sals with one blow brought down the cham
pion of the Roman missals. So it will be
in our day. The good literature, the Chris
tian literature in its championship for God
ami the truth will- bring dowu the
evil literature in its championship for the
devil. 1 feel tingling to the lips of my fin
gers, aud through all the nerves of my body,
and all the depths ot my soul, the certainty
of our triumph. Cheer up, O men and wo
men who are toiliug for the purification of
society. Toil with your faces in the sunlight.
‘ If God be for us, who, who can be against
us!” Lady Hester Stanhope was tbe daugh
ter of the third Earl of Stanhope, and a (ten
he r nearest friends had died she went to tbe
far East, took possession of a deserted con
vent, threw up fortresses amid the moun
tains of Lebanon, opened the castle to all 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
t. . an woman. She was * aitiug for the
ci 1. 1 „ of the Lord. She expected that the
Loj 1 ' opld descend in person, and she
thobj, - top n it until it was too much for her
reason. In the magnificent stables ot her
ialace she had two horses, groomed, and
ridled, and saddled, and caparisoned, and
all ready for the day in which her Lord
would 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 fanati
cism and a delusion; but there was romance
and there was splendor, and there was thrill
ing expectation in tbe dream. Ah! my
friends, we need no earthly palfreys, groom
ed, and saddled, and bridled, and caparison
ed for our Lord when he shall come. The
horse is ready in the equerry of heaven, and
the imperial rider is ready to mount. “And
1 saw, and behold a white horse, and he that
sat on him had a bow, and a crown was giv
er. unto him, and he went forth conquering
and to conquer, and the armies which were
in heaven followed him on white horses, and
on bis vesture and on bis thigh were written,
'King of Kings, and Lord of Lords.”’ Horse
men of heaven, mount! Cavalrymen of
God, ride cn! Charge! chargel until they
shall be hurled back on their haunches—the
black horse o f famine, and the red horse of
carnage, and the pale horse of death. Jesus
forever!
New Method of Extracting Teeth.
A travelling dentist in Australia advertises
a new method of extracting teeth, without
the aid of chloroform or laughing gas. When
a patient calls upon him for treatment, be
places him in a chair and makes a fixture of
him with straps and bands. Then impute tie
forceps to the bad tooth and gives it a ter
rific jerk inward. “That.” he says “fa the
way Dr. Smith does it.” He gives it another
yank in tbe opposite direction, remarking:
“And that is tbe way that Dr. Jones goes to
work.” By this time the tooth is quite loose.
With a gentle pull he forces it out, saying:
“But this is the way I do. Send your friends
to me and l’il convince them of the superior*
ity of my method.”
A good Baptist clergyman of Bergen, New
York, a strong temperance man, suffered
with kidney trouble, neuralgia and dizziness
almost to blindness, over two years alter be
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because he was afraid of and prejudiced
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For Kidney Complaints of either sex this compound
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