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You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms -of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online -at <a href="https://www.gutenberg.org">www.gutenberg.org</a>. If you -are not located in the United States, you will have to check the laws of the -country where you are located before using this eBook. -</div> - -<p style='display:block; margin-top:1em; margin-bottom:1em; margin-left:2em; text-indent:-2em'>Title: Fifty Great Cartoons</p> - <p style='display:block; margin-top:1em; margin-bottom:0; margin-left:2em; text-indent:-2em'>Author: Frank Beard</p> -<p style='display:block; text-indent:0; margin:1em 0'>Release Date: November 26, 2021 [eBook #66822]</p> -<p style='display:block; text-indent:0; margin:1em 0'>Language: English</p> - <p style='display:block; margin-top:1em; margin-bottom:0; margin-left:2em; text-indent:-2em; text-align:left'>Produced by: Brian Coe, Donald Cummings and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)</p> -<div style='margin-top:2em; margin-bottom:4em'>*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK FIFTY GREAT CARTOONS ***</div> - - -<div class="figcenter" id="cover"> - <img src="images/cover.jpg" alt="cover" title="cover" /> -</div> - - - - -<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop" /> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_1"></a>[1]</span></p> - - - - -<h1><small>FIFTY</small><br /> -<span class="redtitle">GREAT CARTOONS</span></h1> - -<p class="p2 noic">BY</p> - -<p class="noi author">FRANK BEARD</p> - -<div class="pad2"> -<div class="figcenter" id="i_chdeco"> - <img class=" illowe20" src="images/i_chdeco.jpg" alt="" /> -</div> -</div> - - -<p class="noic redtitle">REPRODUCED BY A NEW PROCESS<br /> -FROM THE ARTIST’S ORIGINAL DRAWINGS<br /> -AND ENGRAVED BY<br /> -THE SPECTROTYPE COMPANY, CHICAGO.</p> - -<p class="p2 noic">PUBLISHED BY<br /> -<span class="noi adauthor">THE RAM’S HORN PRESS</span><br /> -153 LaSALLE STREET . CHICAGO<br /> -U. S. A.</p> - - - - -<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop" /> - -<div class="chapter"> -<h2 class="nobreak">LIST OF ILLUSTRATION SUMMARIES</h2> -</div> - -<ul> -<li><a href="#WANTED_A_DAVID">WANTED! A DAVID.</a></li> -<li><a href="#IMPREGNABLE">IMPREGNABLE!</a></li> -<li><a href="#BACK_TO_CHRIST">BACK TO CHRIST.</a></li> -<li><a href="#AT_THE_CHURCH_FAIR">AT THE CHURCH FAIR.</a></li> -<li><a href="#A_GIFT_FOR_THE_ALTAR">A GIFT FOR THE ALTAR.</a></li> -<li><a href="#WHAT_LACK_I_YET">“WHAT LACK I YET?”</a></li> -<li><a href="#THOU_ART_THE_MAN">THOU ART THE MAN!</a></li> -<li><a href="#A_VAIN_TASK">A VAIN TASK.</a></li> -<li><a href="#ADRIFT">ADRIFT.</a></li> -<li><a href="#IS_THIS_WOMANS_SPHERE">IS THIS “WOMAN’S SPHERE?”</a></li> -<li><a href="#THE_POOREST_MAN_IN_THE_WORLD">THE POOREST MAN IN THE WORLD.</a></li> -<li><a href="#THE_RICHEST_MAN_IN_THE_WORLD">THE RICHEST MAN IN THE WORLD.</a></li> -<li><a href="#EVICTED">EVICTED!</a></li> -<li><a href="#THE_ENEMIES_OF_THE_REPUBLIC">THE ENEMIES OF THE REPUBLIC.</a></li> -<li><a href="#THE_IMMIGRANT">THE IMMIGRANT.</a></li> -<li><a href="#BY_AUTHORITY_OF_THE_PEOPLE">BY AUTHORITY OF THE PEOPLE.</a></li> -<li><a href="#PROTECT_THAT_BOY">PROTECT THAT BOY.</a></li> -<li><a href="#DONT_SHOOT">DON’T SHOOT.</a></li> -<li><a href="#THE_PARTY_COLLAR">THE PARTY COLLAR.</a></li> -<li><a href="#A_NIGHTS_WORK">A NIGHT’S WORK.</a></li> -<li><a href="#UNDER_THE_CLOAK_OF_THE_LAW">UNDER THE CLOAK OF THE LAW.</a></li> -<li><a href="#SPIKE_THAT_GUN">SPIKE THAT GUN!</a></li> -<li><a href="#PILGRIM_WATCH_THY_CROWN">PILGRIM WATCH THY CROWN.</a></li> -<li><a href="#THE_BACKSLIDER">THE BACKSLIDER.</a></li> -<li><a href="#DARE_TO_BE_A_DANIEL">DARE TO BE A DANIEL!</a></li> -<li><a href="#THE_REMAINING_GUEST">THE REMAINING GUEST.</a></li> -<li><a href="#AS_CONSCIENCE_PAINTS_HIM">AS CONSCIENCE PAINTS HIM.</a></li> -<li><a href="#COVERING_HIS_SINS">COVERING HIS SINS.</a></li> -<li><a href="#THE_SELF_MADE_MAN">THE SELF MADE MAN.</a></li> -<li><a href="#THE_STRAIT_GATE">THE STRAIT GATE.</a></li> -<li><a href="#PAY_DAY">PAY DAY.</a></li> -<li><a href="#O_GRAVE_WHERE_IS_THY_VICTORY">O GRAVE! WHERE IS THY VICTORY?</a></li> -<li><a href="#HOLDFAST">HOLDFAST.</a></li> -<li><a href="#RESCUED">RESCUED.</a></li> -<li><a href="#SUFFER_LITTLE_CHILDREN">“SUFFER LITTLE CHILDREN.”</a></li> -<li><a href="#IT_IS_I">“IT IS I.”</a></li> -<li><a href="#TOO_BUSY">TOO BUSY.</a></li> -<li><a href="#SHADOWED">SHADOWED.</a></li> -<li><a href="#SHIPWRECKED_BUT_NOT_LOST">SHIPWRECKED: BUT NOT LOST.</a></li> -<li><a href="#THE_LOST_SHEEP">THE LOST SHEEP.</a></li> -<li><a href="#CANCELED_DEBTS">CANCELED DEBTS.</a></li> -<li><a href="#FOLLOW_ME">“FOLLOW ME.”</a></li> -<li><a href="#THE_HOPE_OF_THE_RACE">THE HOPE OF THE RACE.</a></li> -<li><a href="#THE_ROCK_OF_AGES">THE ROCK OF AGES.</a></li> -<li><a href="#AMMUNITION_GONE">AMMUNITION GONE.</a></li> -<li><a href="#I_CANT_SEE_IT">“I CAN’T SEE IT.”</a></li> -<li><a href="#INFIDELITYS_ATTACK">INFIDELITY’S ATTACK.</a></li> -<li><a href="#SEEDTIME_AND_HARVEST">SEEDTIME AND HARVEST.</a></li> -<li><a href="#HIS_REAL_SELF">HIS REAL SELF.</a></li> -<li><a href="#THE_LIGHT_OF_THE_WORLD">THE LIGHT OF THE WORLD.</a></li> -</ul> - - - - -<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop" /> - -<div class="chapter"> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_2"></a>[2]</span></p> - -<div class="figcenter" id="i_002png"> - <img src="images/i_002png.jpg" alt="author portrait" title="author portrait" /> -</div> -</div> - - - - -<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop" /> - -<div class="chapter"> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_3"></a>[3]</span></p> - - -<div><img class="drop-cap illowe3" src="images/i_dropcap.jpg" alt="C" title="C" /></div> -<p class="drop-cap">Charles Wesley once said, “There is no reason why the -devil should have all of the best tunes,” and it is equally -hard to conceive why he should have all of the best pictures. -There is probably no phase of art which Satan has tried -harder to control than that of painting. He has sought to -corrupt literature, music and oratory, but even if he meets defeat -in each of these quarters, he will be fully resigned, if it remains in his -power, to make the pictorial artist his ready slave; for well the arch spirit of -evil knows that it is pictures that catch the eye, fasten the attention, quicken -the imagination and enthrall the soul.</p> -</div> - -<p>For years and years the pen of the caricaturist was in the exclusive -service of the secular and humorous press. There it often did good work -as the champion of social and political reform. Nast, Gillam and Beard, -in their several fields of pictorial journalism, have laid the nation and the -world under deeper obligations than it will soon be able to repay. One of -that famous trio, however, not being content with his success in merely -amusing men, or at best in directing their thoughts to the foibles of politics, -and society, sought to enlarge his usefulness by consecrating his pen and his -genius to the betterment of the religious conditions of the race and hoped -thereby to bring men to a better understanding of themselves and their Maker.</p> - -<p>It was Frank Beard, who, first among the great artists, used the pen of -caricature as a champion of Christian living and Christian reform. He could -have found no better opportunity to exercise his talent and distribute its -effects broadcast than in the pages of The Ram’s Horn, that wonderful -weekly paper which far and near is now known as “the miracle of modern -journalism.” For nearly three years Mr. Beard has given The Ram’s Horn -a full page cartoon each week and it is Fifty of the Best of these Pictures -which now appear in the pages of this volume.</p> - -<p>The highest hopes of Mr. Beard and of The Ram’s Horn will be accomplished -if, by the publication of these pictures, stronger emphasis is laid upon -the fact that Christ is the foundation of the church, and good citizenship is -the foundation of the state, and that the only great foe to the former is -Unbelief, and as for the latter no good citizenship is possible so long as it remains -in an unholy league with the licensed saloon.</p> - -<p>By Faith the walls of Jericho fell down flat. Hebrews xi:30.</p> - -<p>At a long blast with the ram’s horn the walls of the city shall -fall. Josh. vi:5.</p> - -<p>Fifty loud blasts from The Ram’s Horn will be found in this book of -Cartoons. At their reverberating peal may the walls of Mammon, Rum and -Unbelief fall shattered in the dust.</p> - -<p class="padr4">THE RAM’S HORN,</p> - -<p class="right">Chicago, U. S. A.</p> - - - - -<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop" /> - -<div class="chapter"> -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_4"></a>[4]</span></p> - -<h2 class="nobreak" id="WANTED_A_DAVID">WANTED! A DAVID.</h2> -</div> - - -<p class="cap">The church can scarcely be said to be somnolent. It is -awake and active. But its activities are too frequently -spent in affairs that do not relate to its mission which -is to fight the hosts of sin in a wicked world. The giants of -iniquity stalk forth boldly. They find the church not in battle -but in the tents, feasting and drinking, planning for dime socials -and not for war against sin. Oh that some modern David -would soon step forth and teach us that it is not shields nor -armor nor tall steeples nor worldly expedients that are to win -the day. It is faith in God. That is what gave aim and speed -to the stone that slew Goliath, and it is what will give efficacy -now to work and prayer.</p> - -<div class="blockquot"> - -<p><span class="oldenglish">Put on the whole armor of God, that ye may be -able to stand.</span> <cite>Ephesians 6:11.</cite></p> -</div> - - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_5"></a>[5]</span></p> - -<div class="figcenter" id="i_005png"> - <img src="images/i_005png.jpg" alt="" title="" /> - <div class="caption"> - <p class="noi works">COPYRIGHT, 1895, BY FRED’K L. CHAPMAN & CO.</p> - - <p class="noi illtitle">WANTED! A DAVID.</p> - </div> -</div> - - - - -<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop" /> - -<div class="chapter"> -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_6"></a>[6]</span></p> - -<div class="figcenter"> - <img src="images/i_chdeco.jpg" alt="section decoration" title="section decoration" /> -</div> - -<h2 class="nobreak" id="IMPREGNABLE">IMPREGNABLE!</h2> -</div> - - -<p class="cap">It was fortunate that the Savior did not build his church -upon a perishable foundation. When in answer to his inquiry -Peter said, Thou art the Christ the Son of the living -God, Jesus had a corner stone for an edifice whose summit -would reach the stars and whose base would be as broad as -creation. The church is founded upon a fact and that fact is -the historic Christ. No lever of human assumption bolstered by -conceit has ever moved that corner stone the breadth of a hair. -The church of Jesus is founded upon the impeccable, the faithful, -the everlasting Christ who is the same yesterday, today and -forever. Touch not the walls of Truth which surround Zion. -They are impregnable.</p> - -<div class="blockquot"> - -<p><span class="oldenglish">For other foundation can no man lay than that is -laid, which is Jesus Christ.</span> <cite>I Cor. 3:11.</cite></p> -</div> - - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_7"></a>[7]</span></p> - -<div class="figcenter" id="i_007png"> - <img src="images/i_007png.jpg" alt="" title="" /> - <div class="caption"> - <p class="noi works">COPYRIGHT, 1895, BY FRED’K L. CHAPMAN & CO.</p> - - <p class="noi illtitle">IMPREGNABLE!</p> - </div> -</div> - - - - -<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop" /> - -<div class="chapter"> -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_8"></a>[8]</span></p> - -<div class="figcenter"> - <img src="images/i_chdeco.jpg" alt="section decoration" title="section decoration" /> -</div> - -<h2 class="nobreak" id="BACK_TO_CHRIST">BACK TO CHRIST.</h2> -</div> - - -<p class="cap">Hard and exacting is the toil of the preacher. Especially -so in these years when a cultured and enlightened -pew demands the religious discourse presented in the -best form and embellished with the adornments which modern -art and literature supply. A preacher who yields to the extreme -demands of modern thought, however, will soon find himself -abandoning the true and best source of sermon material and -will begin to forage in the desert fields of literature to find sustenance -for an impoverished mind. Many such a preacher, tired -and heartless, would find instant relief if he would but burn the -human aids to the manufacture of artificial sermons and turn -to the rich mines of truth which still lie unexplored in the sacred -word. Back to Christ is the call of a starving world which -is now shepherdless and unfed.</p> - -<div class="blockquot"> - -<p><span class="oldenglish">For there is none other name under heaven given -among men, whereby we must be saved.</span> <cite>Acts 4:11.</cite></p> -</div> - - - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_9"></a>[9]</span></p> - -<div class="figcenter" id="i_009png"> - <img src="images/i_009png.jpg" alt="" title="" /> - <div class="caption"> - <p class="noi works">COPYRIGHT, 1896, BY FRED’K L. CHAPMAN & CO.</p> - - <p class="noi illtitle">BACK TO CHRIST.</p> - </div> -</div> - - - - -<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop" /> - -<div class="chapter"> -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_10"></a>[10]</span></p> - -<div class="figcenter"> - <img src="images/i_chdeco.jpg" alt="section decoration" title="section decoration" /> -</div> - -<h2 class="nobreak" id="AT_THE_CHURCH_FAIR">AT THE CHURCH FAIR.</h2> -</div> - - -<p class="cap">The preachers are not alone guilty of levying tribute -from the world in carrying on the work of the gospel. -There are church organizations which might be numbered -by the thousands, the wealth of whose membership would -in each congregation exceed a million dollars, but they seem -unable to buy a church organ or a pulpit bible without getting -up a bazaar or a Church Fair. The same Jesus who drove the -money changers from the house of prayer, sits in sad judgment -upon the church which turns its sacred chamber into a market -place or into a scene of rank levity and low grade amusement.</p> - -<div class="blockquot"> - -<p><span class="oldenglish">Wherefore, as I live, saith the Lord God; Surely -because thou hast defiled my sanctuary with all thy -detestable things, and with all thine abominations, -therefore will I also diminish thee.</span> <cite>Ezekiel 5:11.</cite></p> -</div> - - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_11"></a>[11]</span></p> - -<div class="figcenter" id="i_011png"> - <img src="images/i_011png.jpg" alt="" title="" /> - <div class="caption"> - <p class="noi works">COPYRIGHT, 1895, BY FRED’K L. CHAPMAN & CO.</p> - - <p class="noi illtitle">AT THE CHURCH FAIR.</p> - - <p class="noic">Gentleman in Black:—I am not exactly a church member myself, but I am always glad to support -this kind of enterprise most liberally.</p> - </div> -</div> - - - - -<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop" /> - -<div class="chapter"> -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_12"></a>[12]</span></p> - -<div class="figcenter"> - <img src="images/i_chdeco.jpg" alt="section decoration" title="section decoration" /> -</div> - -<h2 class="nobreak" id="A_GIFT_FOR_THE_ALTAR">A GIFT FOR THE ALTAR.</h2> -</div> - - -<p class="cap">There were but few gifts recorded in the bible which -were large enough to attract the attention of Christ. -They were not large but they all implied sacrifice, -they represented the utmost that the giver could bestow. When -the widow bashfully pushed her little mite into the collection -box she little dreamed that her offering weighed more than all -the gold and precious treasure that lay stacked in the safety -deposit vaults of Jerusalem. If God has a cordial contempt for -anybody in the world, we suspect it is for the man who, having -made a fortune, gives ostentatiously a part which is insignificant -in proportion to the amount which he retains to minister to his -own comfort and ease.</p> - -<div class="blockquot"> - -<p><span class="oldenglish">Will a man rob God? Yet ye have robbed me. -But ye say, Wherein have we robbed thee? In -tithes and offerings.</span> <cite>Malachi 3:8.</cite></p> -</div> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_13"></a>[13]</span></p> - -<div class="figcenter" id="i_013png"> - <img src="images/i_013png.jpg" alt="" title="" /> - <div class="caption"> - <p class="noi works">COPYRIGHT, 1895, BY FRED’K L. CHAPMAN & CO.</p> - - <p class="noi illtitle">A GIFT FOR THE ALTAR.</p> - </div> -</div> - - - - -<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop" /> - -<div class="chapter"> -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_14"></a>[14]</span></p> - -<div class="figcenter"> - <img src="images/i_chdeco.jpg" alt="section decoration" title="section decoration" /> -</div> - -<h2 class="nobreak" id="WHAT_LACK_I_YET">“WHAT LACK I YET?”</h2> -</div> - - -<p class="cap">One cannot square accounts with God on any other basis -than complete surrender, whether of the will or of -wealth. “What lack I yet?” asked the rich young -man who prided himself extravagantly on his moral life. Go, -said Jesus, sell your estate and give the proceeds to the needy. -We have no evidence that this young Jew got his money in -any but an honest method, and if his way to salvation lay -along the path of complete surrender what shall those do who -derive their riches by corrupting law makers and by defeating -justice, and by cornering products and raising the price of food?</p> - -<div class="blockquot"> - -<p><span class="oldenglish">I have no pleasure in you, saith the Lord of hosts, -neither will I accept an offering at your hands.</span> <cite>Mal. 1:10.</cite></p> -</div> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_15"></a>[15]</span></p> - -<div class="figcenter" id="i_015png"> - <img src="images/i_015png.jpg" alt="" title="" /> - <div class="caption"> - <p class="noi works">COPYRIGHT, 1895, BY FRED’K L. CHAPMAN & CO.</p> - - <p class="noi illtitle">“WHAT LACK I YET?”</p> - </div> -</div> - - - - -<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop" /> - -<div class="chapter"> -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_16"></a>[16]</span></p> - -<div class="figcenter"> - <img src="images/i_chdeco.jpg" alt="section decoration" title="section decoration" /> -</div> - -<h2 class="nobreak" id="THOU_ART_THE_MAN">THOU ART THE MAN!</h2> -</div> - - -<p class="cap">Law and justice hold an accessory to a crime liable to -punishment as strictly as they hold the principal. Indeed -oftentimes it is the wily accessory who is the more -guilty, because from his cowardly place of retreat he directs the -plot which may result in physical peril to the one who carries -it through. Is not likewise the man who rents his property to -evil uses equally if not more guilty than the one who boldly -assumes the responsibility of carrying on an indecent traffic -therein. There would be a thinning of the ranks of respectability -if public sentiment should face every Dives who is a silent -partner in the tenements of sin and say, Thou art the man -whom we hold guilty and responsible for this murder and this -poverty and this vice.</p> - -<div class="blockquot"> - -<p><span class="oldenglish">When thou sawest a thief, then thou consentedst -with him, and hast been partakers with adulterers.</span> <cite>Psalm 50:18.</cite></p> -</div> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_17"></a>[17]</span></p> - -<div class="figcenter" id="i_017png" style="width: 650px;"> - <img src="images/i_017png.jpg" width="650" height="744" alt="" /> - <div class="caption"> - <p class="noi works">COPYRIGHT, 1895, BY FRED’K L. CHAPMAN & CO.</p> - - <p class="noi illtitle">THOU ART THE MAN!</p> - </div> -</div> - - - - -<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop" /> - -<div class="chapter"> -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_18"></a>[18]</span></p> - -<div class="figcenter"> - <img src="images/i_chdeco.jpg" alt="section decoration" title="section decoration" /> -</div> - -<h2 class="nobreak" id="A_VAIN_TASK">A VAIN TASK.</h2> -</div> - - -<p class="cap">Scarcely a schoolboy has reached fifteen and has not -heard of that ancient victim of Fate who toiled daily -year in and year out in the effort to get a huge stone -above the top of a mountain. Each morning he found it again -at the foot, and so his task continued monotonous, endless, futile, -vain. Just so with the modern Champions of Unbelief. They -toil and sweat and push at Infidelity’s inert boulder, they fancy -they make progress, and sometimes they do, but in their pathway -there stands the granite block of Truth bearing aloft in -defiant beauty the cross of sacrifice. Against this, Egotism and -Unbelief can make no headway. It is a Vain Task.</p> - -<div class="blockquot"> - -<p><span class="oldenglish">These also resist the truth: Men of corrupt minds, -reprobate concerning the faith. But they shall proceed -no further; for their folly shall be manifest unto -all men.</span> <cite>II Tim. 3:9–10.</cite></p> -</div> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_19"></a>[19]</span></p> - -<div class="figcenter" id="i_019png"> - <img src="images/i_019png.jpg" alt="" title="" /> - <div class="caption"> - <p class="noi works">COPYRIGHT, 1895, BY FRED’K L. CHAPMAN & CO.</p> - - <p class="noi illtitle">A VAIN TASK.</p> - </div> -</div> - - - - -<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop" /> - -<div class="chapter"> -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_20"></a>[20]</span></p> - -<div class="figcenter"> - <img src="images/i_chdeco.jpg" alt="section decoration" title="section decoration" /> -</div> - -<h2 class="nobreak" id="ADRIFT">ADRIFT.</h2> -</div> - - -<p class="cap">Genuine life loves motion, energy, enterprise, destination. -It cannot stand still nor lie dormant; it cannot -go in a circle even, it must have a goal and a destiny. -For this reason Agnosticism can never be the philosophy for -this human race, because it is a ship without steam or sail and -it will use neither oars nor rudder. It is content to lie upon the -spacious ocean of Eternity, tossed by doubt, fascinated by Fate -pursuing, indifferent as regards companionship or success. A -cheerless, lonely drifting vessel on a sea that has no shores and -no haven.</p> - -<div class="blockquot"> - -<p><span class="oldenglish">And they shall look unto the earth; and behold -trouble and darkness, dimness of anguish; and they -shall be driven to darkness.</span> <cite>Isaiah 8:22.</cite></p> -</div> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_21"></a>[21]</span></p> - -<div class="figcenter" id="i_021png"> - <img src="images/i_021png.jpg" alt="" title="" /> - <div class="caption"> - <p class="noi works">COPYRIGHT, 1895, BY FRED’K L. CHAPMAN & CO.</p> - - <p class="noi illtitle">ADRIFT</p> - </div> -</div> - - - - -<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop" /> - -<div class="chapter"> -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_22"></a>[22]</span></p> - -<div class="figcenter"> - <img src="images/i_chdeco.jpg" alt="section decoration" title="section decoration" /> -</div> - -<h2 class="nobreak" id="IS_THIS_WOMANS_SPHERE">IS THIS “WOMAN’S SPHERE?”</h2> -</div> - - -<p class="cap">The home is the holy of holies where angels love to -dwell. Its sacred precincts are more inviolate than the -inner sanctuary of Israel’s temple. God has made it -the ark of his covenant between himself and his children from -generation to generation. It is the oracle and fount for instruction -in religion and morals and patriotism. It is the altar where -holy fires of ambition and inspiration and enthusiasm are kindled. -And yet there are those, and sometimes there are women, -who see no opportunity for deep pleasure or high duty -at the home fireside, but must find it in outside engagements, -in pursuit of baubles of worldly place or social distinction. -This is not woman’s sphere. Her hand belongs not on the -throttle of this world’s busy life, but on the cradle, where character -begins to take form. There she belongs and there she -may sit to mold the future of two worlds. Only of such will -it be said:</p> - -<div class="blockquot"> - -<p><span class="oldenglish">Her children arise up, and call her blessed; her -husband also, he praiseth her.</span> <cite>Proverbs 31:28.</cite></p> -</div> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_23"></a>[23]</span></p> - -<div class="figcenter" id="i_023png"> - <img src="images/i_023png.jpg" alt="" title="" /> - <div class="caption"> - <p class="noi works">COPYRIGHT, 1896, BY FRED’K L. CHAPMAN & CO.</p> - - <p class="noi illtitle">IS THIS “WOMAN’S SPHERE”?</p> - </div> -</div> - - - - -<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop" /> - -<div class="chapter"> -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_24"></a>[24]</span></p> - -<div class="figcenter"> - <img src="images/i_chdeco.jpg" alt="section decoration" title="section decoration" /> -</div> - -<h2 class="nobreak" id="THE_POOREST_MAN_IN_THE_WORLD">THE POOREST MAN IN THE WORLD.</h2> -</div> - - -<p class="cap">Robinson Crusoe, shipwrecked on a lonely island, furnishes -a picture of woe and desolation which it would -be difficult to exaggerate, and yet, through his invention -and enterprise, frugality and foresight, he transformed inhospitable -shores into a garden of plenty. He conquered nature, -by reason of his kindly acts even the wild animals learned to -love him and the ferocious savages gave him their trust. In -strong contrast to him is the man who heaps opulence upon -greed and by his selfishness separates himself from the companionship -of men. Faith, Hope and Love, once his attendants, -he has allowed to perish. Eternity surrounds him. Opportunity -is wrecked, and no ship will ever again come near his lonely -island. The poorest man in the world is the man who has the -means to purchase everything but has lost his capacity for enjoying -anything.</p> - -<div class="blockquot"> - -<p><span class="oldenglish">Because thou sayest, I am rich, and increased with -goods, and have need of nothing; and knowest not -that thou art wretched, and miserable, and poor, and -blind, and naked.</span> <cite>Rev. 3:17.</cite></p> -</div> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_25"></a>[25]</span></p> - -<div class="figcenter" id="i_025png"> - <img src="images/i_025png.jpg" alt="" title="" /> - <div class="caption"> - <p class="noi works">COPYRIGHT, 1895, BY FRED’K L. CHAPMAN & CO.</p> - - <p class="noi illtitle">THE POOREST MAN IN THE WORLD.</p> - </div> -</div> - - - - -<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop" /> - -<div class="chapter"> -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_26"></a>[26]</span></p> - -<div class="figcenter"> - <img src="images/i_chdeco.jpg" alt="section decoration" title="section decoration" /> -</div> - -<h2 class="nobreak" id="THE_RICHEST_MAN_IN_THE_WORLD">THE RICHEST MAN IN THE WORLD.</h2> -</div> - - -<p class="cap">It takes more than money to make a man wealthy. Godliness -with contentment is great gain, says the bible, and -therein is the secret of a rich and happy life. Contentment -is a prerequisite of happiness and no man can come into contentment -until every aspiration of his nature is satisfied. The -deepest aspiration that lodges in the human soul is the longing -for that contentment and rest which salvation bestows. No one -is really rich, therefore, until salvation is found, and if it be discovered, -after heroic sacrifice and struggle, after plunging through -temptation and peril, the joy of triumph will be that much the -greater and when temptation has been conquered by faith and -works, then Salvation makes one truly the Richest Man in the -World.</p> - -<div class="blockquot"> - -<p><span class="oldenglish">There is that maketh himself rich, yet hath -nothing: there is that maketh himself poor, yet hath -great riches.</span> <cite>Proverbs 13:7.</cite></p> -</div> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_27"></a>[27]</span></p> - -<div class="figcenter" id="i_027png"> - <img src="images/i_027png.jpg" alt="" title="" /> - <div class="caption"> - <p class="noi works">COPYRIGHT, 1895, BY FRED’K L. CHAPMAN & CO.</p> - - <p class="noi illtitle">THE RICHEST MAN IN THE WORLD.</p> - </div> -</div> - - - - -<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop" /> - -<div class="chapter"> -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_28"></a>[28]</span></p> - -<div class="figcenter"> - <img src="images/i_chdeco.jpg" alt="section decoration" title="section decoration" /> -</div> - -<h2 class="nobreak" id="EVICTED">EVICTED!</h2> -</div> - - -<p class="cap">There are two tenants who seek to occupy every human -heart and make it their place of residence. One -of them is the Spirit of Good, the other is the Spirit -of Evil. Jesus Christ is the personification of one; Satan is the -personification of the other. It is within the power of every -one to say whether his spiritual castle shall be the abode of -righteousness and truth or whether it shall be the foul dwelling -of sin and falsehood. If, perchance, the latter, by accident or unwatchfulness -or even by our deliberate choice, has obtained control -of our affections we may through the help of God cast out -the unworthy tenant together with all his chattels of pride, envy, -intemperance and their kindred brood, and turn over the House -of Man-Soul to that other spirit whose mark thenceforth will -adorn the door plate as a pledge that the dwelling will be forever -impregnable against the assaults of sin.</p> - -<div class="blockquot"> - -<p><span class="oldenglish">And Jesus said unto him, this day is salvation -come to this house.</span> <cite>Luke 16:6.</cite></p> -</div> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_29"></a>[29]</span></p> - -<div class="figcenter" id="i_029png"> - <img src="images/i_029png.jpg" alt="" title="" /> - <div class="caption"> - <p class="noi works">COPYRIGHT, 1896, BY FRED’K L. CHAPMAN & CO.</p> - - <p class="noi illtitle">EVICTED!</p> - </div> -</div> - - - - -<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop" /> - -<div class="chapter"> -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_30"></a>[30]</span></p> - -<div class="figcenter"> - <img src="images/i_chdeco.jpg" alt="section decoration" title="section decoration" /> -</div> - -<h2 class="nobreak" id="THE_ENEMIES_OF_THE_REPUBLIC">THE ENEMIES OF THE REPUBLIC.</h2> -</div> - - -<p class="cap">Columbia has need of ships of war but she has need -also of watchfulness within, lest, in looking for enemy -abroad, she forget that in her very borders there are -dark-browed assassins lying in ambush ready to slay her and -take Justice and Liberty captive. No evils threaten greater -menace to the nation than those which are embodied in the -rum traffic and in corporate bribery. The serpent trail of each -is seen in council chambers and senate halls. They work in the -dark and they work stealthily. They are traitors and public -foes. They should be destroyed.</p> - -<div class="blockquot"> - -<p><span class="oldenglish">Their feet run to evil, and they make haste to shed -innocent blood: their thoughts are thoughts of iniquity; -wasting and destruction are in their path.</span> <cite>Isaiah 8:22.</cite></p> -</div> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_31"></a>[31]</span></p> - -<div class="figcenter" id="i_031png"> - <img src="images/i_031png.jpg" alt="" title="" /> - <div class="caption"> - <p class="noi works">COPYRIGHT, 1895, BY FRED’K L. CHAPMAN & CO.</p> - - <p class="noi illtitle">THE ENEMIES OF THE REPUBLIC.</p> - </div> -</div> - - - - -<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop" /> - -<div class="chapter"> -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_32"></a>[32]</span></p> - -<div class="figcenter"> - <img src="images/i_chdeco.jpg" alt="section decoration" title="section decoration" /> -</div> - -<h2 class="nobreak" id="THE_IMMIGRANT">THE IMMIGRANT.</h2> -</div> - - -<p class="cap">During four hundred and more years this continent has -been the melting pot for the population of the Eastern -hemisphere. For three-fourths of that time the yearly -infusions of raw metal was so slight that it was not hard to -compound them with the native stock and preserve the high -character of American citizenship. But when alien immigration -pours its stream of half a million yearly, as has frequently been -done during the last decade, and when that stream is polluted -with the moral sewage of the old world, including its poverty, -drunkenness, infidelity and disease, it is well to put up the bars -and save America, at least until she can purify the atmosphere -of contagion which foreign invasion has already brought.</p> - -<div class="blockquot"> - -<p><span class="oldenglish">Stand in the gate of the Lord’s house, and proclaim -there this word: Thus saith the Lord of hosts, the -God of Israel, Amend your ways and your doings, -and I will cause you to dwell in this place.</span> <cite>Jer. 7:2–3</cite>.</p> -</div> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_33"></a>[33]</span></p> - -<div class="figcenter" id="i_033png"> - <img src="images/i_033png.jpg" alt="" title="" /> - <div class="caption"> - <p class="noi works">COPYRIGHT, 1896, BY FRED’K L. CHAPMAN & CO.</p> - - <p class="noi illtitle">THE STRANGER AT OUR GATE.</p> - - <p class="noic"><span class="smcap">Emigrant.</span>—Can I come in? <span class="smcap">Uncle Sam.</span>—I ’spose you can; there’s no law to keep you out.</p> - </div> -</div> - - - - -<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop" /> - -<div class="chapter"> -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_34"></a>[34]</span></p> - -<div class="figcenter"> - <img src="images/i_chdeco.jpg" alt="section decoration" title="section decoration" /> -</div> - -<h2 class="x-ebookmaker-important nobreak" id="BY_AUTHORITY_OF_THE_PEOPLE">BY AUTHORITY OF THE PEOPLE.</h2> -</div> - - -<p class="cap">When that famous submarine reef known as Hell Gate -was blown out of the waters of Long Island Sound, -the world echoed with rejoicing to learn that what -had been a menace and a barrier to vessels and to commerce -was blasted into fragments never to return. There is a greater -Hell Gate which with its infinite submarine and subterranean -tunnels honeycombs our social structure. The saloon is the -dreadful barrier to commerce and prosperity, as well as a menace -to health and peace. In spite of the fact that its awful traffic -bears the approving stamp of our government, the time will -come when this great thing, whose foundations are laid in hell, -will be blown skyward by the power of public sentiment -mightily aroused and intellectually directed.</p> - -<div class="blockquot"> - -<p><span class="oldenglish">Woe unto him that giveth his neighbor drink, that -putteth thy bottle to him, and makest him drunken -also.</span> <cite>Hab. 2:4.</cite></p> -</div> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_35"></a>[35]</span></p> - -<div class="figcenter" id="i_035png"> - <img src="images/i_035png.jpg" alt="" title="" /> - <div class="caption"> - <p class="noi works">COPYRIGHT, 1895, BY FRED’K L. CHAPMAN & CO.</p> - - <p class="noi illtitle">BY AUTHORITY OF THE PEOPLE.</p> - </div> -</div> - - - - -<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop" /> - -<div class="chapter"> -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_36"></a>[36]</span></p> - -<div class="figcenter"> - <img src="images/i_chdeco.jpg" alt="section decoration" title="section decoration" /> -</div> - -<h2 class="nobreak" id="PROTECT_THAT_BOY">PROTECT THAT BOY.</h2> -</div> - - -<p class="cap">The controllers of the liquor traffic understand their business. -They know that they are sending an army of -drunkards each year to an untimely grave and to -take the place of these fallen victims, they must gain recruits -from the hosts of youth. But the Rum haunts are too hideous -to beguile one of tender years. There must be less offensive -sins offered to bridge that long leap from innocence to iniquity, -from the home hearth to the dram shop. Therefore, the rum-seller -goes in league with the vendor of cigarettes, and base -literature, and evil pictures, and questionable games and entertainments. -At last the youthful victims of these plotters find -themselves on the threshold of ruin. Every avenue through -crime and vice leads at last to the open saloon.</p> - -<div class="blockquot"> - -<p><span class="oldenglish">The days of his youth hast thou shortened: thou -hast covered him with shame.</span> <cite>Psalms 89:45.</cite></p> -</div> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_37"></a>[37]</span></p> - -<div class="figcenter" id="i_037png"> - <img src="images/i_037png.jpg" alt="" title="" /> - <div class="caption"> - <p class="noi works">COPYRIGHT, 1896, BY FRED’K L. CHAPMAN & CO.</p> - - <p class="noi illtitle">PROTECT THAT BOY.</p> - </div> -</div> - - - - -<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop" /> - -<div class="chapter"> -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_38"></a>[38]</span></p> - -<div class="figcenter"> - <img src="images/i_chdeco.jpg" alt="section decoration" title="section decoration" /> -</div> - -<h2 class="nobreak" id="DONT_SHOOT">DON’T SHOOT.</h2> -</div> - - -<p class="cap">It would be easy to destroy the liquor traffic were it not for -its power in politics. This is so apparent to the men who -manage it that they make it their first business to engage -in politics and lay candidates for office under obligations by -making generous contributions to the campaigns of each party. -Therefore, whenever a cry of robbery or murder goes up from -the licensed saloon and the government grabs bayonet and ballot -and runs to the rescue, the political managers immediately -step forth and intervene. Don’t Shoot, they both cry; Let him -rob and ruin. He is a friend of mine and he has a license.</p> - -<div class="blockquot"> - -<p><span class="oldenglish">And he said unto them; Hinder me not, seeing the -Lord hath prospered my way.</span> <cite>Gen. 24:56.</cite></p> -</div> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_39"></a>[39]</span></p> - -<div class="figcenter" id="i_039png"> - <img src="images/i_039png.jpg" alt="" title="" /> - <div class="caption"> - <p class="noi works">COPYRIGHT, 1896, BY FRED’K L. CHAPMAN & CO.</p> - - <p class="noi illtitle">DON’T SHOOT.</p> - </div> -</div> - - - - -<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop" /> - -<div class="chapter"> -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_40"></a>[40]</span></p> - -<div class="figcenter"> - <img src="images/i_chdeco.jpg" alt="section decoration" title="section decoration" /> -</div> - -<h2 class="nobreak" id="THE_PARTY_COLLAR">THE PARTY COLLAR.</h2> -</div> - - -<p class="cap">The influence of the saloon in politics is not entirely due -to the political boss who makes the gin-mill his headquarters. -He would be powerless for harm were it not -for the infinite multitude of so-called respectable voters who degrade -their intelligence and dignity by working and voting -shoulder to shoulder with social outlaws. Under a false notion -of fealty these men subject their neck to the party collar and -go to the polls yoked with ignorance and crime, and at the -heels of some low-browed political dictator they sacrifice their -country’s weal on the altar of partisan allegiance.</p> - -<div class="blockquot"> - -<p><span class="oldenglish">For the leaders of this people cause them to err; -and they that are led of them are destroyed.</span> <cite>Isaiah 9:16.</cite></p> -</div> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_41"></a>[41]</span></p> - -<div class="figcenter" id="i_041png" style="width: 650px;"> - <img src="images/i_041png.jpg" width="650" height="775" alt="" /> - <div class="caption"> - <p class="noi works">COPYRIGHT, 1895, BY FRED’K L. CHAPMAN & CO.</p> - - <p class="noi illtitle">WHY OUR CITIES ARE BADLY GOVERNED.</p> - </div> -</div> - - - - -<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop" /> - -<div class="chapter"> -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_42"></a>[42]</span></p> - -<div class="figcenter"> - <img src="images/i_chdeco.jpg" alt="section decoration" title="section decoration" /> -</div> - -<h2 class="nobreak" id="A_NIGHTS_WORK">A NIGHT’S WORK.</h2> -</div> - - -<p class="cap">More than one man has been hanged for doing what -he did not mean to do. When anyone under the influence -of liquor commits a crime it is no longer an -extenuation or defense to say that he was not responsible. This -is so because it is a matter of human experience that if one sets -a match to gunpowder it will explode and if one pours liquor -down his throat he is filling his brain with the seeds of malice, -hate and murder. Many a man has scoffed at such a statement -at twelve o’clock at night, but has seen awful proof of its truth, -when, awakening at nine in the morning he recovers from a fatal -debauch and sees the work of his own drunken and murderous -hand.</p> - -<div class="blockquot"> - -<p><span class="oldenglish">At the last it biteth like a serpent and stingeth -like an adder.</span> <cite>Prov. 23:32.</cite></p> -</div> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_43"></a>[43]</span></p> - -<div class="figcenter" id="i_043png"> - <img src="images/i_043png.jpg" alt="" title="" /> - <div class="caption"> - <p class="noi works">COPYRIGHT, 1895, BY FRED’K L. CHAPMAN & CO.</p> - - <p class="noi illtitle">A NIGHT’S WORK.</p> - </div> -</div> - - - - -<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop" /> - -<div class="chapter"> -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_44"></a>[44]</span></p> - -<div class="figcenter"> - <img src="images/i_chdeco.jpg" alt="section decoration" title="section decoration" /> -</div> - -<h2 class="nobreak" id="UNDER_THE_CLOAK_OF_THE_LAW">UNDER THE CLOAK OF THE LAW.</h2> -</div> - - -<p class="cap">Concerning the work of the saloon there is but one -verdict which can be rendered by intelligence and patriotism. -Ten thousand times ten thousand times it has -been brought before the bar of Justice and there charged and -proved with being responsible for the vast majority of poverty, -crime and disease which infest the race. Nevertheless, so deeply -is this blighting curse intrenched in our laws and government that -our courts are compelled, even if unwilling, to protect a traffic -which by common agreement is a universal bane. Knowing -this, the saloonist seeks refuge under the cloak of the law, and -there insolently defies us to assail him.</p> - -<div class="blockquot"> - -<p><span class="oldenglish">He that justifieth the wicked, and he that condemneth -the just, even they both are abomination to -the Lord.</span> <cite>Prov. 17:14.</cite></p> -</div> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_45"></a>[45]</span></p> - -<div class="figcenter" id="i_045png"> - <img src="images/i_045png.jpg" alt="" title="" /> - <div class="caption"><p class="noi works">COPYRIGHT, 1896, BY FRED’K L. CHAPMAN & CO.</p> - -<p class="noi illtitle">UNDER THE CLOAK OF THE LAW.</p></div> -</div> - - - - -<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop" /> - -<div class="chapter"> -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_46"></a>[46]</span></p> - -<div class="figcenter"> - <img src="images/i_chdeco.jpg" alt="section decoration" title="section decoration" /> -</div> - -<h2 class="nobreak" id="SPIKE_THAT_GUN">SPIKE THAT GUN!</h2> -</div> - - -<p class="cap">“Spike that gun,” was an order bravely executed by a -young English officer and his command, at the battle -of Inkerman, which gallant feat probably decided the -fate of the day. Satan has planted his batteries for the destruction -of the American home, and from every saloon in the land -the wicked bombardment goes on, day and night, year after -year, and every hour of every day some new house is sighted -for destruction. Shall this cruel and desolating fire upon the -American home forever continue? God forbid! “Spike that -gun!” is the word of command that has gone forth to the great -temperance host. “Spike that gun!” is the shout that rings out -all along the lines of the great home protection army as they -rush to the final charge. “Spike that gun!” shall be our battle -cry until the last battery of hell has been silenced and every -home in our land is safe from this desolating fire.</p> - -<div class="poetry"> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">“Spike quickly that gun,” is the word of command,</div> - <div class="verse indent1">It is battering down the homes of our land,</div> - <div class="verse indent1">Its work of destruction will lose us the day,</div> - <div class="verse indent1">If no one the order to spike it obey.</div> - </div> -</div> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_47"></a>[47]</span></p> - -<div class="figcenter" id="i_047png"> - <img src="images/i_047png.jpg" alt="" title="" /> - <div class="caption"> - <p class="noi works">COPYRIGHT, 1895, BY FRED’K L. CHAPMAN & CO.</p> - - <p class="noi illtitle">SPIKE THAT GUN.</p> - </div> -</div> - - - - -<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop" /> - -<div class="chapter"> -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_48"></a>[48]</span></p> - -<div class="figcenter"> - <img src="images/i_chdeco.jpg" alt="section decoration" title="section decoration" /> -</div> - -<h2 class="nobreak" id="PILGRIM_WATCH_THY_CROWN">PILGRIM WATCH THY CROWN.</h2> -</div> - - -<p class="cap">Life is a journey and as pilgrims we tread its pathway, -resting now and then for refreshment or ease. It is during -these periods of rest that Satan employs every art -to wrest from the traveler his dearest possession, his crown of -life, which secures him an ample entrance to the heavenly city -beyond. Folly, which represents the sensuous pleasures of the -world, is employed to display her gaudy charms in order that -the eye of the wayfarer may be turned aside and give Satan -the opportunity to snatch the coveted treasure. At such moments -let the Christian keep his crown before his eye, nor let -him look back at the allurements and false pleasures which he -has left behind. For, as a reward for this vigilance, a crown of -life is assured him, one that is imperishable and brilliant and -that fadeth not away.</p> - -<div class="blockquot"> - -<p><span class="oldenglish">Behold, I come quickly; hold that fast which thou -hast that no man take thy crown.</span> <cite>Rev. 3:11.</cite></p> -</div> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_49"></a>[49]</span></p> - -<div class="figcenter" id="i_049png"> - <img src="images/i_049png.jpg" alt="" title="" /> - <div class="caption"> - <p class="noi works">COPYRIGHT, 1895, BY FRED’K L. CHAPMAN & CO.</p> - - <p class="noi illtitle">PILGRIM WATCH THY CROWN.</p> - </div> -</div> - - - - -<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop" /> - -<div class="chapter"> -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_50"></a>[50]</span></p> - -<div class="figcenter"> - <img src="images/i_chdeco.jpg" alt="section decoration" title="section decoration" /> -</div> - -<h2 class="nobreak" id="THE_BACKSLIDER">THE BACKSLIDER.</h2> -</div> - - -<p class="cap">At the brink of Niagara where the mists rise above tons -of water which fall two hundred feet below, there is a -rainbow seen almost constantly when the sun is shining, -and within the circle of color some have seen the form of -a beautiful maiden. One who was in a boat above the falls -might see this entrancing vision and drop his oars and gaze -rapturously, until, all unconscious, his boat glides over the brink -and to destruction. The Christian also is in danger of such a -fate. The world offers beauty and pleasure, and in such fascinating -forms that it takes resolute will to keep from dropping the -oars and drifting with the current of temptation and letting -the good boat, which would save us, glide over the precipice into -sin and into death.</p> - -<div class="blockquot"> - -<p><span class="oldenglish">So will not we go back from thee; quicken us, -and we will call upon thy name. Turn us again, O -Lord God of hosts, cause thy face to shine; and we -shall be saved.</span> <cite>Psalms 80:18–19.</cite></p> -</div> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_51"></a>[51]</span></p> - -<div class="figcenter" id="i_051png"> - <img src="images/i_051png.jpg" alt="" title="" /> - <div class="caption"> - <p class="noi works">COPYRIGHT, 1895, BY FRED’K L. CHAPMAN & CO.</p> - - <p class="noi illtitle">THE BACKSLIDER.</p> - </div> -</div> - - - - -<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop" /> - -<div class="chapter"> -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_52"></a>[52]</span></p> - -<div class="figcenter"> - <img src="images/i_chdeco.jpg" alt="section decoration" title="section decoration" /> -</div> - -<h2 class="nobreak" id="DARE_TO_BE_A_DANIEL">DARE TO BE A DANIEL!</h2> -</div> - - -<p class="cap">The resolute faith that enabled Daniel to face the den of -lions is at the command of any child of God today, -and nothing else will avail as an armor and defense -when the ravenous beasts of passion, appetite, covetousness and -revenge attack us in temptation’s hour. The source of -strength in such emergencies is a childlike faith in God and the -fount of that faith is His Holy Word. In the security which -faith inspires, the den of torture and trial becomes luminous as -the Mount of Transfiguration to those who resist evil and dare -to stand true.</p> - -<div class="blockquot"> - -<p><span class="oldenglish">For in that He himself hath suffered being tempted, -He is able to succor them that are tempted.</span> <cite>Heb. 2:18.</cite></p> -</div> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_53"></a>[53]</span></p> - -<div class="figcenter" id="i_053png"> - <img src="images/i_053png.jpg" alt="" title="" /> - <div class="caption"> - <p class="noi works">COPYRIGHT, 1895, BY FRED’K L. CHAPMAN & CO.</p> - - <p class="noi illtitle">DARE TO BE A DANIEL!</p> - </div> -</div> - - - - -<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop" /> - -<div class="chapter"> -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_54"></a>[54]</span></p> - -<div class="figcenter"> - <img src="images/i_chdeco.jpg" alt="section decoration" title="section decoration" /> -</div> - -<h2 class="nobreak" id="THE_REMAINING_GUEST">THE REMAINING GUEST.</h2> -</div> - - -<p class="cap">Of all the pictures which memory paints on the heart -none is so indelible as that of the hour of evening -prayer when, at mother’s knee, we paid our first vows -to God and pledged our lives to purity and truth. This picture -has become the saving beam of light which has shot across the -dark career of many who after a night’s revelry, and alone with -conscience, refuse to drink further of sin’s deadly potion, but -look back upon that early scene of innocence, and resolve to -make it again a real experience. Although Remorse is the remaining -guest of a night of sin, there is also the confident -token of an angel of hope ever ready in the chamber of repentant -despair.</p> - -<div class="blockquot"> - -<p><span class="oldenglish">Rejoice, O young man, in thy youth; and let thy -heart cheer thee in the days of thy youth, and walk -in the ways of thine heart, and in the sight of thine -eyes; but know thou, that for all these things God -will bring thee into judgment.</span> <cite>Ecc. 11:9.</cite></p> -</div> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_55"></a>[55]</span></p> - -<div class="figcenter" id="i_055png"> - <img src="images/i_055png.jpg" alt="" title="" /> - <div class="caption"> - <p class="noi works">COPYRIGHT, 1896, BY FRED’K L. CHAPMAN & CO.</p> - - <p class="noi illtitle">THE REMAINING GUEST.</p></div> -</div> - - - - -<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop" /> - -<div class="chapter"> -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_56"></a>[56]</span></p> - -<div class="figcenter"> - <img src="images/i_chdeco.jpg" alt="section decoration" title="section decoration" /> -</div> - -<h2 class="nobreak" id="AS_CONSCIENCE_PAINTS_HIM">AS CONSCIENCE PAINTS HIM.</h2> -</div> - - -<p class="cap">There are days in everybody’s life when he sits alone -with Conscience. The world and its undeserved blame -or praise is shut out of that silent chamber. With his -truthful guest the man of rags and the man of millions, the -woman of toil and the woman of ease, must hold weekly if not -daily and hourly communion. At these times the picture of the -real self is thrown upon the vivid background of years. Now the -false-hearted or boastful or proud will see and hear admonitions -that would not be brooked from preacher or friend. True character -divested of conventional habiliments of conduct through -which the eyes of men can not peer, will stand bleak, ragged -and forlorn. “Paint me as I am,” cried Cromwell, in righteous -rage when the artist began to paint out of his portrait a slight -disfigurement of his face. This he did though he knew that -his portrait would go down through generations and thus perpetuate -his ungainly visage. Who of us can say to conscience, -“Paint me as I am though the world sees and the future sees -me, let not my real self be hidden!”</p> - -<div class="blockquot"> - -<p><span class="oldenglish">Their conscience also bearing witness, and their -thoughts the meanwhile accusing or else excusing one -another.</span> <cite>Romans 2:15.</cite></p> -</div> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_57"></a>[57]</span></p> - -<div class="figcenter" id="i_057png"> - <img src="images/i_057png.jpg" alt="" title="" /> - <div class="caption"> - <p class="noi works">COPYRIGHT, 1895, BY FRED’K L. CHAPMAN & CO.</p> - - <p class="noi illtitle">AS CONSCIENCE PAINTS HIM.</p> - </div> -</div> - - - - -<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop" /> - -<div class="chapter"> -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_58"></a>[58]</span></p> - -<div class="figcenter"> - <img src="images/i_chdeco.jpg" alt="section decoration" title="section decoration" /> -</div> - -<h2 class="nobreak" id="COVERING_HIS_SINS">COVERING HIS SINS.</h2> -</div> - - -<p class="cap">Here is a picture of universal application, though all do -not indulge the same sin as the man here shown—endeavoring -to cover his greed by showing to the -world the monument of a college professorship endowed by his -gifts or money. The world may be deceived in part, but what -of his own conscience? He can not hide from himself his true -nature and he forgets that God is ever at his side, judging not -the act but the motive, never mistaken in His estimate, rejoicing -at the good, sorrowing for the bad, but all-seeing and ever-seeing.</p> - -<div class="blockquot"> - -<p><span class="oldenglish">For the eyes of the Lord, run to and fro throughout -the whole earth, to shew himself strong in the -behalf of them whose heart is perfect toward him.</span> <cite>II Chron. 16:9.</cite></p> -</div> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_59"></a>[59]</span></p> - -<div class="figcenter" id="i_059png"> - <img src="images/i_059png.jpg" alt="" title="" /> - <div class="caption"> - <p class="noi works">COPYRIGHT, 1895, BY FRED’K L. CHAPMAN & CO.</p> - - <p class="noi illtitle">COVERING HIS SINS.</p> - </div> -</div> - - - - -<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop" /> - -<div class="chapter"> -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_60"></a>[60]</span></p> - -<div class="figcenter"> - <img src="images/i_chdeco.jpg" alt="section decoration" title="section decoration" /> -</div> - -<h2 class="nobreak" id="THE_SELF_MADE_MAN">THE SELF MADE MAN.</h2> -</div> - - -<p class="cap">Paul was not “a self made man,” for he said, “I can do -all things through Christ that strengtheneth me.” That -was his claim, and it is in pleasing contrast with those -individuals whose boast is that their successful careers are monuments -of their own endeavor. Crowned with pride, clothed with -the tattered rags of self-righteous egotism, with garments a -patch work of shabby gentility, such men divide their worship -between their unworthy selves and the idol of Mammon which -they draw in their train. The track over which they glide in -such confident security is slippery and treacherous. Based simply -upon reputation it is full of breaks and seams into which any -moment the unsuspecting egotist may plunge.</p> - -<div class="blockquot"> - -<p><span class="oldenglish">Pride goeth before destruction, and an haughty -spirit before a fall.</span> <cite>Prov. 16:18.</cite></p> -</div> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_61"></a>[61]</span></p> - -<div class="figcenter" id="i_061png"> - <img src="images/i_061png.jpg" alt="" title="" /> - <div class="caption"> - <p class="noi works">COPYRIGHT, 1896, BY FRED’K L. CHAPMAN & CO.</p> - - <p class="noi illtitle">THE SELF MADE MAN.</p> - - <p class="noic">“The way of a fool is right in his own eyes, but he that hearkeneth unto counsel is wise.”—Prov. XII:15</p> - </div> -</div> - - - - -<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop" /> - -<div class="chapter"> -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_62"></a>[62]</span></p> - -<div class="figcenter"> - <img src="images/i_chdeco.jpg" alt="section decoration" title="section decoration" /> -</div> - -<h2 class="nobreak" id="THE_STRAIT_GATE">THE STRAIT GATE.</h2> -</div> - - -<p class="cap">The invitations which God has extended for men to -come into His kingdom are all broad and generous. -“Every one,” and “whosoever,” these are the key words -of His gracious command. And yet the summons to a better -life and to future bliss is not entirely unqualified or unconditional. -No man can with confidence approach the portals of -heaven with a proud heart or with unclean lips or with hands -stained with sin. The gate of heaven is high, but narrow. It -will not admit the evidence of any worldly possession and by no -means of the fruits of self-love or base ambition or sensuality, -covetousness, pride or deceit. The strait gate is big enough for -any sinner, but it is too small to admit his sins.</p> - -<div class="blockquot"> - -<p><span class="oldenglish">And there shall in no wise enter into it anything -that defileth, neither whatsoever worketh abomination, -or maketh a lie: but they which are written in the -Lamb’s book of life.</span> <cite>Rev. 21:27.</cite></p> -</div> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_63"></a>[63]</span></p> - -<div class="figcenter" id="i_063png"> - <img src="images/i_063png.jpg" alt="" title="" /> - <div class="caption"> - <p class="noi works">COPYRIGHT, 1895, BY FRED’K L. CHAPMAN & CO.</p> - - <p class="noi illtitle">ROOM FOR THE SINNER, BUT NONE FOR THE SINS.</p> - </div> -</div> - - - - -<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop" /> - -<div class="chapter"> -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_64"></a>[64]</span></p> - -<div class="figcenter"> - <img src="images/i_chdeco.jpg" alt="section decoration" title="section decoration" /> -</div> - -<h2 class="nobreak" id="PAY_DAY">PAY DAY.</h2> -</div> - - -<p class="cap">It is a solemn thought that life has no ending, but that some -day there will be a season of harvest and a time of -accounting, when each man must render a report of his -stewardship and be rewarded or punished for the deeds done in -the body. In that dread hour of settlement there will be no -respect of persons. The rich and the poor, the great and lowly, -must subject their moral natures to the same inflexible standard. -The winnowing fan of God’s justice will spare not the proud -nor powerful. They will all go to their own place. The chaff -from the wheat, the sheep from the goats will be forever -separate.</p> - -<div class="blockquot"> - -<p><span class="oldenglish">He that is unjust, let him be unjust still: and he -which is filthy, let him be filthy still: and he that is -righteous, let him be righteous still: and he that is -holy, let him be holy still.</span> <cite>Rev. 22:11.</cite></p> -</div> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_65"></a>[65]</span></p> - -<div class="figcenter" id="i_065png"> - <img src="images/i_065png.jpg" alt="" title="" /> - <div class="caption"> - <p class="noi works">COPYRIGHT, 1895, BY FRED’K L. CHAPMAN & CO.</p> - - <p class="noi illtitle">PAY DAY.</p> - </div> -</div> - - - - -<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop" /> - -<div class="chapter"> -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_66"></a>[66]</span></p> - -<div class="figcenter"> - <img src="images/i_chdeco.jpg" alt="section decoration" title="section decoration" /> -</div> - -<h2 class="nobreak" id="O_GRAVE_WHERE_IS_THY_VICTORY">O GRAVE! WHERE IS THY VICTORY?</h2> -</div> - - -<p class="cap">Death has no terror for the child of God. Neither the -damp sod nor the granite tomb can hold the free -spirits of the children of faith. We commit them to -the earth and shed the parting tear and are too prone to fancy -that the cold ground holds the object of our love; but it is only -the cast-off covering of the soul that we bury. The real self, -the indestructible and everliving spirit, has been caught up into -heaven and long before the hearse and the cortege of weeping -friends have left the tomb, the glad song of the departed one -has swelled that of the angelic host in the refrain, “Death is -swallowed up in victory.”</p> - -<div class="blockquot"> - -<p><span class="oldenglish">And there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, -nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain: for -the former things have passed away.</span> <cite>Rev. 21:4.</cite></p> -</div> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_67"></a>[67]</span></p> - -<div class="figcenter" id="i_067png"> - <img src="images/i_067png.jpg" alt="" title="" /> - <div class="caption"> - <p class="noi works">COPYRIGHT, 1895, BY FRED’K L. CHAPMAN & CO.</p> - - <p class="noi illtitle">O GRAVE! WHERE IS THY VICTORY?</p> - </div> -</div> - - - - -<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop" /> - -<div class="chapter"> -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_68"></a>[68]</span></p> - -<div class="figcenter"> - <img src="images/i_chdeco.jpg" alt="section decoration" title="section decoration" /> -</div> - -<h2 class="nobreak" id="HOLDFAST">HOLDFAST.</h2> -</div> - - -<p class="cap">Parsimony often walks under the name of prudence, -and stinginess may try to palm itself off as thrift. -The man who puts aside the widowed and orphaned, -by the plea that he is laying in store for a rainy day, takes -extreme hazards with Fate. Her hand even now draws aside -the curtains which reveal his destiny. The rainy day comes -sooner than he thinks and his mortal remains are carried to the -grave unattended by the sad procession of any whose distress -he might have lifted. Holdfast is forever held in the tomb of -his loneliness and misery. He sadly misread life’s great lesson, that -it is far better to give than to receive. He never knew that he -was his brother’s keeper. He lived for self and died as he lived. -Although nominally religious such men as Holdfast never learn -that</p> - -<div class="blockquot"> - -<p><span class="oldenglish">Pure religion and undefiled before God and the -Father is this, To visit the fatherless and widows in -their affliction.</span> <cite>James 1:27.</cite></p> -</div> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_69"></a>[69]</span></p> - -<div class="figcenter" id="i_069png"> - <img src="images/i_069png.jpg" alt="" title="" /> - <div class="caption"> - <p class="noi works">COPYRIGHT, 1895, BY FRED’K L. CHAPMAN & CO.</p> - - <p class="noic">HOLDFAST.—“No! I am laying by a little for a rainy day, but nothing for Charity.”</p> - </div> -</div> - - - - -<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop" /> - -<div class="chapter"> -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_70"></a>[70]</span></p> - -<div class="figcenter"> - <img src="images/i_chdeco.jpg" alt="section decoration" title="section decoration" /> -</div> - -<h2 class="nobreak" id="RESCUED">RESCUED.</h2> -</div> - - -<p class="cap">Wherever the tide of human life flows very deeply -and swiftly, there shipwreck is most frequent and we -place Rescue Missions at these points. But do we -ever think of there being rescue missions in the skies? Could -we scan the far battlements of heaven we might, perhaps, see -them lined with hosts of angels watching and waiting to -descend to the rescue of some tender child whom it were better -to snatch away to scenes of glory, than leave it in an atmosphere -that reeks with moral contagion. It was such a scene as -appears on the page opposite that Isaiah saw when he wrote -“He shall gather the lambs with his arm and shall carry them -in his bosom.”</p> - -<div class="blockquot"> - -<p><span class="oldenglish">He shall save the children of the needy, and shall -break in pieces the oppressor.</span> <cite>Psalm 72:4.</cite></p> -</div> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_71"></a>[71]</span></p> - -<div class="figcenter" id="i_071png"> - <img src="images/i_071png.jpg" alt="" title="" /> - <div class="caption"><p class="noi works">COPYRIGHT, 1896, BY FRED’K L. CHAPMAN & CO.</p> - -<p class="noi illtitle">RESCUED.</p></div> -</div> - - - - -<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop" /> - -<div class="chapter"> -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_72"></a>[72]</span></p> - -<div class="figcenter"> - <img src="images/i_chdeco.jpg" alt="section decoration" title="section decoration" /> -</div> - -<h2 class="nobreak" id="SUFFER_LITTLE_CHILDREN">“SUFFER LITTLE CHILDREN.”</h2> -</div> - - -<p class="cap">Great hearts are the quickest to be touched by the -appeals of childhood. It is an evidence of Christ’s -greatness, that he delighted not in the patronage and -intercourse of the influential and mighty, but sought the friendship -and love of children. Their credentials to His favor are -not based upon race, or station, creed or complexion. Their -frankness, their innocence, their simplicity, place them in nomination -and his great heart immediately responds to those traits. -“Suffer little children to come unto me, for of such is the kingdom -of heaven.” Unless ye become as a little child (in frankness -and simplicity and innocence) ye shall not enter the kingdom -of heaven.</p> - -<div class="blockquot"> - -<p><span class="oldenglish">Whosoever shall receive one of such children in my -name, receiveth me; and whosoever shall receive me, -receiveth not me, but him that sent me.</span> <cite>Mark 9:37.</cite></p> -</div> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_73"></a>[73]</span></p> - -<div class="figcenter" id="i_073png"> - <img src="images/i_073png.jpg" alt="" title="" /> - <div class="caption"> - <p class="noi works">COPYRIGHT, 1895, BY FRED’K L. CHAPMAN & CO.</p> - - <p class="noi illtitle">THE GOOD SHEPHERD.</p> - </div> -</div> - - - - -<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop" /> - -<div class="chapter"> -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_74"></a>[74]</span></p> - -<div class="figcenter"> - <img src="images/i_chdeco.jpg" alt="section decoration" title="section decoration" /> -</div> - -<h2 class="nobreak" id="IT_IS_I">“IT IS I.”</h2> -</div> - - -<p class="cap">On the water the disciples did not recognize the Master. -In the synagogue, or the highway, or at the table, they -would have known him instantly, but in the unusual -scene on a stormy Galilee, his presence brought alarm -instead of solace. Christ may come to us when and where -and how we least expect him. It will not be strange if -amidst the storm, which modern science has engendered, and -in which the brave gospel ship is rocking, Christ himself should -come to the frightened student of His word and say, “It is I, be -not afraid.” If this be true, then, science will shed its dazzling -light upon his own sacred person and we shall see him more -nearly as he is.</p> - -<div class="blockquot"> - -<p><span class="oldenglish">Fear not: I am the first and the last; I am he -that liveth, and was dead; and, behold, I am alive -for evermore.</span> <cite>Rev. 1:17, 18.</cite></p> -</div> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_75"></a>[75]</span></p> - -<div class="figcenter" id="i_075png"> - <img src="images/i_075png.jpg" alt="" title="" /> - <div class="caption"> - <p class="noi works">COPYRIGHT, 1895, BY FRED’K L. CHAPMAN & CO.</p> - - <p class="noi illtitle">“IT IS I, BE NOT AFRAID.”</p> - </div> -</div> - - - - -<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop" /> - -<div class="chapter"> -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_76"></a>[76]</span></p> - -<div class="figcenter"> - <img src="images/i_chdeco.jpg" alt="section decoration" title="section decoration" /> -</div> - -<h2 class="nobreak" id="TOO_BUSY">TOO BUSY.</h2> -</div> - - -<p class="cap">Knock! Knock! Knock! Since childhood’s youngest -day there has been a loving guest waiting at the door -of our heart’s chamber. Long years we have heard -that gentle, patient, persistent knock! knock! knock! -Long ago it was louder, distincter, clearer, because, now we -have passed from quiet, restful childhood into the loud and -stirring world. Nevertheless, into business, into politics, into -society, even into sin, that faithful Friend has followed us and -is bound, still if possible, to gain admittance to our lives. But -we are absorbed, indifferent, and, in a word, too busy. We -also have another guest who has our ear. Therefore, keep out! -No admittance! Life closes! Eternity dawns, and we begin to -hear, not the knock, knock, knock of our unwelcome guest, -but the clank, clank, clank of the chains of bondage which our -new master is forging.</p> - -<div class="poetry"> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Behold a stranger at the door,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">He gently knocks, has knocked before,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Has waited long, is waiting still,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">You treat no other friend so ill.</div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class="blockquot"> - -<p><span class="oldenglish">Behold, I stand at the door and knock: if any -man hear my voice, and open the door, I will come -in to him, and will sup with him, and he with me.</span> <cite>Rev. -3:20.</cite></p> -</div> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_77"></a>[77]</span></p> - -<div class="figcenter" id="i_077png"> - <img src="images/i_077png.jpg" alt="" title="" /> - <div class="caption"> - <p class="noi works">COPYRIGHT, 1895, BY FRED’K L. CHAPMAN & CO.</p> - - <p class="noi illtitle">“BEHOLD I STAND AT THE DOOR AND KNOCK.”</p> - </div> -</div> - - - - -<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop" /> - -<div class="chapter"> -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_78"></a>[78]</span></p> - -<div class="figcenter"> - <img src="images/i_chdeco.jpg" alt="section decoration" title="section decoration" /> -</div> - -<h2 class="nobreak" id="SHADOWED">SHADOWED.</h2> -</div> - - -<p class="cap">In the midst of life we are in death, in the midst of joy we -are in sorrow and in the midst of luxury we are in want. -There are more kinds of luxury than those which mere -wealth can bring, and there are kinds of want as many—luxury -is a state of abundance, whether of wealth, or books, or intellect, -or privileges beyond our personal need. Want is a state of -poverty of clothes, or food, or of physical or mental necessities of -whatever sort. It is a fact that one half of the world possesses -that which the other half needs. The poor need the assistance -of the rich in matters of physical comforts and counsel. The -rich need the meekness and patience which are the soonest found -in the lowly cottage or the pauper’s hut. The world will -reach its ideal state when every one, as his brother’s keeper, will -vie with each other in a wholesale interchange of fellowship and -goods. The barrier to this glad consummation is the selfish indifference -with which one half of the world works and worships. -It is blind to the constant presence of want which has claims to -be paid. Until these debts to duty are discharged worship will -be a mockery and religion a hollow show.</p> - -<div class="blockquot"> - -<p><span class="oldenglish">The rich and poor meet together: the Lord is the -maker of them all.</span> <cite>Prov. 22:2.</cite></p> -</div> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_79"></a>[79]</span></p> - -<div class="figcenter" id="i_079png"> - <img src="images/i_079png.jpg" alt="" title="" /> - <div class="caption"> - <p class="noi works">COPYRIGHT, 1896, BY FRED’K L. CHAPMAN & CO.</p> - - <div class="poetry"> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">While Luxury walks in splendor and pride:</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Her shadow, Grim Want, stalks close by her side.</div> - </div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - - - - -<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop" /> - -<div class="chapter"> -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_80"></a>[80]</span></p> - -<div class="figcenter"> - <img src="images/i_chdeco.jpg" alt="section decoration" title="section decoration" /> -</div> - -<h2 class="nobreak" id="SHIPWRECKED_BUT_NOT_LOST">SHIPWRECKED: BUT NOT LOST.</h2> -</div> - - -<p class="cap">Few lives there are upon whose page sooner or later there -is not written the record of a tragedy. It may come in -the loss of a friend, or a parent, or a wife or husband, -or a child. It may come in the wreck of a fortune or the -stranding of a worldly ambition. Some day while pursuing a -peaceful voyage the cry will go forth, “Breakers ahead,” and -in spite of our vigilance and our prayers the stout ship will -founder and we will be cast upon untrodden shores of duty and -experience. It is in such emergencies as these that the Christian -has resources that the man of the world knows not of. Unlike -Crusoe he does not turn his desperate gaze toward the half-sunken -ship if perchance he may regain some of its stores. He -recalls rather those sweet promises of God which await redemption -in the hour of need. “I will never leave thee, nor forsake -thee.” He remembers that and forthwith in the midst of his -extreme peril and helplessness he cries: I will lift up mine eyes -unto the hills from whence cometh my help. My help cometh -from the Lord, which made heaven and earth. Psalms 121:1–2.</p> - -<div class="blockquot"> - -<p><span class="oldenglish">Then they cry unto the Lord in their trouble, and -He bringeth them out of their distresses.</span> <cite>Psalms 107:28.</cite></p> -</div> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_81"></a>[81]</span></p> - -<div class="figcenter" id="i_081png"> - <img src="images/i_081png.jpg" alt="" title="" /> - <div class="caption"> - <p class="noi works">COPYRIGHT, 1895, BY FRED’K L. CHAPMAN & CO.</p> - - <p class="noi illtitle">SHIPWRECKED—BUT NOT LOST.</p> - - <p class="noic">“I will lift up mine eyes unto the hills from whence cometh my help.”</p> - </div> -</div> - - - - -<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop" /> - -<div class="chapter"> -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_82"></a>[82]</span></p> - -<div class="figcenter"> - <img src="images/i_chdeco.jpg" alt="section decoration" title="section decoration" /> -</div> - -<h2 class="nobreak" id="THE_LOST_SHEEP">THE LOST SHEEP.</h2> -</div> - - -<p class="cap">No name by which the Savior is known brings Him into -such close and tender relations with His people as that -of Shepherd. “I am the Good Shepherd and know -my sheep and am known of mine.” As members of the fold of -Christ we are guaranteed His loving care and solicitous protection. -“But other sheep I have which are not of this fold.” By -that He means that His shepherding care extends over the entire -world, and no bruised or fallen lamb exposed to the rocks -and hardships of the wilderness, can ever get beyond the Shepherd’s -patient search. No winds can be too harsh, no storms -too angry, no mountain steeps too treacherous to defeat his patient -will to reclaim the lost. Though by ignorance we fall -into error and violate his commands, though by willfulness we -transgress His law and traverse the road of disobedience, though -the lamp of our innocence be shattered and the light of our -hope fades away in desolation and despair, the Shepherd comes -to us and calls, “Son, daughter, give me thine heart.”</p> - -<div class="blockquot"> - -<p><span class="oldenglish">Rejoice with me; for I have found my sheep which -was lost.</span> <cite>Luke 15:6.</cite></p> -</div> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_83"></a>[83]</span></p> - -<div class="figcenter" id="i_083png"> - <img src="images/i_083png.jpg" alt="" title="" /> - <div class="caption"> - <p class="noi works">COPYRIGHT, 1895, BY FRED’K L. CHAPMAN & CO.</p> - - <p class="noi illtitle">THE LOST SHEEP.</p> - </div> -</div> - - - - -<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop" /> - -<div class="chapter"> -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_84"></a>[84]</span></p> - -<div class="figcenter"> - <img src="images/i_chdeco.jpg" alt="section decoration" title="section decoration" /> -</div> - -<h2 class="nobreak" id="CANCELED_DEBTS">CANCELED DEBTS.</h2> -</div> - - -<p class="cap">Debt is one of the most disturbing and harassing factors -in human experience. It sows nettles in the pillow of -poverty, and even the merchant, farmer and banker -pursue a weary existence when they are compelled to live under -the shadow of overhanging indebtedness. How many hearts -would be lightened today if by some magic stroke their books -of debit and credit were balanced and for once they could feel -and know that they owed no man anything. The weight -which financial indebtedness imposes is comparable only with -the weight which the debts of sin heap upon us. As we think -of the sins of envy, and of malice, and of hatred, falsehood, -deceit and cupidity, which our conscience has been justly charging -up against us since early years, the load becomes all but -intolerable. At this moment the great Debt Payer steps upon -the scene. He presents a check in payment of the entire -amount. It is payable to our order. He says, “Endorse this -and your account with sin is square.” As an evidence of our -love and faith we write our names with confidence and boldness -across the back of the check and step forth into life with -new hope and new determination.</p> - -<div class="blockquot"> - -<p><span class="oldenglish">For by one offering he hath perfected for ever them -that are sanctified.</span> <cite>Hebrews 10:14.</cite></p> -</div> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_85"></a>[85]</span></p> - -<div class="figcenter" id="i_085png"> - <img src="images/i_085png.jpg" alt="" title="" /> - <div class="caption"> - <p class="noi works">COPYRIGHT, 1896, BY FRED’K L. CHAPMAN & CO.</p> - - <p class="noi illtitle">CANCELED DEBTS.</p> - </div> -</div> - - - - -<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop" /> - -<div class="chapter"> -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_86"></a>[86]</span></p> - -<div class="figcenter"> - <img src="images/i_chdeco.jpg" alt="section decoration" title="section decoration" /> -</div> - -<h2 class="nobreak" id="FOLLOW_ME">“FOLLOW ME.”</h2> -</div> - - -<p class="cap">Every soul has its calvary and that crucial hour in each -life will witness the peaceful, forgiving, trustful spirit -that was seen in Jesus, or it will witness the hateful, -furious appalling dissolution that came to the unrepentant companion -of his cross. “Follow me,” he cries from the scene of -his crucifixion. “Follow me through the carpenter shop of -Nazareth and the sick room of Nain and the street riots of -Capernaum and the tears of Gethsemane.” We should expect -no share in the fruits of Christ’s death, unless we participate in -the work of his life. The cross is a meaningless symbol until -we approach it over the pathway of humility, trust, self-denial -and obedience.</p> - -<div class="poetry"> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">“Though Christ a thousand times in Bethlehem be born,</div> - <div class="verse indent1">But not within thyself, thy soul shall be forlorn.</div> - <div class="verse indent1">The cross on Golgotha thou lookest to in vain,</div> - <div class="verse indent1">If not within thyself it be set up again.”</div> - </div> -</div> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_87"></a>[87]</span></p> - -<div class="figcenter" id="i_087png"> - <img src="images/i_087png.jpg" alt="" title="" /> - <div class="caption"> - <p class="noi works">COPYRIGHT, 1896, BY FRED’K L. CHAPMAN & CO.</p> - - <p class="noi illtitle">“FOLLOW ME.”</p> - </div> -</div> - - - - -<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop" /> - -<div class="chapter"> -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_88"></a>[88]</span></p> - -<div class="figcenter"> - <img src="images/i_chdeco.jpg" alt="section decoration" title="section decoration" /> -</div> - -<h2 class="nobreak" id="THE_HOPE_OF_THE_RACE">THE HOPE OF THE RACE.</h2> -</div> - - -<p class="cap">What life is at all fruitful in success and the joy that -attends it unless that life has constantly in view a -purpose and pursues it with fidelity and hope. Likewise -how can our race achieve its best endeavor unless it lives -under the constant purpose to achieve a certain goal. Human -life must have an object of existence that is worthy of its high -endowments. The only objects which are worthy of our pursuit -are Purity, Peace and Truth, and the only embodiment -which the world has ever known of these supreme things was -Jesus of Nazareth. Therefore we look toward his second coming -with confidence and longing. As the embodiment of our -highest aspirations he will be the fulfillment of all our desires. -At his approach the clouds of uncertainty, ignorance, superstition, -distrust, doubt and despair will vanish.</p> - -<div class="blockquot"> - -<p><span class="oldenglish">For all nations shall come and worship before thee; -for thy judgments are made manifest.</span> <cite>Rev. 15:4.</cite></p> -</div> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_89"></a>[89]</span></p> - -<div class="figcenter" id="i_089png"> - <img src="images/i_089png.jpg" alt="" title="" /> - <div class="caption"> - <p class="noi works">COPYRIGHT, 1895, BY FRED’K L. CHAPMAN & CO.</p> - - <p class="noi illtitle">THE HOPE OF THE RACE.</p> - - <div class="poetry"> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Joy to the world, the Lord is come, let earth receive her King.</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Let every heart prepare him room, and Heaven and Nature sing.</div> - </div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - - - - -<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop" /> - -<div class="chapter"> -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_90"></a>[90]</span></p> - -<div class="figcenter"> - <img src="images/i_chdeco.jpg" alt="section decoration" title="section decoration" /> -</div> - -<h2 class="nobreak" id="THE_ROCK_OF_AGES">THE ROCK OF AGES.</h2> -</div> - - -<p class="cap">Some great man of old once declared that words were the -only things that live forever. If this is true of the words -of men, how much more so is it of the Word of God, -the affirmation, the promise, the pledge, of the great I am. Its -foundations of adamant are anchored in eternal truth, against its -base the angry assaults of bigotry and unbelief will be driven -in vain. Its walls will stand four square when the ancient landmarks -of dogma, formalism and ecclesiasticism lapse into ruin -and decay. Though the earth and starry worlds wax old like a -garment, the Word of God which represents his faithfulness and -the Cross of Christ which represents his Love, will stand impregnable -amid the wreck of worlds.</p> - -<div class="blockquot"> - -<p><span class="oldenglish">The grass withereth, the flower fadeth; but the -Word of our God shall stand forever.</span> <cite>Isaiah 40:8</cite>.</p> -</div> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_91"></a>[91]</span></p> - -<div class="figcenter" id="i_091png"> - <img src="images/i_091png.jpg" alt="" title="" /> - <div class="caption"> - <p class="noi works">COPYRIGHT, 1896, BY FRED’K L. CHAPMAN & CO.</p> - - <p class="noi illtitle">THE ROCK OF AGES.</p> - - <p class="noic">“THE WORD OF THE LORD ENDURETH FOREVER.”</p> - </div> -</div> - - - - -<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop" /> - -<div class="chapter"> -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_92"></a>[92]</span></p> - -<div class="figcenter"> - <img src="images/i_chdeco.jpg" alt="section decoration" title="section decoration" /> -</div> - -<h2 class="nobreak" id="AMMUNITION_GONE">AMMUNITION GONE.</h2> -</div> - - -<p class="cap">There is a giant cliff on the bank of the Hudson river -opposite the military post of West Point. This rugged -promontory has been the target for rifle practice for -almost one hundred years. Tons of lead have been poured -against its stubborn side and there is no apparent rift or seam -in the granite walls. In a similar way the Word of God and -the Truth of God have been the target for hostile attack for -hundreds and thousands of years. Agnosticism, scholasticism and -unbelief have trained their destructive batteries upon the most -cherished promises of God and upon the earnest belief of his -people, but thus far without effect. The signs are that now -their munitions of war are exhausted, their ammunition is gone. -In dismay they see the conquering hosts of Jehovah</p> - -<div class="poetry"> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Marching on to war,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">With the Cross of Jesus, going on before.</div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class="blockquot"> - -<p><span class="oldenglish">No weapon that is forged against thee shall prosper; -and every tongue that shall rise against thee in -judgment thou shalt condemn.</span> <cite>Isaiah 54:17.</cite></p> -</div> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_93"></a>[93]</span></p> - -<div class="figcenter" id="i_093png"> - <img src="images/i_093png.jpg" alt="" title="" /> - <div class="caption"> - <p class="noi works">COPYRIGHT, 1896, BY FRED’K L. CHAPMAN & CO.</p> - - <p class="noi illtitle">AMMUNITION GONE!</p> - </div> -</div> - - - - -<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop" /> - -<div class="chapter"> -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_94"></a>[94]</span></p> - -<div class="figcenter"> - <img src="images/i_chdeco.jpg" alt="section decoration" title="section decoration" /> -</div> - -<h2 class="nobreak" id="I_CANT_SEE_IT">“I CAN’T SEE IT.”</h2> -</div> - - -<p class="cap">All of human experience is not contained in seeing, hearing, -tasting, smelling and feeling. The five senses are -not the boundaries of human knowledge. Humanity -is endowed with higher faculties than these. If one chooses to -live on a plane higher than that of the brute he may experience -emotions and aspirations that are higher than those of the animal -kingdom. He may also rise still higher and think the -thoughts of God. To do so, however, one must approach God -in the proper attitude and in a manner consistent with His being. -God is a spirit and they that worship him must worship him in -spirit and in truth. They that approach the throne of mercy in -any other manner, whether in vaunting conceit or by impertinent -inquisition, will find the heavens a brazen canopy that will -send back the echo of their prayers. The starry skies reveal no -beauty to those who cover their telescopic lens with a flannel -rag, and God’s revelation contains no word of promise to those -who cloak it with their own conceit.</p> - -<div class="blockquot"> - -<p><span class="oldenglish">O foolish people, and without understanding; which -have eyes, and see not; which have ears, and hear not.</span> <cite>Jeremiah 5:21.</cite></p> -</div> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_95"></a>[95]</span></p> - -<div class="figcenter" id="i_095png"> - <img src="images/i_095png.jpg" alt="" title="" /> - <div class="caption"> - <p class="noi works">COPYRIGHT, 1896, BY FRED’K L. CHAPMAN & CO.</p> - - <p class="noi illtitle">“I CAN’T SEE IT!”</p> - </div> -</div> - - - - -<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop" /> - -<div class="chapter"> -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_96"></a>[96]</span></p> - -<div class="figcenter"> - <img src="images/i_chdeco.jpg" alt="section decoration" title="section decoration" /> -</div> - -<h2 class="nobreak" id="INFIDELITYS_ATTACK">INFIDELITY’S ATTACK.</h2> -</div> - - -<p class="cap">So universal has the authority and influence of Jesus Christ -become that it is no longer possible to dispute his sway -by resort to argument. In the court of final appeal men -are forced to confess that he is the most matchless character, the -most loving and forgiving and patient man of history. The -majority of us are compelled to admit that such rare traits would -be impossible in a life that was less than divine. But there are -men who see no loveliness in him and if they can not attack -by argument they must attack him by abuse. They resort to -ridicule, blasphemy and falsehood, and though the spectacle thus -presented is one that shocks the finer sense in almost every human -heart, nevertheless there are those who will pay a liberal admission -to see this performance enacted.</p> - -<div class="blockquot"> - -<p><span class="oldenglish">I also will laugh at your calamity; I will mock -when your fear cometh.</span> <cite>Proverbs 1:26.</cite></p> -</div> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_97"></a>[97]</span></p> - -<div class="figcenter" id="i_097png"> - <img src="images/i_097png.jpg" alt="" title="" /> - <div class="caption"> - <p class="noi works">COPYRIGHT, 1895, BY FRED’K L. CHAPMAN & CO.</p> - - <p class="noi illtitle">INFIDELITY’S ATTACK.</p> - - <p class="noic">AND YET THERE ARE SOME WHO STILL APPLAUD.</p> - </div> -</div> - - - - -<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop" /> - -<div class="chapter"> -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_98"></a>[98]</span></p> - -<div class="figcenter"> - <img src="images/i_chdeco.jpg" alt="section decoration" title="section decoration" /> -</div> - -<h2 class="nobreak" id="SEEDTIME_AND_HARVEST">SEEDTIME AND HARVEST.</h2> -</div> - - -<p class="cap">One is apt to forget that the way of eternal life is the -way of nature; that the system of rewards and punishments -which God has provided for holiness and for -sin is in strict accord with the laws of nature. We are all aware -of the fact that we cannot sin against nature with impunity. -If we do violence to any of her laws we must make prompt and -strict payment for the offense. The proof of this is seen everywhere; -in the bent form, the hair prematurely gray, the halting -figure and the wrecks of manhood and womanhood that cross -our path daily. Whatsoever a man soweth that shall he also -reap. If he sows the seeds of dissipation, he will surely reap a -harvest of disease, want, sorrow and misery. If he sows the -wind he will reap the whirlwind.</p> - -<div class="blockquot"> - -<p><span class="oldenglish">There is a way that seemeth right unto a man; but -the end thereof are the ways of death.</span> <cite>Proverbs 16:25.</cite></p> -</div> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_99"></a>[99]</span></p> - -<div class="figcenter" id="i_099png"> - <img src="images/i_099png.jpg" alt="" title="" /> - <div class="caption"> - <p class="noi works">COPYRIGHT, 1895, BY FRED’K L. CHAPMAN & CO.</p> - - <p class="noi illtitle">SEEDTIME AND HARVEST.</p> - </div> -</div> - - - - -<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop" /> - -<div class="chapter"> -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_100"></a>[100]</span></p> - -<div class="figcenter"> - <img src="images/i_chdeco.jpg" alt="section decoration" title="section decoration" /> -</div> - -<h2 class="nobreak" id="HIS_REAL_SELF">HIS REAL SELF.</h2> -</div> - - -<p class="cap">Every man has two natures. Under the influence of one -he descends to the carnal and base, under the influence -of the other he ascends to the spiritual and noble. It -is within the power of any man to pursue the former or the -latter. To assist him in achieving the latter he is offered a -model or a pattern by which he may work. With this pattern -in his eye, any one, however misshapen in mind or heart, may -work out for himself a moral image, grand, perfect and enduring. -In the person of Christ, God has shown us what a man -ought to be, and he will never be satisfied until we approach -that ideal.</p> - -<div class="blockquot"> - -<p><span class="oldenglish">Till we all come in the unity of the faith, and of the -knowledge of the Son of God, unto a perfect man, -unto the measure of the stature of the fulness of -Christ.</span> <cite>Ephesians 4:13.</cite></p> -</div> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_101"></a>[101]</span></p> - -<div class="figcenter" id="i_101png"> - <img src="images/i_101png.jpg" alt="" title="" /> - <div class="caption"> - <p class="noi works">COPYRIGHT, 1895, BY FRED’K L. 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Everywhere the foul -and ravenous beasts of tyranny, ignorance and superstition have -retired at the introduction of the glorious light of the cross. -Christianity has blazed the pathway and civilization has followed. -Now the rainbow arch of the gospel spans the continents -and seas, from Greenland’s icy mountains to India’s coral -strands, and we seem to hear the glad shout of ten million -ransomed souls who sing with the ancient Psalmist, “The entrance -of thy word giveth Light.”</p> - -<div class="blockquot"> - -<p><span class="oldenglish">The people that walked in darkness have seen a -great light; they that dwell in the land of the shadow -of death, upon them hath the light shined.</span> <cite>Isaiah 4:2.</cite></p> -</div> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_103"></a>[103]</span></p> - -<div class="figcenter" id="i_103png"> - <img src="images/i_103png.jpg" alt="" title="" /> - <div class="caption"> - <p class="noi works">COPYRIGHT, 1895, BY FRED’K L. 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