{"collection":"scripture-revelation","full_text_available":true,"graph_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/gutenberg_66822/graph","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/page/gutenberg_66822","id":"gutenberg_66822","license":"Public Domain (US)","rights_basis":"gutenberg_metadata_copyright_false","source":"gutenberg","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/66822","summary":null,"tags":["Caricatures and cartoons -- United States","Category: Art","Category: Humour","Category: Philosophy & Ethics","Category: Religion/Spirituality","Christian life"],"text":"FIFTY\n                            GREAT CARTOONS\n\n                                  BY\n                              FRANK BEARD\n\n\n                            [Illustration]\n\n\n                      REPRODUCED BY A NEW PROCESS\n          FROM THE ARTIST\u2019S ORIGINAL DRAWINGS AND ENGRAVED BY\n                   THE SPECTROTYPE COMPANY, CHICAGO.\n\n\n                             PUBLISHED BY\n                         THE RAM\u2019S HORN PRESS\n                     153 LaSALLE STREET . CHICAGO\n                               U. S. A.\n\n\n\n\n[Illustration]\n\n\n\n\nCharles Wesley once said, \u201cThere is no reason why the devil should\nhave all of the best tunes,\u201d and it is equally hard to conceive why he\nshould have all of the best pictures. There is probably no phase of\nart which Satan has tried harder to control than that of painting. He\nhas sought to corrupt literature, music and oratory, but even if he\nmeets defeat in each of these quarters, he will be fully resigned, if\nit remains in his power, to make the pictorial artist his ready slave;\nfor well the arch spirit of evil knows that it is pictures that catch\nthe eye, fasten the attention, quicken the imagination and enthrall the\nsoul.\n\nFor years and years the pen of the caricaturist was in the exclusive\nservice of the secular and humorous press. There it often did good\nwork as the champion of social and political reform. Nast, Gillam and\nBeard, in their several fields of pictorial journalism, have laid the\nnation and the world under deeper obligations than it will soon be\nable to repay. One of that famous trio, however, not being content\nwith his success in merely amusing men, or at best in directing their\nthoughts to the foibles of politics, and society, sought to enlarge his\nusefulness by consecrating his pen and his genius to the betterment of\nthe religious conditions of the race and hoped thereby to bring men to\na better understanding of themselves and their Maker.\n\nIt was Frank Beard, who, first among the great artists, used the pen\nof caricature as a champion of Christian living and Christian reform.\nHe could have found no better opportunity to exercise his talent and\ndistribute its effects broadcast than in the pages of The Ram\u2019s Horn,\nthat wonderful weekly paper which far and near is now known as \u201cthe\nmiracle of modern journalism.\u201d For nearly three years Mr. Beard has\ngiven The Ram\u2019s Horn a full page cartoon each week and it is Fifty of\nthe Best of these Pictures which now appear in the pages of this volume.\n\nThe highest hopes of Mr. Beard and of The Ram\u2019s Horn will be\naccomplished if, by the publication of these pictures, stronger\nemphasis is laid upon the fact that Christ is the foundation of the\nchurch, and good citizenship is the foundation of the state, and that\nthe only great foe to the former is Unbelief, and as for the latter no\ngood citizenship is possible so long as it remains in an unholy league\nwith the licensed saloon.\n\nBy Faith the walls of Jericho fell down flat. Hebrews xi:30.\n\nAt a long blast with the ram\u2019s horn the walls of the city shall fall.\nJosh. vi:5.\n\nFifty loud blasts from The Ram\u2019s Horn will be found in this book of\nCartoons. At their reverberating peal may the walls of Mammon, Rum and\nUnbelief fall shattered in the dust.\n\n                                           THE RAM\u2019S HORN,\n                                                    Chicago, U. S. A.\n\n\n\n\nWANTED! A DAVID.\n\n\nThe church can scarcely be said to be somnolent. It is awake and\nactive. But its activities are too frequently spent in affairs that\ndo not relate to its mission which is to fight the hosts of sin in a\nwicked world. The giants of iniquity stalk forth boldly. They find the\nchurch not in battle but in the tents, feasting and drinking, planning\nfor dime socials and not for war against sin. Oh that some modern David\nwould soon step forth and teach us that it is not shields nor armor nor\ntall steeples nor worldly expedients that are to win the day. It is\nfaith in God. That is what gave aim and speed to the stone that slew\nGoliath, and it is what will give efficacy now to work and prayer.\n\n    Put on the whole armor of God, that ye may be able to stand.\n    _Ephesians 6:11._\n\n[Illustration:\n\nCOPYRIGHT, 1895, BY FRED\u2019K L. CHAPMAN & CO.\n\nWANTED! A DAVID.]\n\n\n\n\n[Illustration]\n\n\n\n\nIMPREGNABLE!\n\n\nIt was fortunate that the Savior did not build his church upon a\nperishable foundation. When in answer to his inquiry Peter said, Thou\nart the Christ the Son of the living God, Jesus had a corner stone for\nan edifice whose summit would reach the stars and whose base would\nbe as broad as creation. The church is founded upon a fact and that\nfact is the historic Christ. No lever of human assumption bolstered\nby conceit has ever moved that corner stone the breadth of a hair.\nThe church of Jesus is founded upon the impeccable, the faithful, the\neverlasting Christ who is the same yesterday, today and forever. Touch\nnot the walls of Truth which surround Zion. They are impregnable.\n\n    For other foundation can no man lay than that is laid, which is\n    Jesus Christ. _I Cor. 3:11._\n\n[Illustration:\n\nCOPYRIGHT, 1895, BY FRED\u2019K L. CHAPMAN & CO.\n\nIMPREGNABLE!]\n\n\n\n\n[Illustration]\n\n\n\n\nBACK TO CHRIST.\n\n\nHard and exacting is the toil of the preacher. Especially so in these\nyears when a cultured and enlightened pew demands the religious\ndiscourse presented in the best form and embellished with the\nadornments which modern art and literature supply. A preacher who\nyields to the extreme demands of modern thought, however, will soon\nfind himself abandoning the true and best source of sermon material\nand will begin to forage in the desert fields of literature to find\nsustenance for an impoverished mind. Many such a preacher, tired and\nheartless, would find instant relief if he would but burn the human\naids to the manufacture of artificial sermons and turn to the rich\nmines of truth which still lie unexplored in the sacred word. Back to\nChrist is the call of a starving world which is now shepherdless and\nunfed.\n\n    For there is none other name under heaven given among men,\n    whereby we must be saved. _Acts 4:11._\n\n[Illustration:\n\nCOPYRIGHT, 1896, BY FRED\u2019K L. CHAPMAN & CO.\n\nBACK TO CHRIST.]\n\n\n\n\n[Illustration]\n\n\n\n\nAT THE CHURCH FAIR.\n\n\nThe preachers are not alone guilty of levying tribute from the world\nin carrying on the work of the gospel. There are church organizations\nwhich might be numbered by the thousands, the wealth of whose\nmembership would in each congregation exceed a million dollars, but\nthey seem unable to buy a church organ or a pulpit bible without\ngetting up a bazaar or a Church Fair. The same Jesus who drove the\nmoney changers from the house of prayer, sits in sad judgment upon the\nchurch which turns its sacred chamber into a market place or into a\nscene of rank levity and low grade amusement.\n\n    Wherefore, as I live, saith the Lord God; Surely because thou\n    hast defiled my sanctuary with all thy detestable things, and\n    with all thine abominations, therefore will I also diminish\n    thee. _Ezekiel 5:11._\n\n[Illustration:\n\nCOPYRIGHT, 1895, BY FRED\u2019K L. CHAPMAN & CO.\n\nAT THE CHURCH FAIR.\n\nGentleman in Black:\u2015\u2015I am not exactly a church member myself, but I am\nalways glad to support this kind of enterprise most liberally.]\n\n\n\n\n[Illustration]\n\n\n\n\nA GIFT FOR THE ALTAR.\n\n\nThere were but few gifts recorded in the bible which were large enough\nto attract the attention of Christ. They were not large but they all\nimplied sacrifice, they represented the utmost that the giver could\nbestow. When the widow bashfully pushed her little mite into the\ncollection box she little dreamed that her offering weighed more than\nall the gold and precious treasure that lay stacked in the safety\ndeposit vaults of Jerusalem. If God has a cordial contempt for anybody\nin the world, we suspect it is for the man who, having made a fortune,\ngives ostentatiously a part which is insignificant in proportion to the\namount which he retains to minister to his own comfort and ease.\n\n    Will a man rob God? Yet ye have robbed me. But ye say, Wherein\n    have we robbed thee? In tithes and offerings. _Malachi 3:8._\n\n[Illustration:\n\nCOPYRIGHT, 1895, BY FRED\u2019K L. CHAPMAN & CO.\n\nA GIFT FOR THE ALTAR.]\n\n\n\n\n[Illustration]\n\n\n\n\n\u201cWHAT LACK I YET?\u201d\n\n\nOne cannot square accounts with God on any other basis than complete\nsurrender, whether of the will or of wealth. \u201cWhat lack I yet?\u201d asked\nthe rich young man who prided himself extravagantly on his moral life.\nGo, said Jesus, sell your estate and give the proceeds to the needy. We\nhave no evidence that this young Jew got his money in any but an honest\nmethod, and if his way to salvation lay along the path of complete\nsurrender what shall those do who derive their riches by corrupting law\nmakers and by defeating justice, and by cornering products and raising\nthe price of food?\n\n    I have no pleasure in you, saith the Lord of hosts, neither\n    will I accept an offering at your hands. _Mal. 1:10._\n\n[Illustration:\n\nCOPYRIGHT, 1895, BY FRED\u2019K L. CHAPMAN & CO.\n\n\u201cWHAT LACK I YET?\u201d]\n\n\n\n\n[Illustration]\n\n\n\n\nTHOU ART THE MAN!\n\n\nLaw and justice hold an accessory to a crime liable to punishment as\nstrictly as they hold the principal. Indeed oftentimes it is the wily\naccessory who is the more guilty, because from his cowardly place of\nretreat he directs the plot which may result in physical peril to the\none who carries it through. Is not likewise the man who rents his\nproperty to evil uses equally if not more guilty than the one who\nboldly assumes the responsibility of carrying on an indecent traffic\ntherein. There would be a thinning of the ranks of respectability if\npublic sentiment should face every Dives who is a silent partner in\nthe tenements of sin and say, Thou art the man whom we hold guilty and\nresponsible for this murder and this poverty and this vice.\n\n    When thou sawest a thief, then thou consentedst with him, and\n    hast been partakers with adulterers. _Psalm 50:18._\n\n[Illustration:\n\nCOPYRIGHT, 1895, BY FRED\u2019K L. CHAPMAN & CO.\n\nTHOU ART THE MAN!]\n\n\n\n\n[Illustration]\n\n\n\n\nA VAIN TASK.\n\n\nScarcely a schoolboy has reached fifteen and has not heard of that\nancient victim of Fate who toiled daily year in and year out in the\neffort to get a huge stone above the top of a mountain. Each morning\nhe found it again at the foot, and so his task continued monotonous,\nendless, futile, vain. Just so with the modern Champions of Unbelief.\nThey toil and sweat and push at Infidelity\u2019s inert boulder, they fancy\nthey make progress, and sometimes they do, but in their pathway there\nstands the granite block of Truth bearing aloft in defiant beauty the\ncross of sacrifice. Against this, Egotism and Unbelief can make no\nheadway. It is a Vain Task.\n\n    These also resist the truth: Men of corrupt minds, reprobate\n    concerning the faith. But they shall proceed no further; for\n    their folly shall be manifest unto all men. _II Tim. 3:9\u201310._\n\n[Illustration:\n\nCOPYRIGHT, 1895, BY FRED\u2019K L. CHAPMAN & CO.\n\nA VAIN TASK.]\n\n\n\n\n[Illustration]\n\n\n\n\nADRIFT.\n\n\nGenuine life loves motion, energy, enterprise, destination. It cannot\nstand still nor lie dormant; it cannot go in a circle even, it must\nhave a goal and a destiny. For this reason Agnosticism can never be the\nphilosophy for this human race, because it is a ship without steam or\nsail and it will use neither oars nor rudder. It is content to lie upon\nthe spacious ocean of Eternity, tossed by doubt, fascinated by Fate\npursuing, indifferent as regards companionship or success. A cheerless,\nlonely drifting vessel on a sea that has no shores and no haven.\n\n    And they shall look unto the earth; and behold trouble and\n    darkness, dimness of anguish; and they shall be driven to\n    darkness. _Isaiah 8:22._\n\n[Illustration:\n\nCOPYRIGHT, 1895, BY FRED\u2019K L. CHAPMAN & CO.\n\nADRIFT]\n\n\n\n\n[Illustration]\n\n\n\n\nIS THIS \u201cWOMAN\u2019S SPHERE?\u201d\n\n\nThe home is the holy of holies where angels love to dwell. Its sacred\nprecincts are more inviolate than the inner sanctuary of Israel\u2019s\ntemple. God has made it the ark of his covenant between himself and\nhis children from generation to generation. It is the oracle and fount\nfor instruction in religion and morals and patriotism. It is the\naltar where holy fires of ambition and inspiration and enthusiasm are\nkindled. And yet there are those, and sometimes there are women, who\nsee no opportunity for deep pleasure or high duty at the home fireside,\nbut must find it in outside engagements, in pursuit of baubles of\nworldly place or social distinction. This is not woman\u2019s sphere. Her\nhand belongs not on the throttle of this world\u2019s busy life, but on the\ncradle, where character begins to take form. There she belongs and\nthere she may sit to mold the future of two worlds. Only of such will\nit be said:\n\n    Her children arise up, and call her blessed; her husband also,\n    he praiseth her. _Proverbs 31:28._\n\n[Illustration:\n\nCOPYRIGHT, 1896, BY FRED\u2019K L. CHAPMAN & CO.\n\nIS THIS \u201cWOMAN\u2019S SPHERE\u201d?]\n\n\n\n\n[Illustration]\n\n\n\n\nTHE POOREST MAN IN THE WORLD.\n\n\nRobinson Crusoe, shipwrecked on a lonely island, furnishes a picture\nof woe and desolation which it would be difficult to exaggerate, and\nyet, through his invention and enterprise, frugality and foresight, he\ntransformed inhospitable shores into a garden of plenty. He conquered\nnature, by reason of his kindly acts even the wild animals learned to\nlove him and the ferocious savages gave him their trust. In strong\ncontrast to him is the man who heaps opulence upon greed and by his\nselfishness separates himself from the companionship of men. Faith,\nHope and Love, once his attendants, he has allowed to perish. Eternity\nsurrounds him. Opportunity is wrecked, and no ship will ever again come\nnear his lonely island. The poorest man in the world is the man who has\nthe means to purchase everything but has lost his capacity for enjoying\nanything.\n\n    Because thou sayest, I am rich, and increased with goods, and\n    have need of nothing; and knowest not that thou art wretched,\n    and miserable, and poor, and blind, and naked. _Rev. 3:17._\n\n[Illustration:\n\nCOPYRIGHT, 1895, BY FRED\u2019K L. CHAPMAN & CO.\n\nTHE POOREST MAN IN THE WORLD.]\n\n\n\n\n[Illustration]\n\n\n\n\nTHE RICHEST MAN IN THE WORLD.\n\n\nIt takes more than money to make a man wealthy. Godliness with\ncontentment is great gain, says the bible, and therein is the secret of\na rich and happy life. Contentment is a prerequisite of happiness and\nno man can come into contentment until every aspiration of his nature\nis satisfied. The deepest aspiration that lodges in the human soul is\nthe longing for that contentment and rest which salvation bestows. No\none is really rich, therefore, until salvation is found, and if it\nbe discovered, after heroic sacrifice and struggle, after plunging\nthrough temptation and peril, the joy of triumph will be that much the\ngreater and when temptation has been conquered by faith and works, then\nSalvation makes one truly the Richest Man in the World.\n\n    There is that maketh himself rich, yet hath nothing: there is\n    that maketh himself poor, yet hath great riches. _Proverbs\n    13:7._\n\n[Illustration:\n\nCOPYRIGHT, 1895, BY FRED\u2019K L. CHAPMAN & CO.\n\nTHE RICHEST MAN IN THE WORLD.]\n\n\n\n\n[Illustration]\n\n\n\n\nEVICTED!\n\n\nThere are two tenants who seek to occupy every human heart and make\nit their place of residence. One of them is the Spirit of Good, the\nother is the Spirit of Evil. Jesus Christ is the personification of\none; Satan is the personification of the other. It is within the power\nof every one to say whether his spiritual castle shall be the abode of\nrighteousness and truth or whether it shall be the foul dwelling of sin\nand falsehood. If, perchance, the latter, by accident or unwatchfulness\nor even by our deliberate choice, has obtained control of our\naffections we may through the help of God cast out the unworthy tenant\ntogether with all his chattels of pride, envy, intemperance and their\nkindred brood, and turn over the House of Man-Soul to that other spirit\nwhose mark thenceforth will adorn the door plate as a pledge that the\ndwelling will be forever impregnable against the assaults of sin.\n\n    And Jesus said unto him, this day is salvation come to this\n    house. _Luke 16:6._\n\n[Illustration:\n\nCOPYRIGHT, 1896, BY FRED\u2019K L. CHAPMAN & CO.\n\nEVICTED!]\n\n\n\n\n[Illustration]\n\n\n\n\nTHE ENEMIES OF THE REPUBLIC.\n\n\nColumbia has need of ships of war but she has need also of watchfulness\nwithin, lest, in looking for enemy abroad, she forget that in her\nvery borders there are dark-browed assassins lying in ambush ready\nto slay her and take Justice and Liberty captive. No evils threaten\ngreater menace to the nation than those which are embodied in the rum\ntraffic and in corporate bribery. The serpent trail of each is seen in\ncouncil chambers and senate halls. They work in the dark and they work\nstealthily. They are traitors and public foes. They should be destroyed.\n\n    Their feet run to evil, and they make haste to shed innocent\n    blood: their thoughts are thoughts of iniquity; wasting and\n    destruction are in their path. _Isaiah 8:22._\n\n[Illustration:\n\nCOPYRIGHT, 1895, BY FRED\u2019K L. CHAPMAN & CO.\n\nTHE ENEMIES OF THE REPUBLIC.]\n\n\n\n\n[Illustration]\n\n\n\n\nTHE IMMIGRANT.\n\n\nDuring four hundred and more years this continent has been the melting\npot for the population of the Eastern hemisphere. For three-fourths of\nthat time the yearly infusions of raw metal was so slight that it was\nnot hard to compound them with the native stock and preserve the high\ncharacter of American citizenship. But when alien immigration pours its\nstream of half a million yearly, as has frequently been done during the\nlast decade, and when that stream is polluted with the moral sewage\nof the old world, including its poverty, drunkenness, infidelity and\ndisease, it is well to put up the bars and save America, at least until\nshe can purify the atmosphere of contagion which foreign invasion has\nalready brought.\n\n    Stand in the gate of the Lord\u2019s house, and proclaim there this\n    word: Thus saith the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel, Amend\n    your ways and your doings, and I will cause you to dwell in\n    this place. _Jer. 7:2\u20133_.\n\n[Illustration:\n\nCOPYRIGHT, 1896, BY FRED\u2019K L. CHAPMAN & CO.\n\nTHE STRANGER AT OUR GATE.\n\nEMIGRANT.\u2015\u2015Can I come in? UNCLE SAM.\u2015\u2015I \u2019spose you can; there\u2019s no law\nto keep you out.]\n\n\n\n\n[Illustration]\n\n\n\n\nBY AUTHORITY OF THE PEOPLE.\n\n\nWhen that famous submarine reef known as Hell Gate was blown out of\nthe waters of Long Island Sound, the world echoed with rejoicing to\nlearn that what had been a menace and a barrier to vessels and to\ncommerce was blasted into fragments never to return. There is a greater\nHell Gate which with its infinite submarine and subterranean tunnels\nhoneycombs our social structure. The saloon is the dreadful barrier\nto commerce and prosperity, as well as a menace to health and peace.\nIn spite of the fact that its awful traffic bears the approving stamp\nof our government, the time will come when this great thing, whose\nfoundations are laid in hell, will be blown skyward by the power of\npublic sentiment mightily aroused and intellectually directed.\n\n    Woe unto him that giveth his neighbor drink, that putteth thy\n    bottle to him, and makest him drunken also. _Hab. 2:4._\n\n[Illustration:\n\nCOPYRIGHT, 1895, BY FRED\u2019K L. CHAPMAN & CO.\n\nBY AUTHORITY OF THE PEOPLE.]\n\n\n\n\n[Illustration]\n\n\n\n\nPROTECT THAT BOY.\n\n\nThe controllers of the liquor traffic understand their business.\nThey know that they are sending an army of drunkards each year to an\nuntimely grave and to take the place of these fallen victims, they\nmust gain recruits from the hosts of youth. But the Rum haunts are too\nhideous to beguile one of tender years. There must be less offensive\nsins offered to bridge that long leap from innocence to iniquity,\nfrom the home hearth to the dram shop. Therefore, the rum-seller goes\nin league with the vendor of cigarettes, and base literature, and\nevil pictures, and questionable games and entertainments. At last the\nyouthful victims of these plotters find themselves on the threshold of\nruin. Every avenue through crime and vice leads at last to the open\nsaloon.\n\n    The days of his youth hast thou shortened: thou hast covered\n    him with shame. _Psalms 89:45._\n\n[Illustration:\n\nCOPYRIGHT, 1896, BY FRED\u2019K L. CHAPMAN & CO.\n\nPROTECT THAT BOY.]\n\n\n\n\n[Illustration]\n\n\n\n\nDON\u2019T SHOOT.\n\n\nIt would be easy to destroy the liquor traffic were it not for its\npower in politics. This is so apparent to the men who manage it\nthat they make it their first business to engage in politics and\nlay candidates for office under obligations by making generous\ncontributions to the campaigns of each party. Therefore, whenever a\ncry of robbery or murder goes up from the licensed saloon and the\ngovernment grabs bayonet and ballot and runs to the rescue, the\npolitical managers immediately step forth and intervene. Don\u2019t Shoot,\nthey both cry; Let him rob and ruin. He is a friend of mine and he has\na license.\n\n    And he said unto them; Hinder me not, seeing the Lord hath\n    prospered my way. _Gen. 24:56._\n\n[Illustration:\n\nCOPYRIGHT, 1896, BY FRED\u2019K L. CHAPMAN & CO.\n\nDON\u2019T SHOOT.]\n\n\n\n\n[Illustration]\n\n\n\n\nTHE PARTY COLLAR.\n\n\nThe influence of the saloon in politics is not entirely due to the\npolitical boss who makes the gin-mill his headquarters. He would be\npowerless for harm were it not for the infinite multitude of so-called\nrespectable voters who degrade their intelligence and dignity by\nworking and voting shoulder to shoulder with social outlaws. Under a\nfalse notion of fealty these men subject their neck to the party collar\nand go to the polls yoked with ignorance and crime, and at the heels of\nsome low-browed political dictator they sacrifice their country\u2019s weal\non the altar of partisan allegiance.\n\n    For the leaders of this people cause them to err; and they that\n    are led of them are destroyed. _Isaiah 9:16._\n\n[Illustration:\n\nCOPYRIGHT, 1895, BY FRED\u2019K L. CHAPMAN & CO.\n\nWHY OUR CITIES ARE BADLY GOVERNED.]\n\n\n\n\n[Illustration]\n\n\n\n\nA NIGHT\u2019S WORK.\n\n\nMore than one man has been hanged for doing what he did not mean to\ndo. When anyone under the influence of liquor commits a crime it is no\nlonger an extenuation or defense to say that he was not responsible.\nThis is so because it is a matter of human experience that if one sets\na match to gunpowder it will explode and if one pours liquor down his\nthroat he is filling his brain with the seeds of malice, hate and\nmurder. Many a man has scoffed at such a statement at twelve o\u2019clock at\nnight, but has seen awful proof of its truth, when, awakening at nine\nin the morning he recovers from a fatal debauch and sees the work of\nhis own drunken and murderous hand.\n\n    At the last it biteth like a serpent and stingeth like an\n    adder. _Prov. 23:32._\n\n[Illustration:\n\nCOPYRIGHT, 1895, BY FRED\u2019K L. CHAPMAN & CO.\n\nA NIGHT\u2019S WORK.]\n\n\n\n\n[Illustration]\n\n\n\n\nUNDER THE CLOAK OF THE LAW.\n\n\nConcerning the work of the saloon there is but one verdict which can\nbe rendered by intelligence and patriotism. Ten thousand times ten\nthousand times it has been brought before the bar of Justice and there\ncharged and proved with being responsible for the vast majority of\npoverty, crime and disease which infest the race. Nevertheless, so\ndeeply is this blighting curse intrenched in our laws and government\nthat our courts are compelled, even if unwilling, to protect a traffic\nwhich by common agreement is a universal bane. Knowing this, the\nsaloonist seeks refuge under the cloak of the law, and there insolently\ndefies us to assail him.\n\n    He that justifieth the wicked, and he that condemneth the just,\n    even they both are abomination to the Lord. _Prov. 17:14._\n\n[Illustration:\n\nCOPYRIGHT, 1896, BY FRED\u2019K L. CHAPMAN & CO.\n\nUNDER THE CLOAK OF THE LAW.]\n\n\n\n\n[Illustration]\n\n\n\n\nSPIKE THAT GUN!\n\n\n\u201cSpike that gun,\u201d was an order bravely executed by a young English\nofficer and his command, at the battle of Inkerman, which gallant feat\nprobably decided the fate of the day. Satan has planted his batteries\nfor the destruction of the American home, and from every saloon in the\nland the wicked bombardment goes on, day and night, year after year,\nand every hour of every day some new house is sighted for destruction.\nShall this cruel and desolating fire upon the American home forever\ncontinue? God forbid! \u201cSpike that gun!\u201d is the word of command that has\ngone forth to the great temperance host. \u201cSpike that gun!\u201d is the shout\nthat rings out all along the lines of the great home protection army as\nthey rush to the final charge. \u201cSpike that gun!\u201d shall be our battle\ncry until the last battery of hell has been silenced and every home in\nour land is safe from this desolating fire.\n\n    \u201cSpike quickly that gun,\u201d is the word of command,\n    It is battering down the homes of our land,\n    Its work of destruction will lose us the day,\n    If no one the order to spike it obey.\n\n[Illustration:\n\nCOPYRIGHT, 1895, BY FRED\u2019K L. CHAPMAN & CO.\n\nSPIKE THAT GUN.]\n\n\n\n\n[Illustration]\n\n\n\n\nPILGRIM WATCH THY CROWN.\n\n\nLife is a journey and as pilgrims we tread its pathway, resting now\nand then for refreshment or ease. It is during these periods of rest\nthat Satan employs every art to wrest from the traveler his dearest\npossession, his crown of life, which secures him an ample entrance\nto the heavenly city beyond. Folly, which represents the sensuous\npleasures of the world, is employed to display her gaudy charms in\norder that the eye of the wayfarer may be turned aside and give Satan\nthe opportunity to snatch the coveted treasure. At such moments let the\nChristian keep his crown before his eye, nor let him look back at the\nallurements and false pleasures which he has left behind. For, as a\nreward for this vigilance, a crown of life is assured him, one that is\nimperishable and brilliant and that fadeth not away.\n\n    Behold, I come quickly; hold that fast which thou hast that no\n    man take thy crown. _Rev. 3:11._\n\n[Illustration:\n\nCOPYRIGHT, 1895, BY FRED\u2019K L. CHAPMAN & CO.\n\nPILGRIM WATCH THY CROWN.]\n\n\n\n\n[Illustration]\n\n\n\n\nTHE BACKSLIDER.\n\n\nAt the brink of Niagara where the mists rise above tons of water which\nfall two hundred feet below, there is a rainbow seen almost constantly\nwhen the sun is shining, and within the circle of color some have\nseen the form of a beautiful maiden. One who was in a boat above the\nfalls might see this entrancing vision and drop his oars and gaze\nrapturously, until, all unconscious, his boat glides over the brink and\nto destruction. The Christian also is in danger of such a fate. The\nworld offers beauty and pleasure, and in such fascinating forms that it\ntakes resolute will to keep from dropping the oars and drifting with\nthe current of temptation and letting the good boat, which would save\nus, glide over the precipice into sin and into death.\n\n    So will not we go back from thee; quicken us, and we will call\n    upon thy name. Turn us again, O Lord God of hosts, cause thy\n    face to shine; and we shall be saved. _Psalms 80:18\u201319._\n\n[Illustration:\n\nCOPYRIGHT, 1895, BY FRED\u2019K L. CHAPMAN & CO.\n\nTHE BACKSLIDER.]\n\n\n\n\n[Illustration]\n\n\n\n\nDARE TO BE A DANIEL!\n\n\nThe resolute faith that enabled Daniel to face the den of lions is at\nthe command of any child of God today, and nothing else will avail as\nan armor and defense when the ravenous beasts of passion, appetite,\ncovetousness and revenge attack us in temptation\u2019s hour. The source\nof strength in such emergencies is a childlike faith in God and the\nfount of that faith is His Holy Word. In the security which faith\ninspires, the den of torture and trial becomes luminous as the Mount of\nTransfiguration to those who resist evil and dare to stand true.\n\n    For in that He himself hath suffered being tempted, He is able\n    to succor them that are tempted. _Heb. 2:18._\n\n[Illustration:\n\nCOPYRIGHT, 1895, BY FRED\u2019K L. CHAPMAN & CO.\n\nDARE TO BE A DANIEL!]\n\n\n\n\n[Illustration]\n\n\n\n\nTHE REMAINING GUEST.\n\n\nOf all the pictures which memory paints on the heart none is so\nindelible as that of the hour of evening prayer when, at mother\u2019s\nknee, we paid our first vows to God and pledged our lives to purity\nand truth. This picture has become the saving beam of light which has\nshot across the dark career of many who after a night\u2019s revelry, and\nalone with conscience, refuse to drink further of sin\u2019s deadly potion,\nbut look back upon that early scene of innocence, and resolve to make\nit again a real experience. Although Remorse is the remaining guest of\na night of sin, there is also the confident token of an angel of hope\never ready in the chamber of repentant despair.\n\n    Rejoice, O young man, in thy youth; and let thy heart cheer\n    thee in the days of thy youth, and walk in the ways of thine\n    heart, and in the sight of thine eyes; but know thou, that for\n    all these things God will bring thee into judgment. _Ecc. 11:9._\n\n[Illustration:\n\nCOPYRIGHT, 1896, BY FRED\u2019K L. CHAPMAN & CO.\n\nTHE REMAINING GUEST.]\n\n\n\n\n[Illustration]\n\n\n\n\nAS CONSCIENCE PAINTS HIM.\n\n\nThere are days in everybody\u2019s life when he sits alone with Conscience.\nThe world and its undeserved blame or praise is shut out of that\nsilent chamber. With his truthful guest the man of rags and the man of\nmillions, the woman of toil and the woman of ease, must hold weekly\nif not daily and hourly communion. At these times the picture of\nthe real self is thrown upon the vivid background of years. Now the\nfalse-hearted or boastful or proud will see and hear admonitions that\nwould not be brooked from preacher or friend. True character divested\nof conventional habiliments of conduct through which the eyes of men\ncan not peer, will stand bleak, ragged and forlorn. \u201cPaint me as I am,\u201d\ncried Cromwell, in righteous rage when the artist began to paint out\nof his portrait a slight disfigurement of his face. This he did though\nhe knew that his portrait would go down through generations and thus\nperpetuate his ungainly visage. Who of us can say to conscience, \u201cPaint\nme as I am though the world sees and the future sees me, let not my\nreal self be hidden!\u201d\n\n    Their conscience also bearing witness, and their thoughts the\n    meanwhile accusing or else excusing one another. _Romans 2:15._\n\n[Illustration:\n\nCOPYRIGHT, 1895, BY FRED\u2019K L. CHAPMAN & CO.\n\nAS CONSCIENCE PAINTS HIM.]\n\n\n\n\n[Illustration]\n\n\n\n\nCOVERING HIS SINS.\n\n\nHere is a picture of universal application, though all do not indulge\nthe same sin as the man here shown\u2015\u2015endeavoring to cover his greed by\nshowing to the world the monument of a college professorship endowed\nby his gifts or money. The world may be deceived in part, but what\nof his own conscience? He can not hide from himself his true nature\nand he forgets that God is ever at his side, judging not the act but\nthe motive, never mistaken in His estimate, rejoicing at the good,\nsorrowing for the bad, but all-seeing and ever-seeing.\n\n    For the eyes of the Lord, run to and fro throughout the whole\n    earth, to shew himself strong in the behalf of them whose heart\n    is perfect toward him. _II Chron. 16:9._\n\n[Illustration:\n\nCOPYRIGHT, 1895, BY FRED\u2019K L. CHAPMAN & CO.\n\nCOVERING HIS SINS.]\n\n\n\n\n[Illustration]\n\n\n\n\nTHE SELF MADE MAN.\n\n\nPaul was not \u201ca self made man,\u201d for he said, \u201cI can do all things\nthrough Christ that strengtheneth me.\u201d That was his claim, and it\nis in pleasing contrast with those individuals whose boast is that\ntheir successful careers are monuments of their own endeavor. Crowned\nwith pride, clothed with the tattered rags of self-righteous egotism,\nwith garments a patch work of shabby gentility, such men divide their\nworship between their unworthy selves and the idol of Mammon which they\ndraw in their train. The track over which they glide in such confident\nsecurity is slippery and treacherous. Based simply upon reputation it\nis full of breaks and seams into which any moment the unsuspecting\negotist may plunge.\n\n    Pride goeth before destruction, and an haughty spirit before a\n    fall. _Prov. 16:18._\n\n[Illustration:\n\nCOPYRIGHT, 1896, BY FRED\u2019K L. CHAPMAN & CO.\n\nTHE SELF MADE MAN.\n\n\u201cThe way of a fool is right in his own eyes, but he that hearkeneth\nunto counsel is wise.\u201d\u2015\u2015Prov. XII:15]\n\n\n\n\n[Illustration]\n\n\n\n\nTHE STRAIT GATE.\n\n\nThe invitations which God has extended for men to come into His kingdom\nare all broad and generous. \u201cEvery one,\u201d and \u201cwhosoever,\u201d these are\nthe key words of His gracious command. And yet the summons to a better\nlife and to future bliss is not entirely unqualified or unconditional.\nNo man can with confidence approach the portals of heaven with a proud\nheart or with unclean lips or with hands stained with sin. The gate\nof heaven is high, but narrow. It will not admit the evidence of any\nworldly possession and by no means of the fruits of self-love or base\nambition or sensuality, covetousness, pride or deceit. The strait gate\nis big enough for any sinner, but it is too small to admit his sins.\n\n    And there shall in no wise enter into it anything that\n    defileth, neither whatsoever worketh abomination, or maketh a\n    lie: but they which are written in the Lamb\u2019s book of life.\n    _Rev. 21:27._\n\n[Illustration:\n\nCOPYRIGHT, 1895, BY FRED\u2019K L. CHAPMAN & CO.\n\nROOM FOR THE SINNER, BUT NONE FOR THE SINS.]\n\n\n\n\n[Illustration]\n\n\n\n\nPAY DAY.\n\n\nIt is a solemn thought that life has no ending, but that some day there\nwill be a season of harvest and a time of accounting, when each man\nmust render a report of his stewardship and be rewarded or punished for\nthe deeds done in the body. In that dread hour of settlement there will\nbe no respect of persons. The rich and the poor, the great and lowly,\nmust subject their moral natures to the same inflexible standard. The\nwinnowing fan of God\u2019s justice will spare not the proud nor powerful.\nThey will all go to their own place. The chaff from the wheat, the\nsheep from the goats will be forever separate.\n\n    He that is unjust, let him be unjust still: and he which is\n    filthy, let him be filthy still: and he that is righteous, let\n    him be righteous still: and he that is holy, let him be holy\n    still. _Rev. 22:11._\n\n[Illustration:\n\nCOPYRIGHT, 1895, BY FRED\u2019K L. CHAPMAN & CO.\n\nPAY DAY.]\n\n\n\n\n[Illustration]\n\n\n\n\nO GRAVE! WHERE IS THY VICTORY?\n\n\nDeath has no terror for the child of God. Neither the damp sod nor the\ngranite tomb can hold the free spirits of the children of faith. We\ncommit them to the earth and shed the parting tear and are too prone\nto fancy that the cold ground holds the object of our love; but it is\nonly the cast-off covering of the soul that we bury. The real self, the\nindestructible and everliving spirit, has been caught up into heaven\nand long before the hearse and the cortege of weeping friends have left\nthe tomb, the glad song of the departed one has swelled that of the\nangelic host in the refrain, \u201cDeath is swallowed up in victory.\u201d\n\n    And there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying,\n    neither shall there be any more pain: for the former things\n    have passed away. _Rev. 21:4._\n\n[Illustration:\n\nCOPYRIGHT, 1895, BY FRED\u2019K L. CHAPMAN & CO.\n\nO GRAVE! WHERE IS THY VICTORY?]\n\n\n\n\n[Illustration]\n\n\n\n\nHOLDFAST.\n\n\nParsimony often walks under the name of prudence, and stinginess may\ntry to palm itself off as thrift. The man who puts aside the widowed\nand orphaned, by the plea that he is laying in store for a rainy day,\ntakes extreme hazards with Fate. Her hand even now draws aside the\ncurtains which reveal his destiny. The rainy day comes sooner than he\nthinks and his mortal remains are carried to the grave unattended by\nthe sad procession of any whose distress he might have lifted. Holdfast\nis forever held in the tomb of his loneliness and misery. He sadly\nmisread life\u2019s great lesson, that it is far better to give than to\nreceive. He never knew that he was his brother\u2019s keeper. He lived for\nself and died as he lived. Although nominally religious such men as\nHoldfast never learn that\n\n    Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this,\n    To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction. _James\n    1:27._\n\n[Illustration:\n\nCOPYRIGHT, 1895, BY FRED\u2019K L. CHAPMAN & CO.\n\nHOLDFAST.\u2015\u2015\u201cNo! I am laying by a little for a rainy day, but nothing\nfor Charity.\u201d]\n\n\n\n\n[Illustration]\n\n\n\n\nRESCUED.\n\n\nWherever the tide of human life flows very deeply and swiftly, there\nshipwreck is most frequent and we place Rescue Missions at these\npoints. But do we ever think of there being rescue missions in the\nskies? Could we scan the far battlements of heaven we might, perhaps,\nsee them lined with hosts of angels watching and waiting to descend to\nthe rescue of some tender child whom it were better to snatch away to\nscenes of glory, than leave it in an atmosphere that reeks with moral\ncontagion. It was such a scene as appears on the page opposite that\nIsaiah saw when he wrote \u201cHe shall gather the lambs with his arm and\nshall carry them in his bosom.\u201d\n\n    He shall save the children of the needy, and shall break in\n    pieces the oppressor. _Psalm 72:4._\n\n[Illustration:\n\nCOPYRIGHT, 1896, BY FRED\u2019K L. CHAPMAN & CO.\n\nRESCUED.]\n\n\n\n\n[Illustration]\n\n\n\n\n\u201cSUFFER LITTLE CHILDREN.\u201d\n\n\nGreat hearts are the quickest to be touched by the appeals of\nchildhood. It is an evidence of Christ\u2019s greatness, that he delighted\nnot in the patronage and intercourse of the influential and mighty, but\nsought the friendship and love of children. Their credentials to His\nfavor are not based upon race, or station, creed or complexion. Their\nfrankness, their innocence, their simplicity, place them in nomination\nand his great heart immediately responds to those traits. \u201cSuffer\nlittle children to come unto me, for of such is the kingdom of heaven.\u201d\nUnless ye become as a little child (in frankness and simplicity and\ninnocence) ye shall not enter the kingdom of heaven.\n\n    Whosoever shall receive one of such children in my name,\n    receiveth me; and whosoever shall receive me, receiveth not me,\n    but him that sent me. _Mark 9:37._\n\n[Illustration:\n\nCOPYRIGHT, 1895, BY FRED\u2019K L. CHAPMAN & CO.\n\nTHE GOOD SHEPHERD.]\n\n\n\n\n[Illustration]\n\n\n\n\n\u201cIT IS I.\u201d\n\n\nOn the water the disciples did not recognize the Master. In the\nsynagogue, or the highway, or at the table, they would have known him\ninstantly, but in the unusual scene on a stormy Galilee, his presence\nbrought alarm instead of solace. Christ may come to us when and where\nand how we least expect him. It will not be strange if amidst the\nstorm, which modern science has engendered, and in which the brave\ngospel ship is rocking, Christ himself should come to the frightened\nstudent of His word and say, \u201cIt is I, be not afraid.\u201d If this be true,\nthen, science will shed its dazzling light upon his own sacred person\nand we shall see him more nearly as he is.\n\n    Fear not: I am the first and the last; I am he that liveth, and\n    was dead; and, behold, I am alive for evermore. _Rev. 1:17, 18._\n\n[Illustration:\n\nCOPYRIGHT, 1895, BY FRED\u2019K L. CHAPMAN & CO.\n\n\u201cIT IS I, BE NOT AFRAID.\u201d]\n\n\n\n\n[Illustration]\n\n\n\n\nTOO BUSY.\n\n\nKnock! Knock! Knock! Since childhood\u2019s youngest day there has been\na loving guest waiting at the door of our heart\u2019s chamber. Long\nyears we have heard that gentle, patient, persistent knock! knock!\nknock! Long ago it was louder, distincter, clearer, because, now we\nhave passed from quiet, restful childhood into the loud and stirring\nworld. Nevertheless, into business, into politics, into society, even\ninto sin, that faithful Friend has followed us and is bound, still\nif possible, to gain admittance to our lives. But we are absorbed,\nindifferent, and, in a word, too busy. We also have another guest who\nhas our ear. Therefore, keep out! No admittance! Life closes! Eternity\ndawns, and we begin to hear, not the knock, knock, knock of our\nunwelcome guest, but the clank, clank, clank of the chains of bondage\nwhich our new master is forging.\n\n    Behold a stranger at the door,\n    He gently knocks, has knocked before,\n    Has waited long, is waiting still,\n    You treat no other friend so ill.\n\n    Behold, I stand at the door and knock: if any man hear my\n    voice, and open the door, I will come in to him, and will sup\n    with him, and he with me. _Rev. 3:20._\n\n[Illustration:\n\nCOPYRIGHT, 1895, BY FRED\u2019K L. CHAPMAN & CO.\n\n\u201cBEHOLD I STAND AT THE DOOR AND KNOCK.\u201d]\n\n\n\n\n[Illustration]\n\n\n\n\nSHADOWED.\n\n\nIn the midst of life we are in death, in the midst of joy we are in\nsorrow and in the midst of luxury we are in want. There are more kinds\nof luxury than those which mere wealth can bring, and there are kinds\nof want as many\u2015\u2015luxury is a state of abundance, whether of wealth,\nor books, or intellect, or privileges beyond our personal need. Want\nis a state of poverty of clothes, or food, or of physical or mental\nnecessities of whatever sort. It is a fact that one half of the world\npossesses that which the other half needs. The poor need the assistance\nof the rich in matters of physical comforts and counsel. The rich need\nthe meekness and patience which are the soonest found in the lowly\ncottage or the pauper\u2019s hut. The world will reach its ideal state when\nevery one, as his brother\u2019s keeper, will vie with each other in a\nwholesale interchange of fellowship and goods. The barrier to this glad\nconsummation is the selfish indifference with which one half of the\nworld works and worships. It is blind to the constant presence of want\nwhich has claims to be paid. Until these debts to duty are discharged\nworship will be a mockery and religion a hollow show.\n\n    The rich and poor meet together: the Lord is the maker of them\n    all. _Prov. 22:2._\n\n[Illustration:\n\nCOPYRIGHT, 1896, BY FRED\u2019K L. CHAPMAN & CO.\n\n    While Luxury walks in splendor and pride:\n    Her shadow, Grim Want, stalks close by her side.]\n\n\n\n\n[Illustration]\n\n\n\n\nSHIPWRECKED: BUT NOT LOST.\n\n\nFew lives there are upon whose page sooner or later there is not\nwritten the record of a tragedy. It may come in the loss of a friend,\nor a parent, or a wife or husband, or a child. It may come in the wreck\nof a fortune or the stranding of a worldly ambition. Some day while\npursuing a peaceful voyage the cry will go forth, \u201cBreakers ahead,\u201d and\nin spite of our vigilance and our prayers the stout ship will founder\nand we will be cast upon untrodden shores of duty and experience. It\nis in such emergencies as these that the Christian has resources that\nthe man of the world knows not of. Unlike Crusoe he does not turn his\ndesperate gaze toward the half-sunken ship if perchance he may regain\nsome of its stores. He recalls rather those sweet promises of God which\nawait redemption in the hour of need. \u201cI will never leave thee, nor\nforsake thee.\u201d He remembers that and forthwith in the midst of his\nextreme peril and helplessness he cries: I will lift up mine eyes unto\nthe hills from whence cometh my help. My help cometh from the Lord,\nwhich made heaven and earth. Psalms 121:1\u20132.\n\n    Then they cry unto the Lord in their trouble, and He bringeth\n    them out of their distresses. _Psalms 107:28._\n\n[Illustration:\n\nCOPYRIGHT, 1895, BY FRED\u2019K L. CHAPMAN & CO.\n\nSHIPWRECKED\u2015\u2015BUT NOT LOST.\n\n\u201cI will lift up mine eyes unto the hills from whence cometh my help.\u201d]\n\n\n\n\n[Illustration]\n\n\n\n\nTHE LOST SHEEP.\n\n\nNo name by which the Savior is known brings Him into such close and\ntender relations with His people as that of Shepherd. \u201cI am the Good\nShepherd and know my sheep and am known of mine.\u201d As members of the\nfold of Christ we are guaranteed His loving care and solicitous\nprotection. \u201cBut other sheep I have which are not of this fold.\u201d By\nthat He means that His shepherding care extends over the entire world,\nand no bruised or fallen lamb exposed to the rocks and hardships of\nthe wilderness, can ever get beyond the Shepherd\u2019s patient search.\nNo winds can be too harsh, no storms too angry, no mountain steeps\ntoo treacherous to defeat his patient will to reclaim the lost.\nThough by ignorance we fall into error and violate his commands,\nthough by willfulness we transgress His law and traverse the road of\ndisobedience, though the lamp of our innocence be shattered and the\nlight of our hope fades away in desolation and despair, the Shepherd\ncomes to us and calls, \u201cSon, daughter, give me thine heart.\u201d\n\n    Rejoice with me; for I have found my sheep which was lost.\n    _Luke 15:6._\n\n[Illustration:\n\nCOPYRIGHT, 1895, BY FRED\u2019K L. CHAPMAN & CO.\n\nTHE LOST SHEEP.]\n\n\n\n\n[Illustration]\n\n\n\n\nCANCELED DEBTS.\n\n\nDebt is one of the most disturbing and harassing factors in human\nexperience. It sows nettles in the pillow of poverty, and even the\nmerchant, farmer and banker pursue a weary existence when they are\ncompelled to live under the shadow of overhanging indebtedness. How\nmany hearts would be lightened today if by some magic stroke their\nbooks of debit and credit were balanced and for once they could feel\nand know that they owed no man anything. The weight which financial\nindebtedness imposes is comparable only with the weight which the debts\nof sin heap upon us. As we think of the sins of envy, and of malice,\nand of hatred, falsehood, deceit and cupidity, which our conscience has\nbeen justly charging up against us since early years, the load becomes\nall but intolerable. At this moment the great Debt Payer steps upon\nthe scene. He presents a check in payment of the entire amount. It is\npayable to our order. He says, \u201cEndorse this and your account with sin\nis square.\u201d As an evidence of our love and faith we write our names\nwith confidence and boldness across the back of the check and step\nforth into life with new hope and new determination.\n\n    For by one offering he hath perfected for ever them that are\n    sanctified. _Hebrews 10:14._\n\n[Illustration:\n\nCOPYRIGHT, 1896, BY FRED\u2019K L. CHAPMAN & CO.\n\nCANCELED DEBTS.]\n\n\n\n\n[Illustration]\n\n\n\n\n\u201cFOLLOW ME.\u201d\n\n\nEvery soul has its calvary and that crucial hour in each life will\nwitness the peaceful, forgiving, trustful spirit that was seen in\nJesus, or it will witness the hateful, furious appalling dissolution\nthat came to the unrepentant companion of his cross. \u201cFollow me,\u201d\nhe cries from the scene of his crucifixion. \u201cFollow me through the\ncarpenter shop of Nazareth and the sick room of Nain and the street\nriots of Capernaum and the tears of Gethsemane.\u201d We should expect no\nshare in the fruits of Christ\u2019s death, unless we participate in the\nwork of his life. The cross is a meaningless symbol until we approach\nit over the pathway of humility, trust, self-denial and obedience.\n\n    \u201cThough Christ a thousand times in Bethlehem be born,\n    But not within thyself, thy soul shall be forlorn.\n    The cross on Golgotha thou lookest to in vain,\n    If not within thyself it be set up again.\u201d\n\n[Illustration:\n\nCOPYRIGHT, 1896, BY FRED\u2019K L. CHAPMAN & CO.\n\n\u201cFOLLOW ME.\u201d]\n\n\n\n\n[Illustration]\n\n\n\n\nTHE HOPE OF THE RACE.\n\n\nWhat life is at all fruitful in success and the joy that attends it\nunless that life has constantly in view a purpose and pursues it with\nfidelity and hope. Likewise how can our race achieve its best endeavor\nunless it lives under the constant purpose to achieve a certain goal.\nHuman life must have an object of existence that is worthy of its\nhigh endowments. The only objects which are worthy of our pursuit are\nPurity, Peace and Truth, and the only embodiment which the world has\never known of these supreme things was Jesus of Nazareth. Therefore\nwe look toward his second coming with confidence and longing. As the\nembodiment of our highest aspirations he will be the fulfillment of\nall our desires. At his approach the clouds of uncertainty, ignorance,\nsuperstition, distrust, doubt and despair will vanish.\n\n    For all nations shall come and worship before thee; for thy\n    judgments are made manifest. _Rev. 15:4._\n\n[Illustration:\n\nCOPYRIGHT, 1895, BY FRED\u2019K L. CHAPMAN & CO.\n\nTHE HOPE OF THE RACE.\n\n    Joy to the world, the Lord is come, let earth receive her King.\n    Let every heart prepare him room, and Heaven and Nature sing.]\n\n\n\n\n[Illustration]\n\n\n\n\nTHE ROCK OF AGES.\n\n\nSome great man of old once declared that words were the only things\nthat live forever. If this is true of the words of men, how much more\nso is it of the Word of God, the affirmation, the promise, the pledge,\nof the great I am. Its foundations of adamant are anchored in eternal\ntruth, against its base the angry assaults of bigotry and unbelief will\nbe driven in vain. Its walls will stand four square when the ancient\nlandmarks of dogma, formalism and ecclesiasticism lapse into ruin and\ndecay. Though the earth and starry worlds wax old like a garment, the\nWord of God which represents his faithfulness and the Cross of Christ\nwhich represents his Love, will stand impregnable amid the wreck of\nworlds.\n\n    The grass withereth, the flower fadeth; but the Word of our God\n    shall stand forever. _Isaiah 40:8_.\n\n[Illustration:\n\nCOPYRIGHT, 1896, BY FRED\u2019K L. CHAPMAN & CO.\n\nTHE ROCK OF AGES.\n\n\u201cTHE WORD OF THE LORD ENDURETH FOREVER.\u201d]\n\n\n\n\n[Illustration]\n\n\n\n\nAMMUNITION GONE.\n\n\nThere is a giant cliff on the bank of the Hudson river opposite the\nmilitary post of West Point. This rugged promontory has been the target\nfor rifle practice for almost one hundred years. Tons of lead have been\npoured against its stubborn side and there is no apparent rift or seam\nin the granite walls. In a similar way the Word of God and the Truth of\nGod have been the target for hostile attack for hundreds and thousands\nof years. Agnosticism, scholasticism and unbelief have trained their\ndestructive batteries upon the most cherished promises of God and\nupon the earnest belief of his people, but thus far without effect.\nThe signs are that now their munitions of war are exhausted, their\nammunition is gone. In dismay they see the conquering hosts of Jehovah\n\n    Marching on to war,\n    With the Cross of Jesus, going on before.\n\n    No weapon that is forged against thee shall prosper; and every\n    tongue that shall rise against thee in judgment thou shalt\n    condemn. _Isaiah 54:17._\n\n[Illustration:\n\nCOPYRIGHT, 1896, BY FRED\u2019K L. CHAPMAN & CO.\n\nAMMUNITION GONE!]\n\n\n\n\n[Illustration]\n\n\n\n\n\u201cI CAN\u2019T SEE IT.\u201d\n\n\nAll of human experience is not contained in seeing, hearing, tasting,\nsmelling and feeling. The five senses are not the boundaries of human\nknowledge. Humanity is endowed with higher faculties than these. If\none chooses to live on a plane higher than that of the brute he may\nexperience emotions and aspirations that are higher than those of the\nanimal kingdom. He may also rise still higher and think the thoughts of\nGod. To do so, however, one must approach God in the proper attitude\nand in a manner consistent with His being. God is a spirit and they\nthat worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth. They that\napproach the throne of mercy in any other manner, whether in vaunting\nconceit or by impertinent inquisition, will find the heavens a brazen\ncanopy that will send back the echo of their prayers. The starry skies\nreveal no beauty to those who cover their telescopic lens with a\nflannel rag, and God\u2019s revelation contains no word of promise to those\nwho cloak it with their own conceit.\n\n    O foolish people, and without understanding; which have eyes,\n    and see not; which have ears, and hear not. _Jeremiah 5:21._\n\n[Illustration:\n\nCOPYRIGHT, 1896, BY FRED\u2019K L. CHAPMAN & CO.\n\n\u201cI CAN\u2019T SEE IT!\u201d]\n\n\n\n\n[Illustration]\n\n\n\n\nINFIDELITY\u2019S ATTACK.\n\n\nSo universal has the authority and influence of Jesus Christ become\nthat it is no longer possible to dispute his sway by resort to\nargument. In the court of final appeal men are forced to confess that\nhe is the most matchless character, the most loving and forgiving and\npatient man of history. The majority of us are compelled to admit that\nsuch rare traits would be impossible in a life that was less than\ndivine. But there are men who see no loveliness in him and if they\ncan not attack by argument they must attack him by abuse. They resort\nto ridicule, blasphemy and falsehood, and though the spectacle thus\npresented is one that shocks the finer sense in almost every human\nheart, nevertheless there are those who will pay a liberal admission to\nsee this performance enacted.\n\n    I also will laugh at your calamity; I will mock when your fear\n    cometh. _Proverbs 1:26._\n\n[Illustration:\n\nCOPYRIGHT, 1895, BY FRED\u2019K L. CHAPMAN & CO.\n\nINFIDELITY\u2019S ATTACK.\n\nAND YET THERE ARE SOME WHO STILL APPLAUD.]\n\n\n\n\n[Illustration]\n\n\n\n\nSEEDTIME AND HARVEST.\n\n\nOne is apt to forget that the way of eternal life is the way of nature;\nthat the system of rewards and punishments which God has provided for\nholiness and for sin is in strict accord with the laws of nature.\nWe are all aware of the fact that we cannot sin against nature with\nimpunity. If we do violence to any of her laws we must make prompt and\nstrict payment for the offense. The proof of this is seen everywhere;\nin the bent form, the hair prematurely gray, the halting figure\nand the wrecks of manhood and womanhood that cross our path daily.\nWhatsoever a man soweth that shall he also reap. If he sows the seeds\nof dissipation, he will surely reap a harvest of disease, want, sorrow\nand misery. If he sows the wind he will reap the whirlwind.\n\n    There is a way that seemeth right unto a man; but the end\n    thereof are the ways of death. _Proverbs 16:25._\n\n[Illustration:\n\nCOPYRIGHT, 1895, BY FRED\u2019K L. CHAPMAN & CO.\n\nSEEDTIME AND HARVEST.]\n\n\n\n\n[Illustration]\n\n\n\n\nHIS REAL SELF.\n\n\nEvery man has two natures. Under the influence of one he descends to\nthe carnal and base, under the influence of the other he ascends to\nthe spiritual and noble. It is within the power of any man to pursue\nthe former or the latter. To assist him in achieving the latter he is\noffered a model or a pattern by which he may work. With this pattern in\nhis eye, any one, however misshapen in mind or heart, may work out for\nhimself a moral image, grand, perfect and enduring. In the person of\nChrist, God has shown us what a man ought to be, and he will never be\nsatisfied until we approach that ideal.\n\n    Till we all come in the unity of the faith, and of the\n    knowledge of the Son of God, unto a perfect man, unto the\n    measure of the stature of the fulness of Christ. _Ephesians\n    4:13._\n\n[Illustration:\n\nCOPYRIGHT, 1895, BY FRED\u2019K L. CHAPMAN & CO.\n\nHIS REAL SELF.]\n\n\n\n\n[Illustration]\n\n\n\n\nTHE LIGHT OF THE WORLD.\n\n\nIt is claimed by many observers that a two-horse wagon has never gone\nwhere the Bible did not go first. It is certainly a significant fact\nthat international commerce has everywhere followed in the wake of the\ngospel. The intrepid missionary invaded the wilds of China, India,\nMadagascar and the islands of the southern sea long before the trading\nships of the merchants dared to enter their ports. Everywhere the foul\nand ravenous beasts of tyranny, ignorance and superstition have retired\nat the introduction of the glorious light of the cross. Christianity\nhas blazed the pathway and civilization has followed. Now the rainbow\narch of the gospel spans the continents and seas, from Greenland\u2019s icy\nmountains to India\u2019s coral strands, and we seem to hear the glad shout\nof ten million ransomed souls who sing with the ancient Psalmist, \u201cThe\nentrance of thy word giveth Light.\u201d\n\n    The people that walked in darkness have seen a great light;\n    they that dwell in the land of the shadow of death, upon them\n    hath the light shined. _Isaiah 4:2._\n\n[Illustration:\n\nCOPYRIGHT, 1895, BY FRED\u2019K L. CHAPMAN & CO.\n\nTHE LIGHT OF THE WORLD.]\n\n\n                   *       *       *       *       *\n\n\n Transcriber\u2019s Notes:\n\n \u2015\u2015Text in italics is enclosed by underscores (_italics_).\n\n \u2015\u2015Punctuation and spelling inaccuracies were silently corrected.\n\n \u2015\u2015Archaic and variable spelling has been preserved.","title":"Fifty Great Cartoons","tradition":"scripture-revelation","translated_text":null,"word_count":9513}