Christian herald and signs of our times . xaggerate its power?Benjamin Franklin said that his reading of Cot-ton Mathers Essays To Do Good, in child-hood gave him holy aspirations for all the restof his life. George Law declared that a bio-graphy he read in childhood gave him all hissubsequent prosperities. A clergyman, manyyears ago, passing to the Far West, stopped ata hotel. He saw a woman copying somethingfrom Doddridges Rise and Progress. Itseemed that she had borrowed the book, andthere were some things she wanted especiallyto remember. The clergyman had in his satch-el a copy of Doddrid
Christian herald and signs of our times . xaggerate its power?Benjamin Franklin said that his reading of Cot-ton Mathers Essays To Do Good, in child-hood gave him holy aspirations for all the restof his life. George Law declared that a bio-graphy he read in childhood gave him all hissubsequent prosperities. A clergyman, manyyears ago, passing to the Far West, stopped ata hotel. He saw a woman copying somethingfrom Doddridges Rise and Progress. Itseemed that she had borrowed the book, andthere were some things she wanted especiallyto remember. The clergyman had in his satch-el a copy of Doddridges Rise and Progress,and so he made her a present of it. Thirtyyears passed on. The clergyman came thatway and he asked where the woman was, whomhe had seen long ago. They said : She livesyonder in that beautiful house. He went thereand said to her: •* Do you remember me ?She said: 1 No, I do not. He said: Do youremember a man gave you Doddridges Riseand Progress thirty years ago ? Oh, yes ; Iremember. That book saved my soul. I loan-. THE CHAMPION OF THE TOLETUM. [From an ancient print in the Mozarabic Missal, iyjo.) ed the book to all my neighbors, and they readit and they were converted to God, and we hada revival of religion which swept through thewhole community. We built a church andcalled a pastor. You see that spire yonder,dont you ? That church was built as the resultof that book you gave me thirty years , the power of a good book ! But, alas ! forthe influence of a bad book. John Angel James,than whom England never had a holier minis-ter, stood in his pulpit at Birmingham and said: Twenty-five years ago a lad loaned to me aninfamous book. He would loan it only fifteenminutes and then I had to give it back ; butthat book has haunted me like a spectre eversince. I have in agony of soul, on my kneesbefore God, prayed that he would obliteratefrom my soul the memory of it; but I shallcarry the damage of it uutil the day of mydeath. The assassin of Sir William Russ
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