| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Camille by Alexandre Dumas: sorrow and of love. They are hard; those who walk in them walk
with bleeding feet and torn hands, but they also leave the
trappings of vice upon the thorns of the wayside, and reach the
journey's end in a nakedness which is not shameful in the sight
of the Lord.
Those who meet these bold travellers ought to succour them, and
to tell all that they have met them, for in so doing they point
out the way. It is not a question of setting at the outset of
life two sign-posts, one bearing the inscription "The Right Way,"
the other the inscription "The Wrong Way," and of saying to those
who come there, "Choose." One must needs, like Christ, point out
Camille |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Madam How and Lady Why by Charles Kingsley: birds happy. For she knows well that there is no food, nor
medicine either, like happiness. If people are not happy enough,
they are often tempted to do many wrong deeds, and to think many
wrong thoughts: and if by God's grace they know the laws of Lady
Why, and keep from sin, still unhappiness, if it goes on too long,
wears them out, body and mind; and they grow ill and die, of
broken hearts, and broken brains, my child; and so at last, poor
souls, find "Rest beneath the Cross."
Children, too, who are unhappy; children who are bullied, and
frightened, and kept dull and silent, never thrive. Their bodies
do not thrive; for they grow up weak. Their minds do not thrive;
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Howard Pyle's Book of Pirates by Howard Pyle: stories and pictures have been scattered through many magazines
and books. Here, in this volume, they are gathered together for
the first time, perhaps not just as Mr. Pyle would have done, but
with a completeness and appreciation of the real value of the
material which the author's modesty might not have permitted.
MERLE JOHNSON.
PREFACE
WHY is it that a little spice of deviltry lends not an
unpleasantly titillating twang to the great mass of respectable
flour that goes to make up the pudding of our modern
civilization? And pertinent to this question another--Why is it
Howard Pyle's Book of Pirates |
