The man went out of the world, but his influence stayed behind him, its poison to work for ages in the lives of others.
We need, therefore, to guard our influence with most conscientious care.

It is a crime to fling into the street an infected garment which may carry contagion to men's homes.

It is a worse crime to send out a printed page bearing words infected with the virus of moral death.

The men who prepare and publish the vile literature which to-day goes everywhere, polluting and defiling innocent lives, will have a fearful account to render when they stand at God's bar to meet their influence.
If we would make our lives worthy of God, and a blessing to the world, we must see to it that nothing we do shall influence others in the slightest degree to evil.
In the early days of American art there went from this country to London a young artist of genius and of a pure heart.

He was poor, but had an aspiration for noble living as well as for fine painting.