I have asked God on my knees to obliterate that book from my mind, but I believe that I shall carry down with me to the grave the spiritual damage I received during those fifteen minutes." Did Homer and Plato and Socrates and Virgil ever dream that their words would echo through the ages, and aid in shaping men's lives in the nineteenth century?
They were mere infants when on earth in comparison with the mighty influence and power they now yield.

Every life on the American continent has in some degree been influenced by them.

Christ, when on earth, never exerted one millionth part of the influence He wields to-day.

While He reigns supreme in few human hearts, He touches all more or less, the atheist as well as the saint.

On the other hand who shall say how many crimes were committed the past year by wicked men buried long ago?
Their books, their pictures, their terrible examples, live in all they reach, and incite to evil deeds.