The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1874-03-28
For The CARBON ADVOCATED

The present age is one of agitation,
of questions, religious, political and
professional. Stir and activity mark
every enterprise and characterize every
successful life. Helps have become
imperative necessities in proportion as
the work of the world has become ex-
panded and magnified in Importance.
None stand forth more prominently to-
day, than the press in its power to ad-
vance and magnify tie interest of our
civilization and our christian enterprise
The press is the great agitator of thought
and propagator of opinion--the great
circulator, the great magnilier of ideas.
Hence itsmarvelous influence andworld-
wide power hence its great value as
an aid to the christian teacher. The
teachers work has been often laborious
even to tediousness difficult, slow and
ratient-taxing to the last extr entity /;
but the printed pages enchain the eye,
while the ear-gate still Obeys its func.
tions, and the type pictures duplicate
themselves on niemory's walls with
wonderful celebrity and clearness. The
press multiplies the teachers power, as
it does that of the preacher, the mer-
chant, the inventor, hundred fold. 1t
holds before the eye the fixed formulas
of truth, and stamps them in the study
process well upon the minds tablets,
while it keeps the same in form for
years and life-times that the student
may continually refresh his kno Wedge.
Beyond this, the press takes what would
otherwise be given to the merest group
and filings it broadcast upon the field of
human ignorance. 1t is the great null
tiplier of Thoughtful the great dissent
nator of truth. Merely as a tlme-saver
the Sunday.sohool must use the press
laig gely and generously, or it labors un-
de tremendous disadvantage, while
the outside world is loading legend of
printing presses with its messages for
every day and hour of the week. The
christian teacher must supplement his
work by constant use of this great
agency, sending forth steady streams OF
printed matter, fresh and pure as his
own sacred work, to counteract the
baneful influence of unholy literature,
to check the tide of sensuous appeal,
made more attractive by the peculiar
power of printers ink, and, rs his
special messenger, make It magnify his
personal work, by as many times as
swift revolving wheel and willing faces
of type may speak his purposes. Then
come, superintendents and teachers, you
may constantly devise fresh and attrac
tive ways in which your faithful ally OF
the press can be made to multiply and
extend your influence as various as the
forms and sizes of the types, and Il.
bright and pleasing as the colors of the
inks, will be the fruits of wise and
thoughtful use Of the inky monarch
Powerful as it is in influence, no servant
ever did more swiftly or accurately the
bidding of his master. The Sunday
school worker may have but little tiinC
for the various cOurtesies and persona
influences he would gladly, with hant
and voice, set going in the currents o.
his little social world, but the press will
whill his thoughts, his cautious words
his loving sentencrs, even the spirit o
his very hand,shakings, as in panoram
ic vision, before his scores OF pupils auC
friends. | advocate no sensational woIl