Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1888-06-28

of men in that day will be the minister
of religion and the editor if they wasted
their opportunity. Both of Us are the en-.
gineer OF long express trains of influence
and we will run them into q depot Of light
or tumble them OF the cmbankments.
What useful life ami what glorious
departure was that of the most famous of
all American printers, Benjamin Franklin,
whom infidels in the perjury of their re
sources have often fraudulently claimed
for their own, but the printer who moved
that the Philadelphia convention be opened
with prayer, the resolution lost because q
majority thought prayer unnecessary, and
who wrete at the time he was viciously at
tucked: My rule is to 60 straight forward
in doing what appears 10 be right, leaving
the consequences TO Providence" and who
wrote this quaint epitaph showing his hope
of resurrection. an epitaph that hundreds
Of times read while living in Philadelphia:
The Body
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN, PRINTER
Like the cover Of an old book,
It's contents torn out,
And stript OF its lettering and gliding,
Lies here food for worms.
Yet the work itself shall not be lost,
For it will las he beiieved appear once more
Ina new
And more beautiful edition,
Corrected and amended
BY
The Author.
That Providence intends the profession
Of reporters to have mighty share in the
worlds redemption is sug !ested by the
fact that Paul and Christ took reporter
along with them and he reported their ad-
dresses and reported their acts. Luke was
a reporter and he wrote not only the book
of Luke but the Acts of the Apostles
and without that reporters work we would
have known nothing of the Pentecost and
nothing of Stephens martyrdom, and moth
ing of Tabitha's resurrection, and nothing
of the falling and unjailing Of Paul and
SIlas, and nothing of the shipwreck 81
Melita. Strike out the reporters work
from the Bible aud you kill q large part OF
the New Testament. 1t makes me think
that in the future of the kingdom Of God
the reporters are to bear mighty part
About thirteen years ago representa-
tive of an important newspaper took HE
seat in this church, one Sabbath night,
about five pews from he front Of the pull
pit. He took out pencil and reporters pad
resolved to caricature the whole scene.
When the music began he began. and with
his pencil he derided that, and then derided
the prayer, and then derided the reading OF
the Scriptures, and then began to derlde
the sermon. But, he says, for some reason
his hand began to tremble, and he, rallyins
himself, sharpened his pencil and started
again, but broke down again, and then put
paper and pencil in his pocket and his head
down on the front pew and began to pray.
At the close Of the service he came up and
asked for the prayers of others and gave
his heart 10 God /; and, though still engaged
in newspaper work he is an evangelist and
hires hall at his own expense, and every
Sabbath afternoon breaches Jesus Christ
to the people.
And the men Of that profession are going
to come IN body throughout the country.
know hundreds Of them and a more &c.
NAL or highly educated class Of men it
would be hard to find, and though the ten
dency Of their profession may be toward
skepticism, an organized, common sense,
gospel Invitation would fetch them to the
front Of all Christian endeavor. Men Of the
pencil and pen, in all departments, you
need the help Of the Christian religion. In
the days when people want to get their
newspapers at three cents and are hoping
for the time when they can get any Of them
at one cent, aud as q consequence the at
taches of the printing press are
by the thousand ground under the
cylinders, you want God to take
care of you and your families. Some
Of your best work is as much uuappreci.
ated as was Millions Paradise Lost, for
which the author received S25; and the
immortal poem ssHohenlinden" Of Thomas
Campbell when he first offered it for pub
LEGATION and in the column called Notices
TO Correspondents" appeared the words:
ITO L. C.-The lines commencing On Lin.
den when the sun was low are not up to
our standard. Poetry is not T. C.'s forte"
o men Of the pencil and pen, amid your
unaPpreciated work you need encourage.
ment and you can have it. Printers Of all
Chrlstendom, editors. reporters, compos-
itors, pressmen, publishers and readers OF
that which is printed, resolve that you will
not write, set up, edit, issue or read any
thing that debases body, mind or SOUL
Are you all ready for the signing of the
contract, the league. the solemn treaty
proposed between journalism aud evapgel-
ism! Aye, let it b. d Christian marriage
Of the pulpit and the printing press. The
ordination Of the former on my head. the
pen Of the latter in my hand it is appropri-
ate that publish the banns of such mar
riage. Let them from this day be one in
the magnificent work Of the worlds re,
demptiou.
In the name of G I'd, by the laying on Of
the hands of faith and prayer, ordain the
printing press for righteousness and lib
erty and salvation. AL! OF us with some
influence that Will help in the right dlrec-
ton, let US put our hands to the work, i'm
pioring God to has en- the consummation.
A ship with hundreds Of passengers ap-
preaching the South American coast, the
man on the lookout neglected his work and
in few minutes the ship would have been
dashed to ruin on the rocks. But cricket
on board the vessel that had made no
sound all the voyage set up u shrll call at
the smell of land, and the captain, know
ing that habit of the insect, the vessel was
stopped in tine TO avoid an awful wreck.
And SO Insignificant means now may d.
wonders and the scratch Of q pen may save
shipwrecl of soul.
Let thrones and powers and kingdoms DO
Obedient. mighty Cod to Thee:
And over land and stream and main,
Now wave the scepter Of Thy reign.
o. let that glorious anthem swell,
Let host to host the triumph tell,
Till not one rebel heart remains
But oye r all the Saviour reIgu..
Wise Sayings Well Said.
The fewer words the better prayer.
Luther.
Chastity is lost but Once-never to
be recalled.-Ortd.
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Love and mOney,--pickpockets that
never fail.-Princc de Lane.