The Wahpeton times., 1888-06-28

Sou'e PiS.sS!eT saius WHICH, OurlnR the ser.
mon against sin. the preacher thew his
hanakcrcn,er into the kings pew to ind CITE
whom he meant. Tie tendency of criticism
in the theological tenninaries is to file off
from Our Young men all the sharp points and
make them too smooth for any Kind of exc.
cutioil. What we want. all Of ,ls, is more
point. less hnmdrum. Ii we say the right
thing in the right way the press will he gIad
to echo and rc.echo it. Sabba,h.>cl. DOL
Teachers. rcformers. young men and old men
In the ministry. what we all want il we are
| to make the printing press an ally in Chris.
tian work is that Which the reporter spoken
OF suggested points. snarp points, mem.
orable points. But II the thing be dead
when uttered by living voice. it will be q
hundred.fold more dead when it is laid out
in cold type.
Now, as you all have something to do
with the newspaper press, either in fxs,lin.
q paper or in reading It. either as producers
or patrons. either as sellers Or purchasers of
the printed sheet propose on this Sabbath
mharnlug' hn.sg June L.. lsss, treaty to be signed
between the church and the printing press.
treaty to be ratified by millions Of good
people, If we rightly fashion it, a treaty
promising that we will help each other in
our work Of trying to iiumine and felicitatc
the world. we by voice, you by pen, we by
speaking only that which is worth printing.
you by printing only that which is tit to
| speak. You help us and we will help you.
Side BY side be these two potent agencies
until the judgment aay, when we must both
be scrntinlzed for our work, hcalthful or
blasting. The two worst off men in that
day will be the minister Of religion and the
editor il they wasted their opportunity.
Both Of us are the engineer OF long express.
trains of influence, and we will run them
into depot OF light or tumble them off the
embankinent
What useful life and what glorious de.
parture was that Of the most famous Of all
American printers, Benjamin Franklin,
whom infdcls in the penury of their re.
sources have often traudulentiy claimed for
their own, but the Printer who moved that
the Philadelphia convention be opened with
praycr-the resolution lost because majori
ty thought prayer unnecessaIy-and whc
wrote at the time he was viciously attacked: (:
''My rule is 10 70 straight forward in doin.
what appeara TO me to be right, leaving the
consequences to providence" and who wrote
this quaint cpftaph showing his hope Of res
urrcclioil-an epitarh that l hundreds Of
times read while living in Philadelphia:
Tie body
Benjamin Franklin, printer,
Like the cover Of an old book,
Its contents torn out,
And stript Of its lettering and gilding)
Lies here food for worms.
Yet the work itself shall not be lost,
For it will (as he bclieved) appear once more
In u new
And more beautiful edition
Corrected and amended
BY
The Author,
That providence intends the profession Of
reporters to have q mighty share in the
worlds redemption is suggested by the fact
that Paul and Christ took reporter aIong
with them and he reported their addresses
and reported their acts. Luke was report.
er. and he wrote not only the nook Of Luke
but the acts Of the apostles. and without