Springfield daily republic. [volume] (Springfield, O. [Ohio]) 1887-1888, 1888-06-18

os scrutinized for our work. healthful or
blasting. The two worst of men in that
day will be the minister Of religion and the
editor if they wasted their opportunity
Both Of us are the engineers Of long express
trains OF influence, and we will run them into
depot Of light or tumble them OFF the en-
bankments
What a useful life and what a glorious de-
parture was that of the most famous of all
American printers, Benjamin Franklin,
whom iDfidels in the penury Of their re-
sources have often fraudulehtly claimed for
their own, but the printer who moved that
the Philadelphia convention be opened with
prayer, the resolution lost because ma
jority thought prayer unnecessary. and who
wrote at the time he was viciously attacked:
MY rule is to go straight forward in doing
what appears to me To be right, leaving the
consequences to Providence" and who wrote
this quaint epitaph showing his hope of res
direction, an epitaph that hundreds of
times read while living in Philadelphia:
The Body
BENJAMIN FRASELTS Printer
Qike the cover OF an old book
Its contents torn out
And stript OF its lettering and gildipgl
Lies here food for worms
Yet the work itself shall not be lost
For 1t will Ias he oelievedI appear once more
In
And more beautiful edition,
Corrected and Amended
By
The Author
That Providence intends the profession of
reporters to have a mighty share in the
worlds redemption is suggested by the fact
that Paul and Christ took a reporter along
with them, and he reported their addresses
and reported their acts Luke was a re
porter, 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 moth
ing of Stephens martyrdorn, and nothing Of
Tabithas resurrection, and nothing of the
jailing and unjailing of Paul and Silas, and
nothing of tine shipwreck at Melita Strike
out the reporters work from the Bible and
you kill large part Of the New Testament
It makes me think that in the future Of the
kingdom Of God the reporters are to bear a
mighty part
About thirteen years ago q representative
this church, one Sabbath night, about five
pews from the front of this pulpit He took
out pencil and reporters pad. resolved to carr
cature the whole scene. When the music began
he began, and with his pencil be derided that,
and then derided the prayer, and then derided
the reading OF the Scriptures and then began
to deride the sermon But, he says, for some
reason his hand began TO tremble, and be,
raj lI,y,p ahor II h,s
started again, but broke down again, and
then put pencil and paper in his pocket
aud his head down on the front of the 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
to God; and, though stall engaged in news
paper work, he is an evangelist, and hires
ball at his own expense and every Sabbath
afternoon breaches Jesus Christ to the peo
ple And the men of that profession are
G oing to come in body throughout the
country l know hundreds of them, and a
more genial or highly educated class of men
it would be hard to find, and though the
tendency of their profession may be toward
skepticism, an organized. common sense
tiospel 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
lay when people want TO get their news
papers at three cents, and are hoping for
the time when they can get any of
them at one cent, and, as a conse-
quence. the attaches of the printing press are
by the thousand ground under the cylinders,
you want God 10 take care OF you and your
families. Some of your bee work is as much
as was Milton's Paradise
Lost, )" for which the author received SIS, and
the immortal poem, "Hohenlinden." of
Thomas Campbell when he first offered il
for publication, and in the column called
Notices to Correspondents appeared the
words: ITO T. C.-The lines commencing
On Linden when the sun was low are not up
to our standard Poetry is not 7. C.'s forte"
D men of the pencil and pen, amid your
work you need encouragement
and you can have it Printers of all Chris
tendon. editors, reporters. compositors, press
men, publishers and readers of that which is
printed, resolve that you will not write set
up. edit, issue or read anything that debases
body, mind or soul In the name of God, by
The laying on of the hands of faith and
prayer, osdain the printing press for right
sousness and liberty and salvation All
of US with some Influence that will bel,
in the right direction, let us put our hands 10
the work impioring God TO hasten the consum
nation A ship with hundreds of passengers
the South American coast the
man on the lookout eglected his work
and in few minutes the ship would have
oeen dashed to ruin on the rocks But a
cricket on board the vessel, that had made M
sound all the voyage, set up shrill call al
the smell of land and the captain, knowing
that habit of the insect, the vessel wa.
stopped III time to avoid an awful wreck
And 50, insignificant means nov may do |
wonders and the scratch Of pen may saw
he shipwreck Of a soul
Are you all ready for the signing of the |
ontract, the league, the solemn treaty pro \
sosed between journalism and evangelism
Aye, let it he q Christian marriage Of III
pulpit and the printing press. The ordina
ton Of the former on my head the zen OF
the latter in my bana, it is appropriate thai
| publish the banii> Of such marriage Let
them from this day he one in the magnificent
work Of the worlds redemption.
let thrones and powers and kingdoms be
Obedient. mighty God TO thee:
And over land and stream and main,
Sow wave the scepter of Thy reign
o. let that glorious anthem swell
Let host To hust the triumph tell
Till not one rebel hear. remains.
But over all the Savio / reigns
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