The Forrest City times., 1888-06-23


 tribution of some Christian man toward an asylum for feeble minded children or . seaside sanitarium. Urge all managing edi- tors to put meanness and impurity In tvpe pearl or agate and charity and fidelity and Christian consistency ir treyier cv hourgerIs II we cannot dive out the Sunday newspaper let us have the Sunday newspaper con verted The fact is that the modern sun- day newspaper is great improvement on the old Sunday newspaper. What beastiy thing was the Sunday newspaper thirty years agoi II was enough to destroy < mans rsspects- bility to leave the tip end of it sticking out of his coat pocket. What edltorislsi What advertisementsl What plcturesl The mod ment. on the old time Sunday newspspes % one hundred is more than twenty-nvei In other words about seventy-hve per cent cent iuiprovenient Who knows that with our literary friends we may have 1t lifted Into positively religious sheet printed on Saturday night. and only distrib- nted, like the American Messenger, or the Advocate on Sabbath mcruings An things are possible with God and my faith Is up until nothing in the way Of relg gIous victory would surprise me All the newspaper ptintipf presses of the earth are going to be the tyte will yet announce nations born in . day. The first book ever printed was the Bible by Faust and his son-in.lsw Scboeffer in 1400 and that conservation Of tpye to the Holy Scriptures was prophecy of the great mIst sion Of printing for the evangelxation of all the nations. The father of the American printing press was a clergyman, Rev Jesse Glover, and that was prophecy of the religious use that the Gospel ministry in this country were Co make of the types.
 Again: we shall secure the secular press a mightier re-enforcement Of rellgon and tho pulpit by making our religious utterauc- es more interesting and spirited. and then the press will reproduce them. On the va. to church some fifteen years ago. journalist said a thing that has kept me ever since thinking: Are yon going to give us any asked. He said; II mean by that anything that will be striking enough to be remember. ed.n Then said to mysclf What right have we fin our pulpits and Sunday schools to take the time of people If we have nothing 10 say that is memorable. David did not have any difficulty in remembering Nathan's thrust: Thou art the man." nor Felix in remem- berlng Paurs point blank utterance on righteousness, temperance and judgment to come; nor the English king any difficulty in remembering what the court preacher said, preacher threw his handkerchief into the kings pew to indicate whom he meant. The tendency of criticism in the theological semi- nares is to file of from our young men all the sharp points aud make them too smooth for any kind of execution. What we wank all of us, is more point less humdrum. If we say the right thing in the right way the press will be glad to echo and re-ech6it Sabbath-school teachers, reformers, young men and old men in the ministry, what we all want If we are to make the printing press an ally in Christian work is that which the reporter spoken of suggested-points, sharp points, memorable points. But if the thing be dead when uttered by living voice, 1t will be a bundredfold more dead when 1t Is laid out in cold type.
 Now, as you all have something to do with tho newspaper press either in issuing paper or in reading it either ss producers or patrons, either as sellers or purchasers of the print ed sheet, 1 proposeon this Sabbath morning, June r, 1888. treaty to be signed between the ,ca., church and n the printing gp,. pre.s. treaty promising that we will help each other in our work of trying to illumine and felici- tate the world, we by voice. you by pen, we by speaking only that which is worth print ing, you by printing only that which is fit to speak. You help us and we will help you Side by side be these two potent agencies un- til the Judgment Day, when we must both De scrutnized for our work healthiul or blasting The two worst of men in that day will be the minister of religion aud the editor If they wasted their opportunity. Both of us are the engineer of long express trains of influence, and we win run them into depot of light or tumble them of the cinbankments.
 What useful life and what glorious depar-
 
 can printers, Benjamin Franklin, whom inf dels In the penuryof their resources have often fraudulenty claimed for their own. but the printer who moved that the Philadelphia con- yention be opened with prayer, the resolution lost because a majority thought prayer un- necessary. and who wrote at the time he was yieiously attacked My rule is to go straight forward In doing what appears to me to be right, leaving the consequences to Provi- dence," and who wrote this quaint epitaph
 
 an epitaph that 1 had hundreds of times read while living in Philadelphia.
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 Benj amin Franklin. Printer
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 It's contents torn out,
 And stripped of It's lettering and gliding,
 We, bs bes nsE nsEe fcSa a fos w0rns Da s. lost.
 For it vii. las he believed) appear once more
 And more bcaat' ful edition.
 Corrected and amended
 The Author.
 That Province Intends the profession of re- porters to have mighty share in the worlds redemption is suggested hy the fact that Paul and Christ took reporter along with them and he reported their address 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 Pentecost and nothing of Stephens martyr dom, and nothing of Tabitha's resurrection, and nothing of the iailipg and unjaiing of Paul and Silas, aud nothing of the shipwreck at Mel!ta. 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 re- Torters arc to bear large part
 About thirteen years ago representative oi au important newspaper took his seat in lAis church, one Sabbath night about five pews from the front of this pulpit. He took out pencil and reporters pad resolved to caricature the whole scene When the music began he began, and with bis pencil he derlded that and then derided the prayer and then derided the reading of the Scriptures, and then began to deride the ser mon. But he says, for some reason, bfs hand began to tremble and he, rallying him self, sharpened his pencil and started again, but broke down again, and then put pencil and per in his pocket and 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 stili engaged In newspaper work be is an evangelist and hires hall at his own expense and every Sabbath afternoon breaches Jesus Christ to the peo- pie. And the men of that profession are go- ing to come in body throughout the coun- try. ] know hundreds of them and a more genial or highly educated class of men 1t would be hard to find, and, though the ten dency of their profession may be towards skepticism, ap orgF ilzed, common-sense,
 
 front of all Christian endeavor. Men Of the pencil and pen, in all departments, you need the help of the Christian religion. In the day 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 consequence the attaches 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 unapmecated as was Milton's Paradise Lost, for which the author received twenty-five dollars; and the immor- tal poem ''Hohenlinden" of Thomas Camp bell when be first offered 1t for publication and in ihe column called sNotices to Cor respondents'' appeared the words: ''To T. C.-Tbe lines commencing "On Linden when the sun was low are not up to our standard Poetry is not T. C's forte.'
 men of the pencil and pen, amid your unappreciated work you need encourage ment and you can have 1t Printers of all Christendom, editors, reporters, compositors, pressmen publishers and readers of that Ia mt will not Vrff