Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-06-18

SCOUT 10 per cent. improve melt. Wn,
knows mat by prayer and kindly consult.
I tion with our literary fii.nds, VT ma
have It lifted into positively religion:
sheet printed On Saturday night and only
distributed, like the American Messenger
or the Missionary Journal, cl
the Sunday School Advocate, OF
Sabbath mornings. All things are
possible With God and my is tn is up IN
til nothing in the way of religious victory
would sur prise me. All the newspaper
printing presses Of the esrth are going to
be the Lords, and telegraph and tele-
phone and type will yet announce nations
born in Gay. The trst book ever
printed WAS the Bible by Faust and his
soa-in-lsw Schoeffer in 1859, and tina.
conservation Of type TO the holy scrip
lures WAS prophecy Of the great mission
Of printing for the evaneelzstion OF ali
the nations. The father of the Ameri-
can printing press was s clergyman, Rev.
Jesse Glover, and that WAS prophecy of
the ,eligious use thst the gospel ministry
in this country were to make OF the types.
Again: We sail secure the secular
press S. Fighter reinforcement. CT re-
ligion and the pulpit by making cur re-
llgious uttersnces more Interesting and
spirited, and then the press will repro
tuce them. On the way to church sCme
fifteen years ago, iourn allst said tniug
that has kept ms ever since thinking:
care you going to give Us any points to-
day?" "Whst do you mesn!" l asked.
He said: ~ mean By that anything that
will be striking enough to be remem-
0ered." Then said to myself: What
right have we in cur pulpits anu Sunday
schools to take the time OF peo-
pie If We have nothing to
,sy that is nemorable2 David did
not have any difficulty in remembering
Nslh.I's thIuSt: Thou ait the man."
ror Felix IN remembering Paul's point
blank utteranCe on righteousness, tenn
persnce aud Judgment 10 come; nor the
English King any d ficul'y IN remember
ing wha. the court preacaer said, wnep,
during the sermon sgainst sin, the
preacher
THREW his HANDKERCHIEF
into the Kings pew to Indicate whom he
mernt. The tendency If criticism in .hs
theological seminAries Is 10 file { 4 from
our young meu al the sharp points anG
make them too smooth foT any kind Of
execution. What We wsnt, all of us, is
more point, less humdIun. II we say
the right thing in the rigat way the press
" Il be glad TO echo and re-echo it. Sac
bath school teachers, reiormers, young
men and old men in the ministry, what
We ell want if We are to make the print
In. press sn ally in Christian work Ia
tbs. which the reporter spoken of sug-
gesteG-points, sharp points, memorable
points. But If the thing b3 dead wnep
uttered by living voice, IL will be hun
dred fold more dead Wien IL is laid out
in cold type.
Now, as you sll have something TO do
with the newspaper press, either IN issu-
ing psper or in reading It, either as pro.
ducsrs or patrons, sinner as sellers or
purchasers c: the printed sheet, propose
On this Ssbbsth morning, June II, 1888, s
treaty to De signed between the church
ard the printing press, treaty to be rati-
fed by millions Of good people II we
rightly fashion it, a treaty promising that
re will help esch other in cur work of
trying TO illumine and ielicitste the world,
We by voice, you by pen, we by speaking
only that which is worth printing, you by
printing only thst which is fl to speak
You help US and we will help you. Side
y side DC these two potent agencies I'M
Ill the judgment day, when We must both
be scTutinized 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 opportu-
nity. Both OF Us are engineer of long
txpress trains Of influence, and we will
run them into depot Of light or tumble
them OF the entertainments.
of,,1
departure WAS thst OF the most famous OF
all American printers, Benjamin Franklin,
whom irfdels in the penury Of
their resources have often frsudulently
Claimed for their ewn, but the printer
who moved that the Philadelphia conven-
ton be opened with prayer, the resolu-
ton lost because 8 msiority thought
prayer unnecessary, and VINO wrote st the
time he was
vICIOUsLT ATTACKED:
'fMy r1le is TO go straight forward in
doing what appears to me to be right,
leaving the consequences to Providence"
snd who wrote this quaint epitaph show
Hg his hope of resurrection, sn epitaph
hat 1 hundreds CT times read while living
N Philadelphia:
The Body
OF
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN, Printer,
Like the ever of old book,
Its contents torn out,
And strpt of liz lettering and gliding
Lies here food for worms.
Yet the work Itself shall not be lost,
For It VIII (as he Delieyec) appear oIce more
In q new
And more beautiful edition,
Corrected anu amended
BY
The Author.
That Providence intends the profess
i?n of reporters to have mighty share
in the worlds redemption is suggested by
the fact that Paul and Christ took re-
porter slong with them and he reported
their addresses and reported their
acts. Luke was reporter and he wrote
not only the book Of Luke but the Acts
Of the Apostles, and without that re-
oorter's werk we would have known
nothirg of the Pentecost, and nothing Of
Stephens msrtyrdom, and nothing OF
rabiths's resurrection, nd nothing OF
he failing and urisiling OF Paul snd
Silas, and nothing OF the shipwreck at
Mslita. Strike out the reporters work |
rom the Bible spd you kill q large part |
If the New Testament. 1t makes me
.hink that in the future of the Kingdom |
~ God the renOrtars are tn hear a mighty |