Sharp County record., 1888-07-26

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RFNJAMIN FRANKLIN, PRINTER
Like the cover Of an o0d OooN'
It's contents torn OUT ,,,,,, .
And Stpipped OF its lettering ana gllWuSj
Lies here, food for worms.
vat the work Itself shall not be lost,
For il will "a he believed appear once more
Inanew
And more beautiful edluon'
Corrected and amended
BY
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That Providence intend; the profession
of reporters to have Almighty share N the
worlds redemption is suggested by th0
fact that Paul and Christ took reporter
k5Tq with them, and he reported their
addresses 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 ths
Pentecost, and nothing Of stephens
martvrdom, and nothing Of Tabitha's
| resurrection, and nothing of the jalling
and uniailing Of Paul and SilaS, and moth
ing of the shipwreGk at Melita Strike
out the reporters work from the Bible
and you kill a large part Of the New
Testament 1t makes me think that III
the future of the Kingdom Of God the re-
porters are to bear mighty part.
About thirteen years ago a representa-
tive of an important newspaper took his
seat in this church one Sabbath night,
about five pews from the front Of this 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 derlded
| the reading of the Scriptures, and then
began to deride the sermon. But, he says,
| for some reason his hand began TO trem-
BILE, and he, rallying himself, sbarpened
his pencil and started again, but broke
| down again, and then put pencil and pa
| 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 still
engaged i'll newspaper work he is az
| evangelist, and hires hall at his own ex-
pense, and every Sabbath afternoon
breaches Jesus Christ to the people. And
| the men Of that profession are going TO
come in a body throughout the country
| | know hundreds of them, and more
| genial or highly educated class of men il
would be hard to fnd and though the
tendency Of their profession may be to.
wards skepticism, an organized COM
nonsense, Gospel invitation would fetch
them to the front of all Christian en-
| deavor.
Men of the pencil and pen, in all de-
partments, you need the help of the Chris
| tian religion. In the day when people
want to get their newspapers at three
cents, and are hoping for the time wher
they can get any of them at one cent, and
as a consequence, the attaches Of tbs
printing press are by the thousand groun,
under the cylinders, you want God to
! take care Of you and your families Some
Of your best work is as much unappreci-
| ated as was Milton's paradise Lost" for
which the author received twenty. five
| dollars; and the immortal poem, "Hohen.
linden" of Thomas Campbell, when he
| first offered it for publication, and in the
column called Notices to Correspond.
entS" appeared the words: "To T. c.
The lines commencing, 'On Linden, wher
the sun was low are not up to our stand
ard Poetry is not 7. C.'s forte"
o men Of the pencil and pen, amid your
unappreciated work you need encourage
ment aud you have it. Printers of all
| ChristendOm, editors, reporters. COM
positors, pressmen, publishers and read
ers of shat which is printed, resolve that
you will not write, set up, edit issue or
read any thing that debases BODY, mind
or soul. In the name of God, by the lay
ing on of the hands Of faith and PRAYER
ordain the prin ing press for righteous
| ness and liberty and salvation. All of
u.s. with some influence that will helm in
the right direction, let us put our hands
to the work implOring God to hasten the
consummation. A ship, with hundreds of
| passengers, approaching the South Amer
| lean coast, the man on the lookout
neglected his work, and in a few minutes
the ship would have been dashed TO rnin
on the rocks. But cricket on board the
Vessel, that had made no sound all the
voyage, set up shrill call at the smell of
land, and the captain, knowing that babi
of the insect, the vessel was STONED in
time to avoid an awful wreck. And so
| Insignificant means now may do wonders
and the scratch of pen may save the
shipwreck of a soul.
Are you all ready for the signing of the
contract, the league, the solemn treaty
proposed between Journalism and
evangelism? Aye, let it be a Christian
marriage of the pulpit and the printing
press. The ordination of the former o9
my head, the pen of the latter in nv hand
1t is appropriate that publish the banns
OF such marriage. Let them from This
day be one in the magnificent work of the
worlds redemption.
Let thrones and powers and kin-aoms he
Obedient mighty God, to Thee;
And over land, and stream, and main
Now wave the scepter of Thy reign.
Oh, let that glorious anthem swell
Let host to host the triumph tell.
Till not one rebel heart remains
But yEer all the Saviour ra;,n.