Milford chronicle., 1888-06-22


DAY, JUNE %, 1888.
have any difficulty in remembering
Nathan's thrust; Thou art the man :
nor Felix in remembering Paul's point
blank utteranca ON Righteousness, temper
ance and Judgment to come; nor the English
king any difficulty in remembering what the
court preacher said. when during tho ser
mon against sin the preacher threw his hand
kerchief into the kings pew to indicate whom
he meant The teudenct Of criticism in the
theological seminaries is TO file off from oul
young men all the sharp points and make
them too smooth for any kind Of execution
What we want. all of US, is more point, lesi
humdlunL II we say the right thing in the
right way the press will be glad to echo and
re-echo it. sabbath school teachers, reform.
ers. 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 i.
that which the reporter spoken of suggested
points. sharp points, memorable points
But il the thing be dead when uttered by
living voice, it will be a hundredfold more
dead when It is laid out in cold type.
Now, as you all have something to do with
the newspaper press either in issuing paper
or in reading il. either as producers or pa
trons either as sellers or purchasers of the
printed sheet. | propose on this Sabbatt
morning, June Il, iSSS, treaty TO he signed
between the church and the printing press. g
treaty to bo ratified 10y millions Of good peO
pie if we rightly fashion il, a treaty promis
ing that we will help each other in our work
Of trying to iilumine eSl felicitate tho
world, we 10y voice, you by pen, we 10y
speaking only that which is worth print
ing, you by printing only that which is
ft to speak. You help US and we will help
You Side 10y side be these two potent agencies
until the Judgment Day, when we must both
be sci'utinized for our work, hcalthful OF
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 engineers of long express
trains Of influence. and we will run them into
a depot Of light or tumble them of tho 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 infides in the penury Of their re-
sources have often fraudulently claimed for
their own, but the printer who moved that
the Philadelphia convention be opened with
prayer the resolution lost because a 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 FRANKLIN Printer
Qike the cover OF an Old book,
Its contents toru out,
And stript OF its lettering and gilding),
Lies here food for worms
Yet the work itself shall not be lost,
For it will las he belevedl appear once more
In new
And more beautiful edition,
Corrected and Amended
BY
The Author.
That Providence intends the profession Of
reporters to have mighty share in the
worlds redemption is suggested by the fact
that Paul aud 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
known nothing Of the Pentecost, and moth.
ing of Stephens martyrdom, and nothing Of
Tahitha's resurrection, and nothing of the
jailing and unjailing Of Paul and Silas, and
nothing of the shipW1ecl at Melita Strike
out the reporters work from the Bible and
you kill large part of the New Testament
1t makes me think that in the future of the
kingdom Of God the reporters are to bear
mighty part
About thirteen years ago a representative
of an important newspaper took bis seat in
this church, one Sabbath night, about five
pews from the front OF this pulpit lie took
out pencil and reporters pad, resolved to carl
cature the whole scene When the music began
he began, and with his pencil he derided that,
and then derided the prayer, and then derided
the reading of the Scriptures, and then began
to deTide the sermon. But, he says. for some
reason his hand began to tremble, and he
rallying himself, sbarpened his pencil and
started again, but broke down again. and
then put pencil and paper 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 in news.
paper work. he is an evangelist, and hires a
hall at his own expense and every Sabbath
afternoon breaches Jesus Christ to the peo
Pile And the men Of that profession are
going to come in u body throughout the
country 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 towprd
skepticism, an organized, common sense
Gospel 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
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 conse
quence the attaches of the printing press are
by the thousand ground under tile cylinders. |
you want God TO take care Of you aud your
families Some OF your best work S ils much
unappreciated as was Milton's Paradise |
Lost" for which the author received $25, and
the immortal poem, 'Hohenlinden," Of
Thomas Campbell when he first offered is
for publication, and in the column called |
Notices to Correspondents" appeared tho /
words: ''To 7. C.-The lines commencing |
On Linden when the sun was low are not up j
to our standard Poetry is not T. &. S forte "
- nlGAl Vi tsiN hAAlAA eAtiAA " l. aAti41 1oNl
unapprecated work you need encouragement |
and you can have it. Printers e all Chris |
tendon. ed.toi~. reporters, compositols, press
men, publishers aild readers Of that which is 1
printed, resolve that you viii not write, sei
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, orlain the printing press for right |
eousness and liberty and salvation All
Of us with some influence that will helr
in the right direction, let us put our hands tc
the wor; imploring God TO hasten the consun-
nation a ship with hundreds OF passengers
approaching tie South American cOast, the
man ON the lookout neglected his work
and in a few minutes tue ship would have
been dashed 10 ruin on the rocks But
sricl;et on boas'l the vessel, that had made nc
sound all the voyage, st up shrill call al
the smell of land. aud the captain, knowing