The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1888-06-18

paper rs 100 is more than twenty
five; in other words, about 20 per cent.
improvement. Who knows that by pray
ers and kindly consultation with our lit
erary friends we may have II lifted into u
positively religious sheet printed on Satur-
day night and only distributed, like the
american Messenger, or the Missionary Jour.
nal, or the SUnddy-Scho0l .id,OCdic. ON Sab
bath mornings. All things are possible
with God, and my faith is up until moth
ing in the way of religious victory would
surprise me. All tho newspaper printing
presses ON the earth are going to be the
Lords, and telegraph and telephone and
type will yet announce nations born in
day. The first book ever printed was tho
Bible, 10y Faust and his son-in-law, Schuf-
fer in ll60, and that conservation of tupc
TO the holy Scriptures was prophecy OF
the great mission OF printing for the evan
geliEtion of all the nations. The father OF
the American printing press was clergy
man, the Rev. jesse Glover, and that was
a prophecy Of the religious use that the
Gospel ministry in this country were to
make Of the types.
Again we shall secure the secular press
as mightier Reinforcement OF religion
and the pulpit by making our religious ut
temnccs more interesting and spirited and
then the press will reproduce them. On
the way to church, some fifteen years ago,
journalist said thing that has kept me
ever since thinking Are YOU going 10
give MS any points today" "What do
you mean ?" ! asked lie said 60 mean
by that, anything that will be striking
enough TO be remembered" Then | said
10 myself; What right have We in our
puipits and Sunday schools 10 take the
time OF people, Il We have nothing TO say
that is mcmonhle2 David did not have
any difficulty in remembering Nathan's
thrust "Thou art the man nor Felix
in remembering Puul's point blank utter
ancc ON righteousness, temperance aud
judgment 10 como; nor the English king
any difficulty In remembering what the
court preacher said, when, during the SER
mon against sim the preacher throw his
handkerchief into the kings pew, 10 indi.
cate whom he meant. The tendency Of
criticism in the theological scminarics is 10
file of from our young men all the sharp
points, and make them too smooth lor any
kind OF execution. What We want, all Of
us, is more point less humdrum. II we
hlN Allt NNNllA NlAlllkt III llEilA NNNt hAi
press will he glad to echo and re-ocho IL.
sabbath school teachers, rciormcrs. young
men and old men in the ministry, what
we all want, II We are 30 make the print.
! ing press an ally in Christian work, IL
that which the reporter spoken Of sug-
gcstcd-points, sharp points, memorable
points. But II tho thing bc dead when
uttered by living voice, II will be hun
drcdiold more dead when il is laid out in
cold type.
Now, as YOU all have something to ia
with the newspaper press, either in issuing
a paper OF In reading II, cithoras producers
or patrons, either IN sellers or purchasers
Of the printed sheet, | propose ON this
Sabbath morning, June IL, 1858, a treaty
| TO be signed between the church and ia,
| printing press, treaty 10 be ratified by
millions OF good people, II We rightly iash
ion II, q treaty promising that We will hell
each other in uur work Of trying 20 illum
Inc and lelicilato tue word, ws by voice
you by pen, We by speaking only tbs
shieh y sefih m. ing, % by printin.
~ aud We VIII help YOU. Side by sid'
bo these two potent agencies until th,
judgment day, when W. must both b,
scrutinized for our work hcalthiul or blast
ing. The worst of men In that day will
be- the minister II religion aud the editor
! u they wasted their opportunity. Both oI
us arr tho engineer oi long express train.
oi influence, and We will run them into a
depot Of light or tumble them OIL the en-.
/ bankmcnts.
What o useful life and what a glorious
departure WIS that Of ihc most famous Of
all American printers, Benjamin Franklin,
whom iniidcls IN the pcnury Of their ~.
sources have often. imudulcnily claimed
for their own, but the printer who moved
that the Philadelphia convention be- opened
with prayer, the resolution lost because a
majority thought prayer unnecessary, aud
who wrote ut the lime hc was viciously at.
tackled "My ruloisto go straight forward In
doing what appears 10 me to bc right, lcav.
ing the consequences 10 Providence aud
who wrote this quaint cpiiaph that ! hun.
drcds OF times read while living la Phila-
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