The Nicodemus cyclone. [volume] (Nicodemus, Graham County, Kan.) 1887-1888, 1888-06-29

right, leaving the consequences to Prov,
dence,'' and who wrote this quaint epitaph
an epitaph that | had hundreds OF
times read while living in Philadelphia:
The Body
Benz amin Franklin. Printer
Like the cover of an old book.
And stripped Of its Ieft tEi and gldng)
/ Lies here food for worms.
Yet the work itself shall not he lost.
= For 1t will tae he believed appear once more
& -- And more Beautiful edition.
Corrected and amended
The Author.
That Province intends the profession OF re-
porters to have mighty share in the world .
redemption is suggested by the fact that Paul
and Christ took a reporter along with them
and he reported their address and reported
their acts. Luke was reporter and be 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 Tabithas resurrection,
and nothing of the falling and unjaiiing OF
Paul and Silas, and nothing Of the shipwreck
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 re-
pOrters are to bear a large part.
About thirteen years ago a representative
Of an important newspaper took his seat in
this church, ONO Sabbath night about five
peWs from the front of this pulpit He took
out pencil and reporters pad resolved to
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 deride the ser
mOn But, he says for some reason. his
hand began to treIublA and he rallying him
Sb n
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
newspaper work he is an evan gellst and hires
hall at his own expense anGl every Sabbath
afternoon breaches Jesus Chr ist 10 the peo-
pie. And the men of that prO esslOn are go
ing to come in a body through nut the cOun-
try. / know hundreds of them and more
genial or highly educated class OF men it
would be hard to find, and, though the ten
dency of their profession may be towards
skeptlclsm, an organized, comm lOn-sense,
Gospel invitation would fetch then to the
front of all Christian endeavOr. Ne II 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 IA one
the printing press are by the thousand grOL nd
under the cylinders, you want God to ia. Ike
care OF you and your families. Some of yonr
best work is as much unappreciated as was
MiltOn's Paradise Lost, for which the author
received TWEEN y-tive dollars; and the immor-
tai poem 'HohenlInden" of Thomas Camp
bell when he first offered it for publication
and in the column called ''NOtices to Cor
respondents" appeared the words:
ITO 7. C.-The lines commencing ION
Linden when the sun was low are not
up TO our standard. Poetry is not L. C.'s
forte
O men of the pencil and pen, amid your
unappreciated work you need encourage
ment and you can have it. Printers of all
ChristendOm, editors, reporters, compositorS,
pressmen, publishers and readers of that
which is printed, resolve that Won will not write
set up, edit issue or read anything that de-
bases body mind or soul. In the name OF
God, by the laying on of the hands of faith
and prayer, ordain the printing press for
and liberty and salvation All
of us with some influence that will help in
the right direction, let us put our hands to
the work implOrng God to hasten the con-
summation. 4 ship with hundreds of pas
sengers approaching the South American
coast, the man on the lookout neglected his
work and in few minutes the ship would
have been dashed to ruin on the rocks. But
a cricket on board the vessel that had made
no sound al the voyage set up q shrill call
at the smell OF land, and the captain know
ing that habit of the insect, the vessel was
stopped in time to avoid awful wreck.
And so, insignificant means now NAV do
wonders and the scratch of pen may save
the shiDWreclI of soul.
Are you all ready for the signing of the
contract, the league. the solemn treaty pro-
posed between journalism and Evangelismf
Ave, let it be 4 Christian marriage Of the
pulpit and the printing press. The Ordina-
ton of the former on my head, the pen of the
! 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 kingdoms ba
! Ohcdient, mighty God to thee;
\ And over land and stream and main,
Now wave the sCCptrc of Thy reign.
o. let that glorious anthem swell
Let host to host the triumph tell,
TIL not one rebel heart remains,