Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1888-06-23

has besn tho pen. and the most divinely hon
orcd weapon of the future will be the pen;
prophets pen and evancestS pen and apoS-
ties pen followed by eiitor's pen aud re-
porter's pen and authors pen. God save the
pen The wing of the Apocalyptic angel will
roll ahca1 of Christ's chariot to clear the way
But" some ono might ask, would you
make the Sunday newspapers also Il re-en.
forcement" Yes would. have learned
to take things rs they are. | would like to
see the much Scolred Mt old Puritan SabhuthS
come back again. do not think tho modern
Sunday will turn out any better men and
women than were your grandfathers ana
grandmothers under the old-fnshioned Sun
day. To say nothing of other results, sun
day newspapers are killing editors, reporters
compoSitorS and pres anon. Every man,
woman and child is entitled to tworty-folr
hours of nothing to do Ii tho newspapers
put on another so5 OF hands that do:S not
relieve the editorial and reporter al room OF
its cares and responsibilities. Our literary
men dio fast enough without killing them
with Sunday work. But the Sunday news
paper has come to stay. 1t will stay
good deal longer than any of us STAY What,
then. shall we do. 1mplore all those Who
have anything to do with issuing it to ill 1T
with moral or religious information; live
sermons and facts clevatinc. Urge Thorn
stead thereof have COOL u lvico as to how
husbands an wives ougs,t to live lovingly
together Put in small type the behavior OF
tho swlntlling church member and IN large
tyDe tho contribution of soma Christian man
toward an asylum for feeble minded children
ora seaside santarium. Urge all managing
editors 10 put III sarueSs and impurity III type
pelrl or agate and charity aud fidelity and
Christian consistency in brewer or bour-
geoiS. II we cannot drive out the Sunday
newspaper let us have the Sunday newspaper
converted The fact is that the modern@Sun-
day newspaper is great Improvement on
tho Old Sunday newspaper. What u beastly
thing was the Sunday newspaper thirty years
ago! 1t was enough TO destroy mans re-
sDectahiity to leave the tip end OF 1t stick
ing out of his coat pocket What editorials!
What advertisements, What pictureS The
modern Sunday newspaper Is as much an
Improvement on the oil time Sunday news
paper rs one hundred is more than twenty
five in other words, about a. per cent inn
provement. Who knows that by prayer and
kindly consultat on with or Literary friends
we NAV have it lifte,l into positively re-
ligouS Sheet printed on Saturday night and
only distributed, like the -lnscricut ll"sss'-
ger. or the Missionary Journdi, or the Sltn
da.i School 1drocate, on Sihbath mornings
All things are possible with God,
and my faith is up until nothing
in the way of religious victory would sur
prise me- All the newspaper printing
presses of the earth are going 10 be the
Lords. and telegraph aud telephone and
type will yG3 announce nations born III day.
The first hook ever printed was the Bible by
Faust and his sonn.law, Schoctler in 1tG0.
aud that conservation OF type to the Holy
Scriptures was prophecy of the great ms.
sion of printing for lhe evanseization Of all
the nations. The father of the American
printing press was a clergyman, Rev. Jesse
| Glover, and that was 4 prophecy OF the re-
ligiouS lis, that the Gospel ministry IN this
country were to make the types.
Acain. we shall secure the secular press us
mightier IL enforcement of religion and the
pulpit hy making our religious uttcranceS
more interesting and Spirited. and then the
press will reproduce them. On the way &c
church some fifteen years ago, Journalist
snil thing that has kept me ever since
thinking. "Are YOU going to give lis any
points today What do you mean.' l
asked. He SAID: Il mean hy That anything
that will be striking enough to be renem-
bered" Then said to myself: What right
! have we in DIR puJpts and Sunday.schools TO
fake the tiine OF people if we have nothing to
saw that is memorable. David did not
have any difficulty i'll membarlnG Nathan
thrust: Thou art the man; nor fetiX
in remembering Paul's point blank utter.
Cllct OIL Il5ulcQuouSSS, ici'p-is 'it~N s.'sN
Judgment to CONF: nor the Engli,h King
any difficulty in remembering what the
court preacher said, when during the SER
mon against sin the preacher threw his hand
lerchieF into the kings pew to Indicate whom
he meant. The tendency OF criticism Ill the
theological Summaries is to Tile oil from our
Young men all the sharp Joints and make
them too smooth for any kind of execution.
What we want all of Us, is more point, less
bumdrum. II we say the right thing in the
rirht way the press will be glad to echo anu
re.ccho it. Sabbath S hoo teachers s'eforlsi
ers, Young men and old msp':: the ministry,
what we all want IF We are to make the
printing press AZ ally i'll Christian work Is
that ,.h.cl the reporter spoken OF suggested
points. sharp points, memorable points
Ent if the thing he dead when ;-.t:red by
living voice, it will be hundre1fold more
dead when it is laid ont in cold type -.
Now. as You all have something TO do WITH
the newspaper press either in Issuing paper
or in rea.ling it. either as producers or pa
irons. either as sellers or purchasers OF tho
printed sheet. propose ON tltls oanoatu
morning, June II, 1885, treaty to oe sSneu
between the church and the printing press
treaty to be ratified by millions OF goou peo-
ple il we rightly fashion it, treaty proinls.
iing that we will help each other in our work
of trying to ilumine AMI fellcitaeo IHe
world, we by voice, you by pen, we pY
Speaking only that which is worth print
ing, YOU by printing only that which IS
fit TO sneak. You help us and we VIII help
YOU. Side by side be these two potent agencies
| until the Judgment Day, when we must ooth
be scrutnized for our WORK, healCntut OF
| blasting. The two worst of ineu IN thai
day will be the minister of religion ana the
editor if they wasted their opportunity.
/ Both of us are the engineers OF long express
trains OF influence, and we will run INTO
depot of LIGHT or tumble them of the emf
| banEment.
What a useful lifo and what glorious de,
parture was that of the most famous of all
American printers Benjamin Franklin
whom inlidels in the renury OF their re-
sources have often frauduent!y claimed lor
| their own, but the printer who moved tnat
i ths Philadelphia contention he opened VIII
PRAYER, the resolution lost because a ma
iority thought prayer unnecessary, ana VINO
wrote at the time lie was viciou'ly attacEed;
"My III is to go straight forward IN dong
what appears to me to be right, leaving the
consequences to Providence, and who wro'e
this quaint epitaph showing his hope OF re-
direction. an epitapa that l hundreds OF
times read while living in Philadelphia:
| The Body
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN, Printer
| Qikc the cover Of an old book
Its contents torn out
And strpt of It's lrticrin. and gliding,
Lies here food for worms.
Yet the work itself shall not be lost,
For it vii! las he believed appear once moro
In Il new
| nd moro beautiful edition,