The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1896-03-26

tumble into other occupations, but II would
be an inoaiculable advantage II those pro.
posing q newspaper life had an institution
TO which they might go TO learn the aualifl-
cations. the responsibilities, the trials, the
temptations. the dangers. the magnificent
| opportunities OF newspaper life. Let there
DC lectureship In which there shall appear
| the leading editors Of the United States
| teiiing the story OF their struggles, their
victories. their mistakes. how they worked
and what they found out TO be the lest
way of working. There will be strong
men who viii climb up without such aid
into editorial power and efficiency. SO do
men climb up to success In other bran shes
by sheer grit. But five want learned insti-
tutions TO make lawyers and artists and doc
tors and ministers, we much more need
learned institutions to make editors, VIII,
occupy position OF influence n hundredfold
greater do not put the truth too strongly
when | say the most potent influence for
good on earth Is n good editor and the m st
potent influence for evil is a bad one. Tho
best way to re-enforco and improve the news-
papers Is 10 endow editorial professorates.
when will Princeton or Harvard or Yalo or
Rochester lead the way2
Another blessing of the newspaper Il the
foundation II lays for accurate history ofthe
time in which we live. We for the most part
blindly guess about the ages that antcdate
the newspaper and are dependent upon the
after hundred or two years what splen-
did opportunity the historian will have TO
teach tho people the lesson OF this day. Our
Bancrofts got from the early newspapers Of
this country. from the Boston Newsletter,
the New York Gazette, and The American
Rae BhR, aud Royal Gazetteer and Indepen-
dent Chronicle, and Massachusetts Spy, and
the Philadelphia Aurora, accounts Of Perry's
victory, and Hamiltons duel, and Wash
ingtons death, and Boston massacre,
and the oppressive foreign tax on luxuries
which turned Boston harhor into q teapot,
and Paul Reveres midnight ride, and Rhode
Island rebellion, and South Carolina nuli-
ncWion. tBut what field for the chroniccr
OF the great future when he opens the illes Of
hundred standard American newspapers,
giving the minutia Of all things occurring un-
der the social, political ecclesiastical. In
ternational headings Five hundred years
from now, II the world lasts so long. the
student looking for stirring. decisive history
viii pass by the misty corridors OF other cen-
turies and say to the libraries: Find mo
the volumes that give the century In which
the American Presidents were assassinatei,
the Civil War enacted and the cotton gin, the
steam locomotive and telegraph and electric
pen ani telephone and cylinder presses wero
invented" "
Once moro | remark that good nevs-
paper Is q blessing as an evangelistic In
huence You know there Is u great change
In our day taking place. All the secular
newspapers OF the day-ior I AN not speak
Ing now Of the religious newspapers all the
secular newspapers Of the dav discuss all the
questions OF God. eternity and the dead. and
all the questions Of the past, present and
future. There Is not single doctrine OF
theology but has been discussed In the last
ten years by the secular newspapers Of the
country They gather up all the news Of all
the earth bearing on religious subjects and
then they scatter the pews ABROAD RgalN
Tho Christian newspaper will be the right
wing OF the apocalyptic angel. The cylinder OF
the Christianized printing press will be the
front wheel Of the Lords chariot. | tako
The music OF this day, and DO not mark II
diminuendo--I mark II crescendo. pas
tor on a Sabbath breaches to u few hundred.
or few thousand people. and on Monday,
or during the week, the printing prcss will
take the same sermon and preach II to MILL
Ions OF people. God speed tho printing
press God save the printing press God
Christianize the printing press!
When ] see the printing prcss standing
With the electric telegraph on tho one side
gathering the material, and the lightning
express train on the other side waiting for
the tons Of folded sheets OF newspaper, pro-
.nounce 4 the rlig,stieyt force in our civiliza-
tion. SO ! command you 20 pray for all
those who manage the newspapers OF the
land, for all tyresetters, for all reporters, Tor
all editors, for all publishers, that. sitting
or standing in positions OF such great inilu-
ence, they may give all that influence for
God and the hotterment of the human race.
An aged woman making her living by
knitting. unwound the yarn from the
ball until she found In the centre Of the
ball there was an old pie,e Of newspaper.
She opened 1t aud read an advertisement
which announced that she hal become
helress TO u large property, and that irng-
ment OF newspaper lifted her from pau
purism 10 aiIlucnce. And do not know but
us the thread OF tipe unrolis and unwinds n
little further through the silent yet speaking
newspaper may be found the vast inncri-
tance of the worlds redemption.
Jesus shall reign whereer the sun
Does his successive journeys run,
Ills kingdom stretch from shore TO shore
Till suns SHALL rise AMI set no more