Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1896-04-03
- Naw vort Gazette. and The American

the New York Gazette, and The American
Bag Bag, and Royal Gazetteer and lnoepen,,
dent Chronicle. and Massachusetts Spy, ana
the PHILADELPHIA Aurora, accounts OF Perry's
victory, and Hamiton's duel, and WASH
ington's death, aud Boston massacre,
and The oppressive foreign tax on luxuries
which turned Boston har5or into teapot,
and Paul Reyere's midnight ride, aud Rhode
Island rebellion, and South Carolina nulli-
fcation. But what fold for the ohronicier
of the great future when he opens the files Oh
a hundred standard American newspapers,
giving the minutia Of all things occurring I'M
der the social political, ecclesiastical. IN
ternationai headingsl Five hundred years
from now, II the world lasts so long. 9
student looking for stirring, decisive nisto J
will pass by the misty corridors OF other CEN
turies and say to the libraries "Find me
the volumes that give the century In which
the American Presidents were assassnatei,
the Civil War enacted and the cotton gin, the
steam locomotive and telegraph and electric
pen and telephone and cylinder presses were
Invented"
Once more / remark that a good news
paper Is n blessing as an evangelistlc In
fluence. You know there Is great change
in our day taking place. All the secular
newspapers Of the day-iOr | am not speak
ing now OF the religious newsDaDers-all the
secular newspapers of the day discuss all the
questions of God, eternitya and the dead and
all the questions Of The past, present and
future There Is not a 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, ana
then they scatter the news abroad again.
The Christian newspaper will be the right
wing OF the apocllyptic angel. The cylindero Oh
the Chrlstianzed printing press will be Inc
front wheel OF the Lords chariot. L take
the music of this day. md do not mark it
dimnuendo-T mark 1t crescendo. pas
tor on a Sabbath breaches to few hundred.
or few thousand people. and on Monday,
or during the week, the printing press VIII
take the same sermon aud preach 1t TO null
ions Of people. God speed the printing
press! God save the printing. presss uou
Christianizs the printing press!
When l see the printing press standinB
with the electric telegraph on the one slde
gathering the material. and the lightning
express train on the other side waiting lor
the tons OF folded sheets OF newspaper, L pro-
nounce 1t the mightiest force in our ciylilza'
ton. 50 1 command you to pray Tor M
those who manage the newspapers OF tue
land, for oil typeseiters, lot al rePot'eL9 10
all editors, for all publishers, that sitting
or standing in positions OF such great infiu-
ence. they may give all that influence for
God and the betterment Of the human race
An aged woman making her living by
knitting. unwound tho yarn from me
ball until she found in the centre Of the
ball there was an old piece of newspaper:
She opened it aud read an advertisement
which announced that she bal become
helress 10 a large property, and that frag-
ment Of newspaper lifted her from pau
perism to afluence And 1 do not know but
as The thread Of timo unrolls and unwlnds
little further through the silent yet speaking
newspaper may be found the vast innerl
lance of the worlds redemption.
Jesus shall reign where'er the sun
Does his successive journeys run,
His kingdom stretch from shore to shore
Till suns shall rise and set no more.