Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1896-03-27

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learned institutions to make lawyers and
artists and doctors and ministers, we
much more need learned institutions to
make editors, who occupy position OF
influence "a hundredfold greater. do
not put the truth too strongly when l
say tho most potent influence for good
on earth is a good editor and the most
potent influence for evil is bad one.
The best way to re-enforce and improve
the newspaper is to endow editorial pro-
fessorates. When will Princeton or Har-
ward or Yale or Rochester lead the way?
Another blessing Of. the newspaper is
tge Foundation it lays for accurate his
tory Of the time in which We live. We
for the most part blindly guess about
the ages that antedate the newspaper
and are dependent upon the prejudices
Of this or that historian. But after
hundred or two years what splendid
opportunity the historian will have to
teach the people the lesson Of this day,
Our Bancrofts got from the early news
papers of this country, from the Boston
News Letter, the New York Gazette,
and The American Rag Bag, and Royal
Gazetteer and Independent Chronicle,
and Massachusetts Spy, and the Phila-
delphia Aurora, accounts Of Perry's vic
tory, and Hamilton's duel, and Wash
ington's death, and Boston massacre,
and the oppressive foreign tax on lux
uries which turned Boston harbor into
teapot, and Paul Reveres midnight
ride. and Rhode Island rebellion, and
Soutb Carolina nullifaction. But what
field for the chronicler Of the great fu-
ture when he opens the files of a hum
dred standard American newspapers,
giving the minptie Of all things occur
ring under the social, political, ecclesi'
astical. international headings! Five
hundred years from now, If the world
lasts so long, the student looking for
stirring, decisive history will pass by
the misty corridors Of other centuries
and say to the Libraries, Find me the
volumes that give the century IN which
the American presidents were assasslnat-
ed, the civil war enacted and the cot
ton gin, the steam locomotive and tele-
graph and electric pen and telephone
and cylinder presses were invented
Front wheel Of the Lords Chariot,
Once more ! remark that a good
newspaper is blessing as an evangelist
ic influence. You know there is a great
change in our day taking place. All the
secular newspapers of the day-for am
not speaking now of the religious news
papers-all the secular newspapers OF
the day discuss all the questions Of
God, eternity and the dead, and all the
questions Of the past, present and fu-
ture. 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 reli-
gious subjects, and then they scatter the
news abroad again.
The 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. take the music OF this
day, and do not mark it diminuendo
i mark it crescendo. A pastor Oh a
Sabbath breaches to few hundred or
few thousand people, and on Monday
or during the week, the printing press
will take the same sermon and preach 1t
to millions Of people. God speed the
printing press God save the printing
press! God Christianize the printing
press
When I see the printing press standing
with the electric telegraph on the one
side gathering up material, and the
express train ON the other side
waiting for the tons Of folded sheets OF
newspapers, pronounce it the mightiest
force in our civilization. So l commend
you to pray for all those who manage
the newspapers of the land, for all type
settlers, for all reporters, for all editors,
for all publishers, that, sitting or stand
ing in positions Of such great influence,
they may give all that influence Tor God
and the betterment Of the human race
An aged woman making her living by
knitting, unwound the yarn from the
ball until she found in the center Of the
ball there was an old piece Of newspa-
per. She opened it and read an adver-
tisement which announced that she had
become heiress to large property and
that fragment Of a newspaper lifted
her from pauperism to afhuence. And
do not know but as the thread Of time
unrolls and unwinds little further
through the silent yet speaking Dewspa-
per may be found the vast inheritance Of
the worlds redemption.
Jesus shall reign where'er the sun
Does his successive journeys run,
His kingdom stretch from shore 10 shore
Till suns shall rise and set no more.