Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1896-04-01
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best way to re-enforce and improve the news
papers Is to endow editorial professorates.
When will Princeton or Harvard or Yale OF
Rochester lead the way2
Another blessing OF the newspaper is the
foundation II lays for accurate history of the
time in which We live. We for the most part
blindly guess about the ages that ant edate
the newspaper and are dependent upon the
prejudIces OF this or that historian. But
after q hundred or two years what "a splen-
did opportunity the historian will have to
teach the 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
Rag Bag, and Royal Gazetteer and Indepen-
dent Chronicle, and Massachusetts Spy, and
victory, and Hamtton's duel, and WASH
ingtOn's death. and Boston massacre,
and the oppressive foreign tax on luxuries
which turned Boston harhor into a teapot,
and Paul Revere's midnight ride, and Rhode
Island rebellion, and South Carolina nulii-
ncation. But what field for the chronic,er
Of the great future when he opens the files OF
Q hundred standard American newspapers,
giving the minutia OF all things occurring un-
der tho social, political, ecclesiastical, in
ternational headings! Five hundred years
from now, II the world lasts long. the
student looking for stirring, decisive history
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 assassinatei.
the Civil War enacted and the cotto on gin, the
steam locomotive and telegraph and electric
pen and telephone and cylinder presses were
Invented.
Once more remark that a good news
paper u q blessing as an evangeistic in.
huenoe. You know there is great change
In our day taking place. Ali the secular
newspapers OF the day-for ! Am not speak
ing now Of the religious newspapers-all the
secular newspapers Of the day discuss all the
questions Of God, eternity and the des 1. and
all the questions Of the past, present and
future. There Is not q single doctrine OF
theology but has been discussed in the last
ton years by the secular newspapers OF this
country. They gather up all the news OF al
the earth bearing on religious subjects, and
then they scatter the news abroad again.
The Christian newspaper will be the right
wing ofthe apocalyptic angel. The cylinder OF
the Chrtstianized printing press will bs the
front wheel OF the Lords chariot. take
the music Of this day, and do not mark 1t
diminuendo-I mark it crescendo. pas
tor on a Sabbath breaches to a few hundred.
or few thousand people. and on Monday,
or during the week, the printing press will
ions 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 slde
gathering the material. and the lightning
express train on the other side waiting for
the tons of folded sheets of newspaper, pro-
nounce 1t the mightiest force in our civiliza-
ton So l command you to pray for all
those who manage the newspapers of the
land. for all typesetters for all reporters, for
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 the yarn from the
ball until she found in the centre of the
ball there was an old piece of newspaper.
She opened it and read an advertisement
which announced that she had become
heiress to large property, and that frag-
ment Of newspaper lifted her from pau
perism to affiuence. And do not know but
as the thread OF time unrollS and unwinds a
little further through the silent yet speaking
newspaper may be found the vast inheri-
tance of the worlds redemption.
Jesus shall reign whereer the sun
Does his sueeesst:s JOURNEYS run,
His kingdom stretch from shore to shore
Till suns shall rise and set no more.