Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1896-03-23

les which turned Boston haroor INTO
tea-not and Paul Revere's midnight
ride, and Rhode Island repellioh' anu
South Carolina notification.
BUT WHAT A FIELD
for the chronicler Of the great future
when he opens the files OF hunureu
standard American newspapers, giving
the minutiae Of all things occurring un-
der the social, political, eccleslasUicaI,;
international headings! Five hundred
years from now, if the world lasUs SO
long. the student loking for stlrrihg'
decisive history will pass by the misty
corridors of other centuries ana say 10
the libraries: Find me the volumes
that give the century in which the
American Presidents were assassinated,
the Civil War enacted, and the cotton
Gin. the steam locomotive, the tele-
graph. the electric pen, the telephone,
and cylinder presses were invented.
Once more | remark, that a good
newspaper is a blessing as an eVangel-
istic influence. You know there is
great change in our day taking place.
All the secular newspapers Of the day
for l am not speaking now OF the re-
ligious neWspapers-all the secular
newspapers of the day discuss all the
questions OF God. eternity and the dead,
and all the questions of the past. pres
ent and future There is not single
doctrine of theology but has been dis
cussed in the last ten years by the sec
ular newspapers of the country. They
gather ND all the news of all the earth
bearing on religious 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 print
ing press will be the front wheel of the
Lords chariot. I take the music OF the
day. and do not mark it diminuendo-
I mark It 'orescendo A pastor on a
Sabbath breaches to few hundred, or
a few thousand people, and on Monday
or during the week, the printing press
viii take the same sermon and preach
it to millions of people. God speed the
printing pressi God save the printing
press! God Christianize the printing
press!
When / see the printing press stand
ing with the electric telegraph on one
side gathering up material and the
lightning express train on the other
side waiting for the tons of folded
sheets of newspapers, / pronounce it
the mightiest force in our civilization.
So commend you to pray for all those
who manage the newspapers Of the
land for all type settlers, for all report
ers, for all editors. for all publishers
that, sitting or standing in positions Of
such great influence. they may give all
that influence for God and the better
ment of the human race. An aged wo-
man 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 advertise
ment which announced that she had be-
come heiress to a large property and
that fragment of newspaper lifted her
from pauperism to affluence. And I do
not know but as the thread of time I'M
rolls and unwinds a little further,
through the silent yet speaking news
paper may be found the vast inherit
ance 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.