The Canton times. (Canton, Miss.) 1893-1906, 1896-04-03

pers Of this country, from the Boston
News Letter, the New York Gazette
and the American Rag Bag and koya
Gazetteer and Independent Chronicle
and Massachusetts Spy and the Phii
adelphia Aurora, accounts Of Perry,'
| Victory, and Hamilton's duel
and Washington's death, ano
Boston massacre, and the oppressive
foreign tax on luxuries which turned
Boston harbor into teapot, and Paul
Revere's midnight ride, and hnode
Island rebellion, and South Caro-.
lima notification. But what q field
for the chronicler OF the great
future when he opens the MES
OF a hundred standard Ameri.
can newspapers, giving the minutie OF
all things occurring under the social.
political, ecclesiastical, international
headings! Five hundred years from
now, If the world lasts so long, the stu
dent looking for stirring, decisive his
tory will pass by the misty corridors
OF other centuries and say 70 the
libraries: Find me the volume that
give the century In which the Ameri-
can presidents were assassinated. 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 I remark, that q good
newspaper is blessing as an evan
gelistic influence You know there is
great change in our day taking
place. All the secular newspapers
Of the day--for am not speaking
now Of the religious 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, present and
future. There is not a single doctrine
OF theology but has been discussed in
the last ten years by the secular news
papers Of the country. They gather
up all the news of 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 4 Christianized
printing press will be the front
wheel OF the Lords chariot. I take
the music OF this day, and ] do not
mark it diminuendo-I mark it Gre
scendo A pastor on Sabbath
breaches to a few hundred, or few
thousand people, and on Monday, or
during the week, the printing press
will take the same sermon and
preach it to millions of people.
God speed the printing press!
God save the printing press! God
the printing press!
When see the printing press stand
ing with the electric telegraph on the
one side gathering up material, and
The lightning express train on the
other side waiting for the tons of
folded sheets of newspapers, | pro-
nounce it the mightiest force in our
civilization. So commend you to
pray for all those who man
age the newspapers of the land,
Tor all typesetters, for all re-
porters, for all editors, for all publish
ers, that, sitting or standing in posi-
lions of such great influence, 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 center OF |
the ball there was an old piece of |
newspaper. She opened it and read an |
which announced that |
she had become heiress to a large prop |
,rty, and that fragment of newspa-
Der lifted her from pauperism to affiu- |
,nce. And / do not know but as the /
thread of time unrolls the unwinds a
title further, through the silent yet |
speaking newspaper may be found the
vast inheritance of the world S redemp-
ion.
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.