The Penn's Grove record., 1896-03-27

best way to re-enforce andimprove the news
papers Is to endow editorial professorates.
When will Princeton or Harvard or Yale or
Rochester lead the way2
Another blessing OF the newspaper is the
foundation 1t lays for accurate history ofthe
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 a hundred or two years what q 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 aud Indepen-
dent Chronicle, and Massachusetts, Spy, and
the Philadelphia Aurora, accounts OF Perry's
victory, and Hamiiton's duel, and WASH
ington's death. and Boston massacre,
and the oppressive foreign tax on Injuries
which turned Boston harhor into q teapot,
and Paul Revere's midnight ride, and Rhode
Island rebellion, and South Carolina nulli-
fication. But what a field for the chronicier
OF the great futu re when he opens the files OF
. hundred standard American newspapers,
giving the minutia Of all things occurring un-
der the social, political, ecclesiastical. In
ternational headingsl Five hundred years
from now, II the world lasts so long, the
student looking for stirring, decisive history
will pass by the misty corridors OF other GEN.
turtles and say to 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 and telegraph and electric
pen and telephone and cylinder presses were
invented"
Once more I remark that a good news
paper Is a blessing as an evangelistie In.
fiuence. You know there Is a great change
in our day taking place. All 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 dead. and
all the questions Of he 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 tho
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 Of 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 I do not mark 1t
diminuendo-I mark 1t crescendo. A pas
tor on a Sabbath breaches to a few hundred.
or a few thousand people, and on Monday,
or during the week, the printing press VIII
take the same sermon and preach 1t to mill
Ions OF people. dOu speou INC pruning
press! God save the printing pressl God
Christiantze the printing press!
When / see the printing press standing
with the electric telegraph on the one side
gathering the material. and the lightning
express train on the other side waiting for
the tons of folded sheets Of newspaper, l pro-
nounce 1t the mightiest force In u c~iviliza-
tion. So l command you to pray for all
those who manage the newspapers OF the
land, for all typesetters. for all reporters, fol
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 piese Of newspaper.
She opened 1t and read an advertisement
which announced that she had become
heiress to a large property, and that frag-
msnt of q newspaper lifted her from pau
perism to afiuence. And ] do not NOW but
as the thread OF tiue 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 where'er the sun
Does his successive journeys run,
His kingdom stretch from shore to shore
Till suns shall rise and set NO more.