Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1896-03-23

man who will climb up without s7cb
AID into editorial power and efficiency
So do men climb up to success in other
branches by sheer grit. But if we want
learned institutions to make lawyers and
artists and doctors and ministers. we
much more need learned institutions to
make editors, who occupy a position Of
influence a hundredfold greater. do
not put the truth too strongly when I
say the most potent influence for good
on earth is good editor and the most
potent influence for evil is a bad one.
The best way to re-enfOrce and improve
the newspaper is to eudow editorial pro-
fessorates. When will Princeton or Har-
ward or Yale or Rochester lead the wav?
Another blessing Of the newspaper is
the 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 a
hundred or two years what q splendid
opportunity the historian will have to
teach the people the lesson Of this day.
Our Bancrofts got from the early news
Newsletter, 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 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
q teapot, and Paul Revere's midnight
ride, and Rhode Island rebellion, and
South Carolina nullifaction. But what
field for the chronicler of the great fu-
ture when he opens the files of a hun
dred standard American newspapers,
giving the minutiae 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 assassinat-
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. F"
Front Wheel of the Lords Chariot.
Once more I 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-an 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 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 viii be the front wheel of tho
Lord chariot l take the music OF this
day, and do not mark it diminuendo
i mark it crescendo. A pastor on
Sabbath breaches to few hundred, or a
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 Christianize the printing
press
When l SEQ 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 i'll our civilization. So 1 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 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 newspa-
per. She opened it and read an adver-
tlsement which announced that she had |
become heirass to a large property and
that fragment of a newspaper lifted |
her from pauperism to affluence. And |
do not know but as the thread of time |
unrolls and unwinds little further |
through the silent yet speaking newspa-
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 to shore
Till suns shall rise and set no more.
Manning r. Shank1and.
Manning r. Shankland, who died a