The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1897-12-11


they can stand it better than we.
once gave seven dollars to hear Jenny
Lind sing; | never will give cent
10 near man groan. Up with the
blinds and throw back the shutters,
ana let the morning light come in.
lhere Is not so much religion in the
danpness OF a cellar as in the breath
OF an apple orchard in blossom week.
What u victory David got over himself
wheh he closed the Psalms with six
chapters of Praise We the Lord" say
ing 1t over and over again, until, in
any other book, it would have become
monotonous. If in our .liaries, and
our family records. and our religious
newspapers we would write two honest
catalogues, the one a catalogue of
blessings, and the other a catalogue of
troubles, the former would be five
times larger than the latter.
Pray for the religious newspapers of
America, because Of the fact that, il
they have the right spirit, each one
does as much good as five, or so, or 200
churches. What are the 500 or 4, 900
people making up a Sabbath audience
compared with the 10. 600, or 80. 900, or
100000, that the religious journal ad-
dresses? Such journals are pulpits
that preach day and night. They reach
weekly those who, through invalidism,
or through indifference, never enter
churches. They reach people in their
quietude, when their attention is not
distracted, as in church, by the fine
millinery that appeals to the eye, or
the rustic of attire that attraets the
ear. twill always be our DUTY, and
our privilege, not TO forsaieNthe as
sembling of ourselves together, but
believe the consecrated printing press
is the chief agency under God TO save
the world
And now, let all of us who are con-
'nected with either sccul lar or religious
journalism remember that we will be
called into final account for every
word we write in editorial or reporto-
rlnl, or contribu tors column forevery
type we set, for every press we move,
and for the style of secular or re gio us
newspapers we patronizc or encourage.
In EzeIiiel's prophecy the Angel OF God,
supposed to be Christ appears with an
ink-horn hung at his Side, as an attor-
ney's clerk in oldcn time had an ink.
horn at hi, side. And | have no doubt
the inll-horn will have an important
part in the day of judgment. Those
who have used it well to receive etcr.
ma plaudit. and those who have mis-
used it to receive condemnation.
Piled in all the worlds printing
offices, secular and religious, are the
publications, of past years, bound up
year by year; and in those offices they
can tell just what they printed any day
for the last 20 years; and in the great
day of Judgment all that we have ever
written or printed will be revealed
from the mighty volumes of eternity.
All those who have ruthlessiy
pred into the secret OF un-
happy domestic life and dcspoiled
homes. come to Judgment!
All those who have had anything TO
do with salacious and depraved litera.
ture. come TO judgment! All those
who have produced pictures admins.
trative OF vice, come to judgment! No
one will then dare say: Il knew il
was not true and | only intended it
for a joke or, Il had to make my liv.
g,aud the paper that worked for paid
me in proportion to the startling ma.
ture Of the stuff | prepared" or. II
corrected the falsehood in the next is
sue" or, Il felt my power in the edi-
torial chair. having opportunity to adj
dress such multitudes week by week.
and wanted to keep the chu rch aud
the world in awe of me-" On that
great day of Judgment all the power
we have on earth will be insignificant
compared with the power that will pro-
nounce ourrapture or ourdoom and that
which might have been considered a
Joke in the composing room" because
it Inundated an enemy, will be no JOKE
at al amid the wreck OF mountains and
seas; and the inil-horn will there tell
Of all we wrote anonymous and under
the personality of a newspaper, as we'll
as that which was signed with our
own name. But what beautiful
day for Frances lavergal, when
she gets rewarded for all the kind
OF her invalidisu; or when the authors
and authoresses of all lands and ages
are told how many came to Heaven
through their Observation-Disclosures; and
for all those who use the influence OF
the press To correct the errors, and ex-
tirpate the wrongs. and break
the serfdom of mankind! Then
the nk-horn by the side of the
Angel of tho New Covenant will
speak out and tell of what it
had TO do with all letters of kindness
written. with all emancipation procla-
nations. with all editorial and repor-
torial eulogies of the good, with 1.-THE
messages OF salvation to II lost world.
Better in that day will it be to have
set up the type for one line of Chris
tan encouragement, or written one
paragraph of useful sentiment, or pub
lished one page of helpful truth, than
/ 10 have written books as big as Glib
/ bon's five large volumes concern
| ing The Decline aud Fal! OF
| th,. Roman Empire" If these volumes
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