Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1897-12-04

regiments and brigades and show Us III
what direction that divinely disciplined
host is marching and let us know what
victories for God and righteousness they
will win. The Christianized printing
press is to do in our time on large
scale what the battering ram did in old
en- time on smaller scale. That old
war machine was a stout timber, hung
by chains to beam supported by posts,
aud many men would lay hold of the
stout timber and swing it backward and
forward until, getting under full mo-
mentum, it would strike into awful
demolition the wall besieged. God grant
that all of us who have anything to dc
with the mighty battering ram of our
century, the printing press, may be
clothed of God with especial strength
and oneness of purpose and that, having
pulled it back for one mighty assault,
we may altogether rush it forward,
crushing into everlasting ruin the last
wall of opposition and the last fortres:
of iniquity
The Inkhorn at Judgment.
And now let all of us who are con
nected with either secular or religion:
journalism remember that we will be
called into final account for every WORD
we write in editorial or reportorial OF
contributors column-for every type
we set, for every press we move, and
for the style of secular or religious
newspaper we patronize or encourage
In Ezekiels prophecy the angel of God,
supposed to be Christ, appears with ar
inkhorn hung at his side as an attor
ney's clerk in olden time had an ink
: horn at his side. And / have no doub
the inkhorn will have an important
part in the day Of judgment-those who
have used it we'll to receive eterna
plaudit and those who have misused il
to receive condemnation.
Piled up in all the worlds printing
offices, secular and religious, are the
publications Of past years, bound VI
year by year, and in those offices they
can tell just what they printed any
day for the last 20 years, and i'll 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 ruthlessly pried in
to the secret of unhappy domestic life
and despoiled homes, come to judg
ment All those who have by the per
assassinated character, come to judg
ment. All those who have had anything
to do with salacious and depraved liter
allure, come to judgment. All those
who have produced pictures admins
trative of vice, come to judgment. NJ
one will then dare say, II knew it wa
not true, and l only intended it for {
joke" or, II had to make my living
and the paper that I worked for pait
me in proportion to the startling nature
of the stuff 1 prepared, +" or, Il correct
ed the falsehood in the next ISSUE" or
II felt my power in the editorial chair
having opportunity to address such mul
titudes week by week, and wanted tx
keep the church and the world in ave-
of me. " On that great day of judgmen
all the power we have had on eartf
will be insignificant compared with thu
power that will pronounce our rapture
or our doom, and that which nigh
have been considered joke in thu
composing room," because it humil
lated an enemy, will be no joke at al
amid the wreck of mountains and seas
ard the inkhorn will there tell of al
we wrote anonymously and under thu
impersonality of a newspaper, as well a
that which was signed with our OWL
name. But what beautiful day for {
Frances Havergal, when she gets re
warded for all the kind things she eve.
wrote with the tears of her invalidism
or when the authors and authoresses O.
all lands and ages are told how many
came to heaven through their instru
mentalities, and for all those who us'
the influence of the press to correct The
errors and extirpate the wrongs ant
break the serfdom of mankind!
Letter of Kindness.
Then the inkhorn by the side of thu
angel of the new covenant will speal
out and tell of what it had to do will
all letters of kindness written, with al
emancipation proclamations, with all ed
itorial and -eportorial eulogies of th'
good, with all the messages of salvation
to lost world. Better in that day viii
it be to have set up the type for one
line of Christian encouragement or writ
ten one paragraph of useful sentimen
or published one page of helpful truth
t(lan to have written books as big a.
Gibbons five large volumes concerning
1.-THE Decline and. Fall of the Roman
Empire if these volumes put Christian
ity ct disadvantage, or as brilliant al
Voltaires "Discourses Upon Man. il
they inculcated injurious theories, or az
rhythmic as Byron don Juan" ii il
sacrificed tho decenoies. On that day
the flying rcll which Zechariah Of the
text saw thousands of years ago and the
rolls which we see flying over all oul
towns and cities and flying from the
swiftest printing presses that were eve,
invented will be found to contain mes
cages divine or satanic. Not only the
inkhorn which Ezekiel saw, but all the
inkhorns, will come to judgment. "An6
I saw the dead, small and great, stano
before God, and the books were opened. y
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