The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1897-12-03
The Inkhorn at Judgment.

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The Inkhorn at Judgment.
And now let all Of us who are con-
nected with either secular or religious
journalism remember that we will be
called into final account for every word
we write in editorial or reportorial or
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.
La Ezekiel's prophecy the angel of God,
supposed to be Christ, appears with an
;nkhorn hung at his side as an attor-
ney's clerk in oldon time had an ink
horn at his side. And | have no doubt
the inkhorn will have an important
part i'll the day of judgment-those who
have used it we'll to receive eternal
plaudit and those who have misusGd it
to receive condeH nation.
Piled up i'll all tie worlds printing
offices, secular and religious, are tho
publications Il past years bound up
year by year, and i'll those offices they
can tell just what they printed any
day for the last 20 years, and III 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 Ifs
and despoiled homes, come to judg-
ment. All those who have by the pen
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. No
one will then dare say, 81 knew it was
not true, and l only intended it for
joke, D." or, Il had to make my living, |
and the paper that l worked for paid
me in proportion to the startling nature
of the stuff prepared" or, II correct
ed the falsehood i'll the next issue" or,
Il felt my power in the editorial chair,
having opportunity to address such null
titudes week by week, and / wanted to
keep the church and the world in awe
of me. " On that great day of Judgment
all the power we have had ON earth
will be insignificant compared with the
power that will pronounce our rapture
or our doom, and that which might
have been considered a joke in the
composing room," because it humil-
lated an enemy, will be no joke at all
amid the wreck of mountains and seas,
ard the inkhorn will there tell of all
we wrote anonymously and under the
of newspaper, as well as
that which was signed with our own
name. But what beautiful day for a
Frances Havergal, when she gets re-
warded for all the kind things she ever
wrote with the tears of her invalidism;
or when the authors and aSthoresses of
all lands and ages are told how many
came to heaven through their instru-
and for all those who use
the influence of the press to correct the
errors and extirpate the wrongs and
break the serfdom of mankind
Letter of Kindness.
Then the inkhorn by the side of the
angel of the new covenant will speak
put and tell of what it had to do with
all letters of kindness written, with all
proclamations, with all ed
torial and reportorial eulogies of the
good, with all the messages OF salvation
10 lost world. Better in that day will
{ be to have set up the type for one
inc of Christian encouragement or writ
zen one paragraph of useful sentiment
IF published one page of helpful truth
han to have written books as big as
five large volumes concerning 1
The Decline and Fall of the Roman |
Empire" if these volumes put Christian (