The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1897-12-02

I
when Nathaniel Wilson started his re.
ligious paper called The Recorder. O.,
when The Watchman was born In 1919
or when The Christian Register mad.
its hrst appearance In 1891. The ca.
nalboat drawn by mules on a towpatb
did well In its time. but now We pre-
fer the vestibuled limited express. Be-
cause thing is pious. II need not
therefore be dull. The printing press
may beat the Argus OF mythology. for
that fabulous being had only a hundred
eyes. while the newspaper has thous-
and eyes. and q thousand ears, and a
thousand arms. The secular nowsn,-
per gives the secular news and doc,
not pretend to give Its religious mean
ing. The religious press ought to Put
all the events of the day In compan.s5
regiments and brlgades and show H.
In what direction that dlvinely dlsci.
plined host is marching and let us
know what victories for God and
righteousness they will win. The
Christianized printing press is 10 do
In our time on large scale what the
battering ram did In olden time on
smaller scale. That old war machine
was stout timber. hung by chains to
beam supported BY posts, and many
men would lay hold OF the stout TIM
Der and swing II backward and for
ward until. getting under full momen-
tum, II would strike into awful demoli-
ton the wall besieged. God grant that
all OF US who have anything to do with
the mighty battering ram Of our CEN
tury. the printing press, may be cloth
ed OF God with especial strength and
oneness OF purpose, and that, having
pulled II back for one mighty assault
we may altogether rush IL forward.
crushing into everlasting ruin the last
wall Of opposition and the last fortress
OF iniquity.
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 o" rnnor'o-iaI
or contributors column, for every type
we BET. lor every press We move ...d
for the style OF secular or religious
newspaper we patronize or encourage.
In Ezekiel's prophecy the angel Of God.
supposed to be Christ, appears with an
inkhorn hung at his side, az an attor-
ney's clerk In olden time had an ink
horn at his side. And have no doubt
the inkhorn will have an important
part In the day Of judgment, those
who have used 1t we'll to recaiv. eter-
nal plaudit and those who have mis-
used IL To receive condemnation.
Piled up In all the worlds printing
offices secular and religious, are the
publications OF past years, bound I'D
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 ruthlessly pried in
to the secret Of unhappy domestic life
and despoiled homes come TO iudg-
ment! All those who have by the pen
assassinated character, come TO judg-
menti All those who have had any
thing to do with salacious and de-
praved literature, come TO Judgment, .
All those who have produced pictures
OF vice, come 20 iudz-
mert! No one will then dare saw II .
knew it was not true, and I only IN
tended it for a joke or Il nad %
make my living, and the paper that
worked for paid me in proportion 10
the startling nature OF the stun I pre-
pared or. II corrected the saIsehood
in the next ISSUE" or. II felt my pow
er in the editorial chair, having 1D-
20 address such muItitutes
week by week, and I wanted 10 keep
the church and the world in awe Jf
me-" On that great day ot Judgment
all the power We have had on earth
will be Insignificant compared with he
power that will pronounce our rapture
or our doom and that which might
have been considered a Joke L he
composing ROOM because il humll-
lted an enemy. will be no Joke Ii IL
imid the wreck Of mountains and seas.
and the inkhorn will there tell u all
We wrote anonymously and under the
OF newspaper, Is veil
Is that which was signed with our own
name. But what beautiful lay for
/ Frances Hayergal, when she gets re-
yarded for all the kind things she aver
wrote with the tears OF her iuvalidism.
,r when the authors and authoresses
" all lands and ages are told how
many came to heaven through their IN
and fer all those who
lse the influence Of the press 10 correct
he errors AMI extirpate the wrongs
md break the serfdom OF mankind,
Then the inkhorn by the side OF the
nigel OF the new covenant will speak
'ut and tell OF what il had to 10 with
III letters OF Kindness written. with all
proclamations. with all
ditorial and reportorial sulosiss ot
he good. with all the messages Of sal