The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-02-21

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stenograph, or by the doctrines they dis
cuss in the editorial columns? The
world looks upon them as professional.
Who breaches to reporters and editors?
Some of them came from religious homes,
and when they left the parental roof who
ever regarded or disregarded, they came
off with a fathers benedction and
mothers prayer. They never think of
those good old times but tears come into
their eyes, and they move through these
great cities homesick. On if they only
knew what helpful thing it is for a man
to put his weary head down on the bosom
of sympathetic Christ! He knows how
nervous and tired you are. He has
heart large enough 10 take in all your in
terests for this world and the next. Oh,
men of the newspaper press, you some
times get sick of this world, it seems so
hollow and unsatisfying. If there are
any people in all the earth that need God,
you are the men, and you shall have him,
II only this day you implore his mercy
A man was found at the foot of Canal
street, New York. AS they picked lin
up from the water and brought him TO the
morgue. they saw, by the contour of his
forehead, that he had great mental capac-
ity- He had entered the newspaper pro
fession. He had gone down in health. He
took to artificial stimulus. He went down
further and further, until one summer
day, hot and hungry aud sick, and In de-
spair he flung himself off the dock. They
found in his pocket a reporters pad a
lead pencil, photograph of some one
who had loved him long ago. Death, as
sometimes it viii, smoothed out all the
wrinkles that had gathered prematurely
on his brow, and as he lay there his face
was as fair as when, seven years before,
ne left his country home and they babe
him goodby forever. The world looked
through the window of the morgue and
said IT'S nothing but an outcast;" but
God said 1t was gigantic soul that per-
ished, because the world gave him no
chance.
Let me ask all men connected with the
! printing-press that they help us more and
more in the effort to make the world bet
| ter. L charge you in the name of God, be-
fore whom you must account for the ire
mendous influence you hold in this coun-
! try, to consecrate yourselves to higher en-
/ deavors. You are the men to fight back
! this invasion of corrupt literature. Lift up
| your right hand and swear new allegiance
to the cause of philanthropy and religion
! And when, at last, standing on the plains
| of judgment, you look out upon the I'M
| numbered throngs over whom YOU have
! had influence, may it be found that you
/ were amongst the mighJiest energies that
/ lifted men upon the exalted pathway that
! leads to the renown of heaven Better
| than to have sat in editorial chair, from
| which, with the finger of type you de-
! cIded the destinies of empires but decided
! them wrong, that you had been some dun
| geoned exile, who, by the lig.-- of window
| iron-grated, on scraps of a New Testa-
! ment leaf, picked up from the earth SPELL
/ ed out the story of him who taketh away
| the sins of the world. In eternity, Dives
| is the Beggar! Well my friends, we will
/ all soon get through writing and printing
/ and proof-reading and publishing What
| then? Our life is a book Our years are
| the chapters. Our months are the para
graphs. Our days are the sentences Our
doubts are the interrogation points. Our
! imitation of others the quotation marks
/ Our attempts at display a dash Death
the period. Eternity the peroration. O
| God, where will we spend it? Have YOU
/ heard the news, more startling than any
/ found in the journals of the last six
weeks? 1t is the tidings that man is lost
! Have you heard the news, the gladdest
that was ever announced, coming this dey
! from the throne of God, lightning courlars
! leaping from the palace gate? The ne vs.!
| The glorious news! That there is pardon
for all guilt and comfort for all trouble.
| Set 1t up in "double-leaded" columns and
direct it to the whole race.
And now before | close this sermon.
thankfully commemorative of the 1.-TWO
| Thousandth" publication, 1 wish more
! fully to acknowledge the services rendered
by the secular press in the matter of evan
geization All the secular newspapers
| of the day-for | am not speaking this
morning of the religious newspapers-all
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 future. There is not a sin
/ gle doctrine of theology but has been dis
cussed in the last ten years by the secu-
lar newspapers of the country. They
gather up all the news of all the earth
| bearing on religious subjects and then
they scatter the news abroad again. The
Christian newspaper win be the right wing
of the apocalyptic angel The cylinder
of the Christianized printing press will be
the front wheel of the Lords chariot. I
take the music of this day. and L do not
mark It diminuendo-t mark it crescendo
A pastor on Sabbath breaches to a few
| hundred or few thousand people. and on
! Monday, or during the week, the printing
! press will take the same sermon and
preach 1t to millions of people. God
speed the printing press! God save the
printing press! God ChristianIze the
printing press!
When l see the printing press standing
Win thS SleCNItc telSSTapn on the one side
gathering up material. and the lightning
express train on the other side waiting for
the tons of folded sheets of newspaper. I
/ pronounce it the mightiest force in our civ
ilization. So | commend you to pray for
all those who manage the newspapers of
the land for ali typesetters, for all edi-
tors, for all publishers, that, sitting or
standing in positions of such great influ-
ence, they may give all that influence for
/ God and the betterment of the human
! race. An aged woman making her liv
! ing by knitting unwound the yarn from
The ball until she found in the center of
! the ball there was an old piece of news
/ paper. She opened It and read an adyer
/ usement which announced that she had
/ become heiress TO a large property, and
/ that fragment of a newspaper lifted her
/ up from paupersm TO ahuence And 7
I do not know, but as the thread of time
. unrolls and unwinds a little further
! through the silent vet speaking news
| paper may be found the vast Inheritance
/ of the worlds redemption
! Jesus shall reign whereer the sun
| Does his successive journeys run:
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