The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1898-01-01

the mighty battering ram of our CEN
tury. the printing press, may be
clothed of God with especial strength
and oneness of purpose, and that, hav-
ing pulled it back for one mighty Ss-
sault, we may altogether rush 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 reli-
gious 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. In Ezelliers prophecy
the Angel of God. supposed to be
Christ, appears with an ink-horn
hung at his side, as an attorneys clerk
in olden time had an ink-horn ut his
side. And have no doubt the ink-horn
will have an important part In the day
of Judgment. Those who have used
it well to receive eternal plaudit,
and those who have misused it to
receive condemnation.
Piled up 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 90 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 ruth
lessly pried into the secrets of unhappy
domestic life and despoiled homes.
come to Judgment All those who
have had anything to do with sala-
cious and depraved literature come to
Judgment All those who have pro-
duced pictures administrative of vice.
come to Judgment No one will then
dare say: 81 knew it was not true,
and only intended it for q jokes" or,
81 had to make my living, and the
paper that 1 worked for paid me in
proportion to the startling nature of
the stuff prepared" or, 81 corrected
the falsehood in the next issue" or, II
felt my power in the editorial chair,
having opportunity to address such
multitudes week by week, aud
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 insignifi-
cant compared with the power that
will pronounce our rapture or Onr
doom, and that which might have
been considered a joke in the ''eom-
posing ROOM" because it humillated
an enemy, will be no joke at all amid
the wreck of mountains and seas; and
the ink-horn will there tell of all We
wrote anonymously and under the i'm
personality of q newspaper, as well as
that which was signed with cur own
name. But what beautiful day for
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
authoresses of all lands and ages are
told how many came to Heaven
through their instrumentalities; and
for oil those who use the influence of
the press to correct the errors, and
extirpate the wrongs, and break the
serfdom of mankind! Then the ink
horn by the side of the Angel of the
New Covenant will speak out and tell
of what 1t had to do with all letters of
kindness written, with all emancipa-
tion proclamations, with all editorial
and reportorial eulogies of the good,
with all the messages of salvation to .
lost world.
On that day the flying roll Zecha-
riah of the text saw thousands
of years ago, and the rolls which we
see flying over our towns and cities,
and flying from the swiftest printing
presses that were ever invented, viii
be found to contain messages divine
and satanic. Not only the ink-horu
which Ezekiel saw, but all the ink
horns will come to judgement. "And
/ saw the dead, small and great, stand
before God; and the books were
opened"