Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1898-09-15

tory, and Hamilton's duel, and Wash
ington's death, and Boston massacre,
and the oppressive foreign tax on lux
uries which turned Boston harbor into
a teapot. and Paul Revere's midnight
ride, and Rhode Island rebellion. and
South Carolina nullifaction. But what a
field for the chronicler of the great fu-
ture when he opens the files OF u nun
dred standard American newspapers.
giving the minutiae of all things occur
ring under the social, political, ecclesi-
astical. international headings! Five
hundred years from now, II the world
lasts so long, the student looking for
stirring. decisive history will pass by
the misty corridors of other centuries
and say to the libraries. Find me the
volumes ,ha! give the century III which
the American presidents were assasslnat-
ed, the civil war enacted and the cot
ton gin, the steam locomotive and tele-
graph and electric pen and telephone
and cylinder presses We're invented.
I Front Wheel of the Lords Chariot.
Once more | remark that a good
newspaper is IA blessing as an evangelist
change i'll our day taking place. All the
secular newspapers of the day-for am
not speaking now of the religious news
papers-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 fu-
ture. There is not a single doctrine OF
theology but has been discussed in the
last ten years by the secular newspapers
of the country. They gather up all the
news of all the earth bearing on reli-
gious subjects, and then they scatter the
news abroad again.
The Christian newspaper will be the
right wing of the apocaiyptic angel. The
cylinder of the Christianized printing
press will be the front wheel Of the
Lords chariot. take the music of this
day, and do not mark it diminuendo
Il mark it crescendo. A pastor on a
Sabbath breaches to few hundred. or q
few thousand people. and on Monday,
or during the week, the printing press
will take the same sermon and preach II
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
with the electric telegraph on the one
side gathering up material, and the
! lightning express train ON the other side
waiting for the tons of folded sheets Ol
newspapers, pronounce it the mightiesl
force in our civilization. So l commend
you to pray for all those who manage
the newspapers of the land, for all type
settlers, for all reporters, for all editors
for all publishers, that, sitting OF stand
ing in positions of such great influence
they may give all that influence for Goo
and the betterment Of the human race
/ An aged woman making her living by
knitting, unwound the yarn from the
ball until she found i'll the center OF the
ball there was an old piece of newspa
! per. She opened it and read an adver
tisement which announced that she haG
| become heiress to u large property anC
that fragment of newspaper lifted
| her from pauperism to affluence. And
1 do not know but as the thread of time
| unrolls and unwinds n little further
through the silent yet speaking newspa
| per may he found the vast Inheritance o.
the worlds redemption.
4 Jesus shall reign where er the sun
Does his successive journeys run,
His kingdom stretch from shore to shore
Till suns shall rise and set no more.