Connecticut western news., 1898-02-24

this world and the next Oh, men of the newspaper press, you sometimes get sick of this world, it seems so hollow and rnsatisfying If there are my people iu all the earth that need God, you are the men, and you shall have him, if only this day you implore his mercy.
 A man was found at the foot of Canal street, New York. As they picked him up from the water and brought him to the morgue they saw by the contour of his forehead that he had great mental capacity. He had entered the newspaper profession. He had gone down in health. He took to artificial stimulus. He went down further and further, until one summer day, hot and hungry and sick and i'll despair, be flung himself off the dock. They found in his pocket re- porter pad, a lead pencil, photograph of some one who had loved him long ago. Death. as sometimes it will, 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 ho left his country home and they bade him good by forever The world looked through the window of the morgue aid said It's nothing but all outeast, but God said it was gigantic soul that perished because the world gave him no chance.
 Let me ask all men connected with .he printing press that they help ns more and more in the effort 10 make the world better. 1 charge you in the name of God, before whom you must acconnt for the tremendous influence you hold in this country, to consecrate yourselves 10 higher endeavors You are the men to fight back this invasion If corrupt liter ature. Lift up your right hand and swear new allegiance to the cause If P ilanthropy and religion. And when at last, standing on the plains of judg ment, you luok out upon the unnum- bered throngs over whom you have had influence, may it be found that you were among the mightiest energies thae 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 decided the destinies of em' pires, but decided them wrong, that you had been some dungeoned exile who, by the light of window iron grated, on scraps of New Testament leaf, picked up from the earth, spelled out the story of him who taketh away the sins of the world. In eternity Dives is the beggar. We'll my friends, we will all soon get through writing and printing and proof reading and publishing. What then? Our life is 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 perora tion. o God, where will we spend it? Have you heard the news, more star tling than any found in the journals of the last six weeks? It is the tidings that man is lost. Have you heard the news, the gladdest that was ever announced, coming this day from tho throne of God, lightning couriers leaping from the palace gate? The news-the glorious news-that there is pardon for all guilt and comfort for all troublet Set 1t up in double leaded columns and direct it to the whole race.
 Acknowledgements to the Secular Press.
 And now before I close this sermon, thankfully commemorative of the 1.-Two Thousandth" publication, l wish more fully to acknowledge the services ren- dered by the secular press In the matter of evangelization. All the secuIsr news of th ing this morning 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 ques- tiuns of the past, present and future. There is not single doctrine of theol- ogy 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 news. paper will be the right wing of the Apocalyptic 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 is diminuendo-I mark it crescendo. A pastor on Sabbath breaches to few hundred or few thousand people, and on Monday CT during the week the printing press will take tho same ser mon and preach 1t to millions of people, God speed the printing press God save the printing press! God Christianize the printing press!
 When see the printing press stand ing 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 of newspapers, pronounce it the mightiest force in our civilization. So I commend you to pray for all those who manage the newspapers of the land, for all type. settlers, for all editors, for all publish. CTS, that, sitting or standing in positions of such great influence, they may give all that influence for God and the bet terment of the human race. An aged woman making her living by knitting unwound the yarn from the ball until she found in the center of the ball there was an old piece of newspaper. She opened it and read an advertisement which announced that she had become heiress to a large property, and that fragment of a newspaper lifted her up from pauperism to affiuence. And do not know but as the thread of time un. rolls and unwinds a little farther, through the silent yet speaking news paper may be found the vast inheritance of the worlds redemption.
 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.
 AIR RESISTANCE.