Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1898-02-25

by the light OF window iron grated, on
scraps of Now 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.
Well, 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 dash,
death the period. eternity the perora-
ton. o God, where will we spend it!
Have you heard the news, more star
Ting 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 day from the 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 troubled Set it up
in double loaded columns and direct it
to the whole race.
Acknowledgements to the Secular Press.
And now before close this sermon,
thankfully commemorative of the 1.-TWO
Thousandth" publication, wish more
fully to acknowledge the services rem
dered by the secular press in the matter
of evangelization. All the secular news
papers of the day-for / am not speak
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-
tions of the past, present and future
There is not a 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 oil reli-
gious subjects, and then they scatter tbs
news abroad again. The Christian news
paper will be the right wing Of the
Apocalyptic angel The cylinder Of the
Chfistianized printing press will be the
front wheel Of the Lords chariot. l take
the music of this day, and | do not mark
is diminuondO-l mark it crescendo. \
pastor Oh q Sabbath breaches TO few
hundred or a few thousand people, and
on Monday or during the week the
printing press Will take tho same ser.
mon and preach it to millions of people.
God speed the printing press, God gave
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 1t the mightiest
force ia our civilization. So commend
you to pray for all those who manage
the newspapers of the land, for all type
settlers, for all editors, for all publish
ers, that, sitting or standing IN positions
of such great influence, they may give
all that influence for God and the bet
torment 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 1t and read an advertisement
which announced that she had become
heiress 10 a large property, and that
fragment Of newspaper lifted her up
from pauperism to aiiiuence. And do
not know but as the thread of time un
rolls and unwinds little farther,
through the silent yet speaking news
paper may be found the vast inheritance
of the worlds redemption.
Jesus shall reign whero'or tho sun
Does his successive Journeys run,
His kingdom stretch from -holo 10 shore
Till suns shall rise and set 10 mO!e.