The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1900-05-04
4 TRIBUTE TO NEWSPAPERS.
REV. DR.. c. S. BLAcKWeLi'S ABLE
SERMON LAST SUNDAY NIGHT.
Pronounced Newspaper offices Schools
of Unselishness-Free Work Done
Day and Night for the Betterment
Of the Community-Striking Similar
tiles OF Life and Type Setting.

tI the SlmlllaT- /
titles OF Life and Type Setting.
AT the First Baptist church last |
Sunday night Rev. Calvin s. Blackwell.
ID. D.. delivered a sermon which has
Ielicited numerous and very high con-
lpliments. Indeed il is pronounced one
of the most beautiful, unique and
really powerful sermons ever delivered
in Wilmington.
The Making Of Books-Printers.
Photographers and Newspaper Men" was
the theme, the leading text being Eel.
12:12-"The making of Many books
there is no end" Other texts sighted
were Second Peter. 1:21. and Second
Cor, 3:S.
detailed report of the sermon such as
1t ~bundant deserves, but the follow
ing brief synopsis will be read with
interest:
God is the greatest book-maker. on
tables OF stone, he engraved with his
own finger the Ten Commandments.
lOn the wall of BelshaZzar's palace he
wrote the doom of the mighty empire
of gold.
Through sixteen hundred years he
Icall to his aid some forty or more edi-
tors, reporters, amormenses, from the
pillow handles, sheep-folds, fisherman
boats, thrones, school rooms, profess
Isional cares and battle fields TO write
the sixty-six books of the divine libra
ry. God for its author, men for It's
writers, and redemption of the whole
world for its object.
God was careful to select the best
fitted tongues to convey the divine
message. The Hebrew is marked by
majesty and solemn grandeur. Lofty
learnestneSSe, sublime prophecy, noble
lpSalms fit naturally into the cadences
iof the Hebrew-of all others the tongue
of religion.
When the larger revelation of the
New Testament needed a vehicle, the
more euphonious flexible Greek was
laid under contribution. 1t was the
Language of passion and the compass
sion of God had to find ut france.
"As the notions multiplied and ex-
tended, and increased their tongues,
God needed a more rapid means of
multiplication of his message than the
ltranscriber'S pen. Hence 1440 Gutten-
burg invented the movable ype. God
lclaimed the type for his own, and
caused the first book to be printed TO
be His Bible. Though other books fall
like autumn leaves from the presses OF
the world, many disappear almost as
QUICKLY.
CATACOMBS OF DEAD BOOKS.
"Of all the books written in the sew
Ienteenth and eighteenth centuries
centuries of marked literary activity
fewer than Gle hundred are now In
print. The shelves of the great libra
ries are the catacombS of dead DOCKS.
IOf the thousands of books coming from
the press every year not one out of five
hundred ever reaches the second edi-
ton.
1.-THE ecumernical conference of mis-
Isionaries now assembled in New York
from every quarter of the globe tell us
that Gods book was never so sought
and so freely read by the peoples OF
the earth who speak three hundred and
nifty tongues and dialects in which
the Scriptures are now published. IL Is
the only book of universal circulation.
mo other book has ever commanded the
time and sacrifice as has God s book.
The telegraph is put under contri-
button to distribute Gods word. When
the new version appeared in 1881 the
lentire New Testament was telegraph
ed from New York to Chicago. No
other book was ever SO honored in the
history of the world.
VALUE OF NEWSPAPER TO COM
MUNTTY.
Book makers and printers are the
star lighters of the world. The print
lilS Il 10 SlioOl
sity for the brightest intellects of every
age. From the case Ben. Franklin,
Horace Greeley, James Gordon Ben
nett, ST., Whitelaw Reid and others
have been graduated to take first places
among the worlds leaders.
"A newspaper office is a school OF
Iunselfshness. No other class serves a
community so we'll and too often fol-
so little pay, either in cash or apprec1-
alton. Every day n night the news
!, paper is doing free work for the gen.
Ieral betterment of the community. II
a lawyer was called upon bX the city
authorities to do for the city the same
amount and no more valuable writ,
ling than that which every newspapers
/ does free every day, the charge would
Ibe $50 or more. If the newspapers were
Ito cease for a week it would be as daTE
land lonesome as if the fall of an eclipse
5 lowered us, and Wilmington would be
l Ito the outside world practically as
) Though she were not.
l ISIMILITUDES OF LIFE AND TYPE
, SETTING.
: Life is made up of the aggregate OF
? the Titles. One by one the words
: deeds, thoughts are picked out Of oul
:, near surroundings. These form the
l sum total of our being after awhile
Two sets of 'cases'-Eower and upper
!, are before us, filled with the vices
= dIld lIC We Noh Jul LOESS
! I'VE make up Duty or Dissipation a.
:. we like.
. The takes are unfairly distributed
lsome claim. One says ] get the hard
while the other gets the fat The com
planners are always grumbling against
our Great Foreman because they wer.
not born m~illionaires. Though they
have not deserved the air they breathe
the food they eat and garments they
wear, still they murmur against VIVA
they term God discrimination against
them.
Follow Copy is the irrevocabls
rule God has given US the copy, life, in
his Son-'follow me- is the only way tt
keep from showing up dirty proof.
For whoever refuses the Son Of Cod
las his pattern life will 500 make
bad showing.
Correcting Proof is repentance
We can do this or this side of death
before the forms are locked up. HAPPY
lis the heart that takes it's own trial