Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1901-03-22

than any. God bless the nd blessed
church. bless all the churches anu Val S0 civ.
be God, who in this, our grea' '''
eth us the churches" that the
What a great thing it was , t read
Christian books which Mr.. Li lha ;nidel
oblterated from his mind lh hooame a
literature! William Carey WAGES OF
Captain Cook" John WesleyS I TsvIor's
"Holy Living and Dying There ar ar
books in your library OF lying on NV v
parlor table or secreted in some pace i!
yorr child that will decide for two WORMS! 10
this and the next, the character OIL It's
reader. :,
When bad book is printed, you dc wen
to blame the publisher, but most OF az
blame the author. The malaria rose IRON ON
his inkstand; the poison that caused the
moral or spiritual death dropped IN the
fluid from the tip of his pen. Inc manu-,
facturer of that ink could tell you that u
is made of tannin and salt of iron and nut
gals and green vitriol. but many an author
has dipped from his inkstaInd hyper,
criticism and malevolence amid slahder
and salaciousness, as from FOUNTAIN o.
death. i;
Among the most important are the t eal,
torial and reportorial inkstands' me
thick ink on the printers roller IS uliet,
emf from the ink into which the writer
dips his pen and is compounded OF linseeu
oil and lampblack and made thick by
boiling or burning. But the editorial ana
renortorial pens are responsible Tor thaV
which the printers ink roller lmpresses
upon The flving sheets. Where one man
reads book. 5000 men read newspaper.
What change of opinion in regard to the
printinp press since the day when the
great Addison wrote concerning 1t, one
cannot but be sorry. that such a perniciouss
machine is erected among them, ana
when. under the reign of Charles IL only
one newspaper, the London Gazette; was
allowed to be printed, and that ony Oh
MONDAYS and Thursdays Not until the
iudqment day, when the forces which have
influenced the world shall be compared
and announced, will be known the power
OF the modern newspaper.
Thomas Guthrie dipped into It ana
brought up "The Gospel In Ezekiel" John
Cumming dipped into it and brought up
'TThe Anocalypse." Oh, the opulence or
Christian literature Oh, the mighty
streams of evangehstic power that have
poured from the writer's inkhorn that ap'
peared in Ezekieps vision! -, :,
While you recognize the distinguished
ones who have dipped into the lnkstand
| of the worlds evangelization do not Tor
| get that there are hundreds OF thousands
| of unknown men and women who are en-
| gagged in inconspicuous ways doing the
| same thing. How many anxious mothers
writing to the boys in town! How many
| sisters writing encouragement to brothers
| far away! now many invalids bolstered
up in bed, the inkborn OH the stand at
| their side, writing letters OF coincidence
| TO those worse off than themselves! They
are fying all the time kind words, gospel
words, helpful words, saving words.
Call the evangelistic inkhorn into serv;;
ice in the early morning, when you feel
well, and you are grateful for the protec-
ton during your sleeping hours, and write
before you retire at close of day to those
who all night long will be saying, Would
| to God it were morning." How many
bruised and disappointed and wronged
souls of earth would be glad to get a let
ter from you Stir up that consoatory
inkhorn
| All Christendom has been waiting. Tor
great revivals Of religion to start from
the pulpist and prayer meetings. L now
suggest that the greatest revival OF all
| time NAV start from a concerted and or
yanized movement through the inkhorns
IF all Christendom, each writer dipping
from the inkhorn nearest him letter OF
gospel invitation, gospel hope, gospel warn,
ing, gospel instruction. The ink IS all
ready on hundred thousand tables, and
beside it are the implements with whlcn
10 dip it out. Why not through such
process have millions of souls brought to
Tod before next summer? BY letter you
could make the invitation more effective
than by word Of mouth. The invitation
from your hrs may be argued back, may
evoke querulous reply, may be answered
by Joke, but good, warm, gospel letter,
written in prayer, and started with prayer,
and followed by prayer, will be read over
and over again and cannot be answered III
frivolous way. =,
Within arms reach of where you sit
there may be fluid that you may put on
wing with message of light and love. Oh,
for the swift flying angel of mercy which
Ezekiel saw in vision with writer's INK
horn by his side"
The other angels spoken Of in my text
were destroying angels, and each had
what the Bible calls slaughter weap
on" in his hand. 1t was lance or bat
tleax or a sword. God hasten the time
when the last lance shall be shivered, and
the last battleax dulled, and the last
sword sheathed, and the angel of the text
who Matthew Henry says was the LORD
Jesus Christ, shall from the full inkhorr
of His mercy give a saving call to all ma
tions. That day may be far off, but it Is
helpful to think of its coming.
AS Dr. Raleigh declared that when thir
ty-sK miles at sea off the coast of New
England the cattle on board the ship a;
well as himself scented the clover on the
New England hills, s, we amid all the toss
ing waves of the worlds controversies in
hale the redolence of the white lilies o.
universal peace.
II our Bible is true-and no other booi
that was ever printed is as true as tina
book, which Moses began and Johr
inished-then the time will come when al
the weapons of cruelty will stop, and The
inkhorns of evangelization will have thei
way. In the museums of the world thu
carbine and the cannon and the bomb vii
be kept as curiosities, and children will b,
incredulous as parents tell them that civil
lied nations once employed such instru
ments of death, and more incredulou
when told by their parents that the arm.
that killed the most men was considered
the most glorious army The red hors
of carnage that st. John saw in vision ant
the black horse of famine and the pal
horse of death. will be stabbed, and tn
white horse of prosperity and peace
mounted by the King of Kings, will Leaf
the great army with banners. Through
the convicting, converting, sanctifyin!
power of the Eternal Spirit may we al
march il that processionl Hail.. tho'
Mighty Rider of the white horse in tn
final triumph! Sweep down and sweel
by. thou Angel of the New Covenant, witt
the inkhorn of the worlds evangelization
''The mountains and the hills shall breal
field shall clap their hands. Instead o
the thorn shall come up the fir tree, ant
instead of the brier shall come. up tn
myrtle tree, and it shall be. to the Lor'
for name, for an everlasting sign tina
shall not be cut Off"