Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1901-03-04

can printing press was clergyman,
Rev. Jesse Glover, and that was q
prophecy of the religious use that the
gospel ministry in this country were to
make of the types.
Again, we shall secure the secular
press as a mightier reinforcement of
religion and the pulpit by making our
religious utterances more interesting
and spirited, and then the press will re-
produce them. On the way to church
some so years ago a journalist said a
thing that has kept me ever since
thinking, Are you going to give US
any points today?" what do you
mean?' 1 asked. He said, Il mean by
that anything that will be striking
enough to be remembered" Then l
said to myself, "What right have we i'll
our pulpits and Sunday schools to take
the time Of people if we have nothing
to say that is memorable? David did
not have any difficulty in remembering
Nathans thrust, Thou art the man,
nor Felix in remembering PauPs point
blank utterance on righteousness, tenn
perance and judgment to come, nor the
English king any difficulty in remem-
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| when during the sermon against sin
| the preacher threw his handkerchief
! into the kings pew to indicate whom
| he meant.
Ally of Christian Work.
| The tendency of criticism in the theo-
| logical seminaries is to file off from our
young men all the sharp points and
make them too smooth for any kind of
execution. What we want, all of us, is
more point, less humdrum. If we say
the right thing in the right way, the
press will be glad to echo and re-echO
it. Sunday school teachers, refOrmers,
young men and old men in the minis
try, what we all want if we are to
make the printing press an ally in
Christian work is that which the re-
porter spoken of suggested points,
sharp points, memorable points. But
if the thing be dead when uttered by
living voice it will be q hundredfold
more dead when it is laid out in cold
type.
Now, as you all have something to
do with the newspaper press, either in
issuing a paper or in reading it, either
as producers or patrons, either as sell
erS or purchasers of the printed sheet
l propose on this Lords day treaty to
be signed between the church and the
printing press, treaty to be ratified
by millions of good people if we rightly
fashion it, treaty promising that we
will help each other in our work of try
ing to illumine and felicitate the world,
we by voice, you by pen; we by speak
ing only that which is worth printing,
you by printing only that which is
fit to speak. You help US, and we will
help you. Side by side be these two
potent agencies until the judgment day,
when we must both be scrutinized for
our work, healthful or blasting. The
two worst off men in that day will be
the minister of religion and the editor
if they wasted their opportunity. Both
of us are the engineers of long express
trains of influence, and we will run
them into a depot of light or tumble
them off the embellishments.
What Il useful life and what a glCri-
Gus departure was that of the most ia
nous of all American printers, Benja-
min Franklin, whom infdelS in the
perjury of their resources have often
fraudulently claimed as their own, but
the printer who moved that the Phila-
delphia convention be opened with
prayer, the resolution lost because q
majority thought prayer unnecessary,
and who wrote at the time he was vi
ciOusly attacked, My rule is to go
straight forward in doing what APP
pears to me to be right leaving the
consequences to Providence" and who
int CHI Il ie.
hope of resurrection, an epitaph that |
hundreds of times read while living in
Philadelphia:
1.-THE body Of Benjamin Franklin,
Printer dixie the cover Of an old book,
its contents torn out and stripped of its
lettering and gilding), lies here food for
worms. Yet the work itself shall not
be lost, for it will Gas he believed APP
pear once more in a new and more
beautiful edition, corrected and amend
ed by the Author"
Scofer Remained to Pray.
That Providence intends the profess
sion of reporters to have a mighty share
in the worlds redemption is suggested
by the fact that Paul and Christ took
a reporter along with them, and he re-
ported their addresses and their acts.
Luke was reporter, and he wrote not
only the book of Luke, but the Acts of
the Apostles, and without that report
er's work we would have known moth
ing of the Pentecost, and nothing of
Stephens martyrdom, and nothing of
Tabitha's resurrection, and nothing of
the falling and unjailing of Paul and
Silas, and nothing of the shipwreck at
Melita. Strike out the reporters work
from the Bible, and you kill a large
part Of the New Testament. It makes
me think that in the future Of the king