The Penn's Grove record., 1901-03-22

taCtlfbT VI llldt luh CDulu tell you lDaI 1t
is made Of tannin and salt of iron and nut
calls and green ~vitriol, but many an author
has dipped from his inkstand hyper
criticism and malevolence amid SANDER
and salaciousness, as from a fountain of
death.
But blessed be God for the authors ink
stand in 10000 studies which are dedicated
TO pure intelligence, highest inspiration
and grandest purpose. They are the ink
stands out OF which will be dipped the re-
demption of the world. The destroying
angels with their swords seen in Ezekieps
vision will be finally overcome by the
merciful angel and the writer's inkhorn.
torial and reportorial inkstands. The
thick ink on the printers roller is differ
ent from the ink into which the writer
dips his pen and is compounded of linseed
oil and ~lampblack and made thick by
boiling or burning. But the editorial and
reportorial pens are responsible for that
which the printers ink roller impresses
upon the flying sheets. Where one man
reads a book, 5000 men read a newspaper.
What change of opinion in regard to the
printing press since the dav when the
great Addison wrote concerning it. "One
cannot but be sorry that such a pernicious
machine is erected among them" and
when. under the reign of Charles H.. only
one newspaper, the London Gazette, was
allowed to be printed, and that only on
Mondays and Thursdaysl Not until the
Judgment day, when the forces which have
influenced the world shall be compared
and announced. will be known the power
of the modern newspaper.
With its telephone and Geographic an
nexes. all the world twice a day passes in
review. The AM in which continental
and international events are put before us
makes deep impression.
We gaze on all the CONGREGATIONS and
,-,+ab, tho p,rcutt ~ all }ka ACKNOWLEDGES
and hear the crash of all the collisions and
rejoice in all the discoveries and thank
God for all the noble achievements.
After the editor has corrected the last
proof Of his editorial and the reporter has
put into the form his last stenographic re-
port OF swift utterance or announced in
best form some great munificence or
sketched il most ~forceful style some brave
rescue by firemen or lifeboat, he has a
right to go home feeling that he has done
something worth doing, something that
his conscience will approve and God will
bless.
A wrong theory is abroad that the news
paper impression is ephemeral. Because
we read and cast it aside in an hour and
never see it again we are not to judge that
we are parted from its influence. No vol
ume OF 500 pages makes such impression
upon the people as the daily newspaper.
1t is not what we put away carefully upon
lilN EAANAA NAV OlNt IA lNiSl u Niik
has as close relation to our welfare as the
story OF what the world is now doing or
has recently done. Yesterday has more
to do with to-day than something occur
ring a century previous. The engineers
who now guide the rail trains, the sea
captains who now command the ships. the
architects who now design the buildings,
the batons that now control the orches.
tras. the legislators who now make the
laws, the generals who now march the
hosts, the rulers who now govern the ma
tons. the inkhorns that now food the
world with iutelligenee-these are what
we have most to do with.
But how shall I speak of the inkhorn OF
the worlds evangelization? Oh. how
many loving and brilliant and glorious
pens have been dipped into it. Thomas a
Kempis dipped into it and brought up his
Imitation OF Christ" Horace Bushnell
dipped into it and brought up Every
Mans Life a Plan OF God" Thor-as Bin.
nev dipped into it and brought up hii
weigh House Chapel Discourses.' Cony-
beare dipped in it and brought up tht
"L.ife and Epistles of Paul" Archbishop
Trench dipped into it and brought up this
"Epistles to the Seven Churches" Stuart
Robinson dipped into it and brought up
"Diseourses of Redemption Austin
Phelps dipned into it and brought up
The Still Hour" Mark Hopkins dipped
into it and brought up Evidences of
Christianity"
Thomas Guthrie dipped into It and
brought up The Gospel In Ezekiel" John
Cumming dipped into ii and brought up
The Apocalypse" Oh. the o~pulence of
Christian lteraturei Oh, the mighty
treaWas-efye%aHgelistic power that have
poured from the writer's inkhorn that APP
peared in Ezekieis %visionl
While You recognize the distinguished
ones who have dipped into the inkstand
nj the worlds decentralization do NOT fdr- /
get that there are hundreds of thousands
OF unknown men and women who are en-
gagged in inc~onspicuous ways doing the
same thing, How many anxious mothers
writing to the boys in town. How many
sisters writing encouragement to brothers
lar awayl how many invalids boistered
| up in bed, the inkhorn on the stand at
their side, writing letters of coincidence
to those worse off than themselves! They
are flying all the time kind words, gospel
words, helpful words, saving words.
Call the evangelistie 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 consolatory
inkhorn.
All Christendom has been waiting for
great ~revivals of religion to start from
the pulpist and prayer meetings. l now
suggest that the greatest revival of all
time may start from a concerted and or
ganized movement through the inkhorns
Of all C~hristendom, each writer dipping
from the inkhorn nearest him a letter Of
gospel invitation, gospel hope, gospel warn
ing, gospel instruction. The ink is all
ready on a hundred thousand tables, and
beside it are the implements with which
to 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 lips may be argued back, may
evoke querulous reply, may be answered
by a Joke, but a good, warm, gospel letter,
and followed By prayer, will be read over
ana over again and cannot be answered in
a frivolous way.
II will speak from the table by day and
night or II pettishly torn Up, will in its
scattered fragments speak louder than
when It remained whole.
within arms reach OF where you sit
there may be a fluid that you may put on
wing with message of light and love. Oh,
i9r me swift flying angel of mercy which
EzeHlel saw in vision with a writer's ink
horn by bis side"
~ 9ther angels spoken OF IN my text
Mtfe destroying angels, and each had
what the Bible calls a Slaughter weap-
on IN his hand. 1t was a lance or a bat
TEAK or a sword. God hasten the time
When the last lance shall be shive.ed, and
me last b~attleax dulled, and the last
sword shesthed and the angel of the text.
TTho Matthew Henry says was the Lord
lesgs Christ, shall from the full inkhorn
n ms mercy give a saving call to all ma
ions That day may be far off, but it is
neipinl to think of its coming.
A Dr., Raleigh declared that when thir.
tE-sl,x miles at sea off the coast Of New
England the cattle on board the ship as
ven as himself scented the clover on the
New England hills, S we amid all the toss
nS waves of the worlds controversies in
nae the redolence of the white lilies of
universal peace
II our Bible is true-and no other book
lhal was ever printed is as true as that
GooE which Moses began and John
uhlahed-then the time will come when all
ne weapons OF cruelty will stop, and the
unNnorqs OF eyangelization will have their
way In the museums of the world the