Orange County observer. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1880-1918, 1901-04-04

ADlsh aAoe Of Reason" and it so infu.
enced him That he wrote an essay agalnse
Gchr;s+;an;tv. But afterward some Chrls-
~ ~ hooLs came into his hands gio-
r;auslv changed his mind and MADE MN
nost ardent friend of the Bible n a man
nf nraver A letter in Mr.. Lincoins owr
handwriting is in my house, tne ELI - y
response to some resolutions Rasseu 10y
Methodist conference. saying: IN Te .sIpo -
w. vo,,r address allow me to attest the az
curacv of its historical statements IN
dorse the sentiments it expresses anu
tbanik Won in the nations name tor 1ne
S',ra nromise it gives. Nobly sustained as
the Government has been by. all me
churches, I would utter nothing WnreH
might in the least appear invldlous a ". hs
any. Yet without this it may larry oe
sa;d that the Methodist Episcopal
Chm Church. not less devoted than the best
IL hv it's great numbers the most I'M
nortant Of all. It is no fault in others
int the Methodist church sends more
soldiers to the. field, more nurses TO tne
hospital and more prayers to heayen
than any. God bless the M Mef b1essed
be God, who in this. our great 1rlai' srV
eth us the churches"
Christian books which Mr.. Lincoln read
ohliterated from his mind the infidel
literature! William Carey became q
missionary by reading 1.-The voyages o.
Captain Cook" John Wesley,s S 91sv1 was
SHIfpIr Living and Dying" T::ere are
books in your library or lying on your
parlor table or secreted in some place by
yyo1Ir child that will decide for two worlds,
this and the next, the character OF us
reader. o..
When a bad book is printed, you do well
to blame the publisher, but most OF all
blame the author. The malaria rose from
his ;nkstand: the poison that caused the
moral or spiritual death dropped IN th
f~acturer of that ink could tell you that
is made OF tannin and salt of iron and nu
| gals and green v%itriol, but many an autho
has dipped from his inkstand hyper
| criticism and malevolence amid SANDER
and salaciousness, as from a fountain OF
death.
Among the most important are the edi-
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 day whep 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
| Judgment 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 and
brought up "The Gospel In Ezekiel" Joht
Cumming dipped into it and brought up
1.-The Ap9Ssalypse;" Oh 4, the p1puleA 10 Of
streams of evangelistic power that have
poured from the writer's inkhorn that ap'
peared in Ezekiers visic1!
} While you recognize the distinguished
ones who have dipped into the inkstand
of the worlds evangelization do not for
get that there are hundreds of thousands
of unknown men and women who are en-
same thing. How many anxious mothers
writing to the boys in town! How many
sisters writing encouragement to brothers
far away! how many invalids bolstered
up in bed, the inkhorn on the stand al
their side, writing letters of coincidence
to those worse off thar themselves! They
are flying all the time kind words, gsspe
words, helpful words. saving words.
Call the evangelistic inkhorn into sera
ice in the early morning. when you fec
we'll, and you are grateful for the protee
ton during your sleeping hours. and writ
before you retire at close of day to thost
who all night long will be saying, "Woulo
to God it were morning." How many
bruised and disappointed and wrongee
cnrYJc Df no~Eh r,,@,,1I ho -1Nl - ~o% 1@@
ter from you! Stir up that conso!atory
inkhorn.
All Christendom has been waiting fol
great ~revivals of religion to start from
the pulpist and prayer meetings. I nov
suggest that the greatest revival of al
time may start from a concerted and or
ganized movement through the inkhorn!
Of all Christendom, each writer dippin,
from the inkhorn nearest him a letter O
gospel invitation, gospel hope, gospel warn
ing. gospel instruction. The ink is al
ready on a hundred thousand tables, ant
beside it are the implements with which
to dip it out. Why not through sucl
process have millions of souls brought t,
God before next summer? By letter 20,
could make the invitation more effective
than by word of mouth. The invitation
from your lips may be argued back, ma.
evoke querulous reply, may be answered
by a Joke, but a good. warm, gospel letter
written in prayer, and started with prayer
and followed by prayer, will be read owe
and over again n cannot be answered i
a frivolous way.
Within arms reach of where you S,
there may be a fluid that you may put o.
wing with message of light and love. Oh
for the swift flying angel of mercy whicl
Ezekiel saw in vision with a writer's ink
horn by his side"
The other angels spoken of in my tex
were DESTROYING angels, and each ha,
what the Bible calls a ~"slaughter wear
tleax or a sword. God hasten the tim
when the last lance shall be shivered, an,
the last battleax dulled, and the las
sword sheathed, and the angel of the text
who Matthew Henry says was the Lor
Jesus Christ, shall from the full inkhor
OF Ills mercy give a saving call to all ns
tons. Ihat day may be far off, but it
helpful to think of it's coming. :
AS DR.. Raleigh declared that when thi1
I ty-slx miles at sea off the coast of Ne,
, England the cattle on board the ship a
well as himself scented the clover on til
: New England hills, s ' we amid all the tosa
4 ing waves of the worlds controversies II
3 hale the redolence of the white lilies :
E universal peace.
If our Bible is true-and no other hoo
r that was ever printed is as true as thu
+ book, which Moses began and job
. hnlshed-then the time will come when a
q the weapons of cruelty will stop. and II