Milford chronicle., 1901-03-22

menU mas been Dy an the cnurcnes. l
would utter nothing which might in the
least appear invidiOus against any. Yet
without this it may fairly be said that
the Methodist Episcopal church. not less
devoted than the best. is by its great
numbers the most important Of all. 1t
is no fault in others that the Methodist
church sends more soldiers to the field.
more nurses to the hospital and more
prayers to heaven than any. God bless |
the Methodist church--bless all the |
churches-and blessed be God who in this |
our great trial giveth us the churches"
What great thing it was that the |
Christian books which Mr.. Lincoln read |
obliterated from his mind the inidel lit
erature! William Carey became a mis-
sionary by reading The Voyages Of Cap
tain Cook" John Wesley's life was shap-
ed by reading Jeremy Taylor's Holy
Living and Dying" There are books in
your library Or lying on your parlOr table
or secreted in some place by your child
that will decide for two worlds, this and
the next. the character of its reader.
While passing, as in parenthesis. ! ad
wise: Read books Of poetry. that the bells
in your soul may be set a-chming Read
history. that you may know how wrong
doing in time comes to defeat and right
eOusness to victory. Read books Of law
1 that you may see that anarchy has no
/ right in world so precisely governed
+ Read books Of wit and humOr, that you
may experience the healthfuness of
4 laughter. Read books of religion. thai
you may appreciate how small is the YES
Thule Of time compared with the palaces
, of eternity.
The influence OF Books.
Through books we sit down and talk
with the mghtiest spirits of all the ages
We accompany Tennyson on his spring
time walk as he falls upon his knees ia
the meadows, crying to his companion:
'Violets. man. violetsl Smell them" Or
we ride with Trajan in his triumphal
march, or stand with Godfrey at the tax
ing Of Jerusalem. or with arctic explorer
hear tie crash Of the icebergs or are re-
ceived with fernando COrtPs in the halls
of Montezuma, or watch in the Observa
tory as HerscheI with his telescope cap
lures another star. or the ink in. the ink
horn turns red as blood, and we are at
Mareng0 and Arbela and Eylau and
BOrOdinO and Leipsic; or we sail with
Hamicar from Carthage to Palermo, or
we see Galilei fighting for the solar sys-
TEN. and around us gather for cOnversa-
ton Aristotle and Plato and Robert
South and Sydney Smith and Locke and
Samuel Rogers and Chaucer and Paul
Richter and Swift and Hnzlitt and Leigh
Hunt and Talleyrand aud Burke and Ed
ward Irving. while TO make music for us
Handel and Mozart and MendelssOhn
come in, and we watch Columbus land
IL. j -
600 paid over for the founding of Har-
ward university. and Joshua Reynolds
and David Wilkie and Rembrandt tell US
of their pictures. Oh. the books. Thank
God for the books. and thanks be to all
, the authors! May the inkhOrn ever be
under divine inspiration.
? When a bad book is printed you do well
to blame the publisher. but most Of all
r blame the author The malaria rose from
J his inkstand. The poison that caused the
J moral or spiritual death dropped in the
! fluid from the tip of Lis pen. The manu-
e facturer of that ink could tell you that il
: is made of tannin and salt Of iron ant
: nutgalls and green vitriol but many al
3. author has dipped from his inkstan,
q hypercriticsm and malPvolence ant
y Islander and salaciOusness as from fOun
e tain of death. But blessed be God 70
e the authors inkstand in 10000 studie
s which are dedicated to pure intelligence
II highest inspiration and grandest pur
IL pose. They are the inkstands out o
+ which will be dipped the redemption o
the world The destroying angels wit
their swords seen in Ezekiel's vision wi
at be finally overcome by the merciful angt
W with the writer's inkhorn.
Ia Among the most important are the cd
pi tOrial and reportOrial inkstands. TIL
re- thick ink on the printers roller is dill
NJ ierent from the ink into which the write
fe dips his pen and is compounded of lii
Of seed oil and lampblack and made thic
in by boiling or burning. But the editOri,
~ and repOrtOrial pens are responsible Il
,i that which the printers ink roller in
b, presses upon the flying sheets. Whei
d one man reads a book. 5000 men read
by newspaper What change of opinion
~ regard to the printing press since Il
y day when the great Addison wrote co
1; corning it. Zone cannot but be sorry thi
b, such a perniciOus machine is erect,
il among them" and when. under the reil
n OF Charles IL. only one newspaper, Il
N London Gazette was allowed to
id printed, and that only on Mondays al
'S Thursdays. Not until the judgment da
~ when the forces which haze influence
' the world shall be compared and a
f,,i bounced, will be known the power of t
'ba modern newspaper. With it's telephoT
-, and telegraphic annexes, all the wOl
~ twice day passes in review. The ma
n, ner in which continental and internatiC
al events are put before us makes de
&c; impression. We gaze on all the C
nv fagrations and watch the pursuit of
,ar the desperadoes and hear the crash
vii all the collisions and rejoice in all
or, discoveries and thank God for all
moo noble achievements. After the editor
4, i corrected the last proof of his editor
,oc and the reporter has put into form
con last stenographic report Of swift utt
NJ ance or announced in best form so
MOI great munifcence or sketched in NJ
ms fOrceful style some brave rescue by
mol men or lifebOat, he has a right to
nse home feeling that he has done someth
the worth doing, something that his c
rom science will approve and God will blei
I'M Newspaper Impressions.
ca A wrong theory is abroad that
hieh newspaper impression is ephemeral.
wer cause we read and cast it aside in
and hour and never see it again we are no
judge that we are parted from its il
ence. No volume of 800 pages ms
,psi. such impression upon the people as
the daily newspaper. 1t is not what we