Ceredo advance. [volume] (Ceredo, W. Va.) 1885-1939, 1901-03-20
euracy of its historical statements

SuStaihtu as IHc government mas
been by all the churches, j would
utter nothing which might in the
least appear invidious against any.
Yet without this IL 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 10 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 oblitcrated from his mind the inf
del literature. William Carey became
missionary by reading THE Voyages
of Captain Cook John Wesley's
life was shaped by reading Jeremy
Taylor's "IIoly Living and Dying"
There arc books in your library or "
ing on your parlor table or secrcted
IN some place by your child that will
decide for two worlds, this and the
next. the character of its reader.
Through books we sit down and talk
with the mightiest spirits of all the
ages. We accompany Tennyson on his
spring-time walk as he falls upon his
knees in the meadows, crying TO his
companion: 'Violets, man, violets!
Smell them" Or we ride with Ira ian
in his triumphal march. or stand with
Godfrey at the taking of Jerusalem, or
with arctic explorer hear the crash
of the icebergs, or are received with
fernando Cortes in the halls of
Montezuma, or watch in the observa-
tory as Herschel with his telescope
captures another star, or the ink i'm
the lnkhorn turns red as blood and
we are at Marengo and Arbela and
Eylau and Borodino and Leipsic; or
we sail with Hamilcar from Carthage
to Palermo, or we see Calico fighting
for the solar system. and around as
gather for conversation Aristotle and
Plato and Robert South and Sydney
Smith and Locke and Samuel Rogers
and Chauccr and Paul Richter and
Swift and Hazlitt and Leigh Hunt and
Talleyrand and Burke and Edward
Irving, while to make music for us
Handel and Mozart and Mendelssohn
come in, and we watch Columbus land
ing and see John Harvard's legacy of
1900 paid over for the founding of
harvard university, and Joshua Rev
nolds and David Wilkie and Rem
brandt tell us of their pictures. Oh,
the books! Thank God for the books,
and thanks be to all the authorsl
May the lnkhorn ever be under divine
inspiration.
y wrong theory is abroad that the
newspaper 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 volume of 500 pages
makes such impression upon the peo-
pie as the daily newspaper. 1t is not
what we put away carefully upon the
| shelf and once in awhile refer to tina b
| has as close relation to our welfare
as the story of what the world is
now doing or has recently done. Yes
terday has more to do with TODAY
than something occurring century
previous. The engineers who now
-
who now command the ships, the ar
chitects who now design the build
ings, the batons that now control the
orchestras, the legislators who now
make the laws, the generals who now
march the hosts, the rulers who now
govern the nations, the inkhorns that
now flood the world with intelligence
these are what we have most to do
with.
You have all seen what is called
indelible ink, which is a weak -olu-
tlon OF silver nitrate, and that ink
you cannot rub out or wash out.
Put it there, and it stays. Well. the
liquid of the editorial and reportorial
inkstands is an indelible ink. 1t puts
upon the souls of the passing gener-
atoms characters of light or dark
ness that time cannot wash out and
eternity cannot efTace. Forever in
delible. BE careful how you use it.
The impression made with II will be
resplendent CT repulsive on the daS
for which all other days were made.
But how shall speak or the ink
horn of the worlds evangelization g?
Oh. how may loving and brilliant and
glorious pens have been dipped into
it! Thomas 81 Kempis dipped into IT
and brought up his Limitation of
Christ Horace Bushnell dipped into
IL and brought up Every Mans Life
Plan of Cod" Thomas Binnev
dipped into it and brought up his
weigh House Chapel Discourses. -
Conybcare dipped into il and brought
up the Life and Epistlcs Of Paul"
Archbishop Trench dipped into il and
brought up the "Epistlcs to the Seven
Churches" Stuart Robinson dipped
into il and brought up "Discourses of
Iiedcmption.' Austin Phelps dipped
into it, and brought up "Thc Suu
Hour Mary Hopkins dipped into H.
and brought up Evidences Of Chris
tianity.' Thomas Guthrie dipped
into IL and brought up "Thc Gospel IN
Ezekiel John Cumming dipped into
IL and brought mp Tho APOCALYPSE