The Marlboro democrat. [volume] (Bennettsville, S.C.) 1882-1908, 1901-03-29
5AdfaoY 81 its historical 5tatetAehts,,
dndorsc tho sonti tirnents. IT, Expresses


Tor tho sure promise It gives Il N obly3
Faustained as the governments hasl
becn by Sall the churches, I would
utter nothing which might iii tho
least appear inyidious against any.
Yet With ont this it may fairly be
said TINT tho Methodist Episcopal
church, not less devoted than tho
best T, Il Is sby its great numbers the
MOST thmportant Of all. It is no fault
in othcrs that tho Methodist church
sends moro soldiers to tho field, moro
nurses to tho hospital md moro
prayers to Heaven than any. God
Isblcss tho Methodist churcll--blcss NIL
tho churchcs-and blessed bo God
who in this our great trial giyeth lis
tho cllurches.n
What n great thing it was that tho
Christian books which Mr. Lincoln
read obliteratcd fromhi mind the inf
| del litcraturol William Carey became
u missionary by reading Tho Voyages
Of Captain Cook" John Wcslcy's
life was shaped by reading Jeremy
Taylor's "Holy Living and Dying"
There are books in your library or ly-
ing on your parlor tnblc or secrotcd
in some place by yonr child that will
decide for two worlds, this and tho
noxt, the character Of its reader.
Through books we sit down md talk
with tho lnightiost spirits of all tho
ngcs. We accompany Tennyson on his
spring-timc walk as ho falls upon his
knees in the meadows, crying to his
companion, "Violets, man, violetsi
Smcll them" Or we rido with Trajan
In his triumphal march, or stand with
Godfrey ut the taking Of Jorusalom, or
with arctic explorer hear tho crash
of tho icebergs, or are received with
fernando Cortcs in tho halls Of
Montezulna, or watch in tho obsorya-
tory as Hcrschcl with his telescope
| captures anothi.' ar, or the ink in
tho inkhorn turns red as blood, and
| wc arc OF Mnrengo and Arbcln and
| Eylau and Borodino and Lcipsic; or
wo sail with IIanlcar from Carthage
to Palermo, or we sec Calico fighting
for tho solar system, and around us
| gather for conversation Aristotle and
| Plato and Robert South and Sydney
Smith md Locke and Samuel Rogers
| and Chaucer and Paul Richter and
Swift md IIaZlitt and Leigh Hunt and
Talleyrand and Burke and Edward
Irving, while to make music for us
Handel and Mozart and Mcndelssohn
como in, and we watch Columbus land
ing and see John Harvard's legacy of
5000 paid over for the founding Of
Harvard university, and Joshua Key
snolds and David Nyilltio and Rem
brandt tell us Of their pictures. Oh,
the booksI Thank God for the books,
and thanks be to all tho authors!
| May the inkhorn ever be under divine
inspirationl
| a wrong theory is abroad that the
newspaper impression is ephcmeral.
Because wo read and cast it aside IN
IN hour and never see it ngain we arc
not to- judge that we are parted from
It's influence. No volume Of 500 pages
makes such impression upon tho peo-
pie rs tho daily newspaper. It is not
what we put away carefully upon tho
shelf and once in awhile refer to that
has as close relation to our welfare
Ms the story of what tho world is
now doing or has recently done. Yes
terday hns moro to do with to-day
than something occurring q century
previous. Tho engineers who now
i guide the rail trains, tho sen captains
who now command the ships, tho ar
chitects who now design tho build
4 ings, the bntons that now control the
orchestras, the Legislators who now
make the laws, the generals who nov
march the hosts, the rulers who now
4 govern the nations, the inkhorns that
now flood the world with Intelligence
these arc what we have most to do
| with. ,'5s 81
You have all seen what is called
indcliblc ink, which is q weak solu-
tion OF silver nitrate, and that ink
i you cannot rub out or wash out.
Put 1t there, and it stays. We'll, the
liquid Of the editorial and reportorial
inkstands is an indeliblc ink. IT puts
upon tho souls Of tho passing gcner-
ations characters Of light or dark
ness that time cannot wash out and
eternity cannot cfface. Forever in
delible. DO careful how you use it.
The impression made with it will be
rcsplcndcnt or rcpulsyo on the day
for which all other days were made.
But how shall speak Of the ink
horn Of the worlds evangelization ?
Oh, how may loving and brilliant and
| glorious pens havo been dipped into
It'll Thomas n Kcmpis dipped into it
and brought UP his "Imitation OF
Christ" Horace Bushnell dipped into
it and brought up EVERY Mans Lifo
Plan Of God" Thomas Binncy
dipped into it and brought up his
"Wcigh House Chapel Dscourscs.'
Conybearo dipped into it and brought
up the life and Epistlcs Of PAUL.
Archbishop Trench dipped into it and
| brought up tho "Epistlcs to the Seven
(, Churches" Stuart Robinson dipped
into it and brought up "Discourses OF
Redemption" Austin Phelps dipped
into 1t md brought up ."rhe Still
Hour" Mary Hopkins dipped into II
and brought up Evidences Of Chris
tianity." Thomas Guthrie dippet
into it and brought up "Thc Gospel il
Ezekiel" John Cumming dipped into
1t and brought up "Tho Apocalypsc.'
Oh, the opulencc Of Christian litera
turel Oh, the mighty streams Of evan
i gelistic power that have poured from
the writer's inlshorn that appeared
in EzelSiel's visionl
Whilo you recognize tho distin
guished ones who have dipped into
tho inkstand OF tho worlds evangelical
tion do not forget that there are hun
dreds Of thousands Of unknown mer
and women who arc engaged in in
conspicuous ways doing tho same
thingl How many anxious mothers
Il writing to the bows in townl How