Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1901-03-18

encGd the world shall be compared and
announced, will be known the power of
the modern newspaper. With its tele-
phonic and telegraphic anneXeS, all
the world twice a day passes in re-
view. The manner in which continent
tai and international events are put be-
fore US makes deep impression. We gaze
on all the CONGREGATIONS and watch the
pursuit Of all the deSperadoes and hear
the crash of all the collisions and re-
joice 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 form his last stenOgraDhic
report of swift utterance or announced
in best form some great muniicence or
sketched in most forceful style some
brave rescue by f1remen or lifebOat, he
has right to go home feeling that he
has done something worth doing, some
thing that his conscience will approve
and God will bless.
A wrong theory is abroad that the
newspaper impression is ephemeraI.
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
it's 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 that
has as close relation to our welfare as
the story of what the world is now do
ing or has recently done. Yesterday
has more to do with today than some
thing occurring a century previous.
The engineers who now guide the rail
trains, the sea captains who now com
mand the ships, the architects who
now design the buildings, 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 30 do with.
The Greatest Of All.
But how shall I speak of the inkhorn
of the worlds evangelization? Oh,
how many loving and brilliant and glo-
rious pens have been dipped into it!
Thomas a Kempis dipped into it and
brought up his Limitation of Christ"
Horace Bushnell dipped into it and
brought up Every Mans Life a Plan
of God" Thomas Binney dipped into
it and brought up his '|Weigh House
Chapel Discourses." Conybeare dip
ped into it and brought up the Life
and Epistles of Paul" Archbishop
Trench dipped into it and brought up
the ''Epistles to the Seven Churches"
Stuart Robinson dipped into it and
brought up "DiscOurses of Redemp-
ton" Austin Phelps dipped 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 Cum
ming dipped into it and brought up
'"The Apocalypse" Oh, the opuIence of
Christian literature! Oh, the mighty
streams of evangelistic power that have
poured from the writer's inkhorn that
appeared in EzekiePs visiont
While you recognize the distinguish
ed ones who have dipped into the ink
stand of the worlds eVangeliZatiOn do
not forget that there are hundreds of
thousands of unknown men and wom-
en- who are engaged in incOnSpicuOuS
ways doing the same thing. How
many anxious mothers writing to the
boys in town! How many sisters writ
ing encouragement to brothers far
away. How many invalids bOlstered
up in bed, the inkhOrn on the stand at
their side, writing letters of coincidence
to those worse off than themselves!
n +Io i ind
gospel words, helpful words, saving
words. Call the evangelistic inkhOrn
into service in the early morning, when
you feel well, and you are grateful for
the protection 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
How many bruised and
and wronged souls of |
earth would be glad to get q letter
from you! Stir up that consolatory
Waiting For RevivaIs.
All Christendom has been waiting
for great revivals of religion to start
from the pulpits aqd prayer meetings.
[ now suggest that the greatest revival |!
of all time may start from a concerted /
and organized movement through the !
of all Christendom, each !
writer dipping from the inkhOrn near
est him letter of gospel invitation, |
gospel hope, gospel warning, gospel in |
struction. 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 God
before next summer? By letter you
could make the invitation more effect I
i've than by word of mouth. The invi-
tation from your lips may be argued
hack may evoke nI1erIllOlS renlV may