The Globe-republican., 1901-03-21
TALMAGE's SERMON.
PRINTERS INK THE SUBJECT
LAST SUNDAY
Good Innuenee OF newspapers and Books
The Public Conscience Is Easily
Awakened Letter-Writins Good
Habit for the Young


Copyright. 1901 by Louis Kiopsch. n y
Washington March 17+In a new
way and from peculiar text Dr. Tai
mage dIscourses of good influences
brought to bear for the worlds i'm
provement. The text is Ezekiel TX, ,.
And one man among them was cloth
ed with linen, with a writer's inkhorn
by his side
The poem from which my text is
taken is epic, lyric, dramatic, weird /
and overpowering- 1t is more than |
Homeric or Dantesque- No one ever t
had such divine dreams as Ezekiel In |
a vision this prophet had seen wrath |
Jul angels. destroying angels. each with |
a sword, but in my text he sees a mer- |
ciful angel with an inkhorn- The re-
ceptacle for the ink in olden time was
made out of the horn of COW or a
ram roebuck. now it is made
out of metal or glass; and therefore
was called the inkhorn. as now we say
inkstand- We have all spoken of the
power of the sword, OF the power of
wealth, of the power of Office. of the
power of social influence. but today I
speak of the power for good or evil in
the inkstand. It is upon your tables,
holding a black or blue or red liquid
1t is a fortress, an armory, a gateway.
a ransom demolition. You mis-
take says some one; lit is the pen
| that has the power No, my friend
| What is the influence of dry pen2
| Pass it up and down a sheet of paper.
! and it leaves no mark 1t expresses
| no opinion. 1t gives no warning 1t
| spreads no intelligence 1t is the liquid
which the pen dips out of the inkstand
that does the work. Here and there Il
| celebrated pen. with which Declara-
ton of Independence or Magma
/ Charta or a treaty was signed has been
| kept in literary museum or national
| archives, but for the most part the
! pens, whether, of old, made out Of
| reed later of wing of bird still
| later of metallic substance, nave dis
| appeared, while the liquid which the
| pens took from the inkstand remains
| in scrolls which, if put together, would
| be large enough to enwrap the round
| world For practical, for moral, for re-
| 1igious, for eternal purposes, l speak
OF the mission of the writer's ink
| horn
Writing Old Folks Home.
o We who have with recent years set
up homes of your own, out of the new
home inkstand write often to the old
folks, if they be still living, A letter
means more to them than to us, who
| are amid the activities of life and tic
whom postal correspondence is more
than We can manage They await the
coming of the letter Undertake nc
great thing in life without their ad
vice. Old people for counsel; young
people for action Even though through
decadence they may be incompetent tt
give valuable opinions on importan
| affairs. compliment them by askins
: their counsel 1t will do them good I
will make their last days exhilarant
2 Make that home inkstand a source o
} ! rejuv enescence to those who are nea
3 the terminus of the earthly journey
| Domestic correspondence is not at
t tended to at once. The newspaper
: joining with the telegraph, bears tn
r tidings of all the neighborhood, bu
S swiftest revolving wheel of moder
= printing press and quickest fash alon
the electric wires can never do tn
d sympathetic work of the home ink
}, stand AS the mercifu1 angel of m
: text appeared before the brazen alta
e with the inkhorn at his side in Eze
) kie1's vision, let the angel of fila
II kindness appear at the affairs of tn
: old homestead
The Authors Responsibilities.
y Furthermore. the inkstand of tn
business man has its mission. Betwee
now and the hour of your demise,
commercial man, o professional maj
there will not be a day when you ca
y not dip from the inkhorn messag
rs that will influence temporal and etc
re nal destiny There is a rash youn
" man running into wild speculation an
lie with as much ink as you can put @
"a the pen Al one time you may save hi
d life. On the next street there is
IS young man started in business VIII
IN through lack of patronage or mistai
1t in purchase of goods or want of adapt
b. ton, is on the brink of collapse. o.
IN line of ink from your pen will save hi
IN from being an underling all his Ii
ne and start him on a career that will W
sic him fortune which will enable hi
ct to become an endower of libraries,
Id opener of art galleries and builder
ch churches
n Furthermore. great are the respo
n sibilities of the authors inkhorn- 4
the people, nearly all the peoDl
read and that which they read decid
their morals or immora1S, their pro
nd Perity or failure. their faith the
=. unbelief, their purity or corruptio
pi, ther heaven u heli- oho" me =
-, ! examining the books, finding tho
ar with leaves uncut. but displayed t
- sake of the binding, and those wo