Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1901-03-16
The DscipIes as Reporters.

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The Disciples Reportsrs.-
That Providence intends the profes-
sion of reporters to have mighty
share in the worlds redemption is
suggested by the fact that Paul and
Christ took a reporter along with them
and he reported their addresses and
their acts. Luke was a reporter, and
he wrote not only the book of Luke.
but the Acts of the Apostles, and with
out that reporters work we would
have known nothing of the Pentecost
and nothing of Stephens martyrdom,
and nothing of Tabitha'S resurrection,
and nothing of the falling and unjail
ing of Paul and Silas, and nothing of
the shipwreck at Melita. Strike out
the reporters work from the Bible and
you kill large part of the New Testa
ment. 1t makes me think that in the
future of the kingdom of God the
reporters are to bear mighty part
About 25 years ago a representative
of an important New York newspaper
took his seat in my Brooklyn church
one Sunday night about five pews from
the front of the pulpit. He took out
pencil and reporters pad, resolved to
caricature the whole scene. When the
music began he began, and with his
pencil he derided that and then derided
the prayer and then derided the read
ing of the Scriptures and then began
to deride the sermon. But, he says,
for some reason his hand began to
tremble, and he, rallying himself,
sharpened his pencil and started again,
and broke down again and then put
pencil and paper in his pocket and his
head down on the front of the pew and
began to pray. At the close of the
service he came up and asked for the
prayers of others and gave his heart to
God, and, though still engaged in news
paper work, he is an evangelist and
hires a hall at his own expense and
every Sunday afternoon breaches Jesus
Christ to the people.
Words of Encourag cement.
| o men of the pencil and pen, amid
| your unappreciated work you need en-
| courasednent and you can have it
| Printers of all Christendom, editors
reporters, compositors, pressmen, pub
| fishers and readers of that which is
printed, resolve that you will not write
| set up. edit, issue or read anything
that debases body, mind or soul. In
| the name of God, by the laying on o1
the hands of faith and prayer, ordaiI
the printing press for Righteousness
and liberty and salvation. All of u:
with some influence that will help il
the right direction, let us put oul
hands to the work, imploring God tt
hasten the consummation. In a shiI
with hundreds of passengers approach
! ing the South American coast the maj
on the lookout neglected his work, anC
| in a few minutes the ship would hav,
been dashed to ruin on the rocks. Blu
a cricket on board the vessel, that haG
made no sound all the voyage, set vi
a shrill call at the smell of land, and
the captain knowing that habit of th
insect, the vessel was stopped in tim
/ to avoid an awful wreck. And so in
significant means now may do wonder
and the scratch Of a pen may save tn
Shipwreck of a soul.
Are you all ready for the signing o
the contract, the league, the solemn
treaty proposed between journalism
and evangelism? Let it be a Christian
marriage of the pulpit and the printin
press. The ordination of the former OF
my head, the pen of the latter in m,
hand, it is appropriate that 1 publis
the bannS of such a marriage LIE
them from this day be one of the mag
nificent work of the worlds redemp
| tiOn.