The Olneyville times. (Olneyville [Providence, R.I.]) 1887-1917, 1901-03-08
drag heavily The srea, final b,.,l. h..

steel pens, gold pens, fountain pens and
before that the pens must be converted
The most divinely honored weapon of the
past has been the pen, and the most di,
Nlneiy honored weapon of the future will
he the pen-prophets pen, and evangcl'
is,s pen and apostles pen, followed hy
editors pen and authors pen and report.
ers pen God save the pen, The WING
OF the Anoca'vntic angel will hc the
printed page, he printing press will roll
ahead OF CHRIS, chariot 10 clear the way.
But some one might ask, would YOU
make SUNDAY newspapers also n rc-enforce-
ment!' | have learned 90 take things as
thev are. | would like TO see the much
scofed At old Puritan Sahbaths come back
again. | do not think the modern Sunday
viii turn out any better men aud women
than We're your crandfathers and grand.
mothers under the oldfashioned Sunday.
To say nothing OF other results, Sunday
newspapers are killing editors, reporters.
compoSltors and preSsmcn. Every man.
woman and child is entitled 20 twenty
four hours of nothing 10 do. II the news
papers put on another set OF hands that
does not relieve the editorial and repor.
toral room of ITS cares and Responsible
ties. Oar literary men die fast enough
without killing them with SUNDAY work
All things are possible with God, and
my faith ~ up until nothing in the way Of
religious victory would surprise me. All
the newspaper printing presses OF the
earth are going 90 be the Lords and tele-
graph and telephone and tyne will yet an.
nouuce nations horn in dav The first
book ever printed was the Bible. bv Faust
and has son'in.law, Schoetier, IN li60 and
that conservation of type 10 the Holy
Scriptures was prophecy of the great
mission of printing for the cvangelization
of all the nations. The father of the
American printing press was a clergyman,
Rev. Jesse Glover and that was a pro.
phccy of the religious use that the gospel
ministry IN this couatry were TO make Of
the types
The tendency of criticism in the theo.
logical semnaries il TO file of from our
young men all the sharp points and make
them too smooth for anv Kind of cxecu.
ton. What We want, all of us, is more
point, less humdrum. Ii we say the right
thing m the right way, the press will he
glad and echo and rc.echo Il. Sunday.
school teachers. reformers, young men
and old men in the ministry. what we all
want II we are 10 make the printing press
an ally IN Christian work Is that which
the reporter spoken of suggestcd-points,
sharp points, memorable points Iut II
the thing be dead when uttered by living
voice u will be a hundredfold more dead
when 1t is laid out IN cold type
Now, as You all have something 20 do
with the newspaper press. either in issu'
ing a paper or IN reading It, either as pro
ducers or patrons. either as sellers or pur.
chascrs of the printed sheet | propose on
this Lords day a treaty 20 be signed he.
tween the church and the printing press
treaty To be ratified by millions OF good
people If we rightly fashion Il. treaty
promising that We will help each other in
our work of trying TO illumine and felici.
tate the world, we by voice, YOU by pen
we 10y speaking only that which is tit to
speak You help us, and we will help you
Side by side be these two potent agencies
until the Judgment day, when We must
both be scrutinZcd for our work. health
iul or blasting The two worst off men IN
that day will be the minister of religion
and the editor II they wasted their oppor
tunity. Both of Us are the engineers OF
long express trains of influence. and we
will run them into a depot of light or tum.
bic them oil the embankments.
What useful life and what n glorious
departure was that of the most famous OF
all American printers, Benjamin Franklin.
whom nlidcs IN the pcnury Of their re
sources have often frludulently claimed
as their own, but the printer who moved
that the Philadelphia convention be
opened with prayer, the resolution lost be.
cause a majority thought prayer unneces.
sary, and who wrote at the time he was
vlciously attacked, "My rule IL TO go
straight forward IN doing what appears to
me 70 be right, leaving the consequences
TO Providence" and who wrote this
quaint epitaph showing his hope of resur.
roctlon, an epltaph that ! hundreds Of
times read while living in Philadelphia
That Providence intends the profession
OF reporters 10 have a 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 n reporter, and he wrote not
only the book OF Luke, but the Acts of
the Apostles. and without that reporters
work we would have known nothing Of
the Pentccost, and nothing Of Stephens
martyrdom, aud nothing OF Tabitha's res.
direction, and nothing of the ialing and
unJailng Of Paul and Silas, and nothing
Of the shipwreck az Mellta.
strike out the reporters work from the
Bible, and you KIN large part OF the
New Testament. IL makes me think that
IN the future of the kingdom OF God the
reporters are 20 bear a mighty part
About twenty-five years ago a reprcscn.
tative OF an important New York news.
paper took his seat in my brooklyn church
one Sunday night about five pews from
the front OF the pulpit lie took out pen.
cal and reporters pad, resolved 90 carica.
ture the whole scene. When the music be.
gan, he began, and with his pencil hc de
uded that, and then derided the prayer,
and then dcridrd the reading of the
Scripture, and then began 10 dcrdc the
sermon. But, he says, for some reason
his hand began u trembe, and he, rally.
ing himself, sharpcncd his pencil and
started again, but broke down again aud
chen put pencil and paper IN his pocket
and his head down on the front pew and
began % pray. AT the close of the service
he came up and asked for the prayers Of
others, and gave his heart 90 God. And,
though still engaged in newspaper work,
he - an cyangellst and hires a hall at his
own expense and every Sunday afternoon
breaches Jesus Christ to the people.
And the men Of that profession are
going 20 come in a body throughout the
country. ] know hundreds of them aud q
more genial or highly educated class Of
men Il would be hard 90 find aud, though
The tendency OF their profession may be
toward skeptlcism, an organized common
sense gospel invitation would fetch them
20 the front OF all Christian cndcavor.
Men Of the pencil and pen ~ all depart.
mcuts. you need the help ~ the Christian
religion. In the day when people want %
get their newspapers az two cents, and
are hoping for the time when they can get
any Of them az one cent, and as n cOnse-
gucncc the attaches Of the printing press
are by the thousand ground under the cy.
finders, you want God % take care Of you
and your families.
Some Of ysur best work ia as much IN
appreciated a. was Millions "FaradiHe
Lost for which the author received Slj,
and the immortal poem "Hohenlindcn" oi
Thomas Campbell when he first offered It
for publication and IN the column called
" Notices 20 COrrcspOudents' appeared the
words. TO T. C.-1he lines commencing
On Linden when the sun vas low are not
uD % our standard. Poetry is not +. C's
forte"
work you need encourage
mcnt, and you have a. Printers 0f all