The Marlboro democrat. [volume] (Bennettsville, S.C.) 1882-1908, 1901-03-29

andorso tho sentiments IL expresses
md thank you in3tho nations name
FOR tho sure promise it gives. Noblyi
Sustained as the government has,
been by nll the churches, I would
utter nothing which might in tho
least ap;ir;St..c l:::.s:a!c.s ngasnst my.
Yot without this it may fairly be
said that tho Methodist Episcopal
church, not%lcss devoted than tho
best, (. Is Dy its great numbers tho.
mostAmportant Of all. 1t is no fault
in others that tho Methodist church
sonds moro soldiers to tho field, moro
nurses to tho hospital and more
prayers to Heaven than any. God
bless tho Methodist church bless nll
the churches blcsscd boa God
who in this our great trial giycth us
tho churches." Il 3f NJ, IA
@ What q great thing it was that tho
Christian books which Mr.. Lincoln
read obliteratcd fromhis mind the inf
dol litcraturel William Carey became
a missionary by reading "rho 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 ~
Ing on your pnrlor table or secrotcd
in somc place by your child that will
decide for two worlds, this and tho
noxt, tho character Of it's reader. 5
Through books we sit down and talk
with the lnlghtiost spirits Of all the
ngcs. We accompany Tcnnyson on his
spring-time walk as ho falls upon his
knees in the meadows, crying to his
companion, "Violets, man, violcts!
Smell them" Or we ride with Trajan
In his trinmphal march, or stand with
Godfrey ut tho taking Of Jerusalem, or
with arctic explorer hear tho crash
Of tho icebcrgs, or IRE received with
Hernando Cortcs in tho halls OF
Montczulna, or watch in the obscrya-
tory MS Hcrschcl with his telescope
captures anoth-. ar, or tho inle in
tho inlshorn turns red rs blood, and
wo aro ut Marcngo and Arbcla and
Eylau and 13orodino and Lcipsic; or
to Palermo, or we SEQ Calico fighting
for tho solar system, md around us
gather for conversation Aristotle and
Plato and Robert South and Sydney
Smith and Locke and Samuel Rogers
and Chaucer and Paul Richter md
Swift md HaZlitt and Leigh Hunt and
Talleyrand md Burke and Edward
Irving, whilo to mako music for us
Handel and Mozart and Mcndclssohn
como III, and we watch Columbus land
ing and see John Harvard's legacy of
1000 paid over for tho founding Of
Harvard university, and Joshua Rcy-
.nolds and David IYilkio and Rem
brandt tell US Of their pictures. Oh,
the boolSsl THANK God for the books,
and thanks be to all tho authors!
May tho inkhorn ever be under divine
inspiration! Af
wrong theory is abroad thut tho
newspaper impression is cphcmeral.
Because wo read and cast it aside III
IN hour and never sec it again we are
not to judge that wo nre parted from
Its influence. No volume of 500 pages
makes such impression upon the pco-
plo as tho 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 on, welfare
as the story of what tho world is
now doing or has recently done. Yes
terday has moro to do with to-day
than, something occurring q century
previous. The engineers who now
guide the rnil trains, the sen captains
who now command the ships, tho ar
chitects who now design tho build
ings, the bntons that now control the
orchestras, the legislators who now
make the laws, the generals who now
march the hosts, tho rulers who now
govern the nations, the inkhorns that
now flood tho world with intelligence
these are what we have most to do
with.
You have all seen what is called
indcliblc ink, which is weak solu-
ton OF silver nitrate, and that ink
you cannot rub out or wash out.
Put 1t there, and it stays. Well, tho
liquid Of the editorial and reportorial
inlsstands is an indeliblc ink. It puts
upon tho souls of tho passing gener-
ations characters Of light or dark
ness that time cannot wash out and
eternity cannot effacc. Forever in
dellble. BE careful how you uso it.
Tho impression made with it will be
rosplcndent or rcpulsivo on the day
for which all other days were made.
But how shall speak Of the ink
horn Of the worlds cvangelization
Oh, how may loving and brilliant and
glorious pens havo been dipped into
It'll Thomas n Kempis dipped into it
and brought up his Limitation of
Christ" Horace Bushnell dipped into
It and brought up every Mans Iifo
q Plan OF God.' Thomas Binncy
dipped into it and brought up his
"Wclgh House Chapel Discourscs."
Conybcare dipped into it and brought
up tho 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 broughtup "Discourses of
Redemption" Austin Phelps dipped
into 1t and brought up N"rhe Still
Hour" Mary Hopkins dipped into it
and brought UP Evidences Of Chris
tlanity." Thomas Guthrie dipped
into 1t and brought mp "rhc Gospel in
Ezekiel" John Cumming dipped into
It and brought up "Thc Apocalypse"
Oh, tho opulcncc Of Christian litera-
turel Oh, the mighty streams of evan
gelistic power that have poured from
the writer's inkhorn that appeared
in Ezcldels vision!
Whilc you recognize Tho distin-
guished ones who have dipped into
tho inkstand Of the worlds cvangcliza-
tion do not forget that there are h,u-
dreds Of thousands Of unknown men
and women who are engaged in in
conspicuous ways doing tho same
thingl How many anxious mothers