The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1901-03-09


great population that tramp up and
down the streets day by DAY and year
hy year with their sorrows uncomfort-
Cd and their sins unpardoned. Oh the
/ hundreds Of thousands of people in
our cities who never attend churches
Our cities are not so much preached 70
ly ministers Of roiigion as by reporters.
7 Put all journalists into our prayers
and sermons, OF an the hundred thou
sand sermons preached today there
viii not be three preaehed to Journal
lists and probably not one OF an the
\ prayers offered for classes of men in-
Vulnerable The prayers offered for the
most potential class VIII Be So few and
rare that they viii be thought
preachers idiosyncrasy. There are
many journalists in our church mem
berships. bat this world viii never be
brought to God until some revival Of
religion sweeps over the land and takes
into the kingdom Of God am editors.
reporters, eompositors. pressmen and
newsboys. And If you have not faith
enough TO pray for that and toll for
that You had better get out of our
ranks and join the other side. for you
are the unbelievers who make the
wheels Of the Lord IS chariot drag heav-
ily. The great final battle between
truth and error. the Armageddon, ]
think, win not be fought with swords
and shells and guns. but with pens
qqil pens, steel pens. gold pens. foun-
tain pens, and before that the pens
must be converted The most divineiy
honored weapon Of the past has been
the pen, and the most diyinely h0nored
weapon OF the future viii be the pen.
prophets pen and evangelists pen and
apostles pen, followed By editors pen
and authors pen and reporters pen.
God save the pen The wings OF the
Apocalyptio angel viii be the printed
page. The printing press will roll
ahead Of christs chariot to clear the
way
God and the Printing Press
An things are possible with God. and
my faith is up until nothing in the way
of religions victory would surprise me.
All the newspaper printing presses Of
the earth are going to be the Lords.
and telegraph and telephone and type
viii yet announce nations born in
day. The first book ever printed was
the Bible, by Faust and his son-in-iaw.
schoeffer, in 1860. and that consecra-
tion Of type to the Holy Scriptures was
a prophecy Of the great mission OF
printing for the evangelization Of an
the nations. The father of the Amer
lean printing press was a clergyman.
Rev. Jesse Glover. and that was
prophecy Of the religious use that the
gospel ministry IN this country were TO
make Of the types
Again. we shall see the secular press
as a mightier reinforcement Of religion
and the pulpit by making our religious
utterances moro interesting and spir-
ited, and then the press viii reproduce
them. On the way to church some 80
years ago a journalist said a thing that
has kept me ever since thinking. "Are
you going to give us any points to-
day?" What do you mean?" I asked.
He said. II mean by that anything that
win be striking enough to be remem-
bered." Then / said to myself. What
right have we in the pulpits and Sun
day schools TO take the time Of the peO-
pie il we have nothing to say that IS
memorablel" David did not have any
difficulty In remembering Nathans
thrust, Thou art the man" nor Felix
in remembering Paurs point blank ut
terance on righteousness. temperance
and judgment to come. nor the English
king any difficulty in remembering
what the court preacher said when,
during the sermon against sin. the
preacher threw his handkerchief into
the kings pew to indicate whom he
meant.
The Church and the Press.
Now. as you an have something 10
do with the newspaper press. either in
issuing a paper or in reading it, either
as producers or patrons. either as sell
ers or purchasers Of the printed sheet.
/ propose on the Lords day a treaty TO
be signed between the church and the
printing press, a treaty to be ratified
By millions Of good people II we right
~ fashion It, a treaty promising that
we viii help each other in our work Of
trying to illumine and feilcitate the
world. we By voice you by pen. we by
speaking only that which is worth
printing. you by printing only that
which is fit to speak You help us.
and We viii help you. Side by side be
these two potent agencies until the
judgment day. when we must both be
scruunized for our work. healthful or
blasting. The two worst OF men IN
that day viii be the minister Of rellg-
ion and the editor Il tAey wasted their
opportunity. Both Of us are the en-
gineers OF long express trains Of in
fuence. and we viii run them into
depot OF light or tumble them OF Tire
embankments.
The Disciples as Reporter
That Providence intends the profess
sion Of reporters to have a mighty
share ia tho worlds redemption is