The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1901-03-21


than any. God bless the Methodist
church. bless all the churches, and blessed
be God who in this. our great trial, Civ
eth us the churches"
What great thing IL was that the
Christian books which Mr.. Lincoln read
literature. William Carey became a
Captain Cook" John Wesley's life was
shaped by reading Jeremy Taylor's
Holy Living and Dying, There are
books in. your library or lying on your
parlor table or secrcted in some place by
your child that will decide for two worlds
this and the next, the character of its
reader.
When bad book is printed, you do well
to blame the publisher. but most of all
blame the author. The malaria rose from
his inkstand: the poison that caused the
moral or spiritual death dropped in the
fluid from the tin OF his pen. The manu-
facturer of that ink could tell YOU that it
is made of tannip and salt OF iron and nut
gals and green vitriol. but many an author
has dipped from his nkstand hyper
criticism and malevolonce amid slander
and salacousness, as from fountain Of
death.
Among the most important are the edi-
torial and reportnrial inkstands. The
thick ink on the printers roller is differ
ent from the ink into which the writer
dips his pen and is COMPOUNDED Of linseed
oil and lampblack and made thick by
boiling or burning. But the editorial and
reportorial pens are responsible for that
which the printers ink roller impresses
upon the flying sheets. Where one man
reads a book, 5000 men read a newspaper
What change of opinion in regard to the
printing press since the day when the
great Addison wrote concerning it, Zone
cannot but be sorry, that such q pernicious
machine is erected among them" and
when, under the reign of Charles IT,. only
one newspaper, the London Gazette. was
allowed to be printed. aud that only on
Mondays and Thursdaysl Not until the
judgment day, when the forces which have
influenced the world snail be compared
and announced, will be known the power
OF the modern newspaper.
Thomas Guthrie dipped into IT, and
brought up The Gospel In Ezekiel" John
Cumming dipped into it and brought up
"The Apocalypse" Oh. the opulence Of
Christian literature. Oh. the mighty
streams of evangelistic power that have
poured from the writer's inlhorn that ap-
peared in Ezekiel's vision!
While you recognize the DISTINGUISHED
ones who have dipped into the inkstand
OF the worlds evangelization do not for
get that there are hundreds of thousands
pf unknown men and women who are en-.
gagged IN lnconspicuous ways doing the
same thing. How many anxious mothers
writing to the boys IN town. How many
sisters writing encouragement to brothers
tar away! how many invalids bolstered
up in bed, the inkhorn on the stand at
their side. writing letters of coincidence
to those worse off than themselves, They
are flying all the time kind words, gospel
words, helpful words. saving words.
Call the evangelistic inkhorn into serv-
ice in the early morning. when you feel
well. and you are grateful for the protec-
ton during your sleeping hours, and write
before you retire at close of day to those
who all night long will be saying, Would
to God it were morning." How many
bruised and disappointed and wronged
souls of earth would be glad to get let
ter from you! Stir up that consoatory
inkhorn.
All Christendom has been waiting for
great revivals OF religion to start from
the pulpist and prayer meetings. 1 now
suggest that the greatest revival of all
time may start from a concerted and or
ganized movement through the inllhorns
OF all Chrjstendom, each writer dipping
rom the inkhorn nearest him a letter of
gospel invitation, gospel hope, gospel warn.
ing. gospel instruction. The ink is all
ready on q hundred thousand tables. and
beside 1t are the implements with which
to dip it out Why not through such
process have millions of souls brought TO
could make the invitation more effective
than by word of mouth. The invitation
from your hips may be argued back, may
woke querulous reply. may be answered
by a joke, but good. warm, gospel letter.
written IN prayer, and started wit, prayer
and followed by prayer, will be read over
and over again and cannot be answered in
frivolous way.
Within arms reach of where YOU sit
there may be fluid that you may put on
wing with message of light and love Oh,
Tor the swift flying angel of mercy which
Ezekiel saw in vision with writer's ink
horn by his side"
The other angels spoken of in my text
were destroying angels, and each had
what the Bible calls a slaughter weaD.
on in his hand. 1t was a lance or bat
tleax or a sword. God hasten the time
when the last lance shall be shivered, and
the las. battleax duled, and the last
sword sheathed. and the angel of the text.
who Matthew Henry says was the Lord
Jesus Christ, shall from, the full inkhorn
OF Ills mercy give saving call to all ma.
tons, That day may be far off, but it IS
heipful to think of its coming.
AS DR.. Raleigh declared that when thir-
ty,slx miles at sea oil the coast of New
England the cattle on board the ship as
well as himself scented the clover on the
New England hills, s we amid all the toss.
ing waves of the worlds controversies in.
hale the redolence of the white lilies Of
peace.
IL our Bible is i.ue-and no other hook
that was ever printed is as true as that |
book, which Moses began and John |
Iinished-then the time will come when ail |
the weapons of cruelty will stop, and the |
nkhorns OF evangelization will have their |
way: In the museums of the world the !
iarplne and the cannon and the bomb will |
pc kept as curiosities. aud children will be |
ncredulous as parents tell them that civil. |
zed nations once employed such instru.
ments OF death, and more incredulous
%%hen told by their parents that the army
,lat Killed the most men was considered
ne most glorious army. The rcd horse
y carnage that st. John saw in vision and
me black horse of famine and tbe male
lorse OF death will be stabbed. and the
White horse Of prosperity and peace
mounted by the King of Kings, will lend
he great army with banners. Throngh
he convicting. converting. sanctifvi6o
'ower of the Eternal Spirit may we nj
narch IN that processionl Hail. thou
Mighty Rider Of the white horse in the
inal triumph Sweep down and sween
", thou Angel of the New Covenant. with
he inkhorn of the worlds evangelizationi
The mountains and the hills shall break
orth into singing, and all the trees of the
ield shall clap their hands. Instead of
he thorn shall come up the fir tree, and
instead of the Drier shall come up the
myrtle tree, and it shall be TO the Lord
or a name, for an everlasting sign that
hall not be cut off"