> I. iilil'S SUM SERMON. A GOSPEL MESSAGE. Subject: fJoort Influences—'Tlie M.ss:on r.f tlie "Writer's Inkhorn"—How It Mnkes For the World's Battennent—The Ink stand of the World's Kvaiigelizatlon. [Copyright 1901.1 WASHINGTON, D. C.— ln a new way and from a peculiar text Dr. 1 almage dis courses ot good influences brought to bear for tlie world's improvement. The text is Ezekiel ix. 2, "And one man among them wiss clothed with linen, with a writer's inkhorn by his side." The poem from which my text is taken is epic, lyric, dramatic, weird and over powering. It is more than Homeric or Dantesque. No one ever had such di vine dreams as Ezekicl. In a vision this prophet had seen wrathful angels, destroy ing angels, each with a sword, hut in my text he sees a merciful angel with an ink horn. The receptacle for the ink in olden time was made out of the horn of a cow or a ram or a roebuck, as now it is made out of metal or glass, and therefore was called the inkhorn, as now we say ink- stand. We have all spoken of the power of the sword, of the power of wealth, of \ the power of office, of the power of social \ influence, but to-day I speak of the power \ for good or evil in the inkstand. It is \ upon vour tables, holding a black or blue or red liquid. It is a fortress, an armory, a gateway, a ranson or a demolition. "You mistake," says some one. "It is the pen that has the power." No. my friend. What is the influence of a dry pen? Pass it up and down a sheet of paper, and it leaves no mark. It expresses no opinion. It gives no warning. It spreads no intelli gence. It is the liquid which the pen dips out of the inkstand that does the work. Here and there a celebrated peri, with which a Declaration of Independence or a Magna Charta or a treaty was signed has been kept in literary museum or national archives, but for the most part the pens, whether, as of old, made out of reed or later of wing of bird or still later of me tallic substance, have disappeared, while the liquid whicn the pens took from the inkstand remains in scroll, which, if put together, would be large enough to en wrap the round world. For practical, for moral, for religious, for eternal purposes, I speak of the mission of "the writer's inkhorn." First, I mention that which is purely domestic. The inkstand is in every house hold. It awaits the opportunity to ex press affection or condolence or advice. Father uses it; mother uses it; the sons and daughters use it. It tells the home news; it announces *;he marriage, the birth, the departure, the accident, the last sickness, the death. That home inkstand what a mission it has already executed, and what other missions will it yet ful fill! May it stand off from all insincerity and all querulousness. Let it tell only that which it would be well to read after the hand that wrote it and the hand that re ceived it can write no more. Dip out of that inkstand only that which is paternal, niatcrnalf filial, sisterly, brotherly. Sacred let it be, not to what are sometimes called the "household gods," hut to the one and the only Go'd who "setteth the solitary in families." Dip out of it solace for par ents on the descending grade of years and encouragement for those who arc climbing the steeps. The carvers and glass blowers arc ever busy making more ornate and skillful bowls for the ink, but not one'of them will be so sacred as the old fashioned inkstand out of which was dipped the liquid for the making of the family record on the blank leaves in the Bible between the Old and the New Testaments, not so many leaves now blank as before recent years made birthday or mortuary insertions. From that home inkstand the child dips out material for those large and awkward let ters that one always makes when learning to write, and from it are taken the trem bling letters that show the wrinkled hand is gradually forgetting its cunning. Oil, ye who have with recent years set homes of your own, out of the new home inkstand write often to the old folks, if i they be still living. A letter means more ] to them than to us, who are amid the ac- ] tivities of life and to whom postal corre- | spondence is more than we can manage. ! 'J hey await the coming of the letter. iJn- ! dcrtake no great thing in life without their j advice. Old people for counsel, young peo- ; pie for action. Even though through de cadence they may be incompetent to give valuable opinions on important affairs, compliment them by asking their counsel. It will do them good: it will make their last days exhilarnnt. Make that home ink stand a source of rejuvenescence to those who are near the terminus of the earthly journ'v. Domestic correspondent'C is not attended to at once. The newspaper, ioinitig with the telegraph, hears the tid ings of all the neighborhood, but swiftest revolving wheel of modern printing press and quickest flash along the electric wires can never do the sympathetic work of the home inkstand. As the merciful angel of mv text appeared before the brazen altar with the inkhorn at his side in Fzekiel's vision, so let the angel of filial kindness appear at the altars of the old homestead. Furthermore, the inkstand of the busi ness man has its mission. Jhtween now and the hour of your demise, O commer cial man, O professional man, there will not be a day when you cannot dip from the inkhorn a message that will influence temporal and eternal destiny. There is a rash young man running into wild specu lation. and with as much ink as you can put on the pen at one time you may save rum from the Niagara rapids of a ruined life. On the next street there is a young man started in business who through lack of patronage or mistake in purchase of goods or want of adaptation is on the brink of collapse. One line of ink from your pen will save him from being an un derling all his life and start him on a ca reer that will win him a fortune which will enable him to become" an endower ot libraries, an opener of art galleries and builder of churches. The most largely successful and useful men of our time once wore an old coat because they could not afford a new one, and got wages less than that which they pay their cook or butler. It will he a ' mighty thing if out of your inkstand you can dip a man's earthly and everlasting fortune. Dip out of that inkstand not one word of dishearioninent. People have enough burdens to carry without your ' adding one ounce to the heft. From your inkstand put not one blot on an honest ambition. Keep all the whole of your fac tory spinning rays of sunshine. If you are a Christian man, put into your business letters an adroit, moral, religious sugges tion that will keep the receiver thinking after he has left the counting room for his home and far on into the night when he lies upon a wakeful pillow. To-morrow morning at 11 o'clock, as you begin to an swer your letters, you will have on the nib of your pen enough ink to save a soul from death and hide a multitude of sins. Furthermore, great ir<* the responsibili ties ot the author's inkhorn. All the peo ple, or nearly all the people, read, and that which they read decides their morals or immorals. their prosperity or failure, their faith or their unbelief, their purity or cor ruption, their heaven or hell. Show me any man's library, great or small, and af ter examining the books, finding those with leaves uncut, but displaj-cd for sake of the binding and those worn with frequent perusal, and without ever seeing the man or knowing his name, I will tell you his likes and his dislikes, his morals, good or had or indifferent, his qualifications for business or artistic or professional or me thanical life. The best maex to any man's character is the book he prefers above all others. Oh, the power of a book for good or evil! Abraham Lincoln in cany a life read' Paine's " \ge of lleason," and it so influ enced hill that he wrote an essay against Christian ty. Bui afterward some Chris tian books came into his hands and glo riously changed his mind and made him a most ardent friend of the Bible and a man of prayer. A letter in Air. Lincoln's own handwriting is in my house, the letter in response to some resolutions passed by a Methodist conference, saying: ' In response to your address allow me to attest the ac curacy of its historical statements, in dorse the sentiments it expresses and thank you in the nation's name for the sure promise it gives. Nobly sustained as tlie Government has been by all the churches, 1 would utter nothing which might in the least appear invidious against any. Yet without this it may fairly be said that the Methodist Episcopal Church, not loss devoted than the best, is by its great numbers the most im portant of all. It is no fault in others that the Methodist church sends more soldiers to the field, more nurses to the hospital and more prayers to heaven than any. God bless the Methodist church, bless all the churches, and blessed be God. who in this, our great trial, giv eth us the churches." What a great thing it was that the Christian hooks which Mr. Lincoln read obliterated from his mind the infidel literature! William Carey became a missionary by reading "The Voyages of 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 secreted in some place by your child that will decide for two worlds, this and the next, the character of its reader. When a 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 tip of his pen. The manu facturer of that ink could tell you that, it is made of tannin and salt of iron and nut galls and green vitriol, but many an author has dipped from his inkstand hyper criticism and malevolence anld slander and salaciousness, as from a fountain of death. Among the most important arc the edi torial and reportorial inkstands. The thick ink on the printer's roller is differ ent from the ink into which the writer dips his pen ami is compounded of linseed oil and lampblack and made thick by boiling or burning. But the editorial ami reportorial pens are responsible for that which the printer's ink roller impresses upon the living sheets. Where one man reads a book, 51)00 men read a newspaper. What change of opinion in regard to the printing press since the day when the great Addison wrote concerning it, "One cannot but be sorry that such a pernicious machine is erected among them," and when, under the reign of Charles IT., only one newspaper, the London Gazette, was allowed to he printed, and that only on Mondays and Thfh-sdays! Not until the judgment day. when the forces which have influenced the world shall be compared and unnounccd, will he known the power of the modern newspaper. Thomas Guthrie dipped .into it and broUght up "The Gospel In F.zekiel." John Gumming dipped into it and brought up "The Apocalypse." Oh. the opulence of Christian literature! Oh, the mighty streams of evangelistic power tlint have poured from the writer's inkhorn that ap peared in E/.ckiel's vision! While you recognize the distinguished ones who have dipped into the inkstand of the world's evangelization do not for get that there nre hundreds of thousands of unknown men and women who are en gaged in inconspicuous ways doing the same thing. How many anxious mothers writing to the boys in town! How many sisters writing encouragement to brothers far away! Jtow many invalids bolstered up in bed, the inkhorn on the stand at their side, writing letters of condolence 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 tion during your sleeping hours, ana 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 he glad to get a let tor from you! Stir up that consolatory inkhorn. All Christendom has been waiting for great revivals of religion to start from the pulpist and prayer meetings. I now suggest that the greatest revival of all time may start from a concerted and or ganized movement through the inkhoins of all Christendom, each writer dipping from the inkhorn nearest him a letter of gospel invitation, gospel hope, gospel warn ing. gospel instruction. The ink is all ready on a hundred thousand tables, and beside it are the implements with which to dip it out. Why not through such process have millions of souls brought to God before next summer? By letter you could make the invitation more effective than by word of mouth. The invitation from your lips may be argued back, may evoke querulous reply, may be answered by a joke, hut a good, warm, gospel letter, written in prayer, and started wit'.i prayer, and followed by jirayer, will be read over and over again and cannot be answered in u frivolous way. M ithin arm's reach of where you sit there may be a fluid that you may put on wing with message of light and love. Oh, for the swift flying angel of mercy which Ezekiel saw in vision "with a 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 weap on" in his hand. It was a lance or a bat tleax or a sword. God hasten the time when the last lance shall be shivered, and the last battleax dulled, and the last sword sheathed, and the angel of the text, who Matthew Ilcnry says was the Lord Jesus Christ, shall from the full inkhorn of His mercy give a saving call to all na tions. 'that day may be far off, but it is helpful to think of its coming. As Dr. Raleigh declared that when thir ty-six miles at sea off the coast of New England the cattle on board the ship as we 11 as himself scented the clover on the New England ldlls, s wc amid all the toss ing waves of the world's controversies in hale the redolence of the white lilies of universal peace. ]f our Bible is true—and no other book that wa3 ever printed is as true as that hook, which Mns"s began and John finished—then the time will come when all the weapons of cruelty will stop, and the inkhorns of evangelization will have their way. In the museums of the world the carbine and the cannon and the bomb will be kept as curiosities, and children will be incredulous as parents tell them that civil ized nations once employed such instru ments of death, and more incredulous when told by their parents that the army that killed the most men was considered the most glorious army. The red horse of carnage that St. John saw in vision and the black horse of famine and the pale horse of death will be stabled, and the .white horse of prosperity and peace, mounted by the King of Kings, will lead the great army with banners. Through the convicting, converting, sanctifying power of the Eternal Spirit may we all march in that procession! Hail, thou Mighty Rider of the white horse in the final triumph! Sweep down and sweep by, thou Angel of the New Covenant, with the inkhorn of th; world's evangelization! "The mountains and the hills shall break forth into singing, and all the trees of the held shall clap their hands. Instead of the thorn shall come un the fir tree, .and instead of the brier shall come up the myrtle tree, and it shall be to the Lord for a name, for an everlasting sign that shall not be cut off." TO PRUE, WITH VIOLETS. These flowers from a sinner, sweet. To go to church with you; Ho would not dare to enter there, But if bis name comes in your prayer j Perchance they'll hear it, Prue. But let them breathe the message first j lie charged them hear to you— So sweet, a thing he dure not bring llis rude lips to its whispering; Perchance they'll tell you, Prue. —Harper's Bazar. j HUMOROUS. He —Let us get married and live in a flat. She—Are you serious, or just a flatterer? Blobbs —Bjones rules his household with a rod of iron. Slobbs —Yes; even I the cook is afraid of him. Property Owner —I have all my \ houses rented except one. Prospective Tenant—Ah, last, nut not leased. Sillicus—A girl seldom marries her | Ideal. Cynicus—No; she usually mar- j ries some other girl's ideal, just out of j spite. Wigwag—Hello! Harduppe. Raising j a beard, eh? Ilarduppe—Yes; it's eas- I ier than raising the price of a shave i every day. Guest —Say, why do you call that j thin bellboy buttons? Clerk—Because I he is falling off every day, and there is so much brass about him. Mrs. Buggins—The cook has asked for higher wages just because I asked her to do the baking. Mr. Buggins— Well, I suppose you'll have to give it to her if she needs the dough, i Business Man —What is your name, | sir? Applicant—Thomas J. J. J. Jones. I "What does the 'J. J. J.' stand for?" j "Nothing. The man who stood for me | when I was christened stuttered." | Tattcrdan Tome —I seen a lady dis mornin' w'at must 'a' took me fur a I mermaid. Wragson Tatters —Dat so? ; Tatterdan Tome—Yep. She asked me if I didn't feel's if I wanted a hath. Visitor —Is the puzzle editor in? Of fice Boy—We ain't got no reg'lar puzzle I editor, but you might see that bald ; headed man over in the corner. He's | try in' to figger out just where we stand 011 de baseball situation. "Good morning. Mr. Black," said the affable man. "But I am not Mr. Black. My name is White," replied the other. "Of course, of course," said the affable man. "I trust you will pardon my mistake. You see, I am a trifle color blind." "How is the table here? Good?" in quired the new boarder. "Really, I don't know," replied the other. "I thought you had been here some time." "So I have, but I've never seen enough on the table to test it thoroughly. However, I never heard it groan." ! A Chinese Motlu r-ln-Law Story. j "The Experiences of a British Phar | macist in China" was the title of an I address by Mr. Frank Browne, who I was introduced as the government ! analyst at Hong Kong. As illustrating the Chinese regard ! for filial piety, the lecturer told an in teresting mother-in-law story. A man and his wife maltreated the husband's 1 mother. As a punishment the scene I of the act was openly cursed, the ac ; tive agents were put to death and the mother of the wife was bambooed, j branded and exiled for her daughter's I crime. The house in which the offen | ders lived was dug up from the foun , dations. Moreover, the scholars of the j district were precluded from attending public examinations, and even the magistrates were deprived of their of fice. These drastic measures were de signed to render the empire filial."— London News. First Appearance of Wire Nails. When wire nails first made their ap pearance thoy were bought only by furniture manufacturers and makers jof cigar boxes. They were put in | packages of from one to five pounds, and when an order for 25 pounds for any one size came in, it was consid ered a big one. At first, from 15 to 20 cents per pound was paid for wire nails, and 29 cents per pound for wire j cigar box nails. The makers did not 1 clear as much profit, even at these figures, as might be supposed, as they were compelled to buy tholr iron wire at 50 percent off list —at that time 10 cents per pound for No. nine etc., and while the production was of ne cessity small and limited, the expenses of introducing the new article were quite large.—Hardware Dealers' Maga zine. Mniquin of ItutoV Generoilly. Few people have known anything about one instance of generosity on the part of he late Marquis of Bute. He it was who purchased the remains , of the historic chapel raised at Ros coff, In Britanny, and dedicated to St. Ninian by Mary Queen of Scots as commemorative of her first landing, In 1348, on the shores of France, to be affianced to the Dauphin. The marquis was only just in time, for the municipal council coveted the spot, In order to build a school upon the site. He not ohly rescued the ancient chap el—he presented to the town a plot of ground for the school. j Irtliiciu. I ;tt hi'l. Fond of Son,. | One of the most characteristic things In the relationship of Justin McCarthy and his son, Justin Hunt ly McCarthy, is their very strong af fection for each other, an affection that has its parallel in the cases of Mr. Chamberlain and Austen Chamberlain and of Sir William Harcourt and his son and private secretary, "Lulu" Har court. Mr. McCarthy and his son used to occupy seats at opposite ends ot the same bench in the House. Their method of communication, which was frequent, was by nods and signs. A rroachor's Predicament. A few weeks ago a noted minister ! went to one of the local railroad sta tions to meet a friend, says a Cleve land paper. Upon entering the station ; and looking around he saw an elegant ly dressed woman, who apparently was about to hoard a train- She was carrying a number of par-! eels in her arms, and besides had with her three of four children that with great difficulty she was trying to help along. The clergyman approached the j lady and offered his assistance, which J she accepted, afterward thanking him very graciously for the kindness. The train moved out of sight, and he went \ an his way Urinific. of the endless op portunities one has for doing good, when all at once he discovered that he was carrying a beautiful silk umbrel- j la with pearl and gold trimmings. The j reverend gentleman is now enduring distress of mind, fearful that the vic tim of his absent-mindedness may ■ome day discover him in the pulpit. Public Requests Marie Fust Year. During the year recently ended the total amount of public bequests in this country was $62,461,644, against $79,749,965 in 1899. The amount given to educational institutions in 1900 was $84,932,644; to charities, $13,621,- j 722; to churches. $8,800,605; to muse ums and art galleries, $2,145,333, and { to libraries, $2,961,000. ft? DEATH 'lO ulllll'[llll'fj'!' v niTto begins in the bowels. 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