© 600D INFLUENCES.
Dr. Talmage Talks About the Mission
of the “Writer's lokhorn.”
How It Makes For the World's Betterment
«The Inkstand of the World's
Evangelization.
{Copyright 191. |
FasmixaToN, D. C.~In a new way anc
Bly Te enti text Dr. Talmage dis
courses of good influences brought to bear
for the world’s improvement. The text is
Ezekiel ix, 2, “And one man among them
was clothed with linen, with a writer's
inkhorn by his side.” A
The poem from which my text is taken
is epic, lyric, dramatic, weird and over-
yowering. It is more than Homeric or
Jantesque. No one ever had such di
vine dreams as Ezekiel. In a vision this
prophet had seen w rathful angels, destroy
ing angels, each with a sword, but 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 2 ram or a roebug k, a8 now it 18 made
out of metal or glass, and therefore was
called the inkhorn, as now 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 powe f ial
influence, but to-day
for good or evil : inkstand.
upon vour tables, folding ¢ Mack or
or red hquid. It is , AN armory,
a gateyv . a Tr or a ition
“You mistake,” says some ene. ‘It is tl
pen that has the power ” No, my
Ahat is the influence of a dry pen?
it up and down a of paper,
Jeaves no mark. I
we
of so¢
pr
val t »
gpeak of tne
the
friend
>
Pass
sheet sed i
it
It gives no warning
gence. It is the liquic
kept in
archives, but
whether, as of
later o
the liquid
inkstand
together,
wrap
ents on the
encouragement 101
bowls for the inl
be so sa
out of which was
making of the i
jeaves in ible
the New Testar
now blank
birthday or m
that home inkstan
material for the
ters that
to write,
bling let:
18 gr
the
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Abraham Lincoln in early life read
Paine’s “Age of Reason,” anc
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afterward some Chris
Christianity. But
hig hands and glo-
tian books came into
of prayer. A letter in Mr. Lincoln's own
handwriting is in my house, the letter in
to your address allow me to attest the ac-
curacy of its historical statements,
dorse the sentiments it expresses and
sure promise it gives.
the So anit has been by all
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 less devoted than the best,
is by its great numbers the most
portant of all. It is no fault in others
that the Methodist church sends more
soldiers to the field, more nurses to the
and more prayers to heaven
God bless the Methodist
11 the churches. and blessed
great trial, give
hospital
than any
chureh, bless al
be God, who ir
eth us the
W hat 8 great
Christian books which
obliterated from his y infidel
literature! William Carey came a
Y re ¢ “The 1 ovages of
Wesley's life was
Jeremy Ta
r Living and Dying.” There are
in your library
e¢ or secreted in
8. Our
: . "
churches
thing it was the
Mr. Lincoln read
that
es
reading yior's
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«Twice Struck by Lightaing--Claimant of De-
funct Trust Company Clamoring for $65,000
~Dairymen Organize.
President C. M. Schwab, of the Car-
negie Company, on his return to Pitts
burg said that a company
officials would be shortly to act
in the pension pl involved in Mr.
Carnegie’s dong $4,000,000, the
interest on which 1 weed for
a purpose. It was authorita
tively that there
ment feature in tl
possible wi
meeting of
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The date of the Johnstown flood was
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from a mother's
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ignorance; or more
frequently from a mother’s neglect «
properly instruct her daughter!
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fer,” and young women are so taught.
There is a little truth and a great deal
If
she
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suffers severely
woman
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Many mothers hesitate to take
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their
ir examina-
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It will do them
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who are near th
journey
attended
chiara
riood, bu
wdern printing
r do the symp
home inkstand. As the
my text appeared before
with the mmkhorn at his si
vision, so let ange kindness
appear at the altars of the old homestead
‘furthermore, the inkstand of busi
ness man has its mission. Between 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-
ation, and with as much ink as you can
ut on the
tne i Of
the
Lhe
wn at one time you may save
im from the Niagara rapids of a ruined
fife. On the next street there is a young
man started in business who through lack
of patronage or mistake in purchase of
vods or want of adaptation is on the
rink of coilapse. 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 of
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 be a
mighty thing if out of your inkstand you
can dip a man’s earthly and everlasting
fortune. Dip out of that jukaing not one
word of disheartenment, eople have
{hough burdens to carry without your
ding gne ounce to the heft. From your
fnkstand put not one blot on an honest
smbition. Keep all the whole of your fac
spinnihg rays of sunshine. If you are
‘hristian man, put into your business
etters an adroit, moral, religious su ges
ion that will keep the receiver thinking
ter he has left the counting room for his
tome and far on into the night when he
upoa a wakeful pillow. To-morrow
orning at 11 o'clock, as you begin to an-
your letters, you will have on the nib
f your pen enough ink to save a woul from
and hide a multitude fn sins. bi
ore, great are the responsibili-
fies of the author's inkhorn. All the peo-
le, or nearly all the people, read, and that
hich they read decides their morals or
rals, their Rrosperity or failure, their
ith or their unbelief, their purity or cor-
ption, their heaven or hell. Show me
y man’s library, great or small, and af-
examining the hooks, finding those with
ves uncut, but displayed for sake of the
nding, and those worn with frequent
and without ever Steing the man
knowing his name, I will tell you his
and his dislikes, his morals, good or
| or indifferent, his qualifications for
: or artistic or professional or me-
#hanical life, The best index to any man’s
Sharacter is the book he prefers ab e all
Mhers, Oh, the power of a book for good
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than by
from your
evoke querulons
by a joke, but a ge
written in prayer, and started with prayer,
and followed by prayer, will be read over
and over again and cannot be answered in
a frivolous way.
Within arm's reach of where vou sit
there may be a fluid that you may put on
wing with moesage of hight and love. Oh,
for the swift flying angel of merey which
Ezekiel saw in vision “with a writer's ink-
born 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. I: was a lance or a bat
tleax or a sword. God hasten the time
when the last Jance shall be shivered, and
the last battieax dulled, 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 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
letter.
well as himself scented the clover on the
New England hills, s+ we amid all the toss-
in
universal peace.
If our &
that was ever fiinted ia
book, which Moses began and
finished-~then the time will come when all
the weapons of cruelty will stop, and the
inkhorns of evangelization will fo their
way. In the museums of the world the
carbine and the cannon and the bomb will
be pt as curiosities, and children will be
ined nati loyed such
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 jorious 3rmy. The red horse
of ca at 5t. John saw in vision a
the black horse of famine and the nd
the
hore of Joath will be stabled, and
whi orse o rosperity an ;
mounted by the Ki g of Kine will iad
the great army with banners. Through
the Sonvicting, converting, sanctify)
power of the Eternal Spirit may we afl
march in that procession! Hail, thou
Mighty Rider of the white horse in the
final triumph! 8 down and swee
by. thou Angel of the New Covenant, wit
e inkhorn of the world’s evangelization!
in nountuit and fhe, hulls ai {
nto si and a of t
field shall a hands. Instead of
the thorn shall come up the fir tree, an
instead of the brier # come up t
myrtle tree, and it ghall be to the
or a name, for an everlasting sign
shall not be eut off.”
SIAN
wk rushed
3 George Ri:
William Blyler. After a
party had worked over eight
Ramsey was found dead. His compan-
n was taken out in a dying condition
Peter McCann, a resident Green-
field, who was arrested by Detective
Neary in Wilkesbarre on the charge of
robbery, committed suicide in the jail
by hanging himself with a pair of sus.
penders $icCann's body was found by
Chief of Police McAndrews. McCann
was perfectly sane when arrested, but
had been drinking hard last night
Easton has declined to accept a pub-
lic library from Andrew Carnegie, who
offered to donate $20,000 for the pur-
pose if the city would maintain the in-
stitution. There is much disappoint-
ment over the fact that the Board of
Control voted not to levy a tax suffh-
cient to support the library.
Jesse Shoop, aged 16 years, son of
Harry Shoop, of Steelton, while riding
on a freight train fell off near the Penn-
sylvania Railroad Station and was in-
stantly killed.
The body of an unknown man wis
found floating in the river ten mules
above Lock Soren by the crew of a
raft. The body was taken ashore and
an inquest will be held.
A number of capitalists of Wilkesbarre
have obtained the right of way for
building an electric road around Har.
vey's Lake and will complete it by July.
One man was killed and two fatally
injured on the railroad near Greehs-
burg. George Lindsey, 28 years old,
living at Crabtree, met instant death,
John Skutchell, a Johnstown brakeman,
and George Bradley, of Hermbinie,
were crushed so badly that death is ex-
pected.
By the will of Laura H. Witmer, of
Lancaster, $500 is bequeathed to Long-
necker’'s Mennonite Meeting House,
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