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n t I O OOOOOOOCOOGOCCOCOCOCCOOOOOOCg O tu TI TIF LESS WORKER In O HAKE ADYEETISINB PATj- 13 v A AV - - O V!.Tlwtt f!itv is thn - O O IT ti ; by using the columns cf the :i h ECONOMIST, i It goes Into the homrt of thejpeeple g telling tlie newi with the voice of a q trusted friend. O o the medium that reaches more ;3 families than any other paper H in Eastern Carolina. r Ci UX3O0C0000000OCC0000000000C00O UtUIUUUU Take Bach. man's censursut resBrvB 1hy judgment, HamlBttr' A- VOL. XXVI. ELIZABETH CITY, N. CM FRIDAY, DECEMBER V, 1897. NO. U. 1 - 1 1 - " i M . 2 I I 4 -f V V M ? i j u f: t, i t 5 I k Is i v . b! i 3 i r h s M . - " j i - a - m?oo)j3 MXy ! Of jo osn oxr poitiD. oq trco 'orsri ui narn ij3noo tro -n q3noo qSrp tj q;TAi xrJJoq qajis 01 pco;itJ ptro ojrqATJ aioj -joo sl oi2ou xitii oq PUBLISHED, WEEKLY BY THE PALCOH PBBLISHIHG JO., B. F LJLUB Mnaser. It. D. CKEECY.........iaitoT. Subscription One Year, 1.00 PROFESIONAL CARDS. R D. CUE EG Y. , . Atl:rnry at'Laxs, I KIiiabthC!tyfN.C. SJ A tiormy at-Lav. E izibeth Cit J, C. Letr B x "A. FRAN K V A UO H AN, - aV.!.ctions lalthfullT nuda PllUDEN. A .PRUDEN. Atlsr nrj-4t-La . Etlentnn.N. C. Pnctice in Tqnotank, IVrqulman Cbou, Gam;. Hertford. W.stiinfctoa at.d TyrH eoantie. ana In Boprtrme Court ot the State. . j i ' Wn. goudon. At'rnty a I-Law. Cufniuc. C. 11., N. C. foIWiinri afpecrlty., i iractice In State and Fdtraj Ccnrt. GI. FEItEIJKE, ; ; . AiUx-ney atLat ' , . KlizatwthCity.tf.C tTOEice hoars at Camdn O. JI. on Mo&Jats. . "' UuIIectiocs a specially. rHOMAS O. SKINNER" Atternry-at-Lue, f iicruor i, u J. If. WHITF. D. t. S., Knzahetb UilT, riv. sional services to 'JTX. the public In all the V wrT branches ofDtSTis- i , X' iJTRT. . Can be found CJ-OrJce In Kramer block, on Main ptret.lten IMndtxte and W ti r. EF: MAIITIN. D. P. B . . ' Elizateth City, N.C. irr., :M- trofeional tn tho rnblic in all the hnmcheitof D&XT13TRY Can ! found at all ;n.r- ilttl-rrn Buxk on Water Street, over the Fair. J B W. ORF.OORY. D- D. S.. . - Elizabeth Ctj. N. C. OfTi9 hi l-rofes- ftioia! rticra to ; VTT - - t hrt branches of ' Crown and HHdci' work n specialty. OrTice houm.8 to 12 find 1 to 6, or any time shouM special j occasion i".. KiT Orfice, Flora B jiMiiiff. Corner Main ami Water Sts. J DAVID COX, Jr., J.i ARCHlTEfrr AND. ENGINEER, HERTFORD, N. C, ; LAad sarreying a specially, furnbhe! nKn arDlicatloo. Plans HOTELS. Bay View; House, KDENTON, C. New, . Cleanly. . AtieotlTe . Scrranl.. Near the Court House. CblumbiaHotel, , CoL,mntA,TvRnxLX. Co. . E. HUGHES, -j - Proprietor. . taT Ool Servants, good room,eowl table. Ampl stabl-a and threr. 1 be P-iironaze of the pub'ic fHc ted and .satisfaction assured, i THK Ot.I CalT. WALKER llOCSK. I Simmon's ! Hotel, CcBarrrcK C. H., N. C. Terms : 50c per mca. or 1 1.73 per d y, Inclodini? lodn. Th patronaee of tb pubile s-Iicitd. Satisfaction assured. J. VTV BRABBLE. - Proprietor. i .if- Tr anquil'Souoe, Maxteo h. c, A. V. EVANS, . .Proprietor. First class In erery panlcalar. Table upptled with esery delicacy. Ush, systera and Game In abundsnce In season. ' 11 I --'HI The World s Favorite Cigar has ciren uch unlreraal satisfaction that the capaciet of factory will have to be enlarged- before we can supply the trade desired In onrown town. C. W. 6TXVKS3, & Co. a pa no j q u pioomnMl !;X Melick's Mammbtli Christmas IS COMING but we are here with everything you may want to make you have a A HAPPY CHRISTMAS, unless it is money that we have little enough of, .to ba sure, but we have pile of seasonable good that we want to iart with for A VERY LITTLE MONEY. We have beeu bringing Holiday Goods to this market for more than twenty five years; each year profiting by the exierience gain ed. We know what to buy and where to buy. aiid hoW to bar, and want you to "profll by onr knowledtft. Oar. Art Gallery D es not surpass the Cocoran at Washington, but we can show yon beautiful pictures, and price are moderate. Pfyotograpljs ! Plain, colored, and mounted en hi F:istiBj,ll3ai.!!73, Faslclles Artsrtjjss, Weed Engravisgs. Come in and look at them if jpu never exiK'ct to buy ore. You will enjoy them. LAMPS Always make acceptable ChrlMniaw preents, and we have them in styles to suit und nt pric to pleasa See our ONE DOLLAR LAIV2P with rai.-ed dicoratioti on ImiwI and shade. TURNER'S U.C ALMANAC FOR 1808. ItisnsKoodnsusnal.nnd thatinear.s' it is full of infariuatiou that every North Carolinian needs to know. w ilk VALUABLE TOYM LOTS. 1 lave in hand for sale the following loU or land m Elizabeth City, towit: 10 lots on the Soutli ide vt Hurges 1 lot, corner Road and Burprfs St- 2 lots West side of Road near Bur- cs street. . . fc The Lawerence lot. improved, at tbc N. W. corner ff Front antl Lawerem-e St, about ZOO feet fqcare. Itensor.ab.f terin. Oct. 1S97. 12 tn 8 d. FltAVK A Ut ill AN. JHor THE TUu SOPHIE WOOD Built in 1S02. sixty-three feet long; lies 10x10 engineaud thirty-two hon.-power boiler. Ccst four thousand dohars Will b sold cheap and on easy terms. Can bo seen at EJentcr. N. C. Why suffer with Cut s, Clds, and LaOrippe when Laxatitk I3nMO Qui sle b will cure Tou In one dar. Do not produce tbe ringing in ibe head like Sulphate of Qmnnine. Fnt up in '.a? lets convenient tor taklr-f. Guuanleed to cur or money refunded Trice 2 i C nts . For sale by Dr. W. W. Griggs and all other Druggla. Sale. f Tv av a THE FLYING ROLL." KEY. DR. TALMAGE AND THS R UGIOU3 NEWSPAPERS'. MISSION. n -njirr BU- ZMhsrlaa Saw ad ta ISoderm -njivg Hollm" Jonrnala Taat . Drop BnedltJona Vpn thm Xalloa ! potatnatlonal DlScteaecs. - CorjrtM, 137; by Anertcaa Trzsa Aaso elation. WxsnDfGTO, Not. 28. In a previ ews Cucourse Dr.; Talmae, having iliown the opportunities of the secular rrtfs, in this . discourse speaks of the rulsfiion of religious newspapers. Ilia ;eat is, "Then I 'turned and lifted up miue erea and looked, and behold a fiy iuz roli,, (Zechariah r, 1). In a dream the prophet saw eozne thirg rolled up advancinR through the heavens. It contained a divine message. It moved swiftly, as on wings.- It had ranch to do with the destiny of nations. Eut if you will look up you -will see many flying rolls.; They come with great speed and have messages for all the earth. The flying rolls of this cen tury are the newspapers. They carry mf ssages human and divine. They will decide the destiny cf the hemispheres. There are in the United States about 20,C00nowspaper& The religious news paper of which I am the editor was bom 19 years ago, but born again 7 years ago. In this brief time it has grown to about 200,000 circulation, and, by the ordinary rule of calculating the readers of a paper, it has about 1,000,000 readers. ;Our country was blessed with many , religious journals, edited by consecrated men, while their contributors were the ablest and best of all professions and'occupations. Some of those journals for half a century had been dropping their benedictions upon the nation, and they live on and will continue to live on until there will be no more use for their mission, the world itself having become a flying roll on the tempests cf the last day, going out of existence. There will bo no more uso for such agencies when the world erases, because in the spiritual state we stall bare scca velocity thai wc can ftth for o)Ta2 all fh t&xu cf sarcB, ct, sotixjg soma world ia eon flsgratioa, way go ourselves in an in stant to examine personally the scene of disaster. ' All IUgtmesU In One Amy. Was there room for another religious journal in " this laud, already favored with the highest stylo of religious jour nalism? Oh, yes, if undenominational, plenty of room I Nothing can ever take tho place of thp denominational newspa per. When the millennium comes in, it will find as many denominations as there aro now. People according to their temperaments will always prefer this or that form cf church government, this or that stylo cf worship. You might as well ask us all to live in one house as to ask U3 all to worship in one denomination or to abolish the regi ments of an army in order to make them one great host. Each denomination must have its own journal, set apart especially to present tho charities, explain tho work and for ward the interests of that particular sect. The death of one denominational journal is a calamity to all the other de nominations. I would almost feel that a great misfortuno had happened me if Tho Christian Intelligencer of tbe Re formed church (my mother church) did not como to my house every week, for I was brought up on it, and it has become a household necessity. Such a denomi national journal had better be edited by some one who, rocked in tho cradle of that church and ordained at 'her altars, having become venerable in her service, sits spectacled and wiso and with heart full of sacred memories addresses the living of today. In the most sacred crypt of our memory stands ther statue of the religious editors Abel Stevens and Joshua Leavitt, and tho royal famiy of the Primes Irenaeus and Eusebius while others linger on the banks of the Jordan, where they will not have long to wait for Elijah's chariot, ard when they go up, if wo still be sitting at our editorial desks, wo will cry out in the memorablo words, "My father, my fa ther, the chariot cf Israel and tho horse men thereof T' ' . But, then, there are great movements in which all denominations wish to' join, and we want more undenominational newspapers to marshal and advance and insriro such movements. Yet snch jour nals have a difficult task, because all Christian men, if they have behaved well in their denominations, for some reason preferred the one of their natural and spiritual nativity, and even looking off upen tho general field and attempt ing wider work will be apt to look at things through denominational prefer ence and to treat them with a denom inational twist In the issuing i cf the religious jour nal whose seventh anniversary I preach that difficulty baa been met and over come by the fact that its publisher is a Jdetbodist, and in iU editorial rooms Cur aft FfffrVteti, Esxear I tea aad s CosfrtgatSoaallrt, nd ci denominational prejudice la editorial cr repcrtorlal column would run against Immediate protst. Against John "Wes iv OA crrnrn ctr Calvin's eternal de crees or Bishop ilcllvaine's canonicals crDr. Dowling's Baptistery from year'e onA tn v pat's end not wortl is written cr trinted. Oa all these subjeers we mnvietiins. but undenominational -journalism is not the place to state them. : He who : tells all he knows and expresses all ho thinks cn all occasions and la all places without reference to is a boor cr a crank and of no practical fiervica cither, to church cr state. Complete Unity. TTnnrminational journalism is .ab solutely" necessary to demonstrate the unity cf tho Christian world. Wide and desperate attempt is made to show that tho religion of Jesus Christ is only a hattlecTound cf sects, and the cry has been: "If.youwanf us to accept yesr' rtligica, cgrce, gentlemen, as to xthzi tho Christian religion really is. This desomication says a few -drops cf water dripping from the end cf the fin gers is baptism, and another demands the mbmersence of the entire body. This cno prays with boqk, and that one makes extemporaneous utterance, lne rector cf cne delivers his sermon in a gown, while the backwoods preacher cf another sect addresses the people in his shirt sleeves. Some of your denomi nations have the majestic dominant in the service and others spontaneity. Some cf .yen' think that from all eterni ty some were predestinated to be saved, and that from all eternity others were doomed. Now, it is the business oi Young Men's Christian associations and tract societies and Sunday school unions and pronounced undenominational jour nals to show the falsity cf the charge that we are fighting among ourselves by gathering all Christian denominations cn cne platform or launching tho unit ed sentiment cf. all Christendom from one style of religious printing press. Unity 1 Complete unity 1 Never was any other army on earth so thoroughly united under one flag and inspired by one sentiment and led byono command er as is the church militant. Christ commands all tho troops of all denomi nations of Christians', and they are go ing to shout together in ' tho final vic tory when the whole world is redeemed. But we have in all our denominations got tired of trying to make other people think as we do on all points. The here kv hnnters in -all denominations are nearly alljdead, thank God, and we are learning that when men get wrong in their faitli instead of martyrizing them by arraignment we do better to wait for the natural rolb of years to remove them. Men die, but the truth lives cu. We may not all agree as to the number of teeth in the jawbone with which Samson slew the Philistines, or' agree as to what was the exact color of the foxes which ho set on firo to burn up the corn shocks, but ou tho vitals of re ligion we all agree. It we could call into one great con vention the 645,566 Episcopalians, tho 1,420,005 "Lutherans,, the 1,460,346 Presbyterians, the 4,158,857 Baptists, C9 Mlg,m 2tet2Kta pcttiaf rota them tbe fallewh faettfoss, we would gee unanimous answer in the affirma tive: Do you believe in a God, good, holy, jusfc, omnipotent? Do you believe In Jesus Christ as a Savieur? Do you believe in the convicting, eouvertiag and sanctifying powerj of the Holy Ghost? Do you believe that the gospel is going to conquer all nations? If you should put these questions to those assem bled millions on millions, while there would not be a solitaryjnegative, there would be an aye, aye, ayeljpud enough to make the foundations ot the earth tremble and the archesiof the heavens resound. Let there be platforms, let there be great occasions, let there be undenominational printing presses to thunder forth the unity of all Christen dom. One Lord. One faith. One bap tism. One God and Father. One Jesus Christ. One cross. . One heaven. Liberty Against All Oppression. So also there is room for a religions journal that stands for liberty as against all oppression. No authority, political or ecclesiastic, must be per mitted to make us believe this or that. Liberty of the 'Armenian' to worship God independent of the Turkish gov ernment, i Liberty of Cuba as against Spanish domination.. Liberty of Hawaii as against all monarchical authority which it has thrown off. Civil liberty. Political liberty. Keligious liberty The religious journal on whose sev enth anniversary I preach has had for its owner and publisher one who in his ancestry experienced just the opposite. His father, an exile , from his native land " befcause of his opinions, his prop erty confiscated, his life imperiled, landed ,on American soil bereft of ev erything that foreign' oppression could rob him1 of. Naturally his son knows right well how to appreciate liberty. The nfostof us are; descended from those Who 'imperiled all to gain their natural and religious rights. Let the type and the printing presses and the editorial chairs be overthrown which dare to surrender to any attempt again to put on the shackles. The movement baa started for the demolition of all the tyrannies of church 'and state. Reli gious newspapers must stana snouiaer .to shoulder in this mighty march for God and the world's rescue. Again on this seventh anniversary I say there is room for ; a religious paper charged with old f ashionod evangelism. Other styles cf religions newspaper may do for advertising purposes, or for the presentation cf able essays on elab orate themes, but if this world is ever brought to God it will be through un qualified, unadulterated, unmixed, un mistakable evangelism: It was astound ing that the Lord 'Almighty should have gone into great bereavements, sub- J mining lO lllO JUSS Ul Alia WliXjr CUU, l.uciV Son stepping off the dooreill cf heaven into a darkness and an abysm that no plummet has ever yet been able to fath er, estd itocvsb Oat ftsaal ci tfcft ktams IU 1 af area to c wcvid, H how to g -tke twice te all people, and in suck an attractive way that they will take hold of theua is the absorb icg question. The human voice can travel enly a few feet away, and the world wants something further and wider reaching, and thatjU the newspaper press, and as the secular press must necessarily gif e itself chiefly to secular affairs let the religious newspaper give Itself to the present and everlasting sal ' ration cf all who can read, or, if not able to read, have 'ears to hear others read, It there be an opportunity higher, deeper, grander, than that offered to newspaper . evangelism, name ii and guide us to it, that we may see its al .tars, its pillars, its domes, its infinitude. . Th Tender Christian Heart. Again, on this seventh anniversary cf The Christian Herald I. notice there is room for a religious paper thoroughly humanitarian. The simple fact is the majority of the human race hare not enough " to eatj cr wear. r The ma jority cf the human race are in trou ble. Hew to multiply loaves of bread and increase the ful and heal the wounds and shelter ihe homeless are questions that .Christ met equally jss soon as he did spiritual necessities. The first heart to respond ,to the cry of suf ferers from drought or flood cr 'earth quake cr cruelty should be the Christian heart. Therefore let:the pages of reli gious journalism spread out the story of all such woes and collect relief and dis burse alms all around our suffering world. Religious journalism ought to become the aqueduct through which the Christian charities of the world should pour until there' is no more hungerto be fed and no more ignorance to be edu cated and ; no more nakedness to be clothed and no mote suffering to as suage. In trying to do that pactial thing the religious paper whose anni rersary I celebrate has during the past seven years raised . and distributed over $400,000 for the relief of physical dis tresses. j .' "' ' ''"' Again, on this seventh anniversary of a religious publication I notice that there is an especial mission for a reli gious journal truthfully optimistic. The most optimistic book I know of is tho Bible, and its most impressive authors were all optimists David an optimist, Paul an optimist, St. John an optimist,, our blessed Lord an optimist. I cannot look upon a desert but I am by the old book reminded that it will 4 blossom t like as, the rose, " I cannot in a menag erie lock upon a lion and a leopard but I am reminded that "aHttie child shall lead them." I cannot seej a collection of. gems in a jeweler's window without' thinking of heaven afla&frand ablaze and incarnadined and empurpled with all manner of precious stones. I cannot heat a trumpet but I think of that one which shall wake the dead. All the ages of time, bounded on one side by the para dise in which Adam and Eve walked and on the other side by the. paradise which St. John saw . in apocalyptic vision. ; The Scriptures optimistic and their authors , optimistic, all Ireligious news papers ought to be optimistic Not ou lv thm-i'M U ministers and all religious editors have & fcea tight, te lirer sight. Taa weru aateaeaf trou ble of its own without our glrisg then an extra dose ia the sfcape of religion. This wnrld is roinsf to be saved, and if you do net beliefe it you are an infidel. None of us wants to get on Doarcu a train which instead of reaching the de-: pot is surely going down the embank ment. All aboard for the millennium! For the most part in a religious journal let the editorials ibe cheerful and the pictures cheerful. It in one column there bo a ghastly woodcut of the fam ine stricken in India, in the next col umn have a list of contributions for al leviation of the suffering or a picture of a ship carrying breadstuffs. If in one column . there- be the death of an old minister of the gospel whom we cannot spare, in the next put the name of some young Elisha who can wear the mantle of Elijah. . : . '. ' ; More and More Sunshine. If - some evil of society is depicted in one column, in the next show the gos pel machinery that is to drive it back into the perdition from which it ascend ed.. More and more sunshine let there be in religious journalism. Publish in It more sermons on texts liko "Oh, give thanks unto the Lord, for he is good," and fewer on texts like, "Out of the depths of hell have I cried unto ,thee, O Lord. " If any one has anything gloomy to say, let him say it to himself. If he must write it, let him not sgnd it to ed itorial rooms, hut put it in the pigeon hole cf his own desk for his heirs and assigns to read it further on, for prob ably they can stand it better than we I once gave $7 to hear Jenny Lind sing. I never will,.- give a cent to hear & man groan. Up with the blinds and fthrow back the shutters and -let the m&rning light come in. There is not so much re ligion in the dampness of a cellar as in the breath of an apple orchard fn blos som week. What a victory David got over himself when he closed the Psalms with six chapters of y Praise ye the Lord, " saying it over 'and over again, until, in any other book, it would have become monotonous. If in our diaries and our family records and our religious newspapers we would write two honest catalogues, the one a catalogue of bless: ings and the other a catalogue of trou bles, the former would be five times larger than the latter. , ' Pray "for the religious newspapers ' of America, because of the fact that, if they have the righ spirit, each one does as" much good as 5 or 50 or 200 churches. What are the 500 or 5, COO people mak ing up a Sabbath f audience compared with tbe 10,000 br 50,000 or 200, 0C0 that the religiou journal addresses? Such journals ar pulpits that preach day and night. Thiy reach weekly those 'who, through invalidism or through in-, difference, never eter churches. They reach people in their quietude,' when their attention is not distracted, as in church, by the fine rnilliaery 4 that ap peals to tin ey cr & rnstla el at? that attract tee ta 23 icSSl always t our duty aaa our prittlss cot to fcsr? sake the assembling at ouraelrea to gether, but I beljeve the consecrated printing prexs fa the eaiif agency ufiaer God to save the werld. 'Fas Dipped In Yttriol. Pray alio for thefrsligious newtpiapers cf America, that they may resift the temptation to become acerb, harsh and damnatory Of those who think different ly frpm themselveif In all denomina tions there are disappointed people who put mean things in religicuS newspapers about ministers and. other prominent Christian workers. Unsuccessful men and women nevei like successful men and women. There are editors and re porters who, instead of writing with ink, dip their pens in oil cf vitriol; or lampblack. When a religious newspaper does lie, it beats all secular journalism in contemptibility. . As Adam Clarke, the commentator, said, 'Some people serve tha Lord as thouch the devil were KEEP YOUR EYES OPEW Surely if the word REGULATOR Is not on a package it is not1 ; .'-i: i '-'n'"' I " ' Nothing else is the sizme. It cannot be and never has ; v been put up by any one except And it can be easily told by their Trade Mark THE .REDu2.,.- .' :V FOR SALE DY DR. W. W. CRICCS a SON. In them. That ouItHU a helpful news- Jjuptx v. mu.u, ua yy a iuiu i up cute cva- Ca ,a UV4lf ' W W men and in a suirit that wishes prosper- 1 xii im itiiLt u ao -aa u uvw w v w ity for all Christian workers, whether "... .' . .. they work our way or so mo other way, and we feel as though the angel, flying through the . midst of heaven, havipg the .everlasting gospel to preach, had with the flapping of his wing stirred the air on our cheek and forehead. ; Pray also for religious journalism, that it may be alert not abreast of the times, but ahead of the times. In this day, when by cablegram we seem to get from Eurppo news five hours before it starts, we do not want in our religious columns information.seissored out of an eld newspaper or information sent by means- of a letter which comes to us i- of a letter which comes to us ;h the-dead letter postofficebe- it was misdirected, nor do wo it to take the pace of religious through cause want it to take tbe pace or religious journalism as it was in 1816, when Na ; fcnipire" if theso vnmesputCkribtiau tbaniel Wilson started Iris religious pa-) ; ' "V per called The Recorder, or when The Ity nt is 'disadvantage,' or aa brilliant as Watchman was born in' 1819, or when l Voltaire's ''Discourse Upou Man'1 if Tho Christian Register made its first : tkoy iuculcatefl injurious th'fnrieu, or as appearance in 1821. - The canalboat ( rhythnio ts Byrcu's "Don Juan" if it drawn by mules on a towpath did well j sacrificed tho decencies. On that day m its time, but now we prefer the res-the frying roll which Eeshariah of tho tibuled limited express. Beoaute a' text saw thousands of years ago and tko thiug ! pious it need net thersore be rolls which wa ero Jyiu arc -all eur daU. Tae p4tfegr pess tstf tasJ Qt ' torras tad tKttt tad Cytaj tb Argtss f iaytfeeUer, tm Aai tXilzm ptriftttl r Ccsl ro betcg had only 100 eyes, waile ttie newspaper has 1,000 eyas aad. i 1,000 ears and 1,000 arms. The secaiwr nsw j yasA tS DVV II rfot pri tend te give its religious mean- all the e rents of the day in companies, regiments and brigades and show us in what direction that divinely aiscipnnea host is marching and let us know,wnare victories for God and righteousness they j will win. The Christianized printing , to I do in our time on a largo scale what the battering ram did in old- pn timfl on a smaller scale. That old unit! JH a uuaiiu cvaw. ., ..v. .i,inrf,.c . nfiwnnff by chains to a beam supported by posts, ,. and many men would lay hold of the stout timber and swing it backward and ' iorwaru uum, gvi.i,iu& uuuw u.4 mentum, it would strike into awful j demolition the wall besieged. God grant that all of us who have anything to do . with1 the mighty battering ram of our ( century, the printing press, may do clothed of God with especial strength and oneness of-purpose and thatij haying pulled it back for one mighty assault, we may. altogether rush it forward, brushing into everlasting ruin" the last wall of opposition and the last fortress of iniquity!. " v f . The Inkliorn at Judgment. And now let all of us who are con nected with either secular or religious journalism ? remember that we will be called into final account for every word we write in editorial or repOrtorial or contributors' column for erery, type we ' set, for every press we move, and for the style of secular or religious newspaper we patronize or encourage. In Ezekiel's prophecy the angl of God, supposed to be Christ, appears with an inkhorn hung at his side ajb an attor ney's clerk in olden time had an ink horn at his side. And I have no doubt the inkhorn will have an important part in the day of judgment-i-those who have used it well to receive eternal plaudit and those who have misused it to, receive condemnation. Jr.neu up ux an iio nwm o juiuuujj . pffices, secular and religious, aro the tmblicatibus of past years, bound upi ; year by year, and in those offices they I can jeii jusi. w xaut iuvj ,)iuncu nu j day 'for the last 20 years, and in the( great day of judgment all that we have ever written or prinfed will be revealed from the mighty volumes of eternity, j All those who have. ruthlessly pried in-j to the secret of unhappy .domestic life and despoiled homes, come to judg- ment. All those r. bo have by the; pen, assassinated cln eter, come to judg- j ment. Ail those'. 1:6 have had anything to do with -ealaciuvs and depraved liter- attire, come to judgment. All tnose who have ; preen i d pictures adminis trative of vice, kcie to judgment.? No bate will then djire rzy, "I knew it was not true, and 1 culy intended it for a jpk,' c MI bad to toaka stf lltiafV asT fk9 pepet Cast I weticl fcer fail cn la jsroportleii to rae stortlisf satmto cf 6ie stuff I prpaTed, or, I correct ed the falsehood in the next issue, or, "I felt my power in tbe editorial-chair, having opportunity to address such mul titudes week by wtek, and I wanted to keep the chmrch and the world; in awe cf ie. " On that great day of judgment all the power we. hare had on earth will bo insignificant compared with the power that will pronounce our rapture pr our deem, and that which might hare fc cn considered a joke in the "composing rpcm, because it humil iated an enemy, will be no joke at all amid the wreck of mountains and seas, aid the inkhorn .will there tell of all we wrote anonymously and under the impersonality of a newspaper, as well as that which : was signed with our own name. . But what a beautiful day for a Frances Havergal, when she gets re warded for all the kind things she ever wrote with, the tears of her inralidism: . I ... . or wmu the tut hers ha auUicrmcs of all lands and aces am told h ' w .w mmmmj , - " r- imou mentalities, and for all tboKo-who uso ikn n im unu the influenco of tho proes to correct tho lareak the serfdom of mankind 1 - Letter of HladoeM. ..I Then the inkhorn by the side of the angel of the new covenant will speak out and . toll of i what it had to do with all letters of kindness written, with all emancipation prochunation.,vith all ed itorial and reportorial eulogies of tho good, with all tho messages ot salvation to a lost world. Better in that day will it be to have stt up tho typo for ono lino "of Christian encouragement or writ ten one paragraph or useful MUtttnont or published ono page of hcli ful truth lhan to havo written book as lig as Gibbon's fire largo vjolumcs conci ruing ' t.Th npcllno'niiil Full fif iho'- ltmnn ..Tb Declino aikl FhII cl tho' l.mnn Iqreatei will s fa4 to tmm saas rages dlvma or sattIo. No eoly tb inanorn wmea ui aaw, pwi ai . I saw the dead, small aud great, ta4 The tl BiinpieBt form of an object used tn gocure carmcnt, finds its develop . n he Mf et ,n of twlfl x of tho ancient world used this par- ticnlar form of brooch. With tho . j .. Ce ts it was a favorite ornament In many old Scotch families of tho . present timo u brooch belonging to their ancestors line been preserved aa tfte mosi precious oi ruiiuo. Latelv tho British museum has acquired the' Glenlyon "brooch, ' which finds its placo in the glass case near tho Lorn brooch. This Lorn brooch is Bupposodly the ono worn ly Robert tho Bruco. Tho Glenlyon specimen has been for many j centuries iiv tho Campbell , family. It is a large brooch, firo . inches in circumference. . It is of silver, set with jewels, nnd bears tho names of "Caspar,. Melcnbir, Bal thazar' the three kings.of Cologne; euch an inecription being often usdl in amulets of the mediarrjal period. New York Times. . A Vott Sermon. i,. .".'; An eminent preacher, wbo yri'ded himself upon his ability todiscourso without the aid of notes, onco got into the pulpit, but when boj (oundJ himself face to face with bis con gregation his ideas vanished, bis mind was a blank. He tapped bis forehead, but in vain; his ideas would not come. "My friends," ha said, "I pity you; you have Host ft fine sermon," and he descended tho pulpit steps. San Francisco Argo naut ' A Ulfflcnlt Situation. "I'm in a quandary," remarked the fire eating citizen.' ; ? "Of what nature!" .I'-1" "I challenged that magazine ed itor." V , . , v "What did ho do about it I "Sent me a printed slip saying that my manuscript bad been re ceived and would bo read as soon aa it could be reached in its turn." Washington Btax. CURES TO STAY CURED. ThnriRAnda of vnlun tarr cprtificates re- ir.ir the nast fifteen rears. certify with no uncertain totwd, that Botanio Blood Balm. B U.) wm curt to stay cured, Rheumatism, Cat- tpK iTlrtOM. Rn?ft 'TUotches. and the f . -ww ' f " " " - most malignant blood ana skin dis eases. Botanio Blood J Jul rn is iLe re sult of forty yars experieno of an eminent, scientious and conscientious physician, fcefid stamp for book of wonderful cure. .and learn which is the best remedy. Beware of subiti tutes said to be -"Just - as good" and bur the long-tested and the old re liable Botanic Blood Balm, (B. B. .) Price onjy $1.00 per large bottle. ; J EFFECTED AS ENTIRE CCIIE. j . 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The Weekly Economist (Elizabeth City, N.C.)
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Dec. 3, 1897, edition 1
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