Smyrna times., 1867-03-06
Sunday and weekday.

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to be preached, ignorance cast out. onnression
4IGethroned, crime extirpated the world raised.
IteaVen relolced, and God glOrifed. In the
clah4lnS OF the printing press as the sheets fy
OUT near the voice of the Lord Almighty pro
claiming to all the dead nations of the earth
Lazarus, come forth, and to the retreating
Surges OF darkness Let there be light " In
many OF our city newspapers protesting no
more than secular information. there have an
pearGd during the past five years some of the
srahuest appeals in behalf of religious liberty.
ana some OF the most effective interpretations
vi U0d government among the nations. That
man has shrivelled heart who grudges the
HVe pennies that he pays to the newsboy who
brings the world to his feet.
ihere are to-day connected with the edito-
rial and repOrtOrial corps of newspaper eetab-
llshments men of the highest culture and most
unlmpeachable morality who are living ON the
most Stlnted stlpends-martyrs to the work to
Whlch they feel themselves called While YOU
sleep IN the midnight hours their pens fly and
thGlr brains ache III preparing the morning in
telllgence. Many of them 20 unrested and nm
appreciated, their cheeks blanchcd and their
eyes half quenched with midnight work. to-
%aru premature graves, to have the proof
sheet OF their life corrected by Divine Mercy.
glad at last to escape the perpetual ANNOYANCE
and iauIt-tindingS Of a tickle public and the
reStIeSsneSs and impatient cry Of " more COPY"
Nations are to be born in dav." Will
tins great ln-rush to the kingdom of God come
from personal presence OF missionaries and NH.
lanthroplSts? No; whom the time comes for
that grand demonstration of the Snir;t tba
morning papers of all the earth will make the
tremendous announcement and give the call TO
the nations. As at some tclegraphic centre,
an operator will send the messages, north and
SOUTH east and west, San Francisco and
Heart ) Content catching the flash at the
same lnstant-sO, standing at some centre To
which shall reach all the electric wires that
cross the continents and under the sea. some
one shall, with the fore finger of the RIGHT
hand, click the instrument that shall thrill
through all lands, across all islands, under all
seas, through all palaces, into all dungeons
and startle both hemispheres with the news
that IN few moments shall rush out from the
ten thousand times ten thousand printing press
eS eI.S OF the earth: ID esuS hath GOMEZ Fall into
line, all ye nations Glory to God in the high
est, and on earth, peace, goodwill to menI-
Hallelujah!" !" You see therefore, that in the
plain words to be spoken, | have no grudges
to crafty against the newspaper presses. Pro-
feSSl0na men are accustomed to complain of
injustice done them by reportOrial inaccura-
cles. The criticisms | have to make are not
inspired by such motives, for have always in
this city, as elsewhere, received from those who
manage the newspaper press the utmost gene
rOSity of treatment. Considering that newsna-
per men do much of their work in the night.
and are called so often to report orations and
sermons delivered in style rapid and indistinct.
wonder that they 50 often ret things right,
But there is a class OF men in towns and cities
who send forth baleful influence from their
] a. rIaI 1,nDs II,a,rn
papers weekly poured into the homes ofPbila-
! delphla to poison vast population
In addition to home manufacture of inion;-
t0us Sheets the mailbagS of Boston and New
York come gorged with the most supernatural
! abOmlnatlOnS. We scoop up from all the sew
ers OF other cities, and add it to our own news
paper hlth, and tonight, lying on the tables of
this city, or laid away on the shelf or in the
trunk for more private perusal, are papers.
the mere mention of the names of which would
send blush to the cheek of childhood and tbe
cOlOrless face of the Octogenarian, until the de-
cent and Christian world would cry out God
save the city. There is a paper published in
boston that, because OF It's lndecencies no city
government ought to allow; and yet there are
sG!eh thousand copies OF that paper coming to
this city weekly for circulation. | will not
mention the name, for fear some of Won would
go and get 1t. The vilest sheet published in
another cty has between three and four thou
sand Philadelphia subscribers. 1t is wonder
ful how the fingers of the printer fv; but tbe
fingers OF sin and pollution can set nm fftv
thousand types in an instant.
The supply Of bad papers in our o,cn city
does not meet the Unsuitable appetite of onr
people for refuse and garbage aud moral swill.
hut we must corrupt weeklies published else.
where, filled with stories of blood, murder. re-
nt,I h,,,, 10, Il,
paper-Stands grOan under the burden. We
need not go so tar--there are papers in town
that long ago came to perfection of shameless
ness, and there is no more power in venom.
: muck, and slime to pOllute them. They have
dashed their iniqulties into the face Of every
thing decent and holy, and their work will be
seen in the crime and debauchery, and the
hell-innumerable victims, Their columns are
not long and broad enough to record the TRACE
dies of their terrible undoing of immortal men
and woman. God, In the day of Judgment, will
, hold up the reeking, stenched, accursed sheet
upon which they spread out their guilt, and
7 the whole universe will Cry out for their dam.
nation.
See the work of bad newspapers in the false
tldlngs they bring. There are hundreds Of
9 men to-day penniless, who were during the wal
} hurled from their atiiuent positions by incor.
, rect accounts OF battles that shook the money
, market; and the gold gamblers, with theil
e beastly hoots, trampled these honest men into
: the mire. Many window during the war wa.
!, hoisted at the hour of midnight as the bo,
: shouted g Extra !" Extra "0 The father anG
}, mother, who had an only son at the front, with
v trembling hands, blanched cheeks and sinkint
y hearts, read of battles that had never occurr
+ ed God pity the father and mother who ha
: boy at the front when evil tidings come II
# an individual makes false statement, one O
IS twenty persons may be damaged; but news
e paper that wilfully makes a mis- statement. i,
e one day tells $4,000 falsehoods. The mos
}, stupendous Of all lies is newspaper lie j
< bad newspaper scruples not at any sIander.
; may be that, to escape the grip Of the law. tn
o paragraphs will be so nicely worded that sus
:, picion is throw out and damage done withou
Z any exposure or peril.
e Year by year, thousands of men are crushe
e under the ink-roller An unscrupulous ma
d in the editorial chair may smite as with th
q wing of a destroying angel. What to him ar
|, commercial integrity, professional reputation
d woman's honor, or home sanctity? 1t seem
d as if he held in his hands hose with which
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