Lexington weekly intelligencer., 1883-05-12

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men as an example. The .beneicis
effect that this had upon the cause h
led it would be hard to calculate
The opportunity Of journalism in th
same direction is almost limitless
Our newspapers find their. way unde
almost every ro0f-tree The gra,
haired grandsire tottering under, hi
weight of years lays them down to b.
taken up by the hoy of ten, or the CIR
in her teens. What may be. q harm.
less jest to q matured mind, II. implir.
or. irfeverent, may do lasting and ire
parable injury to one. '.of these little
ones. ..41f : -s.s sziT e s.1t'
The. meek and lowly, Savior epito
mized the law in these. word :-ssThou
shalt love the Lord thy God with all
| thy heaft, and with ali thv soul. and
with all thy mind. This is the first
and great commandment. And the
second is like unto it: Thou shalt
love stiiy neighbor as thyseif. On
these two Commandments hang all the
law and the prophets" And On
these two commandments hangs the
entire duty OF, man. Abou Ben
Adhem claimed but one of these virtues,
and was exalted because the least car
rled- with it the necessary possession Of
the other. Shall any man surpass In
love for. his fellows that of tho great
brotherhood Of journalists. the men
who weld and manipulate the most
beneficent invention of modern years,
the movable types which perpetuate
thought, and which are striking the
letters from mankind!
The press possesses wonderful ad-
vantage over the preacher i'll snforc-
ing these lessons of dual love. 1t is
impersonal. 1t is not accused of
arrogance or pride if it piles precept
upon precept. Its little sins of tenn
per or petulance, or worse, are not
borne in the mind Of the reader as are
those of the preacher To his audience,
The field is broad. The opportunity is
great: Andthe journa ist who neglects
1t In Missouri is not in accord with
the mass of his readers. To- cul-
tivate this important field he
need not convert his paper into q. re
llgiOus organ nor even make of religion
q prominent theme; but the tone, the
effort, the direction of His work should
be toward higher ground,sinculcating
in its drift love,to God and love to
man. The fiippant may ridicule the
prominence l have given to this branch
OF MY subject. care not. The
strongest emotions of the human heart:
its dearest aspirations come within it's
scope. If skepticism is rampant: if
infidelity is becoming common; if the
VOW is yearly becoming less
sacred, it is largely because men other
than avowed ministers of the gospel no
longer lift up their voices for religion
as they did in the days Of the pilgrims
and the huguenots. And because
the public and the press do not REQUIRE
as high standard of morality and
honor as once prevailed in our country,
l am no pretender to virtue. We are all
full Ofsin ;but we should be enrolled in
all army to combat it, and I am neither
ashamed to acknowledge my owl.
allegiance to that army or that of my
newspaper. The most philosophical of
publicists, in one of his latest
works, said: -s'Unlovely, nay fright
full is the solitude of the soul. which is
without God in the world" He then
pictures him thus: ITO see men pur-
suing in faith their varied action, warm
providing for their children,
loving their friends, performing their
are they to this chill,
fatherless, aimless Cain, the
man who hears only the sound Of his
oru,o--f<.s A-4---A i.s.v- -Sas~a%-.-
doubt all of US believe, let us SO conduct
our papers that the world will say
journalism believes it.
And now a word as to woman.
The press is often unfair to itself in
pretending to less virtue than it has.
In nothing is it more SO than in its treat
ment of woman. An extreme case
was the one in which an Englishwoman
came to this country in the prosecution
Of her profession, and was accredited
with an interview which never oc-
which put her in an equivocal
position with all alleged lover, and
which, out of whole cloth, fnanufactur.
ed q story, derrogatory to her reputa
ton. Let us hope that there was
some mental alteration behind this
terrible breach Of decorum and viola
lion of hospitality; but let us none the
less condemn it. Fortunately it is
not often that womanhood is SO much |
outraged as this, nor indeedis it fire.
luent' that the press is lacking in
courtesy to an individual woman.
The error. lies in the too constant bur-
esques OF her womanhood, There
IS class of writers which delights in
painting her as a frivolous creature,
ievoid either Of sense or sentiment.
1t is the delight Of these people to tell
how, when a girl, she kisses her sweet
hearts, hugs her beaux, paints her
face. shows her ankles, and otherwise |
herself, adj as if it was a
matter of-course, and how when she |
grows older she grows worse. con.
less that that kind of writing is nau-
seating to me. 1t may be because I |
an not as young as used to be, but |
feel as young as ever did, and do not
believe that ever liked such twaddle.
1t is unnecessary for me to say to an
audience Of adu men and women that |
, young girl has no business to kiss or !
ondle. any man but her father. not |
.ven her cousins land net excepting her |,
iffianced lover. Afianced lovers |
marry the girls to whom they are en-
gagged sometimes, sometimes they don't,
md when they do not they are apt to
'peak of the favors which girls have
granted them. The kind that break their
promises are never too good to do
his. OF course every girl thinks her
over paragon Of perfection who
,ould be guilty of no meanness; but,
hen, it is well to remember that the
pest of them are human. Street |
1irtations are spoken of as jokes, when
he truth is, that's a girl who makes her,
self conspicuous in this way is consid-
cred fair game for the libertine, and |
las only herself to blame if he meets
ler advances halfway. The ribald |
oke on kissing, the publication of nom
'ensical Irritation signals, of immoral
and words of double enteudre !
IAN commend themselves to no sensible /
people, as they must be offensive to all |
we'll bred ones. In woman we have |
he most exalted type of living beings. |
Let each Of us with closed eyes recur
II memory to our boyhood and our
mother. What patience! What
enderness! What unremitting care
md solicitude! What self-abnega.
ion! What purity! What good !
less! What matchless love! Shall .