The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1888-06-27

can afford to wait. Take rough misrep-
resentation as Turkish towel to start
up your languid circulation, or system
of massage or Swedish movement, whose
pokes and pulls and twists and thrusts
are salutary treatment. There is only
one person you need to manage, and
that is yourself. Keep your disposition
sweet by communion with the Christ
who answered not again, the society of
genial people, and walk out in the sun.
shine with your hat of, and you will
come out all right. And don't join the
crowd of people in our day who spend
much of their time damning newspapers.
"Again: In this effort to secure the
secular press as a mightier reinforce
ment of religion and the pulpit, let us
make it the avenue of religious lnforma-
ton. If you put the facts of churches
and denominations of Christians only
into the column OF religious papers,
which do not in this country have an
average of more than 10, 900 subscribers,
what have you done as compared with
what you do if you put these facts
through the daily papers, which have
hundreds of thousands of readers. EverT
little denomination must have its little
organ, supported at great expense, when
with one-half the outlay column OF
half column of room might be rented
in some semi-omnipotent secular publ
cation, and so the religious information
would be sent round and round the
world.
"The world moves SO swiftly to-day
that news week old is stale. Give us
all the great church facts and all the
revival tidings the next morning or the
same evening. My advice, often given
to friends who propose to start a new
paper, is: Don't don't Employ the
papers already started. The biggest
financial hole ever dug in this American
continent is the hole Z which good peo-
pie throw their money when they start a
newspaper. 1t is almost as good anI as
quick way Of getting rid OF money as
buying stock in = gold mine in Colorado.
Not more printing presses, but the right
use of those already established. All
their cylinders, all their steam power, all
their pens, all their types, all their
editorial chairs and reportorial rooms
are available if you would engage them
in behalf of civilization and Christianity.
GIVE THE REPORTERS EASY CHAIRS.
"Again: If you would secure the
secular press as mightier reinforce
ment OF religion and the pulpit, extend
the widest and highest Christian courte-
sizes to the Representatives OF journalism.
Give them easy chairs and plenty of
room when they come to report occasions.
For the most party they are gentlem en-
of education and refinement, graduates
of colleges, with families to support by
their literary craft, many of them weary
with the push of business that is pre-
carious and tiuctuating, each one OF them
the avenue of information to thousands
of readers, their impression of the SER
vices to be the impression adopted by
nultitudes. They are connecting links
between a sermon or song Or prayer
aud this great population that tramp up
and down the streets day by day and year
by yesr, with their sorrows uncontrolled
and their sins unpardoned. More than
eight hundred thousand people in Brook
lyn and less than seventy-tiVe thousand
in churches; so that our cities are not so
much preached to by ministers Of religion
as by reporters.
"Put all journalists into our prayers
and sermons. OF all the hundred thou
sand sermons preached to-day, there will
not be three preached to journalists, and
probably not one. OF all the prayers
offered for classes of men innumerable,
the prayers offered for this most potential
class will be so few and rare that they
will be thoughts a preachers idiosyncracy.
The world will never be brought to
God until some revival of religion sweeps
over the land and takes into the kingdom
of God torsand reporters, compositors,
pressmen and newsboys. And ii you have
not faith enough to pray for that and toll
for that, you had better get out OF our
ranks and join the other side, for you
are unbelievers who make the wheels Of
the Lords chariot drag heavily.
'"rhe great final battle between truth
and error, the Armageddon, | think, will
not be fought with swords and shells and
guns, but with pens-quill pens, steel
pens, gold pens, fountain pens-and, be-
fore that, the pens must be converted.
The most divinely honored weapon OF
the past has been the pen, ana the most
divinely honored weapon of the future
will be the pen; prophets pen and evan
gelist's pen and apostles pen, followed
by editors pen and reporters pen and
auther's pen. God save the pen! The
wing OF the apocalyptic angel will be the
printed page. The printing press will
roll ahead of Christ's chariot to clear the
way.
THE SUNDAY NEWSPAPER.
"But some one might ask, would you
make the Sunday newspapers also a re-
enforcement? Yes, would. l have learn
ed to take things as they are. would
like to see the much scotfed at old Puritan
Sabbaths come back again. l do not
think the modern Sunday will turn out
any better men and women than were
your grandfathers and grandmothers
under the old-fashioned Sunday. To
say nothing of other results, Sunday
newspapers are killing editors, reporters,
compositors and pressmen. Every man,
woman and child is entitled to twenty
four hours OF nothing to do. If the
newspapers put on another set OF hands,
that does not relieve the editorial AMI
reportorial room of its cares and respon-
sibilities. Our literary men die fast
enough without killing them with Sunday
work. But the Sunday newspaper has
come to stay. 1t will stay a good deal
longer than any of us stay. What, then,