The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1889-06-29
GAN AN EDITOR BE A CHRISTIAN.
The Editor of The Mail and Express
Answers With IA Big eyes"

The Editor of The Mail and Express
Answers With IA Big "Yes."
The question should be answered
by the mono syllable affirmative in
three letters, and that Eyes" printed
in whole column by itself, to call
attention and give it emphasis.
A Christian editor may at times
have to use strong adjectives, as an
artist who would paint a flame musl
apply burning pigments. He may
often find it necessary to chroni lie
grave crimes, and other events, in
older to give his readers an adequate
mirror of the world and excite their
Indignation against such deeds. He
may sometimes make mistakes IN his
judgments Of men and their motives,
but when convinced that he has done
so, he will consider it an honor to do
them justice, and a disgrace to con-
tinue their perversion of all his fel-
He will be quick to
detect the good which is in every
body and all things, no matter how
latent or obscured. He will praise
well doing, though it be in an oppo.
nent or rival. He will stand for the
Constitution and the laws; for the
inviolability of the ballot, either in
its casting or counting; for public
and private honesty and truthfulness
for everything that is lovely and Of
good report. He will neither him.
self be, nor allow any one in his
employment to be, dishonest or un-
truthful, or subversive of any of the
laws of God, including the Fourth
Commandment. He will love to
herald the good, bright, happy,
noble things in the world, and to tell
good things of everybody, being to
their faults very blind and to their
virtues very kind. He will be a
helper in the communicable binder
up of mems hearts and litter up OF
their lives. He will protect the de-
fenceless. He will seek his country S
welfare as it is given to him to see
that welfare. He will endeavor to
diffuse the spirit of amity among all
classes of society. He will exercise
a noble guardianship over the ma.
tional honor at home and abroad, in
financial, industrial, commercial, so.
cial and political matters. He will
endeayor to make marriage attractive
as Gods first blessed institution
among mankind. He will try to
make every one feel that there can
be no success in anything except
along the lines of duty and of love.
He will try to make men, women and
children feel that dishonor alone is
disaster, and wickedness alone is
shameful; that purity alone is honor
able: that goodness alone is success
full; that benevolence is greater than
enmity; that truth is better than
falsehood; that poverty is impossible
with Jealous spirit; that the giving
of tithes is obligatory upon all men,
no matter how large or how small
may be their income; that faith is a
necessary precedent to success
Still, an editor may be, or endeavor
to do, all these things, and yet not
be Christian. Christianity Is toe
infinite thing to settle down into
earthly forms, no matter how ingen'
ious or ethereal. Christianity is the
state of loving God supremely ano
ones neighbors as ones self. But
neither any other man nor an editor
can arrive at that state merely
through the process indicated above
Christianity can only be obtained by
repentance of sin, and faith in oul
glorious Lord Jesus Christ and the
regeneration of the Holy Spirit If (
man of that kind is an editor, ther
he will be the kind of an editor de
scribed above; but all those thing:
will not make him that kind of 4;
man. He has got to become a Cnris
tian through the same simple process
as a shoemaker, a hodcarrier, miner
or illiterate. And yet it is true tina
an editor Of this last description can
not be such unless he is a Christian
The reader may ask for some illus
tration of a Christian editor. Now
| would instance, among others
Philip Schaff, one OF the most proliti
writer's and editors of this century
and yet in all his volumes OF writing
| would defy anybody to put flnge
upon single sentiment that doe
not appear clearly to emanate from
a Christian spirit and with a Chris
tian motive. In the weekly press c
our country much larger percent
age OF Christian editors is found tha
in the daily. And yet in ne ri
every daily press there will be a
least one or more writer's or editor
who are Christians. and they sustain
the weight and give whatever goo
character there is IN the paper, al
though their influence may not b
understood or acknowledged by thei
associates.
Let us hope that all the editors c
the country are, or may speedily be
come, true Christians. Colonel FL
HoH f. Shepherd IN Frank Leslie
illustrated Newspaper.
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