Sharp County record., 1890-03-13

+bo nrass touches five hundred. Inc
vast majority of people do not go 10
church. but all intelligent people
read the newspapers. While 'nere,
fore the responsibility OF tho
ministers is great, the RESPONSE
biIitv of editors and reporters is greater
Come, brother journalists, and get your
ordination, not by the laying on OF nu-
man hands but by the laying on Oh inc
hands of the Almighty. To you is COM
mitted the precious reputation OF men
and the more precious reputation OF
women. Spread before our cnii-
dren an elevated literature. Make
sin appear disgusting and virtue aa-
pirable. Believe good rather than eVll.
While you show up the hypocrlsleS Oh
tbo church, show up the stupendous
hvpocrisies outside the church. be not,
as some of you are, the mere echoes Oh
nubIic opinion; make public opinion
Let the great roll on which you write
with a mans pen be message OF hgn''
and liberty, and kindness, and an awak-
eninr of moral power. But who IS
sufficient for these things? Not one OF
YOU without divine help. But get tha'
influence and the editors and reporters
can 90 up and take this world Tor uoo
and the truth. The mightiest oppor-
tunitv in all the world for use fulness
to-day is open before editors, and report
ers. and publishers, whether OF knowl-
edge on foot, as in the book, or kno"l-
edge on the wing as in the newspaper
Some one might say to me: "dow can
YOU talk thus of the newspaper press
when YOU yourself have sometimes been
unfairly treated and misrepresented?
I answer that in the opportunity the
newspaper press of this country
and other countries have given mo
week by week to preach the gospel
to the nations l am put under SO much
obligation that l defy all editors and re-
portors the world over to write any
thing that shall call forth from me one
word of bitter retort from now till the
day Of my death. My opinion is tnat
allu reformers and religious teachers
instead of spending so much time
and energy in denouncing the press
had better spend more time in thank
ing them for what they have done for
the worlds intelligence and declaring
their magnificent opportunity and urg-
ing their employment Of it all for be-
neficent and righteous purposes.
Again, | remark that Henry W.
Grady stood for Christian patriotism
irrespective of political spoils. He de-
clined all official reward. He could
have been Governor of Georgia, but re-
fused it. He could have been Senator
of the United States, but de-
clined it, He remained plain
Mr.. Grady. Nearly all the other
orators of the political arena, as
soon as the elections are over, go to
Washington, or Albany, or Harrisburg,
or Atlanta, to get in city or State or Ma
tional Office reward for their services,
and not getting what they want spend
the rest of the time of that administra-
ton in pouting about the management
of public affairs or cursing Harrison or
. Cleveland When the great political.
! campaigns were over MGrady went
home to his newspaper, He demon
strated that it is possible to toll for
principles which he thought to be right,
simply because they were right. Chris
tian patriotism is too rare commodity
in this country. Surely the joy OF liv-
ing under such free institutions as
those established here ought to be
enough reward for political fdeli-
ty. Among all the great writer's that
stood at the last Presidential election
on Democratic and Republican plat
forms you can not recall in your mind
ten who were not themselves looking
for remunerative appointments. Aye,
you can count them all on the fingers OF
one hand. The most illustrious speci-
men of that style of man for the last
ten years was Henry W. Grady.
May God comfort that torn-up South
ern home and all the homes of this
country and Of all the world which have
been swept by this plague of influenza,
which has deepened sometimes into
pneumonia and sometimes into typhus
and the victims of which are counted
by the ten thousand! Satan who is the
"prince of the power of the air." has
been poisoning the atmosphere in all
nations. Though it is the first time in
our remembrance, he has done the same
thing before. In 1896 the unwholesome
air of Cairo, Egypt, destroyed the life
of ten thousand in one day, and in Con-
stantinople in 1714 three hundred thou
sand people died of it. am glad that
by the better sanitation of our
cities and wider understanding
of hygionic laws and the great
er skill of physicians these
Apollyonic assaults upon the human race
are being resisted. but pestilential at
mosphere is still abroad. Hardly a
family here but has felt its lighter or
heavier touch. Some Of the best of my
flock fell under its power and many
homes here represented have
been crushed. The fact is the
biggest failure in the universe
is this world if there be no
Heaven beyond. But there is, and the
friends who have gone there are many
and very dear. Oh, fearful eyes, look
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