The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1895-12-10
TIE Sunday NEWSPAPER,
Dr.. landium's Able and Eloquent Ad-
dress % The Subject.
BETTER lSUKOAY THAN MONDAY APER
Tho History of the Newspaper II the story
OF frecdom-T jefferson Said
That Government Could Better be
spared Than spnpers-fhey
Are ia. Necessity Of tho Age.


Are the Necessity Of tho Age.
Rev Or. W. W. Landrum preached
Sunday night on "'rho Sunday News
paper at hc Second Baptist church,
h text being found IN l. Corinthians X
81. Whether. therefore, ye eat or drink
or whatsoever yc do, do all to the glory
OF God. Give none onense; either TO the
Jews. nor T. the Gentiies, nor to the
Church Of Cod
Christianity. said DR.. Landrum m the
int ,oductlon. lis conduct. Nineteenth
century Christianity is pre-eminently con
duct. It is not creed nor Church so
much a. conduct. conduct which IS the
Illustration OF character. Life Is no long
CT visible. You cannot separate NE into
secular life and religious lie, into world
by life and Christi8t life, into sunday
lie and Monday life THE sum
cav newspaper oupht 10 come into line
aud Christlanize itself Then let pulpit
and press combine 10 christanize me
manners and customs of the people az
This community
NEWSPAPERS or CHINESE ORIGIN.
The great question when Paul visited
Athens is the great question NOW hat
D. the nowsy TO answer That question
the newspaper came into being. China
efrsut. Go say. led the way. There l8 e.
newspaper printed on silk IN PoNn that
has been published every week Tor
thousand years. a. Is very weakly ana
very old. Ancient Rome had a newspa-
per. tho Acta Diuria Newspapers De
.fI.f t|F FHF
out the news for his patients. News
papers began iu England in DE lime of
Queen Elizabeth. and contained an ac-
count of the overthrow Of nc spanish
Armada The first American newspaper
was Published as "A weekly in Boston IA
1890. and che FIRST daily American it VS.
paper was published in Philadelphia in
ii4 The FIRST Virginia newspaper was
published in WILLIAMSBURG in 1916, a
weekly. known as the Virginia Gazette.
The newspaper Is an evolution. IT dio
not suddenly spring into being. Its gene
alory Is this. The circular or news ct
Ter begot the pamphlet. and the nairph-
Jet bceOt the quarterly, and the GUAR
torly DegOt the monthly. and the monthly
lceOt tine weekly. and the weekly hcgot
tho daily except Sunday Then the
civil war in America bcgot thc sunday
extra with details from the last hattie,
ana the Sunday extra begot the Sunday
daily.
NEWSPAPERS BEFORE GOVERN
MENT
The history of the newspaper IS the
story OF freedom. Thomas jefferson,
who wrote the Declaration of lnd'pcud-
once. also wrote these words: "If ] had
10 choose between government without
newspapers and newspapers without a
government / would prefer the litter
That is tbe voice Of freedom. A hundred
years before "a Virginia Governor. Sir
William Berkeley, said: THANK God We
have neither tree school nor printing
press and ] hope may not fave for "a
hundred years That is the voice OF
despOtism. A French statesman said 10
the editors of his nation during thcir
great revolution. suffer yourself 10 he
blamed. imprisoned. condemned, suffer
yourself even TO be hanged, but publish
your opinions IT Is not right il is
"a duty Martyr after martyr has laid
clown his life TO give the world free
press. Science has had its martyrs,
medicine has had IT'S martyrs. and pa
ttiotism and our holy religion, but in an
history. let me tell You. there hove been
uo nohler martyrs Than those daunucss
knights OF the Quill" who have eX-
rick Henry Give me liberty or give me
death"
NECESSITY or THE AGE.
Journalism is a necessity OF the age.
IT is the book OF the million. None are
too poor TO buy a newspaper. News
papers are read when nothing else rs
lcad. Newspapers are sent by thousands
through the mails. instead OF letters.
they are with many, very many, the only
medium of communication All the pco-
pie read thc newspapers. The Old man
looks for the deaths. the young look TO
The marriages; the stakeholder looks TO
the money column. the buyer to the
advertisements. the thinker looks TO the
editorials, the unemployed TO the wants
and the Christian looks AN through 30
see what God is doing among the ma
tons. and whether the halo IS really
swinging around into the light or the
glorious gospel.
The newspaper IS the American col
lege. IL is The university extension" OF
the people. Ideas. by means OF news
papers, become cosmopolitan An ma
tons exchange thought with each other in
a free. easy. cheap and intelligent mani
ncr What occurs in Paris. London,
Berlin. 81. Petersburg, and Washington
Is known within twenty-iOur hours TO
millions Of people OF all nations and
tongues through the press The press.
like the pulpit teaches the great re-
public. On all the great subjects that
agitate the public mind governments are
advised OF the public sentiment. and cabi-
nets are guided by public opinion ox-
pressed In the public journal.
SKILL REQUIRED.
Let the newspaper appreciate lis trans
cendent responsibility / agree with one
Who says: "fo publish a newspaper re-
quires the skin. the precision. the vigil
lance, the strategy. the holiness OF
commander-in-chief." To edit a news
paper one needs to be 2 moral phnoso-
phcr, Statesman, an cssa. st. a geOara-
pher. staustician. and as far as an
knowledge is concerned, encyclopaeaic.
To man and TO propcl newspaper re-
quircs more qualities than any other bust
ness on earth. 1 favor the establishment
Of school OF journalism at the Univer-
SHY or Virginia. / believe the Journalist
should De the best-educated man in The
state. Why, my friends. do YOU not
know that nearly all the great minds
and great hearts Of the world either hive
had their hands on the newspaper print
Ing press or will have their hands on
the newspaper printing prcsse DO YOU
not know that the most o. the good books
OF the day were originally published ~
periodicals?
Now, let the people hold the newspa-
per up 10 It's LOFTY mission. The press is
powerful. but the people are more pow
erfl than the press Understand me.
that | 90 not at all sympathize with
those "goody-goody" people who condemn
the prpeg for r,irrorinr ffa ~ IL il M.