Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1895-08-08
PANORAMA OF THE WORLD.

1t gives to its patrons every morning
"a Panorama of the World" Web
ster's definition of panorama is "a
complete view in every direction" As
glance over the sixteen pages ! can
not help saying: Truly the world is
here" kilograms from all lands tell
what was done in them on the previ-
GUS day. IL man was murdered in
London Monday night we know all
about IL in San Francisco Tuesday
morning, and sometimes we have his
photograph. The resources of modern
journalism are wonderful, and still
more wonderful is the enterprise man
ifested in utilizing them. Hundreds,
nay often thousands of dollars are ex-
pended in gathering the news and the
views, my copy OF which costs nickel,
or less. Could q man who died hum
dred years ago come back, and take up
the New York Herald or the Chicago
Tribune he would hardly believe that
1t really was what 1t claimed to be.
Yet in most cases the reports from all
over America, Europe and the east are
authentic, and we have a microcosm, a
world in miniature, in our daily paper.
And what world it isl Homicides,
suicides, the wrecking and robbing of
railroad trains, the burglarizing of
banks, the holding up of mail coaches,
the defaulting of cashiers, the plots
of nihilists, bull and bear fights in the
stock exchanges, the strikes of en-
ployes, scandals In social and domes-
tic life, suits for divorce, contests
over the wills of millionaires, etc.
Here and there one may find a CLEAN
of sunshine. But nearly everything il
as black as the ink in which 1t is
printed. A daily paper is the clouded
picture of sad and sin-cursed world.
But is 1t a panorama? Does it give
"a complete view in every direotion?"
Does it present the doings of day as
God sees them? / remember reading,
years ago, graphic sketch entitled
London Unroofed." The author,
after describing the great city az it
appeared to one who traversed It's
streets, and gazed upon its brilliantly
lighted palaces, imagined that he was
looking down upon those palaces as
God and the angels look He saw
skeletons in closets. He saw men whom
millions envied tossing on their beds,
with serpents kissing in their ears and
coiling around their hearts. Bad as
the world Is TO the reader of the daily
newspaper and the editors seem to
love to tell the most about the things
that are worst, there is an inner world
that no human eye can see and no re-
porter's pencil portray, that is darker
and sadder than their clouded
panoramas. "Out of the heart proceed
murders, adulteries, foundations,
thefts, false witness, blasphemies.
If the streams are so foul what cess
pool must their fountain bel
But, thank God, there is another side
to the true world picture. Who that
knew man and human life only as the
dailies paint them would ever dream
that all over Christendom there are
millions of closets where Gods saints
meet Him every night, as Jacob met
the angel at Peniel-that in millions
of homes there are family affairs from
which incense goes up daily
to Heaven, that there are week.
ly and semi-weekly gatherings
of believers, like that In the
upper room at Jerusalem, in which is
claimed the promise of the Father,
that there are sanity men and women,
not only in Christian lands, but all
oyer the world. who are toiling with
an eye single to the glory of God and
the salvation Of their fellow men, and
that amid all the Astounding wicked
ness and wretchedness of the race
stream is flowing from Calvary that
grows wider and deeper every day,
and will in due time SO cleanse and
water the earth that it shall every
where rejoice and blossom as the
rose" Our secular journalists never
! tell US about this stream save when
there is a temporary eddy in it. They
give solid columns to the career of
hypocrite, as il that was the news
everybody wanted to read, while they
leave unearthed the tolls and sacrifices
of those who are faithful. We must
remember this when we read our daily
papers. If we receive their pictures
as truly panoramic we will soon be-
come pessimists.
Let US then read what is called "the
news of the day" without forgetting
that God still reigns; that He has
church on the earth, and that it is
going on quietly, but persistently,
"conquering and to conquer" The
worlds true panorama will never be
unrolled, no, not the panorama of
single day, until the books are opened
before the great white throne. Then
shall we realize, as we can not now,
that the real conflict of the ages is
spiritual, that it is battle for the pos
session of mems hearts. The wars and
the other events of what we call hu-
man history are but the wavelets on
the surface. The deep tides, the strong
undercurrents are those of the Gospel
as opposed to and concerning the
powers of evil, the ruler of the dark
ness of this world" Yes, "God reigns,"
and in His own good time all the king
doms Of this world shall become ''the