The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1896-04-17

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hH would BE- afraid % aign Bat Thousands |
Of persons haTo suffered from the lmpouon- |
atty of newspapers. What can one private |
eliiEen wronged Ia hla reputation DO IN a |
contest With misrepresentation multiplied |
into twenty or nifty thousand oopleal An
Injustice done in print a illimiinhlY worse
than en- injustice done In private Hie Dur
ing loas Of temper man may say that ior
which be viii DO sorry in ten minutes, but q
newspaper injustice has first 70 be written,
set up in typo, then the pro0itakoE on and
read and corrected, and then for slz or ten
hours the presses are busy running on the
issue. Plenty of time 20 correct Plenty Of
time 20 cool on Plenty of time 20 repent
But all that Is hiddoa In the imperOnality
OF "a Newspaper. 10 will be a long step for
ward when az 81 changed. aud newspaper
writers get credit for the good and are held
responsible for heevil.
HAnother step forward Tor nswspapordom
viii bo when IN our colleges and univer-
stiles we open opportunities for preparing
candidates Tor thB editorial chair. We have
In such institutions medical departments
law departments. Why not edhcrlal depart
mentsY DO the legal aud healing professions
demand more culture ami careful training
than the editorial or reportonal F.oiesslonsi
j know men may tumble by what seems ac.
eldent into q newspaper ohiee rs they na5
tumble into other occupations but Il would
be an incalculable advantage n those proc
posing a newspaper life had an institution
10 which they might 90 20 learn the qualih-
cations. the responsibilities. the trials, the
temptations. the dangers. the magnificent
opportunities of newspaper liie Let there
be a lectureship VA which thore shall appear
the leading editors Of the United States
telling the story OF their struggles, their
victories their mistakes. how they worked
and what they found out TO be the best
way OF working There will be strong
men who viii climb up without such aid
into editorial power and efficiency. SO do
men climb up 10 success in other branches
by sheer grit. But five want learned insti-
tuuons 70 make lawyers and artists and doe
tors and ministers, we much more need
learned Institutions to make editors, who
occupy position OF influence hundrediOld
greater / do not put the truth too strongly
when / say the most potent influence for
good on earth is a good editor and the most
potent influence for evil Is a bad one. The
best way to REINFORCE and improve the news
papers Is 10 endow editorial proiessorates.
When will Princeton or Harvard or Yale or
Rochester lead the way2
Another blessing Of the newspaper is the
foundation Il lays for accurate history 0ithe
time In which we live. We for the most part
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| the newspaper and are dependent upon the
/ preiudlces OF this or that historian. But
after hundred or two years what a splen-
did opportunity the historian will have to
| teach the people the lesson Of this day. Our
| Bancroits got from the early newspapers Of
| this country. from the Boston Newsletter,
| the New York Gazette, and The American
Rag Bag, and Royal Gazetteer and Indepen-
dent Chronicle, and Massachusetts, Spy and
the Philadelphia Aurora, accounts OF Perry's
/ victory, and Hamilton's duel, and Wash
/ ington's death. and Boston massacre,
| and the oppressive foreign tax on luxuries
| which turned Boston harbor into a teapot,
and Paul Revere's midnight ride, and Rhode
Island rebellion, and South Carolina nulli-
ilcation But what a field for the chronicier
Of the great future when he opens the files Of
a hundred standard American newspapers,
/ giving the minutia Of all things occurring un-
der the social, political, ecclesiastical. in
ternational headings Five hundred years
from now, II the world lasts so long the
student looking for stirring, decisive history
will pass by the misty corridors Of other CEN
turtles and say to the libraries: Find me
the volumes that give the century In which
the American Presidents were assassinated,
the Civil War enacted and the cotton gin, the
steam locomotive and telegraph and electric
pen and telephone and cylinder presses were
invented"
Once more I remark that a good news
paper is a blessing as an evangelistic In
fuence. You know there is a great change
in our day taking place. All the secular
newspapers of the day-for l am not speak.
ing now of the religious newspapers-all the
secular newspapers of the day discuss all the
questions Of God, eternityand the dead, and
all the questions Of the past, present anc
future. There is not a single doctrine o.
theology but has been discussed in the las
ten years by the secular newspapers OF the
country. They gather up all the news Of al
the earth bearing on religious subjects, anc
then they scatter the news abroad again.
The Christian newspaper will be the right
wing OF the apocalyptic angel. The cylinder
the Ohristianized printing press will be the
front wheel OF the Lords chariot. TAXI
the music Of this day, and do not mark ii
diminuendo-I mark 1t erescendo. pas
tor on Sabbath breaches to a few hundred
or a few thousand people. and on Monday
or during the week, the printing press will
take the same sermon and preach it to mill
ions Of people. God speed the PRINTING
press! God save the printing press! Coz
Christianize the printing press!
When I see the printing press standing
with the electric telegraph on the one sid
gathering the MATERIAL and the lightptn
express train on the other side waiting 10
the tons Of folded sheets Of newspaper, pre-
nounce It the mightiest force In our civiliza
ton. SO l command you to pray for al
those who manage the newspapers OF tn
land, for all typesetters, for all reporters, 70
all editors, for all publishers, that, sittin
or standing In positions of such great inhu
enoe, they may give all that influence 10
God and the betterment Of the human rac'
| An aged woman making her living ;
knitting, unwound the yarn from II
ball until she found In the centre OF II
ball there was an old piece Of newspape
She opened 1t and read an advertisemel
which announced that she had becon
3 heiresD to large property, and that fra
ment Of newspaper lifted her from pa
5 perism to affluence And do not know b.
3 as the thread OF time unrolls and unwinds
4 little further through the silent yet speauI
newspaper may be found the vast inner
tahee of the worlds redemption.
Jesus shall reign where'er the sun
Does his successive journeys run,
II His kingdom stretch from shore to shore
Till suns shall rise and set no more.