The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1896-04-03
NUMBER 4.

"iVH = thu HNduiuSn anu EvOu uccuS
: are put in obscure corner, iniQuity set
: up IN great primer and righteousness
! In nonparlel. Sin is loatls0me, make
, 1t l0atlsOile. Virtue ls beautiful
, make 1t beautiful.
A POTENT INFLUENCE FOR GOOD.
Another step forward for newspa-
perdOm will be when our colleges and
universities will open opportunities
for preparing candidates for the edi-
t0rial chair We have in such itsti.
tutions medical departments, law de-
partmcnts, why not editorial depart
ments? F.? DO the legal and healing
professions demand more culture and
careful training than the editUrial or
reportOrial professions know men
may tumble by what seems accident
into "A newspaper office as they may
tumble into other occupations but Ii
would be an incalculable advantage IL
those proposing a newspaper life had
an institution to which they might gd
to learn the affiliations, the respOn-
Slbllltics, the trials, the temptations,
the dangers, the magnificent oppOrtuz
mites OF newspaper life. Let there be
a lecturcship in which shall appear
the leading editors Of the United
States telling the story Of their strug-
giles, their victories, their mistakes,
how they worked and what they found
out to be the best way of working:
Ihcrc VIII be strong men who will
climb up without such aid into edito-
rial power and efficiency. So do men
climb up to success in other branches
by sheer grit. Bat if we want leaned
institutions to make lawyers and
artists and doctors and ministers, We
much more need learned institutions
th make editors, who OCCUPY "A position
Of influence lundred-fOld greater.
do not put the truth too strongly
when l say the most potent innu-
ence for good on earth is a good editor
and the most potent influence for evil
is a bad one. The best way to rein
force and improve the newspaper is to
cndow editorial profcsSorates. When
VIII Princeton. or Harvard, or Yale,
or Rochester lead the way?
Another blessing Of the newspaper
is the foundation it lays for accurute
history of the time in which we live.
we for the most part blindly guess
about the ages that antc-datc the
newspaper, and are dependent upon
the prcjudiccs Of this or that histo-
RAN But after hundred or two
years what splendid opportunity the
historian will have to teach the pcn-
pie the lesson of the day. Our Ban
crolts got from the early newspapers
nf this country, from the Boston News,
Letter, the New York Gazette, and
the American Rag Bag, and Royal
Gazetteer, and Independent Chroni.
cle, and Massachusetts Spy, and the
Philadelphia Aurora, accounts Of Per:
RVS victory. and llamilton's duel, and
Washington death, and Boston masa-
ere, and the oppressive foreign tax on
luXurieS which turned Boston harbOr
into teapot, and Paul Rcveres mid.
night ride,and Rhode Island rebellion,
and South Carolina notification. But
what field for the chronicler of the
great future when he opens the files
ola hundred standard American news
papers, giving minutae Of all things
occurring under the social, political.
ecclesiastical, international headings.
Five hundred years from now, il the
world lasts so long, the student look.
ing for stirring, decisive history will
pass the misty corridors of other cent
urlcs and say to the libraries Find
me the volumes that give the century
IN which the American Presidents
| tD1 In ri
acted. and the cotton gin, the Steam
locomotive, the telegraph, and electric
pen, and telephone, and cylinder
presses, were invented"
FRONT WHEEL OF TIE LORDS CHA Atsfnr
Once more | remark. that a good
newspaper is Il blessing as an evan.
gelistlc influence. You know there il
a great change in our day taking place.
All the secular newspapers of the day
for am not speaking now OF the
religious newspapers-all the secular
newspapers of the day discuss all the
questions OF God, eternity and the
dead, and all the questions of the past,
present and future. There is not 4
single doctrine Of theology but has
been discussed in the last ten years by
the secular newspapers Of the country.
They gather up all the news of all the
earth bearing on religious subjects.
aud then they scatter the news abroad
again. The Christian newspaper will
be the right wing Of the OpcalyptiC
angel. The cylinder OF the Christian
lied printing press will be the front
wheel OF the Lords chariot. | take
the music of this day, and | do not
mark it diminuendo-1 mark it cresi
cendo. A pastor on Il Sabbath
breaches to few hundred or a few
thousand people, aud on Monday, or
during the week. the printing press
will take the same sermon and preach
it to millions of people. God speed
the printing press God save the
printing press God Christianize the
printing press
| When see the printing press stand
ing with the electric telegraph on the
one side gathering up material, and
the lightning express train on the
other side waiting for the tons of
folded sheets OF newspapers, pro-
nouncc 1t the mlghtiest force in our
civilization. So | commend you To
pray for all those who manage the
newspapers of the land, for ali type
settlers, for all reporters, for all edi-
tors, for all publishers, that, sitting
or standing in positions OF such great
influence. they may use all that influl
ence for God and the bettermcnt of
the human race. An aged woman
making her living by knitting, un.
wound the yarn from the ball until
she found in the center OF the bali
there was an old piece of newspa per,
She opened II and read an advertise.
ment which announced that she had
become lIeircss t0 a large property
and that fragment Uf a newspapcr
lifted her from pauperism to afffience.
And l do not know but as the thread
OF time unr0lls and unwilds a little
iurther, through the silent yet speak!
Ing newspaper may be found the vast
| lnheritu nee of TIN world.r radaua ~ s<,..