Milford chronicle., 1896-03-27

V private character are SAID. VINO Is reSpOI
/ sibles 1t is tho 1--WE" of the editorial q
D reporturial columns. Every man in ever
y profession or occupation ought to be II
r spOnsible for what he does. No HONORABLE
+ man will ever write that which he woul
q be afraid to sign. But thousands OF POI
9 sons have suffered from the imporsonalit
4 Of newspapers What can one private cit
= ten wronged in his reputation do in
Q contest with niisrepg multiplo'
p into 20, 600 or so, 600 copies? An injustice
done in print Is illimitably worse than al
injustice done in private life. During los
T of tenp0r a man may say that for whicl
: he Will DO sorry in ten minutes, but
} newspaper injustice has first 10 be written
{ set up in typo, then the proof taken of
and read and corrected, and then for sil
or ten hours the presses are busy running
off tie issue. Plenty OF time to correct
plenty of time to cool of; plenty of tint
; TO repent. But all that is hidden in the
imporsonality Of "a newspaper. 1t will b,
a long step forward when all is changed
and newspaper writers get credit for tho
good and are held responsible for the evil
Editorial Professors.
Another stop forward for newspaperdom
will DO when in our colleges and univorsi-
ties wo open opportunities for preparing
candidates for the editorial chair We
have in such institutions medical depart
ments, law departments. Why not edi-
torial departmentsY Do the legal and
healing professions demand more culture
and careful training than the editorial or
reportorial professional Iknow men may
tumble by what seems accident into a
newspaper office as they may tumble into
other occupations, but it would be an in
ffaf, fhfen "a
newspaper life had an institution TO which
they might 20 to learn the qualifications,
tho responsibilities, the trials, tho tempta-
tions, the dangers, the magnificent Oppor-
tunities, of newspaper life Let there be
/ lCctureship in which there shall appear the
leading editors of the United States telling
( tho story Of their struggles, their victories,
their mistakes, how they worked and what
they fOuuu out to be the best way Of work
ing. There will be strong men who will
climb up without such aid into editorial
power and efficiency. So do men climb
mp to success in other branches by sheer
grit. But if we want learned institutions
to make lawyers and artists and doctors
and ministers we much moro need learned
institutions 10 make editors, who occupy
position of influence Is hundrodfold great
er, / do not put the truth too strongly
when / say the most potent influence for
good on earth IS q good editor and the
most potent influence for evil is H bad one.
Tho best way To re-OnlOrce and improve
tho newspaper is to endow editorial pro-
fessoratcs. When will Princeton or Har-
ward or Yale or Rochester lead the way?
Another blessing Of the newspaper is the
foundation u lays for accurate history OF
the time in which we live. We for the
most part bhndy guess about the ages
that antodato tho newspaper ana are do
pendent upon the preiudicos Of this ur that
historian. But after 100 or geo years what
q splendid opportunity the historian will
have to teach the people the lesson of this
day. Our i5sncrofts got from the early
newspapers Of this country. from the Bos-
ton ECWsslett0r, tho New York Gazette
and The American Rag Bag and Royal
Gazetteer and Independent Chronicle and
Massachusetts, Spy aud the Philadelphia
Auorra accounts Of Perry's victory and
Hamilton's duel aud Washington's death
and Boston massacre and the oppressive
foreign tax on Injuries which turned Bos-
ton ilarbor into teapot and Paul Reyere's
midnight ride and Rhode Island rebellion
and South Carolina notification, But
what n field for tho Chronicler Of tho great
future when he opens the files of 100 stand
ard American newspapers, giving the
Of all things occurring under tho
social, political, ecclesiastical, internatlun-
al headingsl Five hundred years from
now, if the world lasts so long, the student
looking for stirring, decisive history will
pass by the misty corridors OF other cen
tures and say TO the libraries, "Eind ms
the volumes that give the century in which
the American presidents were assassinat-
ed, the civil war enacted, and the cotton
gin, the steam locomotive and telegraph
and electric pen and telephone and cylinder ,
presses were invented,
A Christian Press.
Once moro l remark that good news
paper is blessing as an cvangelistin in- ]
luenco You know there is o great change ]
n our day taking place. All tho secular (
newspapers Of the day-for l am not speak +
ng now of the religious newspapers-all {
he secular newspapers Of the day discuss
III tho question of Cod eternity and the O
lead, and all the questions of the past, {
lresent and future. There is not IA single S
doctrine uf theology but has been discussed a
a tho last ten years by tho secular news /
,apOrs of the country. They gather up all I
no news of al tho earth bearing OH reli- {
iiops subjects and then they scatter the
lows abroad again.
The Christian newspaper will be the
light wing Of the apocalyptie angel. The D
ylnder Of tho Christianizod printing d
ross Will he the front wheel Of tho Lords d
hariot. l take tho music Of this day, and v
do not mark it dininUendu; l mark it il
rescendu. a pastor ON a Sabbath breaches O
0 a few hundred or few thousand people, b
nd on Monday or during the week the OF
rinting press will take the same sermon q,
ma rs4n IL 20, ftF Ira
Deed tho printing press God save tho d,
rinting Vressl God Christianize the pi
rinting press. il
When l aee tho printing press standing nj
18th the electric telegraph ON the one side ca
altering up material and the lightning al
1press train on tho other side waiting for in
ie tons Of folded sheets of newspapers, 1 81
it the mightiest forco in our til
So l commend you to pray tli
II all those who manage the newspapers gu
the land, for all typosetters, for all re- m
lrlers, for all editors, for all publishers, ca
lat, sitting or standing In positions OF W
lUh great influence, they may give all W
iat influence for God and the betterment
the human race. An aged woman max
g her living by knitting unwound the
I'm from the ball until she found in the pc
inter- Of tho ball there was an old piece of n,
'wspaper. She opened it and read an ,vi
Ivertisement which announced that she Il,
ID become heiress to a large property, 81,
ID That fragments Of "a newspaper lifted M
II from paupef SIN 10 aflluence And l m
not know but as the thread of time I'M mn
lis and unwinds little farther through cir
g silent yet speaking newspaper may Ee 40
und he vast inheritance Of the worlds oT
ienption. CO.
Jesus shall reign whero'er the sun ~
Does his successive journeys run,
His kingdom stretch from shore to shore 'n
Till suns shall rise and set no more, ma
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the minds training a south. IN
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10 happened to DO sliding whom she sud rat
My fell heavily and was evidently badly
TT. At tho sound Of her subs friend
shed to her assistance and caught her in ne,
arms You Door little thing and ~