The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1896-04-04

Another step forward for
paperdom will be when in our colls~as
and universities we open opportun,ss;ees
for preparing candidates for tha s.
torial chair. We have in such instis.
tions, medical departments, law ~
partments, why not editorial dsr.'
ments? DO the legal and healing nv
fessions demand more culture ,
careful training than the editori,,
reportorial professions. l know NJ
may tumble by what seems .os, a
dent into newspaper Office
they may tumble into other occun,.
tions, but it would be an incalculab,s
advantage If those proposing new
paper life had an institution to wh;oh
they might go to learn the qualiscs'
tions, the responsibilities, the trial.
the temptations, the dangers, the ma
nifcent opportunities of newsnane.
life. Let there be a lectureshin !.
which there shall appear the leadina
editors Of the United States, tellins
the story of their struggles, tbs;s
victories, their mistakes, bom
they worked and what thsr
found out to be the best way Of work.
ing. There will be strong men who
will climb up without such aid int
editorial power and efficiency. So do
men climb up to success in otbs,
branches by sheer grit. But II wa
want learned institutions to msks
lawyers and artists and doctors
| and ministers, we much mora
need learned institutions to maka
editors, who occupy position of in.
| fiuence hundredfold greater. lido no.
put the truth too strongly when say
the most potent influence for good on
earth is good editor, and the mos,
| potent influence for bad is a bad one
The best way to reinforce and i'm.
prove the newspaper is to endow
editorial professorships. When will
Princeton, or Harvard, or Yale or
Rochester lead the way?
Another blessing of the newspaper
is the foundation it lays for accurate
history of the time in which we live
We for the most part blindly guess
| about the ages that ante-date the
newspaper, and are dependent upon
the prejudices of this or tina,
historian. But after 100 or 200
years what splendid opportunitv
the historian will have to teach
the people the lesson of this day. Our
Bancrofts got from the early newspa.
pers of this country, from the Boston
Newsletter, the New York Gazette
and the American Rag Bag and Royal
Gazetteer and Independent Chronicle,
and MASSACHUSETTS Spy" and the Phil
adelphia Aurora, accounts of Perrys
Victory, and Hamilton's duel
and Washington's death, and
Boston massacre, and the oppressive
foreign tax On luxuries which turned
Boston harbor into a teapot, "a Paul
Revere's midnight ride, and Rhode
Island rebellion, and South Caro-.
for the chronicler of the great
future when he opens the files
of hundred standard Ameri.
can newspapers, giving the minutie OF
all things occurring under the social,
political, ecclesiastical, international
headings! Five hundred years from
now, if the world lasts so long. thes,p
dent looking for stirring, decisive bis
tory will pass by the misty coIrEJs
of other centuries and say TO he
libraries: Find me the volume that
give the century in which the Amer-
can presidents were assassinatei 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 l remark, that good
newspaper is blessing as an evan.
gelistic influence. You know there IS
great change in our day taking
place. All the secular newspapers
of the day-for l 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 single doctrine
of theology but has been discussed in
the last ten years by the secular news
papers of the country. They gather
up all the news of the earth
bearing on religious subjects, and then
they scatter the news abroad again
The Christian newspaper will be the
right wing of the apocalyptc angel
The cylinder of the Christianizei
printing press will be the front
wheel of the Lords chariot tan
the music of this day, and | do mol
mark it diminuendo-I mark 1t ere
scendo. A pastor on a 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 millions of people.
God speed the printing press!
God save the printing press! TOD
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 tno
other side waiting for the tons Oh
folded sheets of newspapers, ! pro
nounce it the mighticst force in our
civilization. So / commend you 10
pray for all those who man
age the newspapers of the lanu'
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