The Progress. (Shreveport, La.) 1892-1900, 1896-03-28

Mcintosh ), dill oy uheS Shhi'H - a.
Hazlett's, all Thackeray's, all the ele
waited works Of fiction in our day, arr
reprints from periodicals in which the!
appeared as serials. TennysOn's poems
Burns poems, Longfellow's poems
Emerson's poems, Lowells poems
Writers poems, were once fugitive
pieces. You cannot find ten literary
men in Christendom, with strons
minds and great hearts, but are or haV'
been somehow connected with TN
newspaper printing press. WhIle 'h'
book will always have It's place. th'
newspaper is more potent. Because
the latter is multitudinOus do not CON
clude it IS necessarily superficial. II
man should from childhood to old as'
see only his Bible Webster's Dlctloh'
airy and his newspaper ne coula o'
prepared for all the duties Of this liz
and all the happiness of the next.
Again, a good newspaper Is usetu
mirror of life as it is. It IS sometimes
complained that newspapers report 'h'
evil when they ought only to report 'h'
good. They must report the evil az
we'll as the good. or how shall we know
what IS to be reformed, what guarded
against. what fought down? "A news
Paper that pictures only the honesty
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and virtue Of society is a mlsrep'e'
scrtation. Tha. family IS best pre-
nared for the duties Of life Whlch
knowing the evil. IS taught TO selec'
the good. Keep the children Hnoer 'l''
impression that all is fair and rlsht IN
the world. and when they go out >h'e
it they will be as poorly prepared te
struggle with it as child who IS thro"l
into the middle Of the Atlantic and to'c
to learn how to swim. Our only com
plaint is when sin is made attrac'iNs
and morality dull, when vice IS painted
with great headlines and good heeo'
are put in obscure corners, inquiry SCI
up in great primer and righteousness ~
nonpariel. Sin IS loathsome. make y
loathsome. Virtue is beautiful, mah'
it beautiful.
r. would work a vast Improvement
If all our papers-religious, poiit'cat
literary-shoud for the most part drop
their impersonality. This woufd &c
better justice to newspaper writers
Many Of the strongest and best writers
of the country live and die unknown
and are denied their just fame. Inc
vast public never learns who they are
Most of them are on comparatively
small income. and after awhile the''
hand forgets its cunning, and they art
without resources. left to die. Wh!
not, at least, have his initial attacneC
to his most important work? 1t al
ways gave additional force to an article
when you occasionally saw added n
some significant article in the ola new
York Courier and Enquirer J. ". w.
or in the Tribune H. g., or in the Her
aid ]. G.. B., or in the Times II. }. Il.
or in the Evening Post W. G. b., or IL
the Evening Express E. B. While thls
arrangement would be a fair and just
thing for newspaper writer's. 1t would
be defense for the public.
Once more remark. that gooo
newspaper Is a blessing as an evan
eelistic influence. You know there Is
= great change in on. day taking place
All the secular newspapers OF the day
for | am not speaking now OF the re-
lig,ous newspapers-all the secular
pewsuapers OF the day discuss all the
questions of God, eternity and the dead
and all the questions Of the past, pres
ent and future. There is not single
doctrine of theology but has been dls'
cussed in the last ten years by the Sec
mar newspapers Of the country
They gather up all the news OF all lhs
earth bearing on religious subjects, ahe
then they scatter the news aoroae
again, The Christian newspaper VIII
hp the right wing OF the apocalypuc
ANGEL. The cylinder OF the Chrlstlah'
lied printing press will be the from
wheel Of the Lords chariot. l take the
music of this day, and do not mark u
dlmlpuendo-l mark 1t crescendo. a
nastor on a Sabbath breaches TO te"
hundred. or d Jew thousand people, anu
IN Monday, or during the week, lat
printing press Will take the same SER
mon and preach 1t to millions OF peo'
Die, God speed the printing press! Go0
save the printing press! God Chris
tlanlze the printing press!
When i see the printing press stand
inc with the electric telegraph on the
one side gathering up material. ana
the usntnlng express train on Inc
other side waiting tor the tons OF told
ed sheets OF newspapers, l pronounce
II the mightiest force IN our clVllIza'
lion So | commend you TO pray 1oI
a,l,bose who manage the newspapers vi
me land, for all type settlers, for all re-
Durlers. lot all editors, Tor all pub
ushrrs. that, sitting or standing IN po:
si,,ons o! such great influence. they
may give all inat influence Tor God and
,h.. het,cylLeut OF the human race. All
.ped woman MAKING her living by knit
,lru. unwuund the yarn from the BAL
rn,,I she found in the center Of the ba.!
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