The Marlboro democrat. [volume] (Bennettsville, S.C.) 1882-1908, 1897-12-08
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4 Il II ghey Have tho Highs spirit, ito says
]. Is ssohS ono Docs Moro Good xhan Eiit,
Pa,pits : Iltiitorial IL y onsibnity.
535Si{8 In o. previous discourse. Dr.. Tal
8fnsge havlpg}dhoan the heopportunities
S55ofs the Heoular press, ia this discourse
speaks Of the mission of religious news
4 pappgs. Hisg text is, "rhen / turned
and lifted UP mine eyes and looked
and behold . dying roll" (z.cheyiall
SS
/ III a dream tho prophet saw some
q thing rolled up advancing through
tho heavens. 1t contained q divine
& message. 1t moved swiftly, as on
wings. 1t had much to do with the
destiny Of nations. But if you
will look up you will sec
many flying rolls. They come
with great speed and have messages
foI all the earth. The flying rolls Of
this century arc the newspapers. They
B carry message human and divine.
They will decide tho destiny OF the
hemispheres.
There,are in the United States shout
Il 20, GOO neWZpRpers The religious
Il newspaper Of which am the editor
u was born 70 years ago, but born again
5 seven years ago. In this brief time /:
& has grown to about 200, 600 circulation,
,S and, by the ordinary rule of calculat'
Il Ing Me readers of q paper, it has about
10, 900, 600 readers. Our couatry Was
blest with many religious journals,
edited by consocrated mon, whilo
their contributors were tho ablest and
< best of all professions and occupations.
Some of those journals for half u cen
tury had been dropping their benedic
tions upon the nation, and they live
on and will continue TO live on until
Il there will be no moro use for their
i mission, the world itself having be.
y come a flying roll on ihe tompests Of
the last day, going out OF existence.
There Will be no more use Tor such
y agencies when the world ceases, be
\ cause, in the spiritual stste, we shall
3a hayc such velocity that we can Eathcr
3 for ourselves all tho news Of heaven,
1 or, seeing somo world ia connagration
I, may go ourselves in an instant to cx.
8 anime personally the scene Of disss.
ter.
Was there room for another reliei.
Y .8ous journal in this land, already fav.
5ored with the highest style oi religious
Journl,aiism2 On, yes, if undenomina
tionsl, plenty of room. Nothing can
ever take the place OF the denomina-
stlonal newspaper. Whom the millen.
denominations IS there are now. Poo.
pie, according to their temperamonts,
will always prefer this Or that form Of
sof worship. You might as we'll ask u 5
. a III fn 1.-Two In, ho,,co t<,, ,>lr /
to worship in one denomination or to
abolish the regiments Of an army in
order to make them Que great host.
UNCONVENTIONAL PAPERS.
Each denomination must have its
own journal, set apart especially to
present the charities explain tho
\ work and forward the interests OF that
A PARTICULAR sect. Tho death of one do.
nominational journal is q calamity to
all tho other denominations. J. would
y almost feel that q great misfortune
had happened me if Tho Christian Iu-
telligencer Of the Reformed churc h
(n1y mother church, did not como 10 my
s house every week, for Was brought
& up on it, and it has become q house
hold necessity. Such dcnomina-
+ tional journal had better be
3 edited by somo one who rocked
q in the cradle Of that church and,
ordained at her altars, having be-
come venerable in her service, sits
specialized and wise aud, with heart
6 full of sacred memories, addresses the
z living of today. In the most sacred
cryptic OF our memory stands the statue
I of the religious editors Abel Stevens
and Joshua Lsavitt and tho royal
family Of The primes Irsnnus and
i Eusebius. while others linger on the
4 banks of Jordan, where they will not
4 have long to wait for Elijah's chariot,
and whom they go up, if we still be
X sitting at our editorial desks, we will
SSEcry out in the memorable words "My
# father, my father, The chariot OF Is.
n fael and the horsemen thcrcof!"
# But. then, there are great move
ments in which all denominations
wish 20 join, and we want moro unde
3nOmlnatlOnal newspapers 10 marshal
and advance and inspire such move
ments. Yet such journals have q dif
& ticulf task, because all Christian men,
4 II they have behaved well in their do.
\ nominations, for somo reason prefer
4 the one Of their natural and spiritual
nativity and even looking off upon
the general field and attemptiu / q wider
work. will be apt TO look at things
through denOmirs.ional preference
and to i. them with a denOmlna
tional twist.
In the issuing OF the religious iourn
al whose seventh anniversary preach
that difficulty has bsen mot and over
come by the fact that lis publisher is q
Methods and in its editorial rooms
there are Presbvterian an Noiscooa