The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-11-29
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as Sc do on all points. The heresy- hunt
ers in all denominations are nearly all
dead. thank God. and we are learning that
when men get wrong in their faith, instead
of martyrizing them by arraisnment. we
do better 10 wait for the natural roll Of
years TO remove them. Men die, but the
truth lives on. We may not all agree as
10 the number of teeth in the jawbone with
which Samson slew the Philistines, or
agree as 10 what was the exact color of the
foxes which he set on fire 10 burn up the
corn-shOcks; but on the vitals of religion,
We all agree.
II We could cali into one great conven-
ton the 645,556 Episcopalians, the !. 420, 9O5
Lutherars, the 1895 Presbyterans. the
4l53.SJ1 Bapusts, the 5,653.2S9 MethOdists,
putting unto them the following questions,
We would get unanimous answer in the
affirmative: DO YOU believe in a God,
good, holy, just. omnipotent? DO you be-
lleve in Jesus Christ as a Saviour? Do
you believe in the conviction, converting.
and sanctifyins power of the Holy Ghost?
Do you believe that the gospel is going to
conquer all nations? II you should put
these questions to those assembled mill
IONS on millions, while there would not be
a solitary negative there would be an eye!
aye! aye! loud enough to make the foun-
ddtlons Of the earth tremble and the arches
OF the heavens resound. Let there be
platforms, let there be great occasions let
there be undenominational printing
presses 20 thunder forth the unity of all
Chrstendom. One Lord. One faith. One
baptism. One God and Father. One
Jesus Christ. One Cross. one heaven.
50 also there is room Tor a religious
journal that stands for liberty as against
all oppression. No authority, political or
44f 4F ,sfs
US believe this or that Liberty of the
Armenian to worship God independent of
the turkish government Liberty of Cuba
as against Spanish domination Liberty
OF Hawaii as against all monarchlal au-
thority which it has thrown off. Civil lib
erty. Political liberty. Religious liberty
Inc religious journal on whose seventh
anniversary l preach has had for its own
er ana publisher one who, in his ancestry.
experienced just the opposite. His father.
an exile from his native land because of
ms opinions, his property confscated. his
lie imperiled, landed on American soil be-
reft OF everything that foreign oppression
could rob him of. Naturally, his son
knows right well how TO appreciate liberty
Inc most of us are descended from those
VINO lmperiled ali to gain their natural
ana religious rights. Let the type and the
printing presses and the editorial chairs
be overthrow which dare to surrender to
- .'-'NNAAiPt dSdln 10 put on the ShaCkles.
ne movement has started for the demo-
hton Of all the tyrannies of church and
STATE; Religious newspapers must stand
shoulder to shoulder in this mighty march
for God and the worlds rescue.
AGAIN, on this seventh anniversary. 7
say there is room for a religious paper
charged with old-fashioned EVANGELISM
Other styles of religious newspaner noov
do for advertising purposes. or for the
presentation of able ESSAYS on abora 10
themes but If this world is ever brought
10 God 1t viii be through unqualified. un-
adulterated unmixed, unmistakable evan
gelism. 1t was astounding that the Lord
Almighty should have gone into great
bereavement, submitting to the loss of
his only Son, that Son stepping off the
door-shl of heaven into darkness and
an abysm that no plummet has ever vet
peen able to fathom and through that
funeral of the heavens life is offered To
our world; but how to get the tidings to
all people, and in such an attractive wav
that they viii take hold of them, is the
absorbing question. The human voice can
travel only a few feet away and the
world wants something further and wild
er-reaching, and that is the newspaper
press; and as the secular press must nee
ess@ily give itself chiefly to secular af-
fairs, let the religious newspaper give it.
self to the present and everlasting sal
walton of all who can read or. if not
able to read, have ears to hear others
read If there be an opportunity, higher,
deeper, grander than that offered to
newspaper evangelism, name it and guide
us to it, that we may see its affairs its
pillars, its domes, its infinitude
Again on this seventh anniversary OF
the Christian Herald, l notice there is
room for a religious paper thoroughly hui
manitarian. The simple fact is, the ma
jority of the human race have not
enough to eat or wear. The ma
jority of the human race are in trouble
How to multiply loaves of bread and in
| crease the fuel and heal the wounds
and shelter the homeless, are questions
that Christ met equally as soon as he did
spiritual necessities. The first heart &c
respond to the cry of sufferers from
drought, or flood, or earthquake. or cru
! city, should be the Christian heart. There
! fore, let the pages of religious journalism
! spread out the story of all such woes. and
collect relief and disburse aims all
! around our suffering world Religious
| Journalism ought to become the aque-
| duct through which the Christian chart
| ties of the world should pour until there
! Is no more hunger to be fed, and no more
| ignorance to be educated, and no more
| nakedness to be clothed, and no more
| suffering to assuage. In trying to dc
| that practical thing, the religious paper
| whose anniversary l celebrate has, during
| the past seven years, raised and distribute
ed over 100000 for the relief of phys
! ical distress.
Again, on this seventh anniversary OF
religious publication, 1 notice that
there is an especial mission for a religious
| journal truthfully optimistic. The most
! optimistic book / know of is the Bible, and
! it's most impressive authors were all
| optimists. David an optimlst Paul an
| optimist. st. John an optimist. Our
! blessed Lord an optimst. l cannot look
! upon a desert but l am by the Old Book
reminded that it VIII blossom like as
| the rose" l cannot in menagerie look
| upon a lion and a leopard but l am re-
minded that "a little child shall lead
! them" 1 cannot see a collection of gems
! in jewelers. window without thinking
of heaven a1ash and ablaze and incar-
| nadiued and empurpled with all manner
of precious stones. l cannot hear trum-
| pet but l think of that one which shall
| wake the dead. All the ages of time,
| bounded on one side by the par
| adse in which Adam and Eve walked.
and on the other side by the paradise
which ST. John saw in apocalypuc vision.
The Scriptures optimistic and their au-
! oil