The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-11-29


If he must write it, let him not send il to
editorial rooms, but put it in the pigeon
hole of his own desk for his heirs and
assigns TO read ID further on, for probably
they can stand it better than we. l once
gave seven dollars to hear Jenny Lind
sing: I never viii give a cent TO hear
man groan Up with the blinds and
throw back the shutters, and let the
morning light come in! There is not so
much religion in The dampness of cellar
as in the breath Of an apple-orchard' in
blossom week. What a victory David
got over himself when he closed the
Psalms with six chapters of ''Praise We
the Lord saying 1t over and over again.
until in any other book 1t would have be-
come monotonous. If in our diaries. and
our family records. and our. religious
ne wspapers we would write two honest
catalogues. the one a catalogue of bless
tngs and the other a catalogue of
troubles. the former would be five times
larger than the latter.
Pray for the religious newspapers of
America, because of the fact that il they
have the right spirit, each one does as
much good as five! or fifty, or two hun
dred churches. What are the five hun
dred or five thousand people making up a
Sabbath audience compared with the ten
thousand or fifty thousand or two hundred
thousand that the religious journal ad-
dresses! such journals are pulpits that
preach day and night They reach weekly
those who, through invalidism, or through
indifference, never enter churches. They
reach people in their quietude, when their
attention is not distracted, as in church
by the nne millinery that appeals TO the
eye, or the rustic of attire that attracts the
ear. It will always be our duty and our
privilege, not to forsake the assembling of
ourselves together but believe the conse-
created printing press is the chief agency
under God to save the world
Pray also for the religious newspapers of
America, that they may resist the tenn
tatlon to become acerb, harsh, and damna-
tory OF those who think differently from
themselves. In all denominations there
are disappointed people who put mean
thlngs IN religious newspapers about min
listers and other prominent Christian work
ers. Unsuccessful men and women never
IKE successful men and women. There are
edltors and reporters who instead of writ
ing with ink, dip their pens in oil of Wit
rlol or lampblack. When religious news
paper does lie 1t beats all secular journa-
ism In contemptibilty. AS Adam Clarke.
the commentator, said: Some people
serve the Lord as though the devil were
IN them That only is a helpful neWspa-,
per which, as we fold it up after reading.
leaves us in mood to pray for all men.
ana IN spirit that wishes prosperity for
all Christian workers, whether thew work
our way or some other way; and we feel
as though the angel, flying through the
midst of heaven, having the everlasting
gospel TO preach had with the flaming of
ms wing stirred the air on our cheek ana
forehead N anu
Pray also for religious Journalism. that
IL may DE alert-not abreast of the fines
put ahead OF the times. In this day. when
by cablegram we seem to get from En-
rope news five hours before il starts 1ya
40 not want in our religious columns in
formation scissored out of an old news
paper, or information sent by means of
a letter which comes to us through the
uead-Ietter postotllce because it was mis-
directed. Nor do we want il to take the
place of religious Journalism as il was in
1918, when Nathaniel Wilson started his
religlouS paper called The Recorder or
| when The Watchman was born in 1919
or when The Christian Register made its
hrst appearance in 1921. The canaI-boat
drawn by mules on a towpath did well
i'm its time, but now we prefer the vesti-
pulled limited express. Because a thing is
plous II need not, therefore, be dull The
printing press may beat the Argus of
mythology, for that fabulous being had
only hundred eyes, while the newspa-
! per mas thousand eyes, and a thousand
| ears and a thousand arms The secular
| newspaper gives the secular news and
| does not pretend to give its religious mean
| ing. The religious press ought to put all
! the events of the day In companies, regi-
! what
| direction that divinely disciplined most is
marching, and let us know what victories
! for God and Righteousness they will win
! The Christianized printing press is to do
! in our time on large scale what the
! battering-ram did in olden time on a
smaller scale. That old war machine was
a stout timber, hung by chains 10 a
beam supported by posts, and many men
| would lay hold of the stout timber and
swing 1t backward and forward, until,
! getting under full momentum it would
strike into awful demolition the wall be-
sieged. God grant that all of US who
have anything to do with the mighty bat
! tering-ram of our century, the printing
| press may be clothed of God with espe-
cial strength and oneness of purpose, and
that having pulled 1t back for one mighty
| assault, we may altogether rush it for
ward, crushing into everla sting ruin the
last wall of opposition and the last fort
ress of iniquity.
And now, let all of us who are connected
with either secular or religious journalism
remember that we will be called irTto final
| account for every word We write in edito-
rial, or reportorial or contributors col
! umn-for every type we set for every
press we move, and for the style of secu-
lar or religious newspaper we patronize or
! encourage. In Ezekiers prophecy the
| Angel of God, supposed to be Christ, APP
! pears with an ink-horn hung at his side
an ink-horn at his side. And 1 have no
doubt the ink-horn will have an important
part In the day of judgment. Those who
have used it well to receive eternal
! plaudit, and those who have misused it to
| receive condemnation.
Piled up in all the worlds printing
offices, secular and religious, are the pub
! lcations of past years bound up year by
year; and in those offices they can tell
| just what they printed any day for the
| last twenty years. and in the great day of
! judgment all that we have ever written or
/ printed will be revealed from the mighty
volumes of eternity. All those who have
! ruthlessly pried into the secret of unhappy
| domestic life and despoiled homes, come
| to judgment! All those who have by the
! pen assassinated character come to judg-
! ment! All those who have had anything
! to do with salacious and depraved litera-
! ture, come to Judgment All those who
| have produced pictures administrative of
| vice, come to judgment! No one will
! then dare say: II knew II was not true
! and / only intended it for a joke" or
! Il had to make my living, and the paper
! that L worked for paid me in proportion
!