The Marlboro democrat. [volume] (Bennettsville, S.C.) 1882-1908, 1897-12-08

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Ieditorials be q neerful and tha ,,;otuyes
sIchseffula Ifg ID ono column m tbnra iSsN 'be be
styIcken IL India, ia ths nsNs3 sc eol'nmn asmlna
| have q list of contributions forallayi.
alton Of tho suffering or S picture az
q ship carrying breadsteff5. Ifinonc
column there be death OF all old
minister OF tho gospel whom. we can
not n1nnars, n thc Iaxs PHI th5 ,h iialtls ri
sone young Elisha who ueu wesrSthe
mantle of lGlij3h. Jfaoma evil Of 50
ciaty is depicted in QUO c0lpnn, in the
next show the gospel machinery tbat
isto driyetit back into tho perdition
from which IL ascsnaed. More and
more sunshine lot there be in rslig.
ious journalism Publish in it more
sermons on texts like 20 giva thanks
unto tho Lord, for he is good" and
fewor on texts like, "Out of the d spths
| Of hell havo | cried unto thee, Q
! Lprd." If any una has snythiag
| gloomy to say, let him say tito him
self. II hs must write it, lot him not
send IT TO editorial rooms, but put it
IN the piyeonholo OF his own desk Tor
his heirs and assigns 10 read it turthor
on, for probably they can stand it bet
ter than we. i onca gave $7to hear
denny Lind sing. l never will give
cstt 10 hear man groan. Up VITA
tho blinds and throw back tho shutioru
aud lot the morning light come III.
There is not SO much religion in the
dampDcss OF % collaras in tho breath
of.an apple orchard In blossom week.
! What a victory David cot over him
self when he closed tho Psaims with six
| chapters OF PRAISE ye the Lord,o say
ing it over and over again until IN
any other book it would have become
mono.onous. If in our disries and
our family records and our religious
newspapers we would write two hon.
est catalogues, tho Que D. catalogue or
/ blessings and the other catalogue
of troubles, tho former would bs Gye
times lager than the latter
PRAYERS FOR RELIGIOUS PAPERS.
| Pray for the religious newspapers or
America because OF The fact that il
| they have the right spirit each one
does 20 much good as or 60 or 300
churches Whist are the 500 or 5 900
| people making up q Sabbath audience
coWparcd with the 10000 OF 80 900 or
or 200, 900 that the religious journal
! addresses Such >urnals are pull pits
that preach day and night. They
reach weekly those who through ia
valldisfn Or through indifference never
enter churches They reach people ia
| their quietude, when their attention is
fnot distracted as in church by the fine
millinery that appeals to tho eye or
the rustlo OF attira thst attracls the
ear. Il will always be our duty and
our privilege not 10 forsalSe the as.
sembsinG OF ourselves togather, but [
Eoliove the consecrsted printing press
| is the chief agency under God to save
tho world.
Pray also for the religious newspa
pers Of America tha. they may resist
| the temptation to become acerb, harsh
| and dannatory Of those who thins
| differently from themselves. Inall de.
nominations there are disappointed
| people who put mean things in re.
| ligious newspapers about ministers
| and other prominent Christian work
! crs. Unsuccessful mon and women
never like successful men aud women.
There aro editors and reporters who,
instead If writing with Ink, dip their
pens in oil OF vityol or lampblack.
When religiou, newspaper does lis,
il beats al secular j ,urnalism ia con.
tempt ability. AS Adam Clarke. the
| commentator, said Some people
serve tho Lord as though The devil
| wero in them" That only is q help
full newspaper which, as Wa fold it. u
after reading, leaves US in mood 30
pray for all mon and in q soirit that
wishes prosperity for ell Christian
| workers, whether they. work our way
Or some other way. and we foal IS
| though the angel, flying through tho
midst Of hoaven, having the eyorlast-
ing gospel to presch, had with tho
| napripg OF his wing stirred the air on
our cheek and forehead
| Pray also for religious journalism
that it may bo aleit--not abreast Of
! the times, but ahead of tho times. IN
| this day, when by cablegram we seem
TO get from Europe news five
/ hours before it starts, we do not want
III our religious columns information
sissored out Of an old newspaper or in.
formation sent by means of lctter
which comes to us through the dead let
| ser possoflice because il was misdirect.
ed. Nor 10 We want to take tho place
| Of religious journalism as il was in
1915, when Nathaniel Wilson started
| his religious paper called the Recorder,
or when The Watchman was born in
1873, Or when The Christian Register
/ made is tirstappesrancein in 1891. The
| canal boat drawn by mules on 9 tow
path old we'll in lis time, but now we
prefer tho vestibule limited express.
Because thing is pious ii nesd not
therefore bs dull. rho printing press
| may beat the Argus Of mythology, for
| that fabulous being had only album.
| dted eyes, while the newspaper has a
| thousand eyes, ard thoueand cars,
and q thousand arms. Tho secular
newspaper gives the secular news and
does not pretend to give its religious
meaning The religious press ought
to put oil the events OF tho day ia
companies regiments and brigadts S
and show us in what direction that
divlnelJ disciplined h1st is marching
ond let ua know what victories for
God and righteousness they will win.
The Chsistianized printing press is 10
90 IN outline ON large scale what the
| battering ram did in olden tine on q
spialler scale. That old war machiny
was stout timber, hung by chains to
| q beam supported by posts, and m.uy
mon would lay hold of the stout ticl
| Der aud sw ng it backward and for.
ward until, getting under full mo
mentum, IL would strike into awful
demolition the wall bosieged. God
grant that al Of us who HAYS any
| thing to do with tho rnighty battering
ram OF our century, tho printing press
| NAV be- clothed IF (Ind with ecneo;ol