The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-05-20

classes oil CITIZENS. lie can enOut out ~
equal laws for all mankind, and appl
Il the term FALL mankind" TO his own raj
exc usiyely. HC can virtually and indis
nantly denounee people for crimes the
never committed. He can set an exam
ole of robbing God OF His one seventhp par
q OF time. He can argue for freedom 70
v false religions, He can write over sci
murderers, " Oae u ore unfortunateg gone {
: his rest" He can Increase adultery in ia
community by the RIGHTEOUSNESS OF IA
own pennings. He can promote thef
! aud perjury by doing those things whicl
in himself he merely calls 'exDedency, o.
"a way to obtain your object" He cal
show that he only wants the whole o
, this world, aud is willing that o'her peo
pie should have any other.
Now, blind man would say, at first
sight, that such man was not, and
could not be a Christian. No one except
thar kind OF an editor would claim that
such an editorcould be a Christian.
| hope that this is an imaginary por-
trayal only; and that all editors actually
are, or speedily will become, Christians
because they all know that that is the
only way 10 be saved; and in this blaze
of the light OF the nineteenth century it is
idle for any clsss OF the community, no
matter of what race or education, to
deny that great truth.
Thus you see that am again chang
ing my mode OF pleading; and wish to
withdraw my demurrer and put in an
answer, The editor who makes his
paper a truthful chronicle OF passing
events, and who endeavors to mold pub
lie opinion into higher forms, with
sense OF his responsibility to God and to
man, keeping his paper clear from all
filth and melting his readers to better
life by the b light examples he sets before
their eyes, as well as the pure inculca-
tions which he addresses to their minds,
is very different person from the one
supposed in the demurrer; and if the fret
is not Christian; it follows a fortion
that the latter is Christian.
A christian editor may at times have to
use strong adiectives, as an artist who
would paint a flame must apply burning
pigments. He may often find 1T neces-
sary to chronicle grave crimes and other
events, in order to give his readers an ad-
equate mirror Of the world and excite
their indignation against such deeds.
lie may sometimes make mistakes in bis
judgments of men and their motives, but
when convinced that he has done so, he
Will consider 1T an honor to do them JUS
tice, and disgrace to continue their per-
version. He will encourage charity IN
the hearts and conversations of all his
fellow creatures. He will be quick to de-
tect the good viii is in everybody and
all things, no matter how latent or OBJ
scured. He will praise welI-doing, though
It be in an opponent or riyal. He will
stand for the Constitution and the laws:
for the inyiolability OF the ballot, either
10 its casting or counting; for public and
private honesty and truthiulness; for
everything that is lovely and OF good re-
port. He will neither himself be. nor
allow anyone in his employment to be,
dishonest or untruthful, or subyersiye of
any OF the laws OF God, including the
fourth commandment. He will love to
rerald the good, bright, happy, noble
things in the world; and to tell good
things OF everybody, being to their faults
very blind and to their virtues very kind.
He will be helper in the community
the binder uD OF mems hearts, and litter
up OF their lives. He will protect the de-
He will seek his country's vel
Iare as it is given to him to see that vel
fare. He will endeayor to diffuse the
spirit OF amity among all classes OF So
ciety. He will exercise noble guardian
ship over the national honor at home and
abroad, in financial, industrial, CONNER
cial, social and political matters. He
will endeavor to make maria re attrac-
tive, as Gods first blessed institution
among mankind. He will try to axe
every one feel that there can be no sue
cess in anything except along the lines OF
duty and OF love. He will try to make
men, women and children feel that dis
honor alone is disaster, and wickedness
alone is shameful that purity alone is sue
cessiul; that beneyolence is greater than
enmity; that truth is better than false
hood; that poverty is impossible with a
Jealous spirit that the giving of tithes Is
obligatory upon all men, no matter how
large or how small may be their income;
that faith is a necessary precedent to
success.
Still, an editor may be, or endeavor to
do, all these things, and yet not be
christian. Christianity is too infinite
thing to settle down into earthly forms,
no matter how ingenious or ethereal.
Christianity is the state OF loving God
supremely and ones neighbor as ones
self. But neither any other man nor an
editor can arrive at that state merely