The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1897-12-11

which it has thrown off. Civil liberty,
political liberty. Religious liberty.
The religious journal on whose
seventh anniversary | preach has had
for its owner and publisher one who,
in his. ancestry, experienced just the
opposite. His father, an exile from
his native land because Of his opinions,
his property coniscated, his life inn
periled, landed on American soil bereft
of everything that foreign oppression
could rob him Of Naturally, his son
knows right well how to appreciate
liberty. The most Of us are descend
from those who imperiled all to gain
the natural and religious rights. Let
the type aud the printing presses and
the editorial chairs be overthrown
which dare to surrender to any attempt
| again to put on the shackles. The
movement has started for the demoli-
ton 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.
/ say there is room for Il religious paper
charged with od-fashioned evangel-
| ism. Other styles of religious news
paper may do for advertising purposes.
or for the presentation of able essays
on elaborate themes, but il this world
is ever brought to God it will be
through unqualified, unadul terated,
unmixed, unmistaliable evangelism. 1t
was astounding that the Lord Almighty
| should have gone into great bereave-
ment, submitting to the loss of HIS
only Son, that Son stepping off the
doorsill of Heaven into darkness and
an abysm that no plummet has everyet
been able to fathom; and through that
! funeral OF the Heavens life is offered
to our world; but how to get the
tidingseto all people and in such an. at
t2tctrvb way thatflfSy will take hold
[of them. is the absorbing q uestion.
The human voice can travel only
fey feet away, and the world wants
something fprther and wider-reaching,
and that is" thethewspapcr press; and
rs the secular press must necessarily
| give tself chiefly to secular affairs,
let the religious newspaper give itself
to the present and everlasting salvation
of all who can read, or. if not able to
read, have ears to hear others read.
Ii there ce an opportunity higher,
deeper, granler than that offered to
newspaper evangelism, name it and
guide us TO it, that we may see is al
tars, its pillars. its infinitude.
Again, notice there is room for a
religious paper thoroughly humanita-
rian. The simple fact is, the majority
OF the human race have not enough to
eat or wear. The majority Of the hui
man race are in trouble. How to null
tiplv loaves of bread and increase 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 to re-
spond to the cry of sufferers from
drought. or flood or earthquake,
or cruelty, should be the Chris
ton heart. Therefore, let the pages
OF religious journalism spread out the
story of all such woes, and collect re-
lief and disburse aims all around our
suffering world. Religious journalism
ought To become the aqueduct through
which the Christian charities of the
world should pour until there is no
more hunger to be fed, and no more ig-
norance ito be educated and no more
nal<edness to be clothed, and no more
suffering to assuage In trying to do
that practical thing, the religious pa
per whose anniversary | cele brate has,
during the past seven years, raised and
distributed over $500, 900 for the relief
OF physical diStresseS.
Again, notice that there is an es-
pccial mission for religious journal
truthfully optimistic. The most opti-
mi,tic book know of is the Bible, and
its most impressive authors were all
optimists David was an optim st.
Paul an optimi,t. st. John an opti-
mist Our blessed Lord an optimist.
can not look upon desert but am
by the Old Book reminded that 1T Will
blossom like as the rose can not
in menagerie look upon a lion and
leopard but | am reminded that "a
little child shall lead them" can
not see a collection OF gems in a
jewelers. window without think
ing of Heaven aflash and
ablaze and incarnadined and empurpled
with all manner of precious stones l
, can not hear trumpet. but think OF
, that one which shall wake the dead.
All the ages of time. bounded on one
, side by the paradise in which Adam
, and Eve walked. and on the other SIDE
: bv the paradise which st. Johnlsaw IN
4 apocalyptic vision. The Scriptures OPP
, timi,tic and their authors optimistic
Q ali religious newspapers ought to DC
j. optimistic. Not only should all minis
t ,ers and all religious editors have their
. hearts right, but their liver right
e The world has enough trouble Oh us
own, without our giving them an eN
+. ira dose in the shape OF religion This
e world is going to be saved and II you
!. do not believe II you are an inhdei'
9 None OF US want to get on BOARD
, train which, instead Of reaching the
t depot, is surely going down the EN-
/; banltment. All aboard for the milien