St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1898-01-01

Tor It's owner ana puUtlSner one VINO,
in his ancestry. experienced Just the
| opposite. Ills father, an exile from
| his native land because of his opinions,
| his property contisc:lted, 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 descended
from those who imperilcd all to ga.E
the natural and religious rights. Let
the type and the printing presses and
| the editorial chairs be overthrown
which dare TO surrender to any attempt
again to put on the shaclsles. Tie
movement has started for the de,nc.i-
| tion of all the tyrannies of church and
state. Religious newspapers must
stand shoulder TO shoulder in this
mighty march for God and the world s
rescue.
Again, on this seventh anniversary,
| say there is room for a religious paper
charged with old-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 ii this world
is ever brought TO God it will be
through unqualified, unadulterated.
unmixed, unmista.Sable evangelism. 1t
was astounding that the Lord Almighty
should have gone into great bereave-
lnent, submitting to the loss of His
only Son, that Son stepping off the
doorsiil of Heaven into n darkness and
an abysIn that no plummet has ever yet
been able 10 fathom; and through that
funeral of the Heavens life is offered
to our world; but how to get the
tidings to all people aud in such an at
| tractive way that they will 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 iwiier-reaching.
and that is the newspaper press, and
as the secular press must necessarily Y
give itself chiefly 10 secular affairs.
let the religious newspaper give itself
| to the present and everlasting saiyaticn
of all who can read. or, il not able to
read, have ears to hear others rell l.
Ii there be an opportunity higher,
deeper, grander than that offered tc
newspaper evangelism, name it and
guide US to it, that we may see its al
tars, its pillars, its infinitudc.
| Again, l 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
cat or wear. The ma ajority of the hu-
man race are in trouble. How TO null
| tiply loaves of bread and increase the
fuel and heal the Toapds and shelter
4 the homeless, are questions that Christ
met equally as soon rs 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 ont the
story of all such woes. and collect re-
lief. and disbursc 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 IL
norance to be educated. and no more
nalsedness to be clothed. and no more
suffering TO assuage. In trying to do
that practical thing. the religious pa
per whose anniversary / celebrate has,
distributed over $4,000 for the relief
of physica distresses.
| Again, l notice that there is an cs-
| pecial mission for a religious Journal
truthfully optimistic. The most opti-
nistic book know of is the Bible. and
its most impressive authors were all
optimists.s David was an optim;st.
Paul an optimist- St. John an opti-
mist Our blessed Lord IN optimist.
l can not look upon desert but l am
by the Old Book reminded that it Will
blossom like as the rose." l can not
in menagerie look upon lion and
leopard but / am reminded that "a
little child shall lead them.n l can
not see collection OF gems in q
jewelers. window without think
/ ing of Heaven afiash and
/ ablaze and incarnatlined and cmpurpled
with all manner of precious stones
can not hear q trumpe but think OF
that one which shall wake the dead.
Ali the ages of time, bounded on one
side by the paradise III which Adam
and Eve walked, and on the other side
by the paradise which st. john saw in
apocalyptic vision. The Scriptures OPP
timistic and their authors optimistic,
all religious newspapers ought to be
optimistic. Not only should alf1hinis-
ters and all religious editors have their
hearts right, but their liver right.
The world has enough trouble of its
own. without our giving them an ex.
tra dose in the shape of seligion. This
world is going to be saved, aud il you
do not believe it vou are an fnfidel.
None of US want to get on board q
train which. instead of reaching the
depot is surely going down the .em.
bankment. Ali aboard for the millen-
MUM. For the most part. in areligious
journal, let the editorials be cheerful
and the pictures cheerful. Ii in one
column there be gllastiy woodcut Ol
the fanine-stricken in India, in tho
next column have list of contribu.
tions for alleviation of the suffering,
or picture of q ship carrying bread
stuffs. II in one column there be the
death of an old minister of the Gospel
whom we can not spare. in the next
put the name Of some young
Elisha who can wear the mantle
of Elijah. If some evil of so
ciety is depicted in one column, in
the next show the Gospel machinery
that is to drive it back into the perdi
ton from which i. assembled. More
and more sunshine let there be in re.i'
gious journalism. Publish in it more
sermons on texts like 20, give thanks
unto the Lord. for lie is good.n and
fewer ON texts like .'0ut of The depthi