The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1898-03-02

would list knnel down anG cOmmer0
your case % God. who hes waichsd
all the fatieues Of the day and the
Dieht. and who has promised to be
you. Cos sud the Coo OF your chill
Gren forever
Another creat trial nj the newspa
per profession is the diseased sppe'i'e
for unRealthy jatetligence. You
blame the newspaper press for giving
Suca pron1;uen ca TO murders aQd scan
isls DO you sup9ose tna1 So many
pauers w2u d give prominence 10 these
1hjnes tn people cid not cemsn6
toem? L 7 90 into TIE meat narke:
o fGreign citv, and l find that the
oGtcAa~s hang Up on the most cor
su;cuoue hook msa5 vhat is tainted,
while the meat thatis fresh sud savory
s put awsy without any special care,
| come 10 tie conclusion thai The p2o
nle o. that city love t&in1ed meat
Y0u Rnow very well that il the great
mass Of people in tbis country get hold
Of q newspaper ara there are IN It no
runaway matches, no broken up FAM
lies, no defamation OF Gea IL hlgh
position, they pronounce th&E paper
iasip;5. They say, IL IS shocking y
duh. tonight" I believe it IS one OF
the trials OF the newspsrec press that
the reople Of tbs c2Untry Gemand
moral slush instead OF healthy ard n
:e'Icc,uat foo5. Now, you ara q re
so7c.ab,e man. 81 intelligent m@1,
md paper cou1ss into your har5,
You opep ii, and there are tbrse col
umas o. sple0didIy written editorial,
recommending scnle moral sen lne2t
- evolving some scienific tceory. IN
the next column there is miserahl-,
c1utemptib!e divorce case. Which 60
YOU read frst2 You dip into toe Ell
iorial long enough to say, We'll,
that's yer aoly written" ard you
read the divorce case FROM the long
primer" type at the tip to the non
parein type a. tna bottom, and thea
YOU ssk your wife if she has read It!
o., 1t is only case OF supply and de
mand. Newspaper men are not fools.
They know what you want, ard they
give. it to you. l believe that If the
church and the world brought nothing
but pure. honest, healthiul newspa osss
nothing but pure, honest ard health
ful newspapers would be published.
Il YOU should gather all the editors
and the reporters OF tins country N
one great convention, and ask OF them
what kid of q paper they would pre-
fer to publish, I bellsve they would
ANONYMOUSLY say, We would prefer
10 publish an elevating paper: 50
long as there is an in:qlitous demand
theve will be an iniquitous supply. |
aake no apology for debauched
rewsps2er, but I am saying these
thin Is in order 10 divide the responsi.
oility between those wno ptlnt and
these Tha read.
Another trial OF this profession is
the fact Nc one seems 10 care tor their
souls. They feel bitterly about II,
though they laugh. People sometimes
laugh the loudesr when they feel the
worst, Taey are expected 10 gather
Up religious proceedings and 10 oIs
cuss religious doctrines in the editocal
columns, but wno expects them TO oe
saved by the sermons they sreIograpa
or By tne doctrines t5ey discuss IL tns
editorial columns2 The wcrld lLoss
upon uAem SIS protessieQal. We
breaches 10 reporters aud edlter erss
Some OF tnen came from religious
homes, spd when they jeff the parsn
.sl roof, whoever regar1ed or olsro-
parded, tn4y came off with q fathers
6euediction aud q mothers prayer.
rcey never think Of those good old
times but tears come into their eyes,
and they move through these greay
cities homssick. Oh, if they only
knew what q helpful thing it IS for q
man to pus his weary head down oa
the bosom Of sympathetic Christ.
He knows how nervous and tired you
are He has q heart large enough to
take IL all your interests for this world
and toe next. On, men Of the new=-
paper press you sometimes get sick OF
this world, itseems SO hollow and un-
satisfying! If there are any people II
all tae earth that need God, you are the
men. and you shall have him if only
this dsy you implore his mercy.
a man was found at the foot OF
Canal street, New York. As they
cicked him up from the water anc
brough: him to thu morgue they saw
by the contour OF his forehead that ne
bad mentsl capacity. He had entered
the newspaper profession. He had
gone down IN health. He took to
artificial Stimulus. Hs went down
further and further, until the summer
day, hot and hungry and sick and IT
despsir, he flung himself Off the dock
They found IN MS pocket reporters
pad, lead pencil, 9 photograh Of
some one who had loved hlm long
ago, Death, as sometimes il will,
smoothed out all the wrinkles that
hsd gathered prematurely on his
brow, aud as he lay there his face Vas
rs fair as when, seven years before,
he left his country home and they
bade him goodoy forever. The world
locked through the window Of the
morgus and said us nothing Ou.
sn outca>t," but God said it wasa 81
gantic soul thai perisaed because the
world gave ~ 40 chancs.
Let NE ask al men connected with
toe printing press that tney nelo US
more and more ia tn eff .rt to make
the world better. I charge you In
the name OF God, before whom you
mus account for the tremendous in
funce you held in tois country, 10
cousecrate yourselves to higher eu.
dea7ors. You are the men to fight
back this invasion of corrupt lltera.
ture. Lift uo your right hand ana
swear new allegiance to tho cause OF
philanthropy and religicn- And
when a. last, standing on the plains
OF Judgment, you look OUT upon the
unnutoberad throngs over whom you
have had influence, may it be found
tnat you were amopg the ruightiest
energies that lifted men upon The ex-
alted naInway that leads to the re.