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

Not wlgN-. Z ,t2 U4lLEQ States tS6
pooo.e would not average one such
bee K 3 Year fcr e@ch individual.
WSerco. then, :. IS Intelligence, his
car ac;.v IL +&lk about ail themes, sec
u = and religious, this acq0aiGtaGce
with scisrce SID art, this power tc
ap5leciz.. the beautiful and grand
\. KIT tc tee Bible, The newspaper,
swifs hinged and every where present
f ing ever the fsnce, showed und.r
the door, tossed into tie counting
hcuse, Lid on the wo1koerch, hamk
eo through the cars! All rea6 1t
~hite ard black, G9r0an, Iri>aman,
Swiss, Spanjard, American, Old agd
ycung, coed and bad, SEX and vel,
before orsa x as, ard .Ger tee, Mon
day rnoraiae, Saturday night, Sand@E
and wesEdsy. Inow declare that |
consider toe lev spaosr IL b9 the
graQd sgeEc7 by which the gospel IS
to ba preached, i-rcrsnce cast out.
oppression dasronsd, crsm eT.iSpsted,
the vol ID raised. heaven ri slcsa ard
Geo elorifed. l. tAe clalB''sg CT the
pcics Jog press aS t3e S"e5tS tJ ous l
hear me vcics o; the LORD almighty
,rccfaiG2ipr to &lI tae da2d nst!oaS O.
the ea-,b, Lazarus, coIae for:h!' and
70 the refreshing Surqes CT darkness,
LIST there b4 liShy" IG maay OF cur
civ newspapers protesting no more
than secllsr information, there have
appesred during the past 80 years
some o. The grandesG appesls IA beh&lf
OF religion aud some Of the most ef,ec,
! i've interpretations of Gods govern
maHt among tbs nations.
There sre only two kinds Of news
papers-the one coed, very good, the
oIher bad, very bad. 3 newspaper
may bs started with en undecided
character, but after it has been going
on for years everybody finds out just
waat it is, ard j. is very good or It IS
very good or it IS very Dad. The one
paper IS :he enbodimen: Of news, the
ally OF virtue, the foe Of crime, the
delectation of elevated taste, the
mightiest aeency on earth for making
the world better. The other paper is
brigsnd among moral forces; it is
beslimer of repUtation, it is the right
arm of death and hell, it is the
mightiest agency in the universe for
making the world worse and battling
against the cause of God, the one an
angel OF intelligence and mercy the
other fend OF darkness. Between
this archansel and this fury to be
fought the great battle which IS 10
decide the iate''of the rorld. II you have
any doubt as to which is to be victor,
ask tie propheclss> ask God; the chle1
batteries with which he would vindl
! cate the right, and thunder down the
wrong are now unlimbere6. The
great Armageddon Of the nations Is
no. 10 be fought with swords, but
with stsel pe2s: rot with bullets, but
! with type; rot with cannon, but with
| lightning perfecting presses, and the
SuutarS, and the Moaltries, and tae
Pulaskis, aad tls GIbraltacs OF that
COZ fict will be the editorial srd re
porsoc;al rooms Of our great nswspa-
per Establishments. Menof the press,
Goo has put more s5upendous re
Sponsibility upon you than upon any
o!her class OF persons. What Icng
strides your profession has made II
irfue1ce and power since he day
wher Peter Shelter invented cas-.
metal type, and because two books
were found just alike they We're as
cci5ed 10 ths work Of the devil, and
books were pCinIed on strips Of ba.c.
/ boo, and Rev. Jesse Glover originated
the first American printing press,
ard the ccEnmon couIcil Of New
YotR, in solemn resolution. offered
$500 to any printer VINO would come
there and i've, and when the speaker
of the house of parliament in England
! anpouCced with Indignation that the
| public prints had recognized some OF
their 6oings, and until III this day
when We have IN this country many
newspapers sending out copies by the
tillion, The press and the telegraph
have go1e down into the same grea:
harvest field 10 reap, and the telegraph
says to the newspaper, Til rske,
whils you bind, AID the iron teeth O.
the TELEGRAPH are set down at one END
OF the harvest field and drawn clean
across, and the newspaper gather up
| the sheaves, setting down one sheaf
] on the breakfast table in the shspe Of
a morning newspaper, and putting
| down another sheaf on the tea taoie
! in the snspe OF an evening newspaper
| and that man that neither takes nor
reads 8 newspaper would be curiosi
". What vast progress since the da IS
wren Cardinal Wolsey declared that
/ either the printing press must go down
or the church Of God must go down
| to this time, when the printing press
and the pulpit are in hundreds cf
glorious com oination AID alliance.
One of the great trials of shis news
paper profession is the fact that they
are compelled to see more of the sham
O. the world than any other profes
sion. through every newspaper Office
day by lay, 60 the weakness Of the
work.. the va1ities that want to be
puGed, the revenges that want 10 be
/ wreaked, all the mistakes that want
to be corrected, all the dull speakers
who want to be thought eloquent, all
the meanDess wsn!s to get its wares
noticed gratis in the editorial coluus
10 order to save the tax Of the a1Yer-
Using column, al the men who wan!
to be set right who never was right,
ell the crack Drained ohilophers, with
story as long SIS their hair and as
gloomy as tgeir fager nail, all the
itiaerant bores VINO come to stay FIVE
minutes and stop an hour. From the
editorial and reportorial rooms all the
follies and shams of the world are
seen day by day, and the tenn pta!ion
is to believe neither in God, man, nor
woman. + is no surprise to me that
il your profession there are some
skeptical msn. I only wonder that
you beli5ve anything. Unless an
editor or q reporter has IN his present
or in bis esrly home model Of earn
est charac.sr. or be throw himself
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