Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1900-10-14

t1st=i Ats.4aS +etasfsf Y &&9 at@ II look nron ] nesSsf,aper as a rurveyor of al sorts ef inatefiai to annse and interest then aie ffere enongh genu- inc Christian people in Raymond who wifi rally to tlle sfpport of q paper s5.c,l as Jasas would probably edit, or are the hamss of ;he paople 50 firmly eass aed ia tEeis aasnanis for the r5is tgpa oi .Cs7gaali5,n that they will lot take q Ielner unless 1t is strip ped largely of ilIe Christian and moral paHfoaa? TiH.ty also say in this fellow ship gathering that. owing to recent complications in ny business affairs outside my paper l have been obliged ! lose q large part of my for tune. l have had to apply the same rule of Jesus probable conduct to certain transactions with other men who did not apply it to their conduct. and the result has been the loss of a great deal of money
 "As understand the promise we made we were not to ask any questions about Will ii pay7' but all our ae- tion was to be based on the one ques- ti6a, sVE'laf would Jeses do?' Acting on that r0la of conduct have been obliged to lose nearly al the money l have accumulated in my paper. 1t is not necessary for inc to go into details. Ths9a is ne question with me now. aft CT the threa weeks. experience I have had, that 3 efoat many men would lose vast sums ef 1nonoy under the present system of hHsifa8s if this rule Of Jesus were honestly oboyed. 1 mention my loss here because l have the fullest faith in 9he final success Of a daily paper conducted oa inc lines 1 have recently lad dewn, aaa I had planned to put into it my entire fortune in order to w5H final sReeass As # is now, unless, as sid, tAs Christian people of Ray m9nd, the church members and profess ing disciples, will support the paper with subscriptions and advertisements, 1 cannot confiuaa it's publication on tie present baaia
 Virginia as2zsd 2 a'qaasfion She had followed Mir Norman $ confession with the most intense eagerness
 Do you mean that Christian daily ought b be endowed with large sum, Ike Christian college. in order ta make 1t pay
 sThat is exactly what I mean. have laid out plans f8s, putting into The News such a variety of material, in such strong and trnly interesting way. that 1t would more than make mp for whatever was absent from its col nuns in the way of un-Christian mats ter. but my plans called for very large outlay of money. 1 am very confident that 2 Christian daily such as Jesus would approve. containing only what he would print. can be made to succeed financially if 1t is planned to the right lines. but it will take large sum of money to work ont the plans.
 ssHew much do you think = asked Virginia quietly.
 Edward Norman looked at her keen ly, and his face flushed moment as aa idea of Virginia s purpose crossed his mind. He had known her when she was little girl in the Sunday school, and he had been on intimate relations in business with her father
 ..L shouid say half million dollars in town like Raymond could be well spent in the establishment of a paper saeh as we have in mind, he answered, and his voice trembled little The keen look on Edward Norman s griz2led face flashed ont with | stern but thor oughly Christian anticipation of great achievements in the world of newspaper life as 1t had opened up to him within the last few seconds.
 4sThen. said Virginia, speaking as if the thought were fully considered 'sI am ready to put that amount of money into the paper on the one condi. tion. of course. that it be carried on as it has been begun.
 .sThank Godp exclaimed Henry Maxwell softly Edward Norman was pale. The rest were looking at Virginia She had more to say
 Dear friends. she went on. and there was sadness in her voice that made an impression on the rest that deepened when they thought 1t over afterward. s.I do not want any of you to credit me with an act of great gen erosity or philanthropy I have come to know lately that the money which l have called my own issnot my own. but Gods. If l, as steward of his, see some wise way to invest his money. it is hot an occasion of vainglory or thanks from any one simply because have proved honest in my administra- tion of the funds he has asked me to use for his glory l have heen thinking of this very plan for some time The fact is, dear friends, that in our com ing fight with the whisky power in Raymond, and it has only just begun we shall naed The News to champion the Christian side. You all know that all the other papers are for the saloon As long as the saloon exists the work of resening dying souls at the kectangle is carried on at terrible disadvantage