Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1906-07-03
MAINE EDITORIAL COMMENT
The Best News.
(Zion's Advocated

| (ZiOn'S Advocate
| whats the best news? IL was
only a bit of a mornings gree',"e VI
two acouaintances. overheard the
other day. We did not eaten inc an
swer nor did we need it. The qucs-
tion was enough to start thought. we
are by no means certain tha' hc WIN
questioned had any special pun p''o
in so phrasing has sentence UT ''i''
he who WAS questioned cle',ily u'i-
derstood the demand that was Ii"''c
upon him in the query. Propdp'y u
both it was simply form or 'X-
pl ession often used, with no spcciai
Significance. But the more we turned
it over in our mind, as we went on
our way. the more it opened to us
| fine and a sane philosophy.
| Man,-to say nothing Of woman.-is
the news bearing and the news-Gath-
crins animal. He always wants 70
know. y know" He is ever in quest
of information on all things, import
liant and unimpOrtant in the heavens
above, and in the earth beneath, ana
in the waters under the earth. lie
must have his newspaper with his
morning coffee. With feverish haste
| he scans it's columns, in search OF
| this. that, and the other. of real or
seeming interest. One might think
| that the responsibilities of the run
ming of the universe were upon him.
so eager is he for intelligence from
| every portion of it. But most OF the
news that is served up to him in his
| faVOrite paper is of dark, and sad,
and sinister sort; the story of trouble
| and disaster. and sorrow, and sin. A
| man rObS a bank, steals a purse cuts
a throat, runs away with his neigh
bor's wife, and the papers exploit him
and his doings. with scareheads and
photographs of himself his great
grandfather, and the family's little
yellow dog. News. in the ordinary
acceptation of the term, seems to be
little other than the retailed account
of wrong and evil
And yet there are other things than
these belonging to and characterize
ing life. Better things than these.
and things better worth thinking of.
Life is not altogether vile and de-
| PRAYED. Many are the deeds of kind
| ness. the sacrifices of love. the
achievements of courage the patience,
the forbearance. the sympathy, the
| helpfulneSS. of heroic souls loving God
supremacy and their neighbors as
themselves. which go to make every
hour poem. and every day mani
fcStation of the divine possibilities
| enWrapped in our common humanity.
All OF these are not told; but some
OF them are; and more might be, if
we were interested in the hearing.
why should we not be more interested
IN Knowing of them? Why do we
not demand their telling? Why do
we, almost Vulture-likc choose the
revolving and decayinG things of life.
ana turn away from that which is
| sweet. and pure and good? "What is
the best ncws?' asked my neighbor
on the street. The best news: NOT
the poor. worst and meanest. Well.
ish that wise? Wouldn't it be a
good thing for us to march off ia orr
days work each morning with the
records of high achievements sound-
| ing III our ears, and the incense of
honorable endeavor delighting us
with its fragrance. and the vision of
ioi'y locals realized reckoning us
| onward?
| itS dSo one SAID it in better
FORM ana phrase than can we.-said
all that we would like to say: "EI-
| hdlly, brethren. whatsoever things
are true, whatsoever things are
| honest. whatsoever things are lust.
whatsoever things are pure, whatso-
| ever things are lovely, Whatsoever
'hings are of good report: if there no
any virtue. and if there be any praise
| think on these things"
| II Is not merely bit of inspiration
touching things to come and our at
talnment of them. 1t is the sweetest
SaheS', wisest bit of philosophy for
TIE III" that now is, that Paul pivcs
US mere Ask it of your ncigbbor
charge your soul to answer to vo,,
| he'enhor' that question caught in
PASSING What is the hest news2"