The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1909-01-26
THE DAILY NEWSPAPER
AND CHRISTIANITY

The testimony OF some IF the lead
ing daily papers to the influence of
Christianity Is striking. Some OF
them do not hesitate TO help tle
cause Of Christ through their editor
ial columns in a more vigorous man
neT than in former years. Mr.. Nc
Donald, editor of the Toronto Globe,
claims that a daily paper must ham
die the subject of religion, because 1t
is one Of the most important things
TO men among current events. Be
low is printed A recent editorial from
the Philadelphia North American
When daily papers thus encourage
the r.c...-= IF Christianity by so
doin.. themselves are likewise
taking % ..>; forward that is worth
i riding. and are eXeTting an inhu-
ence among some classes that the
ministers do not reach.
HE WALKS AMONG US.
From the Philadelphia Nortn Ameri-
can.
Never before this. our day, was
there. on every hand, such plain and
hdUbitabIe evidence that through
the ages one increasing purpose
runs"
Our time has ills and evils. But at
no earlier period in the worlds his
tory has there been a time when the
spirit of Him who lay Graded in
sta bic well night 1000 years ago has
been so manifest in the thought and
deeds of men.
Much happens That right-minded
men and women are compelled to
censure and deplOTe. But our most
comforting of Christmas thoughts is
our firm conviction that if Christ
L !. I F7rI
the trend of things closer in accord
ance with His spirit and His teach
ings than has been the case since the
first Christmas
How majestic has been the spread.
through the ages. of the gentle faith
He taught, At first accepted only b.
a handful of men. and these from
among the common. UnCulIUred PEG
PIE whom He came 10 bless. Chris
tianity glOwed like a little taper in
the night-Often Pickering. often al
most overwhelmed IN the darkness,
vet never wholly quenChed- To aC-
knowledge il was for centuries 70
seek persecution. and after the fall
of Paganism II was centuries more
before the tiny fame. ever guarded by
the faithful few. shOne into the
brightness of an enduring fire.
Thenceforth IL spread like the light
of the sun. ever growing. ever bright
er. until the whole race was bathed in
its efulsence and its blessing was
being carried into the darkest corners
OF the earth.
But never, We believe, has the true
purpose, tae living spirit of His
teaching. been so interviewer with
the habits and thoughts of men as
now. He stood for all high and spir-
itual things, and these he brought
down 10 the level of human cOmpre-
tension and practice. No other
teacher made mankind so much His
text He taught the beauty the glory
of sacrifice in His own life and death
But that waich lifts Him above
other teachers IS that He was not
content TO formulate a system OF
ethics. He became a man among
men. He ministered 10 suffering
<fomforted the strickened, lightened
the burdens OF grief and woe. and
wrote in i'm perishablS words the great
lessons of heIpfulness and love. For
two thousand years His teachings
have lived; none has been discarded
But more and more have men come
to understand the vital principle that
no man can be C1ristjlike unless he
gives of his life and his substance
for others. a. Christ Himself did
This is the great movement in Chris
tianIty and IN humanitarianism TO-