The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1913-04-11
Home Circle Column.
To Edit . Newspaper.

To edit . Newspaper.
DR.. Talmage, one of the greatest
pulpit orators, in one of his on
| the Spirit of the Press said:
ITO publish a Newspaper requires the
| skill, the precision, the holiness. the
vigilance, the strategy of a commander
in chief. To edit a newspaper requires
that one be a statesman, an essayist, a
geographer. a statistician and, in &C.
QUESTION, encyclopaedia. To man, to
govern, to propel a newspaper until
it shall be a fixed institution, a national
fact, demands more qualities than any
other business on earth. If you feel
like starting a newspaper. secular or
threatened with softening of the brain
or lunacy, and throwing your pocket
book into your wife's lap start for some
insane asylum before you do something
desperate.
First of all, newspapers make
knowledge democratic and for the null
titude. The public library is a haymow
so high up that few can reach it, while
the newspaper throws down the forage
to our feet. Public libraries are the
reservoirs where the great floods are
stored high up and away off. The news
paper is the tunnel that brings them
down to the pitchers of all the people.
The chief use of great libraries is to
make newspapers out of. Great libra
ries make a few men and women very
wise. Newspapers lift whole nations
into the sunlight.
you cannot find ten literary men in
Christendom with strong minds and
great hearts but are or have been m
how connected with the newspaper
printing press. While the book will al
ways have its place, the newspaper is
more potent. Because the latter is
multitudinous do not include it is neces-
sarily superficial. If a man should from
childhood to old age see only his Bible,
Webster's Dictionary and his news
paper, he could be prepared for all the
duties of life and all the happiness of
the next.
There is not a single doctrine of
theology but has been discussed in the
last ten years by the secular news
papers of the country. They gather up
religious subjects and then they scatter
newspaper will be the right wing of
the apocalyptic angel. The cylinder of
the C~hristianized printing press will be
the front wheel of the Lords chariot"
The Fireplace.
Notwithstanding all the modern in
ventions for heating, l tell you there is
nothing so full of geniality and sociali-
bility as the old-tashioned country fire.
place. The neighbors were to come in
for a winter evening of ~sociability. In
the middle of the afternoon, in the best
room in the house, someone brought in a
great back log, with great strain, and
put it down on the back of the hearth.
Then the ligter wood was put on armful
after armful. Then a shovel of Goals
was taken from another room and put
under the dry pile, and the kindling be-
gan, and the cracking, and it rose I'M
til it became a roaring flame which fill
reflected from the family pictures on
the wall. Then the neighbors came in
two by two, They sat down, their
faces to the fire, which ever and anon
was stirred with tongs and readjusted
on the andirons and there were such
times of rustic repartee and story tell
ing and mirth as the black stove and
blind register never heard of, meanwhile
the table was being spread, and so fair
was the cloth and so clean was the cut
lery they g~listen snd glisten in our mind
today. And then the best luxury of
orchards and farm yard was roasted
and prepared for the table to meet the
appetites sharpened by the cold ride.
We heartily wish for the return of the
old fireplace, Our readers, whose locks
have whitened by the frosts of many
winters, know that this pen picture Of
the fireplace is true to life.
Don't be afraid to do your duty be-
aus someone ridicules or opposes you.
A man who has opinions of his W and
the courage to advocate them will be
sure to have opposition in this world
because he u mi contrary to other peo-
pies opinions; but just keep right
ahead if your cause is right and your
conscience is clear. Don't bother your
self about what people say; life is too
short for that. Some will abuse you
through envy, others for the want of
principle, and some because they hon.
estly differ from you; but if you keep
right on openly, m~anfully and intelli-
gently and with proper dignity and
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