Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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THE “FLYING ROLL." THK tEDOER: GAFFNET, S. P., BECEMHFU 2, 1807. REV. DR. TALMAGE AND THE RE- | LIGIOUS NEWSPAPERS’ MISSION. i “I’lylnc Roll" Zecb»rl«h Saw and the AloUeru “tljrlna Uolls H Journal* Thai 1 •rop Haruadlctlons I’jion the Nation—!>•- BOiuitiaUaual l^lffareuca*. (LX»()rrlEht, 1*7, by Amriican Press Asso ciation.] WAllluifCITON, Not. U8.—In a proTi- discourse Dr. Talmugo, having iiaown U»d oppurtuuitio* of thosicular pra.'w, in thi* disoourse spuaks of tint aiUii(4i of roligloas neWaj.'api'Ci. Ilia ttaxt U. “TboS I turwid ao'l liftod up tuixui v}lk tu:d look<j«L and bohold a tly- Lu^ roll’’ (Zechariah v, 1). lii u dr j ' nj the prophet saw some- Unng rolit d up advancing through the Imatciis. it coutaiuod a divine uiessage. ft moved awiftly, as on wings. It Lad siuch to do with the destiny of Hatictis. But if you will look up you will see xuauy flying rolls. They come with great speed and havo moiisages for all the earth. The flying rolls of this cen tury are the newspapers. They carry messages human and divine. They will dooido the destiny of the hemispheres. Tliere are in the United States about 30,000 newspapers. The religious news paper of which I am the editor was born 10 years ago, but born again 7 years ago. In this brief time it has grown to abont 1100,000 circulation, and, by the ordinary rule of calculating the readers of a paper, it has about 1,000,000 readers. Our country was Messed with many religious journals, edited by consecrated men, while their contributors were the ablest and best of all proh. isioits and occupations. Some of those journals for half a century had been dropping their benedictions upon the nation, and they live on and will continue to live on until (here will b« no more use for their mission, the world itself having become a flying roll on the tempests of the last day. going out of existence. There will be no more use for such agencies when the world oeuses, beeauso in the spiritual state wo shall havo such velocity that we can gather for ourselves all the nows of heaven, or, seeing some world in con flagration, may go ourselves in an in stant to examine personally the scene of disaster. All neKiiuents Ju One Army. Was there room for another religious journal in this land, already favored with the highest style of religions jour nalism? Oh, yes, if undenominational, plenty of room ! Nothing can ever take the place of the denominational newspa per. When the millennium comes in, it ■will find as many denominations as there are now. People according to their temperaments will always prefer this or that form of church government, this or that style of worship. Yon might •s well ask us all to live in one house as to ask us all to worship in one denomination or to abolish the regi ments of an army in order to make them one great host. £ach denomination must have its own journal, set apart especially to present the charities, explain the work and for ward the interests of that particular sect. Tho death of one denominational journal is a calamity to all the other de- itoniinutions. 1 would almost feel that a great misfortune had happened mo if Tho Christian Intelligeueur of tho Re formed church (my mother church j did not come to my house every week, for I was brought upou it, and it has become a household necessity. Huch a denomi national journal had better bo edited by lome one who, rocked in the cradle of that church and ordained at her altars, having become venerable in her service, sits spectacled and wise and with heart full of sacred memories addresses the living of today. In tho most sacred crypt of our memory stands tho statue of the religious editors Abel Stevens and Joshua Leavitt, and the royal family of tho Primes—I re incus and Eusebius— while others linger on the banks of the Jordan, where they will not havo long to wait for Elijah’s chariot, and when they go up, if we still bo sitting at our editorial desks, we will cry out in tho memrrablo words, < ‘ily father, my fa ther, the chariot of Israel and the horse men thereof 1” But, then, there are great movements in which nil denominations wish to join, and we want more undenominational newspapers to marshal and advance and Inspire such movements. Yet such jour nals have a ditiicult task, In-cause all Christian m^n, if they have behaved well in their denominations, for seme reason pref rred tho one of thoir natural and spirh-’u? -jr.ti’ ity and even lookiag off upon tho general fluid and attempt ing wider work will be apt to look at things through denominational prefer ence and to treat them with a denom inational twist. In tho issuing of the religious jour nal whoso seventh anniversary I preach that difficulty Las been met and over come by tho fact that its publisher is a Methodist, and in its editorial rooms there aro a Presbyterian, an Episcopa lian and a Cougregatioualist, and a lino of denominational prejudice in editorial or reportorial column would run against immediate protest. Against John Wes ley’s free grace or Calvin’s eternal de crees or BlsUop Nl el lvalue’s canonicals or Dr Dowling’s Baptistery from year’s end to year s end not a word is written or printed. On all these subjects we have convictions, but undenominational journalist!) is not the place to state them. He who tells all ho knows aud expresses all he thinks on all occasions and in all place* without reference to the proprieties is a boor or a crank aud of no practical service either to church or stale. Cninplet* tTuitjr. Undenominational journalism is ab solutely ucpi.-.ny to demonstrate the unity of tho Christian world. Wide mid desperate attempt is made tQ show that the religion of Jesus Christ 1* only a 'battleground of sect*, and the cry has been: "If yon want us /to accept your religion, agree, gentlemen, as to what the Christian religion really is. This denomination says a few drops of water dripping from tho mid cf the fin gers is baptism, aud another demands tho submergence cf tho entire body. This o*o with bock, and tnat eue make* •aMMspaiaueous utterance. The rector at mm delivers his sermon in a gown, whMo tho backwoods preacher uf anotiasir mm addresses the people in his shirt aUevat. Some of your denomi nations L»m the majestic dominant in tho sorvlae And others spontaneity. Borne 9i ye** flfeink that from all eterni ty son** wwu predestinated to lie saved, and that fawn all eternity others were doomed." Ihm, it is tho business of Young Mm(** Christian associations and tract socisSUfl and Sunday school unions and proa oca **i undenominational jour nals to the falsity of the charge that wa osss tghting among ourselves by gathering aU Christian denominations on one pla«w*n or launching the unit ed seutimuwt of all Christendom from one siyla mt *e>Hgious jointing press. Unity! Complete unity! Never was any other Mg»f on earth so thoroughly united un4«r ene flag and inspired by one sentimaai and led by one command er as is the «hurch militant. Christ commands all the troops of all denomi nations of t%Hatian$, and they nre go ing to shout together in the final vic tory when ffce whole world is redeemed. But we have in all our denominations got tired of fayirg to make other people think as we do on all points. The here sy hnntors in all denominations are nearly all doad, thank God, and we aro learning tkm when men get wrong in their faith iawMad of martyrizing them by arraignment we do better to wait for the natural roll 'of years to remove them. Men die, but tho truth lives on. Wo may not all agree as to the number of teeth in the jawbone with which Samson slew the Philistines, or agree as to what was tho exact color of the foxes which he sot on fire to burn up tho corn shocks, but on tho vitals of re ligion wo all agree. If we could call into one great con vention the 645,500 Episcopalians, tho 1,420,905 Lutherans, tho 1,460,346 Presbyterians, tho 4,158,857 Baptists, the 6,653,289 Methodists, putting unto them tho following questions, we would got unanimous answer in tho affirma tive : Do you believe in a God, good, holy, just, omnipotent? Do you believe in Jesus Christ as a Saviour? Du you believe in the convicting, converting and sanctifying power of tho Holy Ghost? Do yon believe that tho gospel is going to conquer all nations? If you should put these questions to those assem bled millions on millions, while there would not be a solitary negative, there would be an aye, aye, aye! loud enough to make the foundations of the earth tremble and tho arches of the heavens resound. Let there bo platforms, let there be great occasions, let thoro bo undenominational printing presses to thunder forth tho unity of all Christen dom. Quo Lord. One faith. One bap tism. One God and Father. One Jesus Christ. One cross. One heaven. Liberty A**kin»t All OppreMlon. So also there is room for a religious journal that stands for liberty as against all oppression. No authority, political or ecclesiastic, must bo per mitted to make us believe this or that Liberty of the Armenian to worship God independent of tho Turkish gov ernment. Liberty of Cuba us against Spanish domination. Liberty of Hawaii as against all monarchical authority which it has thrown off. Civil liberty. Political liberty. Religious liberty. The religious journal on whose sev enth anniversary I preach has had for its owner and publisher one who in his ancestry experienced just the opposite. His father, an exile from his native land because of his opinions, his prop erty confiscated, his life imperiled, landed on American soil bereft of ev erything that foreign oppression could rob him of. Naturally his sen knows right well how to appreciate liberty. Tho most of us aro descended from those who imperiled all to gain their natural aud religious rights. Let tho type and the printing presses aud the editorial chairs be overthrown which dare to surrender to any attempt again to put on the shackles. Tho movement has started for the demolition of all the tyrannies of chnrch aud state. Reli gious newspapers must stand shoulder to shoulder in this mighty march for God and the world’s rescue. Again on this seventh anniversary I say there is room for a religions paper charged with old fashioned evangelism. Other styles of religious newspaper may do for advertising purposes, or for the presentation of able essays on elab orate themes, but if this world is ever brought to God it will be through un qualified, unadulterated, unmixed, un mistakable evangelism. It was astound ing that the Lord Almighty should have gone into great bereavements, sub mitting to the loss of his only Son, that Bon stepping eff the doorsill of heaven into a darkness and an abysm that no plummet has ever yet been able to fath om, and through that funeral of the heavens life is offered to our world, but how to get the tidings to all people, and in such an attractive way thai they will take hold of them is the absorbing question. The human voice uan travel only a few’ feet away, and tho world wtoils something further and wider reaching, and that is (ho newspaper press, and as the secular press must necessarily give itself chiefly to secular affairs let the religious newspaper give itself to the present and everlasting sal vation of all who can read, or, if not able to read, have ears to hear others read. If there be an opportunity higher, ffceper, grander, than mat oilemi to evangelism nnmo it cud guide ns to it, that we may see its al tars, its pillars, its domes, its infinitude. The lander Christian llsart. Again, on this seventh anniversary of Tho Christian Herald I notice there is room for n religious paper thoroughly humanitarian. The simple fact is the majority of tl^e human race havo not enough to eat or wear. The ma jority of tho human raco aro in trou ble. How to mult’ply loaves of bread and increaso the fuel and heal tho wounds and shelter tho homeless are questions that Christ mot equally a* soon as bo did spiritual necessities. The first heart to respond to the cry of suf ferers from drought or flood or earth- quake or cruelty should be the Christian heart. Therefore let the pages of reli gious journalism spread out tli ! story of all such woes and collect relief and dis burse alms all around our suffering world. Rtligions journalism ought to become the aqueduct through which the Christian charities of tlio world should pour until there is no more hunger to bo fed aud no more ignorance to be edu cated and no more nakedness to bo clothed and no more suffering to as suage. In trying to do that practical thing tho religious paper whose anni versary I celebrate has during the past seven years raised and distributed over $400,000 for the relief of physical dis tresses. Again, on this seventh anniversary of a religions publication I notice that there is an especial mission for a reli gious journal truthfully optimistic. Tho most optimistic book I know of is the Bible, and its .most impressive authors were all optimists—David an optimist, Paul an optimist, St. John an optimist, our blessed Lord an optimist. I cannot look upon a depart but I nm by the old book reminded that it will ‘'blossom like as tho rose.’’ I cannot in a menag erie lock upon a lion and a leopard but I am reminded that "a little child shall lead them." I cannot see a collection of gems in a jeweler’s window without thinking of heaven aflash and ablaze and incarnadined and empurpled with all manner of precious atones. I cannot hear a trumpet but I thiukof that one which shall wake the dead. All the ages of time, bounded on ono side by the para dise in which Adam and Eve walked aud on the other side by tho paradise which St. John saw in apocalyptic vision. The Scriptures optimistic aud their authors optimistic, all religious news papers ought to Ire optimistic. Not on ly should all ministers and all religious editors have their heart right, but their liver right. The world has enough trou ble of its own without our giving them an extra dose in tho shapo of religion. This world is going to bo sired, aud if you do not believe it you aro an infidel None of us wants to got on board a train which instead of reaching tho de pot is surely going down tho embank ment. All aboard for the millennium! For tho most part in a religious journal let the editorials bo cheerful aud the pictures cheerful. If in one column there be a ghastly woodcut of the fam ine stricken in India, in the next col- nmn havo a list of contributions for al leviation of the suffering or a picture of a ship carrying breadstuff*. If in one column there bo the death of an old minister of the gospel whom we cannot spare, in tho next put the name of some young Elisha who cun wear tho mantle of Elijah. More and Mora Sunahlno. If some evil of society is depicted in one column, in tho next show the gos pel machinery that is to drive it back into the perdition from which it awoend- ed. More and more sunshine let there bo in religious journalism. Publish in it more sermons on texts like "Oh, give thanks unto tho Lord, for he is good,” aud fewer on texts like, "Out of the depths of hell have I cried unto thee, O Lord. ’’ If any one has anything gloomy to say, let him say it to himself. If be must write it, let him not send it to ed itorial rooms, but put it in the pigeon hole of his own desk for his heirs aud assigns to read it further on, for prob ably they can stand it better than we. I once gave $7 to hear Jenny Lind sing. I never will give a cent to hear a man groan. Up with the blinds and throw back the shutters aud let the morning light come in. There is not so much re ligion in the dampness of a cellar us in the breath of an apple orchard in blos som week. What a victory David got over himself when he closed the Psalms with six chapters of "Praise ye the Lord,” saying it over add over again, until, in any other book, it would have become monotonous. If in our diaries am our family records and our religious newspapers we would write two honest catalogues, the one a catalogue of bless ings aud the other a catalogue of trou bles, the former would bo five times larger tfiau tho latter. Pray for tho religious newspapers of America, because of the fact that, if they havo tho right spirit, each one does a* much good as 5 or 60 or 800 churches. What are tho 500 or 6,000 people mak ing up a Babbath audience compared with the 10,000 or 60,000 or 200,000 | that the religious journal addresses? Bach journals aro pulpit* that preach day and night. They reach weekly those who, through invalidism or through in difference, never outer churches. They reach peopU in thoir quietude, when their attention is not distracted, as in church, by the fine millinery that ap peals to the cyu or tho rustle of attiro that attracts the ear. It will always be our duty aud our privilege not to for sake the assembling of ourselves to gether, but I believe tho consecrated printing press is the chief agency under God to save the world. tim iiipiMtd la Vitriol. Pray also for tho religious newspapers of America, that they may resist the temptation to becorno acerb, harsh aud damnatory of those who think different ly from themselves. In all denomina tions there aro disappointed people who put mean things in religious newspapers Abont minister* and other prominent Christian workers. Unsuccessful men and women inner like successful men aud women. There arc editors and re porters who, instead of writing with ink, dip their isms in oil of vitriol or lampblack. When a religious newspaper dons lie, it beats all secular journalism in coutemptibility. A* Adam Clarke, the commentator, said, "Borne people ■orvo the Lord as though the devil were in them." That only is a helpful news paper which, as we fold it up after read- in", leaves tr in a mere! to pray for all men aud i' i spirit that wishes prosper ity for all Jhristiau workers, whether they work our way or homo other way, ami we feel es though the angel, flying through the midst of heaven, having the everlasting gospel to preach, had with the flapping of his wing stirred tho air on our cheek and forehead. Pray also for religious* journalism, I that it may Lo alert—not abreast of the i times, but ahead of the times. In this , day, when by cablegram we ■eera to get from Europe news five hours before it * starts, we do not w'nnt in our religious j columns information Kcimrod out of an | old newspaper or information sent by | means of a letter which comes to u* through tho dead letter postoffloe be cause it was misdirected, nor do wo want it to take the pace of religious journalism as it was in 1815, when Na thaniel Wilson started his religious pa per called The Recorder, or when Tho Watchman was born in 1819, or when The Christian Register mado its first appearance in 1821. The canalbcat draw’ll by mule* on a towpath did well in its time, but now we prefer tho ves- tibuled limited express. Because a thing is pious it need not therefore bo dull. The printing press may beat the Argus of mythology, for that fabulous being had only 100 eyes, while tho newspaper has 1,000 eyes and 1,000 ears and 1,000 arm*. The *ocular news paper gives the secular news and does not pretend to give its religious moan ing. The religious pres* ought to put all tho events of the day in companies, regiments and brigades and show us in what direction that divinely disciplined host is marching and let us know what victories for God and righteousness they will win. The Christianized printing press is to do in our time on a largo scale what the battering ram did in old en time on a smaller scale. That old war machine was a stout timber, hung by chains to a beam supported by posts, and many men would lay hold of the stout timber and swing it backward and forward until, gettiug under full mo mentum, it would strike into awful demolition tha wall besieged. God grant that all of us who have anything to do with tho mighty buttering ram of our century, tho printing press, may be clothed of God with especial .strength and oneness of purpose aud that, having pulled it back for one mighty assault, wo may altogether rush it forward, crushing into everlasting ruin tho lust wall of opposition aud tho last fortress of iniquity! TUa lukliorn at Judgment. And now let all of us who aro con nected with either secular or religious journalism remember that wo will be called into final account for every word we write in editorial or reportorial or contributors’ column—for every type we set, for every press wo move, aud for the style of secular or religious newspaper we patronize or encourage. In Ezekiel’s prophecy the angel of God, supposed to be Christ, appears with an inkhoru hung at his side ns an attor ney’s clerk in olden time had an ink- horn at his side. And I have no doubt the inkhoru will have an important part in the day of judgment—those who have used it well to receive eternal plaudit and those who have misused it to receive condemnation. • Piled up in all thu world’s printing offices, secular and religious, are the publications of past years, bound up year by year, aud in these offices they cun tell just what they printed any day for the lust 20 years, and in the great day of judgment all that we have ever written or printed will be revealed from the mighty volumes of eternity. All those who have ruthlessly pried in to the secret of unhappy domestic life and despoiled home's, come to judg ment. All those who havo by tho pen assassinated character, come to judg ment. All those who have hud auythiug to do with salacious and depraved liter ature, come to judgment. All those who have produced pictures adminis trative of vice, come to judgment. No ono will then dare say, "I knew it was not true, and I only intended it for a joke," or, "I hud to make my living, aud the paper that I worked for paid mo in proportion to the startling nature of the stuff I prepared,” cr, "I correct ed the falsehood in tho next issue," or, "I felt my power in the editorial chair, having opportunity to address such mul titudes week by week, aud I wanted to keep the church aud the world in awe of me." On that great day of judgnn nt ; all the power we havo bad on earth ! will be insignificant compared with tho ! power that will pronounce our rapture or our doom, ami that which might have Lt cn considered a joke in the "composing room," bec»..se it humil iated an enemy, will bo i ) joKo i t all amid tho wreck of mountains and seas, aud the inkhoru will there tell of all wo wrote anonymously and under tho impersonality of a newspaper, us well as that which w as signed with our own name. But what a beautiful day for a Frances Havergul, when sho gets re warded for all tho kind things she ever wrote with tho tears of her invalidism; or when tho authors and authoresses of all lauds and ages aro told how many came to heaven through their instru mentalities, and for all those who use tho iullueuco of the press to correct tho errors and extirpate the wrongs and break the serfdom of mankind! Letter uf KimlneM. Then the inkhoru by the side of the angel of the new covenant will spe ak out and tell of what it had to do w ith all letters of kindness written, with all emancipation proclamations, with all ed itorial and reportorial eulogies of tho | good, with all the messages of salvation to a lost world, i • it r m th <t city will | it be to have set lip (hi ts pc for one line of Christian encouragement or writ ten one paragiuph of usciul suilimeut or published one page of helpful truth than to have written hooks as big a* Gibbon’* live largo volumes concerning "The Decline and Full of the Roman Empire" if these v dunits put Christian ity at a disadvantage, or as brilliant as Voltaire’s "Discor.rscs Upon Man” if they inculcated injurious theories, or as rhythmic as Byron’s "Den Juan” if it sacrificed the decencies. On that day tho flying roll which Zechariah of the text saw thousands of years ago and the rolls which we »es flying sver all our towns and cities aa4 firing from the swiftest printing presses that were ever invented will be found to contain mes sages divine oe mtuai#. Nut onlj tho iukhom which EvekiM saw, Hnt all the iukhorns, will ':oioe fa judgment. "And I aiw the dead, ewwll and great, stand before (iod, and the bucks wore opeuwh” SHOWER OF STARS. Bahl of MoMooMM Comlo* WHk Cloao of ike Contury. Tire aslretiumMi* look for the next great meteor it* skuwer on tne morning of Nov. 16, 1899. They calculate that the earth will then pus* again through (lie center of an immense swarm of me teoroids, as they are called before eom- bu.stiou. These great "U-onido star showers," as they uw called, occur at intervals of every 33 years and one day. The great shower of 1799 occurred on Nov. 12; that of 1883 on Nov. 13; that of 1866 on Nov. 14, and consequently a repetition of the next wonderful phe nomenon is expoctwd on tha morning of Nov. 15, 1899. In the meanwhile, however, as tho aggregation of meteoroids is of immense) length, one end of it will encounter the earth in 1898 and the other in 1900, making, as Professor Lewis Swift, the diflfinguished astronomer of Rochester, says, considerable showers in those years. Professor Swift says, "The thickness of the meteoroidul stream is 100,000 miles and the duration of the shower is equal to the time of the diagonal passage of tho earth through it, usually from mid night to dawn." Ho adds, "As there is a light shower of leouids every Novem ber we know that there is a vast ring formed by the comet's tail and that the immense shoal in ono portion is the product of the exploded comet itself, through which wo puss oueo every 33 years aud a day.” The meteoroids aro dark bodies, aud it is only when they pass into the earth’s atmosphere that they are ignited by fric tion and become visible for a few’ sec onds. Tho stream makes a revolution around tho sun in about 3334 y e » ry i aud by consequence tho earth passes through it in a new place each year. The length of tho swarm is so enormous that, although at perihelion it moves at the rate of nearly 26 miles a second, yet it takes it t’> j years to pass tho earth, so that when its hinder part is still with us its advancing side will have reached the orbits of Jupiter and Baturu. Not withstanding this extent it is but a frac tion of the entire orbit. Professor Swift says, "This great cluster will reach the earth’s orbit about June 1, 1899, but the earth will not have arrived there then, but will be due nearly six months later, when our planet will plunge into the swarming mass and for at least live hours we shall experience a literal rain of fire. ”—Baltimore Bun. Is a deep-seated blood diauene which all the mineral mixtures in th.e worii cannot cure. S.S.S. (guaranteedpunk} vegetable ) is a real blood retiedjr far blood diseases and has no equal. Mrs. Y.T. Buck, of Delaney, Ark., batf Scrofula for twenty-five years and most of the time was under the cure of tfai doctors who could not relieve her. A specialist aa id he could cure her, hot he filled her with, arsenic and potasli which almost nitnwi her constitiibpn. Gbe then took i early blood A Healthy Women. A perfectly healthy women is u rare sight. Bucli a woman is always beau tiful. 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