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PACIFIC CHRISTIAN MESSENGER, FRIDAY, OCT. 8, 1880.
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The Power And Influence of the people for pay certain sources, and ship that was then practiced in ciyil- Turkish Domestic Life in the Way leaves little to hope from the Turks
of Reform.
in the direction of voluntary abandon­
American Newspapers.
on this work as an advertising agent ized lands b'ut has passed away for­
ment of old systems and practices.—
and public herald it depends for its ever, and that has been brought about
Every Turk leads two^ lives. He H enry O. D wight , in Harper’s.
At the Social Science Association, support But to reckon it only as a by the simple preaching of the char­
J. M. Gregory, President of the Illi public enterprise would insult public acter of Christ. He claims to be the may be in the society of Europeans Magazine for October.
note State University, read a paper on. intelligence, as much as it would trifla one God, tbo one Lord. The deities during six hours of every day.' He is
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4 then well 'dressed, vivacious, perhaps — —The New York Evangelist has
American newspapers and American with public interests and rights. In have passed away, and just as Dagon
education. He said that the Ameri­ its public character the paper enters fell before the ark, so have all those , intelligent. Hut this part of his life the following word -about surmons.
can newspaper is the best index of into the ranks of the world as teach­ heathen deities passed away from is nôt the part which forms his mo­ “ As we sat in a little village Church
American life, and the fairest repre­ er. Education has two chief factors sight, and nowhere, now, in any en­ tives. It is jiot then that the final last Sunday, we were tempted to ap­
sentation -of our people. Whoever —culture or discipline, and knowl­ lightened country, is an idol wor­ causes are at woitc which govern his ply Paul’s words about foolishness of
would forni a correct estimate of the edge? The one comes by fit exercise shiped. There is idolatry, but how acts. His life,'when he is in the busy preaching ill a very different sen«;
spirit, genjus and life of Americans or training, the other by whatever low! Has it occurred to you that whirl of the world, is superficial and from the one intended by the great
.must study the newspapers. Our furnishes information, by reflection, there is not a form of beauty worshiped unreal. How artificial it is can he Apostle.
The congregation was very small—
virtues, our vices, our thoughts and and jnost of.all by reading. With all. in idolatry to-day ? Go where there seen in the alacrity with which, on
his
return
to
his
harem,
he,
lays
ofl
’
the
a
mere
handful, or so it seemed to us-
opinions, our politics, our trade, our our schools, we could never be an in­ are heathen temples, and what strange
broadcloth
clothes
of
his
public
exis
­
familiar
with city churches—and fully
push and pride, our weakness, telligent ^people wjthout newspapers. carricatures of humanity and of the
tence,
and
dons
the
white
baggy
one-half
the u umber'-present were
strength, creeds, customs and civiliza- They are the people’s libraries, the animal creation are put in them—
trousers,
the
open-necked
vest,
and
children
and
young people. The other
- tion, are all imaged in our memorable encyclopedia of millions. . Scholars objects that would Beem to be hideous
the
long
gown
dear
to
his
heart.
He
half
was
composed
of the plain, hard-
periodical publications. The Ameri­ and professional men must read books; in their make and form! ^he ele­
is
only
ready
to
be
at
ease
when
he
i
workiug
farmers
and
their wives,
can newspaper has no rival on earth but woe, woe to them if they read not ments of beauty are lacking ; beauty
released
his
feet
from
patent
leather
whose,
faces
denoted
shrewdness
with-
in volume and variety of its ‘issues. newspapers ! Even the fragmentary has taken its flight from the systems
and
from
stockings,
and
thrusts
them
out
any
particular
intellectuality.
More than eight thousand papers each and ephemera^ character of its ar­ of error, and degradation has drawn
g
■eV vw
vi*v £wva
vv MV WVM^ztvve
Now
the
good ujmm
man who
occupied
week appear ‘from our newspaper ticles lends occasional charms, if not them, as error always will drag its into unheeled slippers. Then he is I N
himself,
for
he
is
at
home.
The
harem
j the pulpit meant to do his best for
press; more than a thousand million additional utility, to them, TlWfresh- votaries downward.
is to every Turk his haven of refuge. bis people,-beyond a doubt, but unfor­
copies are circulated annually. They ne&s and variety of its articles lure
Now what power coukl have thus
To
it he may flee •from every care. tunately he had mistaken the best, as
* coyer every thought and interest. the reader on. It talks to men of changed the whole forms of worship
About
the harem cling all the sweet­ was apparent as soon as he began to­
Every department of business, manu­ their business, their political parties, but a divine power ? For man in his
est
associations
of his life. All his preach.
facture and trade has its advertiser. their church and. themselves. The | worship approaches nearer to the
best
feelings
find
exercise in that
He had chosen for his theme the
Social, scientific, moral, educational, men it describes are their contempor- ^spiritual, and Christ in- that he joins
sacred
place.
His
mother,
perhaps, is necessity of serving the Lord in early
** religious, political anil charitable aries. Jt thus adds something of himself to those spiritualized thoughts
societies and organizations publish I dignity to their daily lives. The ' of man, comes to us in his divine na- there, or his sisters. -There only he I youth, as we looked around at tho
newspapers devoted to their interests, newspaper of to-day chronicles move­ ture. He becomes the object of our enjoys the prattle rif his children. youthful faces upturned to his, we felt
and filled with their ideas; but ments of thought, as well as those of worship, and sweeps all .other objects There alone in all the« world . can the that his opportunity was wida in­
stating the fWmber of newspapers taen and nations. All find peace in atfay. How can we account, for the tired mankind the balm of sympathy. deed.
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does not tell the Whole" story. One these perpetual school and text-books fact that the teachipgs of. Christ have There he has his books, and can study
But alas . the preacher was involv­
must note well the great army of of popular learning. Facts will sus­ become universal—and when 1 say in peace if he will. There he enjoys ing himseir and bis hearers in a nym
writers who help to fill their columns. tain this estimate of the educational universal, 1 mean' in enlightened the riches of his splendid flower- of comparisons and metaphors, as un­
Editor«, assistants, reporters, corres- power of-the newspaper. Other things countries—supplanting the teachings garden. Ip the domain of the women, necessary as they were unintelligible-
popdents, critics, and contributors of being equal, the man or family who of all other system ? The world ad­ with hills and vales and moon-touched Long, intricate sentences fell on un­
all kinds, which are paid and unpaid, takes and reads good newspapers will mired Plato, and justly, for his sea before his eyes, he dreams away comprehending' ears ; cumbrous illus­
' ■ include a large proportion of. the be more intelligent than their neigh­ breadth of intellect, for his depth of his summer evenings under the subtle trations bewildered some or passed
talent of the country. The best brain bors who do not. Sift from the thought; the World admired Socrates, spell of nature. And here he meets quite over the heads of others, until
of the nation speaks through the American people the foreign .importa­ And justly, for the purity of his. pre­ thé controlling Influences of his life. | restless movements and wandering
• newspapers-. The latest and freshest tions of non-reading masses, and the cepts and for the clearness of his in­ The women.of the hareni, mother, eyes betrayed their lack of interest,
thought of the people is to be sought remainder will be found the best-read tellect ; the world had listened to sisters, and wives, wait upon thé man yet still the preacher labored*on.
» in the last paper issued. Malice, and most intelligent population of the ■orators strong, moving, stirring^and coming wearily home from his strug­
One sentence alone of that discourse
meanness, fanaticism, and the false­ globe. The newspaper is not ad­ yet the words of no philosopher and gle with life. They are to him humble' still clings to my • memory. It was:
hood and fraud which mix with our vocated as a substitute for schools, but no orator ring through the earth to­ servants or merry companions, as his At last the silken meshes of sin have
daily life, cannot be shut out from as a complement to theqi. The Ameri­ day as those of Jesus of Nazareth. mood is. They please him with his hardened into iron bands of habjt, im
papers; but truth, wisdom, practical can press, directed by men of educated Demosthenes stood yonder on the edge children, or leave him alone with his the crucible ofjthe world’s^ cares, and
,
sense and ldve of public good, solid minds, will find its way into school­ of the hill with great multitudes books, at his behest Sooner or later, | bound the soul to the sordid rock of
learning and courageous criticism, are rooms. The scholars will be taught around him, he himself just in sight however, they assert their woman’s selfishness.’
“also in force in the newspapers, so their use, and furnish them more ih- of the distant ocejin, which seemed right of talking on serious topics, and
Oh! we thought as we sat there,,
,
that we may easily forget the bad terested and intelligent readers.' Lot from its rising billows to be to him then they have him at their mercy. what an unspeakable comfort it would
elements which mingle with them. It the gigantic force of the newspaper be the, emblem of freedom, apd whose Now these women who make the be to hear Mr. Moody just now—and.
is the business of .social science to turned upon the work of popular sound echoed in his ears, and he home of the Turk are rarely his equals how his simple earnestness, his solemn
take an account of all the great public education. Let schools introduce the uttered those philippics that' roused in mental acquirements.. No question .tender appeals, his forgetfulness of ev­
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forces,' to mark their exact character new text-book, and we have ,at work the Grecian people to arms and made of blood rules thé selection of wives*’ erything but the Gospel message,
and tendencies, and to learn their an agency never surpassed to make an himself a naiue that is to a great ex­ among the Turks. A woman bom in would waken and electrify some of
amount and direction of power for enlightened and free people—Puci/ic. tent immortal. Christ «at calmly on a mild hovel often iules .in a pasha's those sleepy or wandering eyes or va­
good or evil. Thy newspaper is at
the side of the hill overlooking the palace. At the very best, Turkish cant faces.
women . rarely have any education »•Every time we have thought of
Christianity and Idolatry.
once the product and exponent of the
sea of Gallilee, the little -sheet of water
American mind—no better, no worse.
sleeping sweetly in the bosom of its beyond the primer. They believe in that sermon since, we have Been sad­
At
the
time
when
Christ
came,
out
­
Good probably exceeds the bad in the
surrounding hills, and the multitudes signs and wonders ; in the active dened by the recollection. How lit­
side
of
the
little
territory
of
Palestine
newspaper in a laj^p-r proportion than
gathered around him. He simply agency of evil spirits ; in the existence tle the.preacher realized that he was
(and
we
scarcely
think,
sometimes,
among the people, for vicu^ seek
opened hjs. lips and taught them, say- of a great dragon who periodically giving to his people not bread but a
how
small
it
is
;
for
in
it,
a
little
tract
seclusion, not publicity. In no other
ing, '* Blessed are the poor in spirit: attempts to swallow the moon ; in stone. And if in the days to come he
of
land
not
one-fourth
as
large
as
one
country does the newspaper exercise
for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. charms and incantations. In short, reaps but^ scanty harvest where he
such a power as in America. Ameri­ of our moderately sized States, is Blessed are the meek: for they shall they are as superstitious as they can may have expected full sheaves, wilt
cans live, work and think through the comprised the whole of what was the inherit the earth. Blessed are they be after centuries of hereditary igno- he ever realize that the fault lay in
ancient Holy Land), all the world was
newspapers. ■
which do hunger and thirst after rance. But they aie positive in the sowing ? We would be glad to be­
Acting as a public conscience, it idolatrous ; and even in that territory righteousness: for they ihall be opinion, and intolerant of opposition. lieve that this is a solitary case, but
places its seal of shame or honor upon there was'much vice. You know that filled.'’ And the multitudes listened : Moreover, they are, above all things we fear it is not. We fear that there s
each chapter of our history as it the Israelitish people oftentimes ran there was no stormy applause; there else, ardent and bigoted Moham- may be others who sacrifice to their
transpires. No American forgets it. into idolatry; but outside of that was no excitement to arms, the women medahs. Such are the- intellectual
love of' fine writing’ the power of
It watches to reward the good and little strip of country on the eastern and the children were listening to his surroundings of the Turk during that reaching Ae simple, of interesting the
punish the bad. Good men trust it edge of the Mediterranean Sea, the words. And yet, the words of De­ part of his life which he loves. And ignorant, or helping the dull. Not of
and bad men fear it. The power of whole world was an idolatrous world. mosthenes to-day are only read in the when the women of his house turn the course that we would call the example
the newspaper is not the mere force There were different forms of idolatry schools by the scholars, by the few, by conversation upon public affairs, the
we have given ‘fine writing,’ but our
In
of printed thought; it is the embodied —some low, some beautiful.
one in a thousand, but the words of poor man is helpless in their hands, preacher mistook it for that, and his
power of the public life of the day. Greece idolatry was a beautiful sys- Jesus are sweeping through the land. because he knows the futility of logic
ignorance was no more disastrous than
Each leader feels that he iB surrounded ,tem. The painters had painted beat*
The old man reads them before he in Buch discussion. Often a pasha some gifted brother’s brilliant essay,
by an unseen multitude, and he grows tifully; the sculptarp had chiseled a
closes his eyes in death, and the little meets at home a petition which he has falling coldly upon Waiting or timid
excited with’ imagined responses. All Jupiter, a Juno, a Minerva and a
child reads them in the family circle refused in his office, and yielding to or sorrowing hearts.’’— Advocate.
the forces of current«.,history prove Venus, objects of beauty. The human
and in the Sunday school; they are sheer importunity-on the part of his
themselves through the press.That intellect bad taken in the idea of the almost in every family and almost in women, he rewards the shrewdness of The satamn months, sll grave and brown
and sere,
force never remains idle. It^is im­ grandeur and excellence of the human
every hand. They are taking the the ujan who has found means to in­
And
fading lone with melanoholy hours *
form.
Beautiful
temples
were
erected
possible that so gigantic a force as the
wings of the morning and flying to voke*" such aids. Often it Has hap­ Strike sharp, sad-notes upon the waiting
in
Ephesus,
and
on
the
coast
of
Asia
American newspapers should exist
ear-
•
the uttermost parts of the earth. How pened that the pasha disappoints an
r--.
without exerting a corresponding in­ Minor was the wonderful temple of
ambassador,
and
violates
hir
promise
The
bird
’
s
quick
call
of march ; the^
can you account for it I—Bishop
fluence upon the character, affairs and Diana. The image which, it is said, Simpson.
paler flowers,
to support a new measure, because the
destinies of an entire people. All had fallen down from Jupiter, was at
women of his household object to the Scentless and dying, the south wind sadly
grieves ;
its
shrine;
and
when
Christ
was
things educate us." Country, climate,
A man's life is a tower, with a staircase deviation from custom.
He must, Her silver hair the thi.tle casta astray •
.preached
men
became
excited,
because
of many steps,
scenery and society, and business and ■
yield to his home circle, or break with Likegboeta stand all the cornfield's blanch­
pleasures and environments exert in the preaching of the Cross they That, as he toileth op, crumble success­ them entirely. These women are
ing sheaves
ively behind him.
their powers on our minds and char­ 4rere turned away from their fprms of
In hoayded wealth-their reckoning
under
no
influences
by
which
their
No going back, the past is an abyss I No
comes to-day.
acters. . While few have deeply con­ worship, and hence their hatred to
* ftopping, for the present perisheth ; opinions may be changed. They live
The
russet
red the dun and yellow leave«,
Christianity
;
but
to-day,
after
the
sidered the depth and extent of the
But ever hasting on, precarious on the in a world of their own, and are en­
A blaxmg flame-hang on th. suns*
lapse
of
eighteen
hundred
years,
where
influence of the newspaper, few will
foothold of To-day.**
tirely unaware of an existence prefer­
trees;
.
,
try it A free press is a necessary are all the idols? Jupiter, Juno, Like the leaves of the Sibyl,
able to their own, and know nothing In 1°ZriX1 notM ,he to*el ni«h,)y
complement of free schools. Without Minerva, Venus, Apollo, hath not a Life's waning hours rise in value aa they of that outside world to which they
leasen in number.
n?i0?,.<W“ue,on wiU>
“»• <«hng
schools the press would lack readers ; shrine to-day on earth. There is not
are simply curiosities of antique A voJ^ br^th.
* “4 breeze
a
knee
among
the
multiplied
millions
without the press scholarship would
—Men make furlnDes by attending to origin.
H°’ dXdjf"1 Mn ** ‘he
oalled
This glance at the home li’e of the
fail of half of its uses. The news- of men that bows before one of the*e their own basinets, because there are so
Turk and its influence uj>on him,
paper is a public agent. It offers to deities. There is not a form of wor­ few men engaged in that line.
—C abolixi Boren,
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