Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1878-01-20

We
it be baseless or not. The press's attitude
toward the Church, what is that? O honor
it. patronize it, pat it on the back, give
large report of this meeting, this congress,
this convention, because preadventure the
| number of people shall be larger or smaller
! who want to hear of these things. Why?
Because it is of good report? No! but be-
cause it viii pay! (Applause.) What comes
| on the next page? A pun or coarse Jest up
on word of that Scripture which this
church regards as its life. Print, as I have
seen in one of the most largely circulated
papers of the Northwest, at the top of its re-
port of sermons on the Monday,
:. b Q Lo I'd s Lay GU
| (sensation), and SO make it appear that
church-going is only sort of Sunday game
The crypf death agony on the gallows-the
poor creature having learned in his last days
him-publish it with the heading ..Jerked to
Jesus!'' (Cries of oh, ohY l have seen it,
many of you have seen it.
/ What is the relation of this press to Chris
/ tianity-I have the highest honor and re-
spect for many journalists, but speak of it
in general-what is the relation? One of
three things: Patronning condescension,
contemptuous Indifference, or foul-mouthed
ridicule. Why is this SO? Because, largely
our people love to have it SO? (Applause.)
Like priest, like peoples" and just as GER
tainly, like people, like press But is that
wholly true? Is the newspaper only sort of
barometer of public opinion, which it has no
partein producing. Is it that the newspaper
only jars the solution of human opinion, and
causes it to crystalline? Will that explain it's
attitude?
Must it not be partly that they minister
with stimulants to increase disease, rather
than lessen it ? Do they not, in part, create
the demand that they seek to supply Else
how comes it that the missionary of the
press is sent far and wide through the land,
that he may send quick over the wires the
intelligence that some drunken brute has
beaten the brains out of his long -suffering
wife? How can people want such intelligence
as that? Is it not like the epicure's cheese,
that man has to be taught how to eat:
Iaughter and applause)
What is the remedy? l answer, Church
men and women, the remedy here, as almost
everywhere, is discrimination. prolonged
applause.) I thank God that there are ex-
! ceptions; thank God that there are few
newspapers remarkable for their being ex.
ceptions, which do not cater to diseased
) and depraved appetites and curiosities
, The remedy for us men and women
; who claim to be decent and re-
, spectable-and above all. for Christian peo-
ple-to Danish from our tables these Journals
, that dare. as they do dare (applause), day af-
ter day. implicitly if not explicitly, to out
: rage honesty and decency, and to pour con
, tempt upon the Christian religion, Let us
I put them out of our houses, and then let us
find. if we can, and ii we cannot find, let us
make one, if need be (applause), that shalt
give us the worlds doings and its history 70,
: day. without at the same time affecting the
: pnrity of my daughters thoughts as she
! takes the paper from the breakfast table.
l Moreover, there are Christian men who
are editors, and want to ask them, does
: not their allegiance to our Lord Christ de
. mand, if not-certainly not-the propagation
: of Christianity, that they shall at least sex
: that it is not DETAINED in the columns which
4 they control.
+ Above all else, the press viii glorify success
!, always, everywhere, by everybody. There
$ fore let the Church SO live and watch ant
$ pray, in carrying the Gospel Of Jesus Chris
: as pure moral teaching to our nation, tina
: we may create demand which shall COM
r from tie people; that the press shall adop
i the apostolic legend, and fly it from ever,
4 masthead: whatsoever things are true
t pure, just, lovely, whatsoever thing
g are of good report-think of these things.
+ Long continued and enthusiastic applause.