Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1885-12-13
THE SUNDAY NEWSPAPERS.

Rev. G. Fl. Young, OF Boston Answers
Some Arguments Against 1t.
BeItoE Glote
They claim fret, that the publication of
Sunday papers necessitstes Sunday labor.
Now they ought to be consistent and re-
member it's not the Sunday paper that
creates the necessity for Sunday labor, but
the Monday paper which they all read, and
no one says q word Against them. Iasked
the managing editor Of one of our great
Sunday papers what proportion sf the Sun
day paper is prepared on the Sabbath ss
compared to the preparation of the Mon
day paper on the Sabbath, and he answer
ed me about oue-third. So you see that
more work is done on Sunday for the Mon
day paper than is done for the Sunday
paper. And yet all read the Monday
papers. To be consistent they ought to
refuse to take The paper sold on Monday,
Second, ThEt the paper is improper for
Sunday reading. Now, l think great
deal Of the Sabbath, but also think 90
much of Monday and Tuesday that any
thing that ought rot to be read on Sunday
Is not fit to be read on week days. But
if any paper bears the denomiustionsl i'm
print it is all right. It's ike the boy 6
kite which he was covering IN Sunday, and
being reproved, said he was covering it
with religious paper. II in the denomina
tionsl paper was printed articles on the
dsmnsiion of in6dels and heretics, Il would
be suitable Sunday reading, as it would be
religious. But would keep such reading
from my children always. There is much
in religious literature that ought to be
kept away form the children, and ought
not to be read to them on any day.
Third, They claim that Sunday papers
keep people from attending church. sun
day papers may keep people of the street
and away from bad associations, but never
from church. If there wasn't Sunday
paper published people would not 90 to
church if they didn't want to. 1t is also
said that it tends to secularize the Sabbath.
The whole Sunday question is before us.
In olden times Sunday was for rest and
worship. II consisted in folding your
arms aud going to church. Sunday is a
day of rest, In this great world Of grind
and toll 10 homes shops and mercantile
lite We rtjoics that one day in seven We can
so largely rest and also worship. We need
one day in seven to call us to the higher
things of life. The Puritan Sunday is
gone forever, and /, for one. do not deplore
II.
The broader idea ia and ought to De
that the best treasures should be placed at
the disposal of all our citizens. Hence
We need the horse cars, the reading rooms,
public Libraries and art galleries open TO
the people on Sunday, The rich, who can
10 church in carriages of ;he!r own, vote
against horse cars, and thank God the
laboring people are saven from Sunday
labor. With houses filed with beautiful
pictures, libraries teeming with ell the
literature Of The age, and the best music
supplied by educated sons and daughters,
they are opposed to the rest of the world
enjoying these luxuries on the Sabbath.
believe in using Sunday in every way to
help the poor aud delight those who cannot
Otherwise enjoy these blessings. Sunday
is sscrsd in proportion to the manner it
eleVstes and purifes mankind.