Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1886-06-19
SUNDAY JOURNALISM.

II. Ward. In a SUNDAY newspaper Of the |
right sort Dr. Ward secs a ureat and growing |
instrum,,t of yo,,, "a man ,,rbe host sun'
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Pno.osraPns oi Use eA,s'"s co""'"o" o' Soch
oty III the nited States'
They furnish more, perhaps, than any
thing else the ordinary mans education; |
,bev ara An iaroe,v represeptatiye Of what in
seed. n,nani,y ,h., ave, In ,h.,r ,,ra.an,
i'm ma, ,,ec,,on. THAR news maitar and adi,o
ia II have bigb ethical vaIue. and when
ionL ad ~ in thsir ~ ider roia,ions and nossi-
hii,,,a. shav cnn.,,,n,a nna ~ ,ha chiat aUen-
,,a. yor ina tr.nss,rms,ion ri ,n,iern society, |
n, Is as unfair In iudoe the SUNDAY press
bv its worst exampIes "a 10 Judge of Chris.
,;,t,,, S,, a.. i,I,n.,,oc. forms The true
mo, I, s,,av i, "a n, the light of what Il NAV |
ha ,psda Gran,,ug its earthly origin, its in. |
,e,tarence With the traditional Sunday, its
,n.sib,a holding people from church ser. |
p,cos ,,s .oculsr stirit and atfnosphere. n oc.
,,' 80. such a posit,on that no wise man can |
,.,npnra n. II holds the kew IN the secular and |
r.i,yious education OF the masses. and per.
baps the most interesting and important anes-
,In,, hef,re the tpericau ch n rcbes ia Va be.her
A cannot be so related to the institutions of |
religion that II shall strengthen rather than
a. .troy the reverent Influences that ought To |
obtain in daily liie This IL the real issue,
II will not do to turn awav from IL IL Ia
simpler matter, for instance, to teach men
Christianity direct than To teach IL
through lessons on polItiral econo-
nv; but If the need of the bour
4. expressed i'm the subjects that are coyered
by economical science. IL ia the duty of those
who are To deal with the entirety Of the lives
of men to see that the ~ esent relief and the
eternal good shall not be separated i'm Thought
or deed. Christianity has been too much
taught as am abstract conception of personal
duty an arbitrary and dorfriuuire svsteu
too little taught az the method by which di.
VINE truth is revealed to men In and through
the nrac,ic.l exnerience of life. and the
classes and conyulsinp society cannot safely
be ignored by those who are acknowledged
| To he its moral and spiritual guardians The
| SUNDAY press is a part OF the movement
for making the American Sunday of
| tbe future. IL il the worlds university.
| in which the people at large are cd.
| ucated once a week, and what controls
| the Sunday controls what lies between the
| SUNDAYS II IL that of infIueuce which CON
| trolls The lives of men. It gives. and is 10
| give more and more the freshest and bright
est and often the best thought of the day To
| tboss who hayea whole day before then, in
| which to enioy II. The present and poten-
tial Influenza of the Sunday paper is equal
| To that of ALI other agencies en ployed in this
| country on Sunday for the INSTRUCTION and
| guidance of human life. II has come to that
| II iutIuences the unorpanized undetermined
| uncontrolled. uniformed class those who are
| for the most part not vet amenable to the
| rules OF religious organizations 1t holds
| the pIace to them that the sermon holds In
| tho church That autArtaiUa and
| hut IL at present reaches a class while the
| Sunday paper il rapidly becoming the repre-
| sentative organ through which ALI CLASSES
| are best reached Its scope il wider greater
| more inclusive than men think, and its in.
| fluepcs reaches to the most Fundamental
| things
| IL can never be the instrument of instruc-
tions. religious or secular, that 90 against the
interests OF the people. 1t must take con
structiye positious IL must DISCUSS religious
questions upon the basis of what ia for tho
good of ALI and its SOCIAL and educational
Judgments are controlled by the same prin.
cipie. Here then, there rises into view an
instrumentality, untettered. unalIjpned. in
dependent and Tree. which ia neither puInit
or church which no one man can entirely
control and in which all questions that per-
tain to American lite aud morals can be
thoroughly and adeauately treated This is
something uniuue in our civilization There
has been nothing like it The outlook of the
SUNDAY paper, by virtue of it's publication on
| the Lords dav 4, different from the ont
look of the other days of the week, The ma.
De will be filed with all sorts of mat
ter and will appeal to the tastes of
every class of readers, but IN its editorial
| columns with the same men writing for it
the tone will mere or less be that OF a day
when the world rests from its labors. The
editor feels this and without the ministers .
purpose in his Sunday services, inevitably
WORKS under its spirit, There Is abundant
worldlipess from the church point of view,
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influence upon the minds and hearts OF men
in those Sunday papers which taken at its
best, and employed according to its orpor.
tunty can not only be made to atone for
what Is IMPERFECT but can make them the
channels of the great spiritual forces of our
present civilization. There no other agency
through which our American public can be
so quickly, 80 effectively and so entirely
reached. Hvervbody reads the SUNDAY
newspapers, and even those who decline 10
buy Il on principle borrow il of their neigh.
boIs and are instructed by its utterances IL
is the only great inf luence in America cana.
BILE ot shaping things in the large, CAPABLE of
presenting God to humanity i'm a fresh light.
which has not yet been mortgsged. and
which cannot yet be controlled by what is
narrower than the interests of mankind.
Much can be said against this statement in a
small way, but when viewed in the light OF
its possible, and in some cases already real
lied, attitude toward religion, society and
education, it is not only true, but it becomes
truer every day.
The position Is so singular and exceptional
and new that it is but little understood The
paper first appealed to the non-church- -goiu Q
class, and was almost purely secular, but il
could not be kept to this plane. 1t rose above
it. The paper is partly what its readers de.
mand that 1t shall be- partly what its editor
makes it. The patronage of the SUNDAY
press all over the country has steadily im.
proved in tone and character from the first,
until the best Sunday newspapers have he.
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