New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1886-01-25
SUNDAY PAPERS COMPARED
ND pAPKUURST TELLS WHAT HE FOUND
THE PECULIAR FEATURES OF SIX JOURNALS
DANGERS FROM IMMlGRATloN.

,ur pFcTIIAR FEATURES OF SIX JOURNALS
DANGERS FROM IMMIGRATIoN.
Tho Rev. DR.. Charles ii. Parkhurst, OF the
Madison Square Presbyterian Church. preached yester
Az ,n,yinr on "The Lords Day." In explaining the
ori,,n of the day held Us sacred by the
~o.,,,n World he said that the Fourth
Cumandment does the Christian
sabbath 1t is neither broad, firm nor spiritual nor
Chrsily enough cover it, The Christian Sabbath Is
the Jewish sabbath converted In regard to tho effects
OF imagination ana tue SUNDAY papers Oh 'no -''n'
Sabbath, he SAID;
Irant TO IMPRESS It up IN the minds OF the Christian
peope OF this that the only way to preserve
H. sabbath in as integrity with all its enlightenng ana
banowng possibilities to hold 1t in sharpedgcd soia
tion time that Is secular am not @ o
- utter word In Encouragement OF the Puiians We
easily regret taeir severity ana asE ye su crown
begin 10 cheaper them Till We have oursSN.s can
generation that in moral tone ana TENSION can
parallel themo Iih Of some of their traduccrs who
carlcature their grand old New-Engiand ancestry VIII
CaSce fher moral proportions We now and then en-
Counter people upon the matter OF sabbath
observance seem TO extreme.
Only This ias week spoke with lady who said that
an, rSond NOT ride on the horse-cars sunday. Per
me- we shond consider that extreme But at rate
there was this 10 said IN her behalf she had pnc
PIE long S as she lives there will such thing the Sab
in name only but IN fact 9ne was IKE rock
against IL the rock splits the sea- sabbath Is 10 her
great anu n sah6atcaI stamina that is one of the
castons OF dishearenmen in the case There prevails
want Of settled Sa pS6y Ser a5Sah
not what excites anxlety-but they are changing
any for the change Things lhal once
they would on no account do on sunday; tTey nave ave
son hat they by Of explanation; they are
aSSan acton shapes their and no: their
sabbath views their sabbath actions unprhcpea from
FIRST to last and worth only so mucn sO " "
another ground of anxiety Is the tiGe OF ln
portions OF Europe, which Is STEADILY degradlnS our
stan c.e TO the POINT lust stated for
ponnced and principled IN our SaDDatcal views anu
uSsabSatcal views and habits, then instead OF their en-
eryating sabbath would be able to nvSorate tho
Sabbath; the will not spt the rock II tue recK
is able to split the sea. a., 49,, l.,
Aud before closing 1 must say also that there Is
tude; and 1t ground for encouragement mat TINS so
leude is coming to be more ana more r .G b
ing reused distinct uterance III the matter 10 Ot
iIw how many OF my congregation are accustomed to
resS the sunday newspapers and do not know that
it make any difference how many tnere , are
There some things relating 10 tue matter vi
am as thoroughly and profoundly persuaded az am OF
the truth OF the Holy word am t Seatep
rapidy to saturae the sunday air with secnarism ana
between the one day and the ak days than our sunday
morning ne wspapers. can conceive OF sunday Jour
QUESTION to decide whether the whee 1t would pro
mote sabbatical ideas and habits or dseourago then
Rut on a recent Sunday with this subject pressing on
my mind procured copy each OF what are
.n e Of them Column by column and paragraph by
naragranb aud confess to you that the result filled me
FIRST wa. Tie M5ring Journal secular of course and
nasty with seven illustrations WHICH zen,
suay contemplated, would cauterlze the SOU as Win
Then came The Sun without any obscene pictures, to
be buiust as distinctly and whole neareuS se0u
lar from date finish as circus or buli-hEht' ,
and 9brtTtwc lines over that were at least suggestive
the which it issued but out oil ~ "a COL
anu exclusively advertisements. with the rest made
up, 1t Is always nla1e up OF pot.lcS nor , sCs:
"A
Then came The World Really found nothing in The
World that would have been inappropriate IN week
day issue out of 224 columns lT3 we're devoted 10
advertisers which pretty good lest OF the uaulter
issue amounted TO $4,000 copies MMGh sceoFInS TO-
its representations OF the case would stscRG ~
as came from tne press each Raptr ioiaoa one H
ton Monument the CO'oghe Cd,lc,II nc l"' w.
Cheop st. Peters In Rome ST. Pauis In London NOtre
i'm York-a stack higher than all Of those piled ono
on top of other That was tho amount OF printed
day in Decem6er Ana If 225.OOO men bought t. proba-
bly, twice at least thnt hmei Ci e ba g ,Ilin men
you calculate to he the effect OF tha Rd OF m
fucnce in the dire :on OF undermining ana hoheScomo
Ing the American 5snOah ~
Next order was The Times an improve neqt on re
World In course: Less ADVERTISING ana putting on u
liberal construction containing wei on towrt one per
cent Of matter stood IN Kind 4ynpathy WIN inc
Resurrection Day of oar Lorl jesus Christ
Last was THE TRIBUNE. II IS rather natural for each
" reads viii easily eclipse It's contemporaries and
therefore when turned the PAGES OF tntt ,
~ sunday Journalism would be measurably reassuled
Setting ase one article which sin tbs tone or E"p
nstrs car,catrc OF all the religious sccjs. ont VI the
columns that composed the issue there were
nine lines that had about them religious and Sahha
cal suggestion. IL WIS something about somebody
preaching down ~ BrOOmc-St We may or may not
agree with thet paperS po!ucs; We prooap., j. s
hook reviews and criticisms; we certainly rcOlct III
a. moral Gle lpncss. Bat for all that every time
that ona sunday upOn the community such an
issue by the OF Thousands and doS II on
Sunday it il 50 much heavy ordnance trained on the
Sabbath that grand bulva:k OF Christian cYllIdtlph
and puts only much adde tax upon the church IN s
I.u fnp fnNfl an al
NY friends, have prayer IN regard to TINS morn
ing's sermon, and IL may do you and me cooa. II
ILaye ATTEMPTED certainly have to stlryou To more
active thinking. IL has been Only 20 tins cad thtt Your
thoughts bore inward TIL they reach the
core of this critical matter; that come 10 appTe
ciate ils scOpe that may fix our own Latitude aHd
Longitude; that may mterrocate the principles ny
which Individually actuated IN the premises ana
that we NAV steadily hOl this question OF the IOds
nav and Ali s pprfainngs at the Of kccnest
thinking, at the burningpOlnt OF our most intense ana