Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1888-06-30

never seen me as a monstrosity in body,
mind and soul. There were millions Of
people who believed that there was z
large sofa in this pulpit, although we
never had anything but Il chair, and that
during the singing by the congregation
was accustomed to lie down on that sofa
and dangle my feet over the end. Lying
New York correspondents for ten years
misrepresentcd our church services, but
we waited and people from every neigh
borhood of Christcndom came here to ilnd
the magnitude of the f~alsedoods concern
ing the church and concerning myself. "A
reaction set in and now W. have justice,
full justice, more than justice and as
much %ovcrpraise AS once we had under
appreciation and no man that ever lived
was SO much indebted to the newspaper
press for opportunity to preach
the gospel as ] am. Young. men
in the ministry. young men IN all
professions and occupations, wait. 0
| can afford 10 wait. Take rough misrcp-
rcsentation as a Turkish towel To start up
your languid circulation or a system OF
massage or Swedish movement whose
pokes and pulls and twists and thrusls
are salutaIy treatment. There IS only one
person you need to manage and That Is
yourself. Keep your disposition sweet by
communion with Christ, who answered
not again, the society Of genial people
and walk out in the sunshine with your
hat off and YOU will come out all right,
| And don't Join the crowd Of people in our
day who spend much of their time damn
ing newspapers.
Again, in this effort to secure the sccu-
lar press as II mighticr reinforcement OF
religion and the pulpit, let rs axe it The
avenue Of religious information. IT you
pat the facts of churches and religious
denominations OF Christians only into The
column of religious papers which DO not
in this country have an average OF more
than ~, 1000 subscribers what have YOU
done rs compared with what yOu Dol you
put these facts through the daily papers
which have hundreds Of thousands OF
readers. Every little denomination must
have It's little organ supported at great
expense, when with one-half the outlay a
column or a half column OF might
be rented in some semi-o mnipOtent sccu-
lar publication and SO the religious infor-
nation would be sent round and round
the world. The world moves SO swiftly
today that news "A week Old Is stale. GIVE
us all the great church facts and ali the
revival tidings the next morning or the
same evening. Ny advice, often given to
friends who propose 20 start Il new paper,
is, Don't Don't Employ the papers
already started The biggest financial
L0le ever dug in this American continent
is the hole in which good people throw
their money when they start a nHwspa-
per. It is almost as good and as quick u
way of getting rid of money as buying
stock in a gold mine in Colorado. Not
more printing presses but the right use OF
those already established. All their cyl
inders, all their steam power, al their
pens, all their types, all their editorial
and repert0rial rooms are available II YOU
would engagc them in behalf Of ClyllIla-
ton and Christianity.
Again: if you would secure the secular
press rs "A mighticr reinforcement Of re-
ligion and the pulpit, extend widest and
highest Christian courtcsics to the repre-
scntativcs of journalism. Give them
easy chairs and plenty of room when they
come to report occasions. For the most
part they are gentlemen OF education and
refinement. graduates Of colleges, with
families to support 10y their literary craft,
many Of them weary with the push OF
a business that is prCCarions and tiuctua-
ting. each one Of them the avcnue of in
formation TO thousands Of readers, their
impression of the services TO be the i'm
preston adopted by multitudcs. They
are connecting links between a sermon or
a song or a prayer and this great popula-
ton that tramp up and down the streets
day by day and year by year with their
sorrows uncontrolled and their sins un-
pardoucd. More than 500, 600 people in
Brooklyn and less than -, 00Oin churches,
SO that our cities are not so much preached
TO by ministers of religion as by report
ers. Put all journalists into our prayers
and sermons. OF all the hundred thou
sand crmons preached today. there viii
not bc three preached TO journalists, and
probably not one Of all the prayers offered
, for classes of men innumcrablc. the
PRAYERS offered for this most potential
class will he so few and rare that they
will be thought "A preacher i~diosynCrasy
This world will never be brought to God
until some revival OF religion sweeps
over the land and takes into the kingdom
Of God editors and reporters compost
ors. pressmcn and ncwsboys. And if you
have not faith enough to pray for that
and toll for that, YOU had better get out
of our ranks and join the other side, for
YOU are the unbcliCvcrs who make the
wheels Of the Lord chariot drag heavily.
The great final battle between truth and
error, the Armagcddon, ! think, Will not
be fought with swords and shells and
guns, but with pens, quill pens, steel
pens, gold pens, fountains, and before
that the pens must be converted. The
most divinelv honorcd weapon Of the
past has been the pen and the most di-
vinely honored weapon of the future will
be the pen; prophets pen and evancel-
lists pen and apostles pen followed by
EDITORS pen and reporters pen and au-
thor's pen. God save the pen, The wing
of the Apocalyptic angel will be the
printed page. The printing press will
roll ahead OF Christ's chariot to clear the
way.
But" some one might ask, would
YOU make the Sunday newspapers also a
re. enforcement?" Yes, | would2 | have
learned TO take things as they are. |
would like 10 see the much scolfed at old
Puritan Sabbaths come back again. | DO
not think the modern Sunday will turn
out any better men and womon than were
your grandfathers and grandmothers
under the old fashioned sunday. To say
nothing Of other results. Sunday news
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