New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1888-06-27

all Cne1r types, all their editorial chairs and
reportorial rooms are available if you would
engage them in behalf of civilization and
Christianity.
Again, If you would secure the secular
press as a mightier reinforcement of reiig.
ion and the pulpit extend widest and high
est Christian cOurtesies to the representa-.
tiyes of journalism. Give them easy chairs
and plenty OF room when they come to re-
port occasions. For the most part they are
gentlemen of education and refinement.
graduates of colleges. with families to SUD-
port by their literary craft, many of them
weary With the push of a business that is
precarIous and fiuctuating each one OF them
the avenue of in Ormat.on to thousands of
readers. their inn ress1on OF the services to
be the impression adopted by multitud IS.
They are connecting links between a sermon
or song or prayer and this great popuIa.
ton that tramp up and down the streets day
by day and year by year with their SORROWS
uncontrolled and their sins unpardoned.
More than eight hundred thousand PEOPLE in
Brooklyn and less than seventv-fye thousand
In churches, 20 that orr cities are not so much
preached to by ministers of religlon as by
reporters Put all Journalists into our pray
ers and sermons. OF all the hundred thou
sand sermons preached to-day there will not
ably not one. OF all the prayers offered for
classes of men innumerable the PRAYERS of
fered for this most potential class will be SO
few and rare that they will be thought a
preachers idlosyncrasv. 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 re-
porters, composltors, pressmen, and news
boys. And if you have not faith enough to
pray for that and toll for that, you had bet
ter get out of our ranks. and JOIN the other
side, for you are the unb levers who make
the wheels of the Lords chariot drag heavi.
ly. The great final battle between truth
and error, the Armageddon, L think, will
not be fought VITA swords and shells and
guns. but with pens-quiIl pens, steel pens.
gold pens, fountain pens-and before that
the pens must be converted The most divine
ly-hOnored weapon Of the past has been the
p n. and The most divinely honored weapon
of the future will be the pen-prophet's
pen, and e .angeiist's pen, and apostles pen,
followed by the editors pen, and reporters
pen, and authors pen. God save the pen
the printed page. The printing press will
roll ahead of Christ's chariot to clear the
way.
s'But," some one might ask, sswould YOU
make the Sunday newspapers also redin-
fo"cementW Yes, would. have learned
to take things as they are. I would like to
see the much-scof1ed-at old Puritan Sab
bath come back again. do not think the
modern Sunday will turn out any better
men and women than were your grand
fathers and grandmothers under the old
fashioned Sunday. To say nothing of other
re,usts, Sunday newspapers are killing ed
TORS, reporters, CONF ositors, and pressmen.
Every man, women, and child is entitled to
tWenty-tour hours of nothing to do. II the
newspapers put on anot er set of hands that
does not relieve the editorial and re-
portorial room of its cares and responsible.
tiles. Our literary men die last enough
without Killing them with Sunday work
But the Sunday newspaper has come to
stay. 1t Will stay good deal longer than
any of us stay. What then shall we do?
lmplore all those who have anything to do
VITA issuing it to fill it with moral and re-
lS1ous information; live sermons and facts
eieyating. Urge them that all divorce
cases be dropped and instead thereof have
goAd advice a. to how husbands and wives
ought to live lovingly together. Put in
small type the behavior of the swindling
church member and IN large type the con.
tribution of 81 me Christian man toward an
asylum for feeble-minded children or a sea-
side sanitar. UNI. Urge all managing editors
TO put meas ness and impunity in type pearl
or agate, and charity anu fidelity and Chris
we can not drive out the Sunday newspaper
let us h We the Sunday newspaper converts
ed. The TACT is that the modern Sunday
newspaper is a great improvement on the
old Sunday newspaper What beastly
thing was the Sunday newspaper thirty years
ago! 1t was enough to destroy mans re-
spectablity to leave the tip end of it stick
ing out OF his coat pocket. What editorials!
What advertisements! What pictures! The
modern Sunday newspaper is as much an
Improvement OH the old-Uime Sunday news
paper as one hundred is more tpan twenty
five, in other wJrds about Is percent. i'm
pr yemtnt. Who knows that bY prayer and
kindly consultation with our literary friends
we may nave it lifted into positively re-
ilglous sheet printed on Saturday and only
dis ribut"d, like the AHaericD1 Mess enqer.
or the missionary Journal, or the Sal7aaay-
School Advocate. on Sabbath mornings All
things are possible with God, and my faith
is up until nothing in the way of religious
victory would surprise me. All the news
paper p. hitting pre- ses of the earth are 90
Ing 10 be the Lords, and telegraph and tel
ephone aid type Will yet announce nations
born in day. The first book ever prinlei
was the Bible by Faust and his son-in-law,
Schoeffer, in 1869, and that conservation of
type TO The holy scriptures was prophecy of
the great mission of printing for the evan
gelization of all the nations. The father of
the Am rican printing press was a clergy
man, Rev. Jesse I lover, and that was
Piopu W VI NV IL i1selouS uSe CilitG VIC SOSpel
in this country were to make OF the
types.
Again, we shalt secure the secular press
as mlghtier reinforcement of religion and
the pulpit by making our re iglous utter
ances more interesting and spirited, and
then the press will reproduce them. On the
way TO church some fifteen years ago a jour
naist said a thing that has kept me ever
since thinking. Are you gong to give us.
any points to-day?" What do YOU mean?7,
/ asked. He said: 81 mean by that any.
thing that will be striking enough to be re-
membered." Then said to myself: What
right have we IN our pulpits and Sunday
scheo to take the time OF people ii we have
nothing to say that is memorable. David
did not hay e any difficulty in remembering
Nathan's thrust: Thou art the man;D nor
Felix III remembering Plu,'s point-bl nix
utterance on r.gh eousness, temperance, and
Ju igment to come; nor the English king
any difficulty in remembering what the
court preacie said, when, during the SER
mon against sin, the preacher threw his
han kelehief into the kings pew to indicate
Whom he meant. The tendency of criticism
in the theological seminaries is to file off
from our Young men all the sharp points and
make them too smooth for any kind Of exc
cution. What we want, all OF lis, is more
point. less humdrum. If we say the right
thing i'll the right way the press will be glad
to echo and re-eeho it. Sabbath-schoM
teachers refprmers, young men and old men
in the Ministry, what we all want if we are
to make Jne printing pre-, s an ally in Chris.