The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1888-06-18

tendon came here 10 find the magnitude
OF the ialsehoods concerning the church
and concerning myself. A reaction set in,
and now we have justice, full justice, more
than Justice, and as much ovcrpraisc rs
once we had underappreciation and no
man that ever lived was so much indebted
TO the newspaper press for opportunity TO
preach the gospel rs am. Young men in
the ministry, young men in all professions
and occupations, wait. You can afford TO
wait. Take rough Misrepresentation as q
Turkish towel 10 start up your languid
circulation, or system Of massage or
Swedish movement, whose pokes and pulls
and twists and thrusts are salutary treat
ment. There is only one person you need
TO manage, and that is yourself. Keep
your disposition sweet by communion with
the Christ, who answered not again, tho
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 damning newspapers.
Again: In this ellortt secure the sec.
ular press rs u mightier reinforcement OF
religion and the pulpit, let lis make il the
avenue OF religious information. II you
put the facts Of churches and donomina-
tons OF Christians only into the column OF
religious papers, which do not in this
country have an average of more than 10,
600 subscribers, what have you done ~
compared with what you do II YOU put
these facts through the daily papers which
have hundreds oi thousands of readers
Every little denomination must have its
little organ supported at great expense,
when with.one-half the outlay u column or
half column OF room might he rented in
some semi.omnipotent secular publication
and so the religious information would bc
sent round and round the world. The
world movesso swiftly today that news a
week old is stale. Give US all the great
church facts and all tho revival tidings the
next morning or the same evening. My
advice, often given 10 friends who propose
90 start new paper, is, "DOntl Don't ]
Employ the papers already started" The
biggest financial hole ever dug in this
American continent IN the hole in which
good people throw their money when they
start a newspaper. II IN almost NJ quick
way Of getting rid Of money ~ 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 powcr,all ther pens,
all their types, all their editorial chairs
and reportoral rooms are available II you
would engage them in behalf of ciyiliza'
ton and Christianity.
Again: II YOU mould secure tho secular
press as q mighticr reinforcement OF rc-
ligon and the pulpit, extend widest
and highest Christian CourtcsiCs "a
the representatives of journalism.
Give them easy chairs and plenty Of room
when they come to report occasions. FoI
the most part they are gentlemen oi odu'
cation and refinement, graduates Of col
logcs, with families 20 support by tboil
literary craft, many OF them weary Will
the push Of business that is precariou
aud iluctuatiug. each one Of them th'
avenue VI Information 10 thousands q
readers, their impression oi the service
10 be the impression adopted by multi
tudcs. They sro connecting links betueo
| a sermon or song or n prayer and tli
great population that tramp up and dow
the streets day by day and year by year
with their sorrows uncontrolled and thci
sins unpardoned. More than 100000 pco
pie in Brooklyn and less than 10000 IL
churches, 80 that our cities are not y,
much preached TO by ministers Of religion
~ by reporters. Put all journalists int
our prayers and sermons. Of all the 100,
900 sermons preached today, there will
not be three preached 20 journalists, and
probably not one. OF all the prayers of
icrcd for classes Of men innumcrlblc, th,
prayers offered for this most potential elias,
will be 40 few aud rare that they will bt
thought n preachers idiosyncrnsy. Thii
world will never bc brought 10 God until
some revival Of religion sweeps over the
land and takes into tho kingdom Of God
editors aud reporters, compositors, press
men and ncwsboys. And II you have not
faith enough to pray for that aud toll ior
that, YOU had better get out of our rank,
and Join the other side, for YOU are the
unbclicyes who make the wheels OF the
Lords chariot drag heavily. The grcal
final battle between truth and error, tho
Armagcddon, ! think, will not be- fought
with swords and shells aud guns, but
with pens, quill pens, steel pens, gold
pens, fountain pens, aud, before that, the
pens must be- converted. The most III.
yinoly honDrod weapon Of the past has
been the pen, aud the most diyinoly hon.
Orcd weapon Of the future will be- tile pen;
prophets pen and cyangclist's pen and
apostles pen, followed by editors pen and
reporters pen aud authors pen. God
save the pcnl Tho wing oi the Apocalyp.
tiC angel will be- thc printed p1vc. The
printing press will roll ahead Of Christs
chariot TO clear the way.
"lint, some one might ask, "would
you make the Sunday newspapers also u
rciniorcemcntY' Yes, ! would. | have
learned tO take things M they are.
would like to see the much scpilcd nj
old Puritan Sabhnths come back again.
do not think the modern Sunday will
turn out any better men and women than
were your grandiithcn and grandmother
under the old.iashioncd Sunday. 10 say
nothing oi other results, Sunday news
papers arc killing editors, reporters, com.
positon and prcsmon. Every man,
woman aud child Is entitled to twenty.
four houm II nothing ~ do. II the news
papers put ON another vet Of hands that
does not relieve the editorial and rrporD'
rial room of its cars aud raeDnsiblitiCs.
our literary men lie inst enough without
killing them with sunday work. hut ihO
Sunday newspaper has come to stay. II
will stay good deal longer than any oI
~ stay What. then, shall We DOT lm.
plorc all those who have anything to dl
with issuing IL to iill Il with moral and
religious Information, 1.-Two sermons and
facts clemiing. Crgc them that all III.
yorcc cases be- dropped, aud instead
thereof have good advice as to how hus
bands aud wives ought 10 live lovingly
together. Put in small typo th,
behavior Of tho swindling churcl
member and In largo typo ti,
contribution oi some Christian man toward