The Wahpeton times., 1888-06-28

precsrious and fiuctuating. each one OF them
readers. their impression OF the services to
be the impression adopted by multitudcs.
They are connecting links between sermon
or song or prayer and this great popl,la.
| tion that tramp up and down the streets dav
by day and year by year with their sorrows
Hncomfortc'i and their sins ,lnparloncd.
More than eight hundred thousand people in
BrooAlyn and less than seventy.tive thousand
in churches, 50 that our cities ure not SO In,,ch
preached to by ministers Of religion MS nv
reporters. Put all Journalists into our pray.
els and sermons. or all the hundred thou.
| sand sermons preached to-day there will not
be three preached to Journalists, and prob
ably not one. OF all tile prayers offered for
classes Of men innumerable the PRAYERS Of.
| fered for this most potential class will be ~,
| few and rare that they will be thought a
preachers idiosyncrasy. This world will
never be brought to God until some revival
Of religion sweeps over the land and takes
porters, compositors, pressincn. and news.
boys. And 1t 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 unbclievers who make
the wheels Of the Lords chariot drag heavi.
not he fought with swords and shells and
guns. hut with pens-quill 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
pm. and the most divincly.honored weapon
pen, and evangeiist's pen, and apostles pen,
followed by the editors pen. and reporters
pen, and authors pen. God save tie 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, "wouid you
make the ), Sunday newspapers also redin:.
to take things as they arc. would like tt, to
sec the much..cored-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 grandmothcrs under the old.
fashioned Sunday. 10 say nothing Of other
results, Sunday newspapers are killing ed
itors, reporters, compositions, and pressmen.
Every man, women. and child is entitled to
! twenty.tour hours of nothing to do. II the
| newspapers put on another set of hands that
does not relieve the editorial and re.
portorial room Of its cares and responsible.
ities. Our literary men die fast enough
without killing them with Sunday work.
But the Sunday newspaper has come to
any Of U.s. stay. What then shall we 10?
lmplore all those who have anything to do
with issuing it to till it with moral and re-
lisious information; live sermons and facts
cases be dropped and instead thereof have
gond advice rs to how husbands and wives
| ought 10 live Lovingly together Put in
small type the behavior Of the swindlinc
church member and IN large type the con.
tribution Of some Christian man toward AN
asylum for fecblc.mindcd children or Il sea.
side sanitarum. Urge all managing editors
| TO put meanness and impunity in type pearl
or agate, and charity ana fidelity and Chris
tian consistency in brewer or bourgeois. II
we can not drive out the Sunday newspaper
let lis have the Sunday newspaper convert.
cd. Tie fact is that the modern Sunday
newspaper isa great improvement on the
old Sunday newspaper. What 4; bcastly
thing was tue Sunday newspaper thirty wears
+, ago! 1t was enough to destroy "a mans re.
spcctability 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
paper as one hundred is more than twenty
five. in other words. about Is percent. i'm
proycment. Who knows that bv playey = and
kindly consultation with our literary friends
we may nave it lifted into q positively re-
ligious sheet printed OIL Saturday and only
llNC IhC r[lNeftCDH VI .uCSSGNV2r.
or the Missionary journal. or the Sunduy-
School Adroc0te. on Sabbath mornings. All
things are possible with God, and nv faith
is up until nothing in the way Of religious
victory would surprise me. All the news
paper printing presses Of the earth are 70.
ing 10 be the Lords, and telegraph and tcl.
epilone and type will yet annouuce nations
born in day. The iirst book ever printed
was the Bible by Faust and his son.in-law,
Schoeffer, in 14G), and that conservation of
| type 10 the holy scriptures was u prophecy of
| the great mission of printing for the evan.
gelization of all the nations. The father of
the. American printing press was clergy
man, Rev. Jesse Glover, and that was Il
prophecy OF the religious Use that the gospel
ministry in this country were TO make ol Tie
types.
Again, we shalt secure the secular press
as 4 mighticr reinforcement of religion and
the pulpit by making our religious utter.
ances more interesting and spirited, and
then the press will reproduce them. ON the
way TO church some fifteen years ago jour.
nalist said thing that has Kept me ever
any points today" "What do You means'
l asked. lie said: II mean by that any.
thing that will he striking enough TO he re.
membered." Then said to myself: What
llght nave we IN our pulpits and Sunday.
schools to take the time OF people il we have
nothing to say that is memorable. David
did not have any difficulty in remembering
Nathan's thrust: .'Thou art the man;' nor
Felix IN remembering Paui's point-blenk
ltterance on Righteousness, temperance, and
lu igment to come; nor the English king
any difficulty in remembering what the
court preacher said, when. during the ser.
mon against sin. the preacher thew his
handkerchief into the kings pew to ind cite
whom he meant. Tie tendency Of criticism
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