The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1888-06-29

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week old IL Stale. Give ~ al The great
church SaCts end I'll ~ revival tidinGs the
next morning o. thesaoe eveatsg.
Ny advlee 0gtaa given % friends who
propose 20 start new payer, II: "Don'ti
Don'ti Employ the papers already started. {"
The b.ggest hnancial hole ever dug in this
American coatinent II the hole In which
good people throw their money when they
start . newspaper. Il 10 almost - good
and ~ quick way Of getting rid Of money
- buying stock In gold NINE in Colorado
Not more printing presses but the right
ne Of those already established. All their
cylinders. al their steam power, all their
pens, all their types. all their editorial
chairs and repert0rial rooms are available
II you wouli engage them in behalf Of
civilization and Christisuity.
Again: II you would secure the secular
press - . mightser reinforcement Of 70
ligion and the pulpit extend wisest and
highest Christisn courtesies to the rcpre-
sentatives Of Journalism. Give them easy
chairs and plenty OF room when they come
70 report occasions. For the most part
they are Gentlemsn OF education aud re-
6uement, graduates Of colleges. with fam
lilies 70 support By their literary craft,
many OF them weary with the push Of .
business thstis precarious and auctuating,
each one Of them the avenue Of informa-
ton to thousands Of readers. their impres-
siou Of the services TO b the impression
adopted BY multitudeA Thoy are coanect.
ing links between sermon or . song or q
prayer end this great population that
tramp up and down the streets day BY day
and year b. year with their SORROWS nm.
comforted and their sins unpardOned.
More than $50 900 people In Brooklyn and
less than s5,OOO in churches. 30 that orr
cities IRE not 20 much preac"ed to by min
listers Of rcljg on a. by reporters.
Put all journalists into our prayers and
sermons. or all the hundred Thousand
sermons preached to-day there will not be
three preached to journalists, and prOba-
bly, not one. or all the prayers offered
for classes Of men innumerable the prayers
offered for this most potential GLASS Will
be % few and rare that they will b.
thought q preachers idiosyncrasy. 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, competitors, pressmea
and newsboys. And II 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 unbe-
lever who make the wheels OF the LOfd's
chariot DRAG heavily. The great final bat
tie between truth and error the Armsged-
don, think, will not be fought with swords
and shells and guns, but with lens-Quill
pens, steel p ns, gold pens. fountain pens,
and, before that, the pens must be con-
verified. The most divinely honored weapon
OF the past has been the pen and the most
divinely hou0red weapon Of the future will
be the pen; prophets pen and evsngelists
pen and apostles pen, followed by editors
pen and reporters pen and authors pen.
God save the penl The wing Of the Apo
calyptic angel will be the prfn; Cd page.
The printing press will roll ahead Of
Chrisrs chariot to clear the way.
"But" some one might ask, ''would you
make the Sunday newspapers also rein
forcementr Yes, would. Ihave learned
to take things ~ they are. would like to
soc the much sc0fRed-st old Puritan Sab
baths come back again. I do not think the
modern Sunday will turn out any better
men and women than were yosr grand
fathers and grandmother under the old
fashioned Sunday. To say nothing OF
other results, sunday newspapers are
killing eiitors, reporters, oompositors
and pressmen. Every man, woman
and child 10 entitled to twenty.four
hours Of nothing to do. II the newspapers
put on another set Of hands that does not
relieve the editorial and reportoriA room
Of its cares and responsibilities. Our lit
ersry men die fast enough without killing
them with Sunday work. But the Sunday
newspaper has come to stay. It will stay
good deaf longer than any Of us stay.
What, then, shall we dot Implrre all
those who have any thing TO do with issu-
ing II 70 I'LL It with moral and religious in
formation; live sermons and facts elevat-
ing. Urge them tina. oil divorce cases be
dropped and instead thereof have good I'D
vice ~ 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 contribution
Of some Christian man toward an asylum
for feeble-minded children or . seaside
sanitarium. Urge all managing editors to
put mesnness and impuriiy In pearl or
agate type and charity and fidelity and
Christian consistency in BREWER or bour.
newspaper Let us have the Sunday news
paper converted.
Tue fact is that the modera Sunday news
paper Is great Improvement on the old
Sunday newspaper. What . beastly thing
was the Sunday newspaper Of thirty years
ago! It was enough to destroy mans re-
spectability to leave the tip end Of 1t stick
ing out of his coat pocket. What editorials!
What sdvert,sements! What pictures!
Tho modern Sunday newspaper Is rs much
an improvement ON the old time Sunday
newspaper as one hundred Is more than
twenty five; in other words about IS per
cent. improvement
Who knows that by prayer and kindly |
with our literary friends we
We may have it lifted into positively re-
ligious sheet printed on Saturday night |
and only distributed. like the Aneriean |
Nessenger. or the Missionary Joarsal, or the |
Sunday School Advocate, on Sabbath morn
ings. ALI things are possible with God and |
my faith is up until nothing In the way Of
religious victory would surprise me.
All the newspaper printing presses OF !
the earth are gong to be the Lords. and !
and telephone and type will yet |
announce nations born in day. The first |
book ever printed was the Bible by Faust |
ana his son.in-law, Scohefer, in 1900, and |
that conservation Of type 10 the Holy |
SCRIPTURES was . prophecy Of the great |
mis- SION of printing for the evangelization |
Of all the nations. The father OF the |
American printing press was clergyman. |
Rev. Jesse Glover, and that was prophecy |
Of the religious use that the gospel minis. |
try in this country we're to make Of the |
typea.
Again, we shall sac ure the secular press |
as . mightier reinforcement OF religion |
and the pulpit BY making our religious |
uttersnces more interesting and spirited, |
and then the press will reproduce them. |
On the way ~ church some fifteen years |
ugc q journalist sa'd thing that has kept |
me ever since thinking: "Are You gong /