Sharp County record., 1888-07-26

ME in our day who spend mucn VI '--'--
time damninG newspapers
AGAIN. in this effort to secure the secus
lar nress as a mightier reinforcement. ~, oI
religion and the pulpit, let US make 1t Ilio
ovpTue of religious information II you
mt tbe facts of churches and denohlna'
Hons Of Christians only into the columns
Of religious papers, which do not Ill inns
cornt,y have an average of more tnan
10 coo subscribers, what have you uone
as compared with what you do II you puV
these facts through the daily papers,
which have hundreds of thousands Oh
readers. Every little denomination must
have its little organ supported at gre"'
evnanse, when with one-half the outlay d
coIumn or half column OF room might
be rented in some semi: mi:omnipOtent Secu-
bar publication, and so the religious ID
formation would be sent round and round
the world. The world moves so swiftly
to-day that news week old is stale UlVe
ns o1l' the great church facts and all the
revival tidings the next morning or tne
same evening. Ny advice, often gwen 10
friends who propose to start new paper
"a; nnon,tl don't! Employ the papers al
ready started" r..,.-,o,,,or
Again: If you would secure 'h7 secular NJ
press as mightier re-lnforceHeuV .,
religion and the pulpit extend WIDEST anu anu
& chest Christian court estes to the repre-
ge1tatives of journalism. Give them easy
chairs and plenty Of room Wnen tns!
come TO report occasions. For tho most
part they are gentlemen Of education anu
refinement, graduates of colleges, win
families to support by their literary craft,
MANY of them weary with tile push OF
business that is precarious and nucluaC'
gur, each one of them the avenue OF IN
formation IT, thUusards Of readers, thelr
impression of the services TO be the I'M.
preston adopted by multitudes' Ihey
are connecting links between sermon,
or a song, or prayer, aud this great
tiopulation that tramp up and down the
streets day by day and year by year, with
their sorrows uncontrolled and their sins
unpardOneG.
But" some one might ask, "wouId you
make the Sunday newspaper also re-en'
forcement" Yes, would have learned
20 take things as they are. | would like
II spe the much scOffed-at old Puritan
Sabbaths come back agalu ! dc no
think the modern Sunday will turn Ou
auv better men aud women than were
your grandfathers and grandmother
under the old fashioned Sunday. To sa!
nothing Of other results, Sunday news
papers are killing editors, reporters, com
pOSitOrs and prtssmen. Every man, wom
an and child is entitled to twenty fOu
hours of nothing to do. If the newspaper
put on another set of hands that does no
relieve the editorial and reportOrial room
of its cares and responsibilities. Gu
literary men die fast enough withou
killing them with Sunday work, But th
Sunday newspaper has come to stay
1t will stay a good deal longer than any
of US stay What then shall we do; I'm
plore all those who have any thing to dc
with issuing it to fill it with moral an(
religious information, live sermons ant
facts elevating. Urge them that al
divorce cases be dropped, and instead
thereof have good advice as to how hus
bands and wives ought to live lovingly
together. Put in small type the behavior
OF the swindling church member, and II
large type the contribution of SOM
Christian man toward an asylum fol
fteble-minded children or a seaside
~, u; ,ssrium-- Urge all managing etIf9Ur
to put meannesi and impurity in typ
pearl or agate, and charity, and fidelity
and Christian consistency in BREWER OF
bourgeois If we can not drive out tn
Sunday news paper let US have the Sun
day ntwspape converted.
The fact is that the modern Sunda,
newspaper is great improvement on tn
old Sunday newspaper. What beastl,
thing was the Sunday newspaper thirt
years ago! 1t was enough to destroy
mans responsibility to leave the tip ent
of it sticking out of his coat pocket? Wha
editorials. What advertisements Wha
pictures. The modern Sunday newspape
is as much an improvement on the old
time Sunday newspaper as one hundredi
more than twenty-five; in other words
about seyenty-fye .'er cent. improve
ment. Who knows that by prayer AM
kindly consultation with our literar,
friends we may have it lifted into posi-
lively religious sheet printed on Saturda,
night, and only distributed, like the amer
icaR MeSScRg -, or the MiSSiOnaI Y Journal
or the Sunday School iAdC0cate, on Sabbatl
A j. l., :
God, and my faith is up until nothing il
the way of religious victory would sur
prise me. All the newspaper printin!
presses Of the earth are going to be tn,
Lords, and telegraph and telephone ant
type will yet announce nations born in
day. The first book ever printed was tn
Bible by Faust aud his SON. in law Schoef
fer in 146O, and that conservation of typ,
to the Holy Scrip lures was a prophesy Of
the great mission of printing for tn
evange elization of all the nations. Th
father OF the American printing pres
was clergyman, Rev. Jesse Glover, ant
that was prOphesy of the religious us,
that the Gospel ministry IN this countr!
were to make Of the types.
Again, we shall secure the secular pres
as a mightier Reinforcement of religion
and the pulpit by making our religion!
utterances more interesting and spirited
and then the press will reproduce them
On the way to church some fifteen year.
ago a journalist sad thing that has KEEP
me ever since thinking.
Are you going to give us any points to
day."
"What do you mean" l asked. H,
said:
II mean by that any thing that will b,