The Warner sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1885-1???, 1888-06-29

! IplOIlOIld lOlIllN uIt uNalldDlt II YOU NOUlu
engage them in behalf Of civilization and
Christianity.
Again, If YOU would secure the secular
press a. a mightieT reinfOrcemen OF reIig.
ion and the pulpit, extend widest and high
est Christian COurteSirS to the representa-.
tives 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 retiE mont,
graduates Of colleges, with families to sup
port by their literary craft, many OF them
weary with the push OF 4 business that is
! pToClTiOUs and tiuCtuating, each one OF them
! the aNeuu" Of informal on to thUuS PdS of
readers their inn reSslOn OF the services to
be the impression adopted by multiludrs,
They are connecting liIihS between a sermon
or a song or a prayer and this great pOpUla-
! ton that tramp up and down the streets day
by day and wear by year with their SOrrOwS
Uncontrolled and thrir sins uupardoned.
More than eight hUndTei thousand PEOPLE in
Brooklyn and less than seE"nty-tiVc thousand
in Churches 20 that our cities are not so much
preached TO by ministers OF rel non as by
reporters. Pat all journalists into our pray
Ch and sermons. Of all the hundred lhOu
sand sermons preached to-day there will not
be three preached to iOurua ist,, and prob
ally not one. OF all the prayers offered Tor
classes Of men innumPTabie the PRAYERS Of
fercd for this most potential class will be 50
NV NilN lllH lutA NlNl VIII NC AlAoN@N ~ q
preachers ~idIOsyncrIsy. This world will
never be brought to God until ,ome revival
OF religion sweeps over the land and takes
into the kingdom OF God editors and re-
pOrtCrS, COmpOSitOrS, prCsSmcn, 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 ION the other
side, for YOU are the Unb levers who make
the wheels Of the Lords chariot drag heavi-
". The great final battle between truth
and error, the ArmageddOn, | think, wifi
not be fought VITA swords and shells and
guns, but with ~pcns-quill pens, steel pens,
gold pens, fountain pens-and hefOTe that
the pens must be converted The most divine
ly-hOnOrcd weapon Of the past has been the
p n. and The mot dIvinCly. hOnored weapon
Of the future will be the pen-prophet's
pen, and e,angoiiSts pen, and apostles pen,
followed by tue editors pen. and reporters
pen, and authors Pen. God save the pen!
The wing OF the ApOralyptic angel VIII be
the printed page. The printing press will
roll ahead OF ChriSt's chariot to clear the
way.
But" some one might ask. "would you
make the Sunday newspapers also a redin-
fo"cementF' Yes, l would. l have learned
to take things as they are. / would like to
see the much-scoffed-at old Puritan Sab
bath come back again. l 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,u.ts, Sunday newspapers are killing ed
itOrS, reporters, COmIOsiLOrs, and presSmen.
Every man, women, and child is entitled to
twCnty-tcUr hours of nothing to do. II the
newspapers put on alo eT let of hands that
does not relieve the editorial and re-
PICTORIAL room of its cares and responsible
tiles. Our literary men die fast enough
without EillVnw fhnrn Nufvh E,V,Iuvr mol
But the Sunday newspaper has CONT to
stay. 1t Will stay a good deal longer than
any Of us stay. What then shall we 10?
Implore all those who have anything to do
with issuing it to ill it with moral and re-
ligiOus Information; live sermons and Facts
~eleyating. Urge them that all divorce
cases be dropped and instead thereof have
good advice A. to how husbands and wives
ought 10 1--we lovingly together. Put in
suIal type the behavior of the swindIing
church member and IN large type the con-
tribution Of some Christian man toward an
asylum for Predetermined children or a sea-
side saniturium. Urge all managing editors
TO put meannsss and IMMUNITY in type pearl
or agate, and charity ana fidelity and Chris
tian consistency In brewer or bourgeois. IL
we can not drive out the Sunday newspaper
let us ht We the Sunday newspaper convert
ed. The fact is that the modern Sunday
newspaper is a great Improvement on the
old Sunday newspaper. What a beastly
thing was the Sunday newspaper thirty years
agol It was enough TO destroy a mans re-
spect9Dility TO leave the TIP end OF it stick
ing out Of his coat pocket. What editorials!
What advertisements! What picIuresl The
modern Sunday newspaper is as much an
improvement on the old-Iime Sunday news
paper as one hundred is more Lam twenty
FIVE. in other words, about 70 percent. inn
pruYemPnt Who knows that bY PRAYER and
ElntltW nnuCIlitntiOn NayTfh opfs lffaroru frfnnd-l
we may nave II lifted into a positiyelYre-
ligiOus sheet printed on Saturday and only
dis ributed, like the AmericDn MESSENGER,
or the Missionary JOaraGL Or the SHndaY-
Sch3Ol Advocate. on Sabbath mornings. All
things are possible With God, and my faith
is up until nothing in the way of religious
victory would gurprise-me MI the news
paper printing presses of the earth are go
ing TO be the Lords, and telegraph and tel
epilone aud type will yet announce nations
horn in a day. The first book ever printed
was the Bible by Faust and his son-in-law,
Sch0effer, In 1869, and that conservation OF
type 10 the holy scriptures was a prophecy OF
the great mission Of printing for The evan
gelization OF all the nations. Thu father of
the American printing press was q clergy
man, Rev. Jesse clover, and hat was q
prophecy OF the religious use that the gospel
ministry in hiscountTy were to make Of the
types.
Again. we fUltl secure the secular press
as a mightier reinforcement Of religion and
the pulpit by making our re igions utter
anses more interesting and spirited, and
then the press will reproduce them. On tine
way 10 church some fifteen years ago a jour-
Balist said a thing that has kept me ever
since thinking. Are you gong 70 give us
RHy puFnts to-tiHyf tsat 10 YOU meanfT
4 asked. lie said. 81 mean by that any,
thing that viii be striking enough TO- be re-
membered.1 Thea Esafd TO myself; Whit
right have we hF our pulpits and sunday
sehao ) 10 take the time 81 people II we have
nothing 70 say than Is memorable. David
did not have any difficulty in remembering
Nathan's thrust: Thou art the MARI nor
Felix IN remembering PAuRs peintbl nk
rtterahce on righteousness, temperance. and
ju 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 threw his
han 5kefchief iuto the kings pew to ind c ite
whom he meant. The tendency Of criticism
in the Theological seninafies Is 70 Gle VI
from QUE NJ men all the sharp points and
make them too smooth for any kin or
culiOn. What we want. all 81 us Is mnfa
point. less humdrnm. III we say the right
thing III the right WY the prLss will be glad
70 echo and re.eeho Il Sabbath-<ch01
teachers. reformerss young men and old men
iM tn ministry, what we a1i want IL We are
70 make tpe printing press an ally Ia Chris
fioe work Is that wfieh the reporter spoxer
/ or suaRe<todAp uin1S. Sn4rp points, r1ein.
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