Daily Yellowstone journal., 1888-06-24


congregation | was accustomed 10 lie
down on that sofa and dangle nv feet
over the end. Lying New York CORE
spondents for ten years misrepresented
our church services, but we waited.
and people from every neighborhood
Of Christendom came here 10 find the
Of the falsehoods concerning
the church and concerning myself. A
reaction set in, and now we have Justice,
full justice, more than justice, and as
much overpraise as once we had under.
appreciation. and no man that ever lived
was so much indebted 10 the newspaper
press for opportunity to preach the Cos
pei as | am. Young men in the ministry.
young men in all professions and occu-
pations, wait You can afford to wait
Take rough Misrepresentation as Turk
ish towel to start up your languid circu-
lation, or system Of massage OF Swedish
movement whose pokes and pulls and
twists and thrusts are salutary treatment.
There is only one person you need to
manage, and that is yourself. Keep your
disposition sweet by communion with
Christ, who answered not again, the
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 effort to secure the Sec
ular press as a mightier reinforcement
OF religion and the pulpit, let US make it
the avenue Of religious information. If
you put the facts OF churches and de-
nominations Of Christians only into the
column Of religious papers, which do not
in this country have an average Of more
than 10000 subscribers, whashave you
done as compared with what you do if
you put these facts through the daily
papers, which have hundreds OF thou
sands of readers? Every little denomina-
ton must have its little organ, supported
at great expense, when with one-half the
outlay column or half a column OF room
might be rented in some semi-omnipo-
tent secular publication, and so
the religious information would be
sent round and round the world
The world moves so swiftly today that
news week old is stale Give us all the
great church facts and all the revival
tidings the next morning OF the sameeven
ing. My advice, often given TO friends
who propose to start a new paper, is:
Don't! Don'tl Employ the papers
already started" The biggest financial
hole ever dug in this American continent
is the hole in which good people throw
their money when they start a news.
paper. 1t is almost as good and as
quick way of getting rid of money as
buying stock in a gold mine in Colorado.
Not more printing presses but the right
use of those already established. All
their cylinders, all their steam power.
all their pens, all their types, all their
editorial chairs and reportorial rooms are
available IL you would engage them in
behalf of civilization and Christianity.
Again: IL you would secure the secular
press as amightier reinforcement of re-
ligion and the pulpit, extend widest and
highest Christian courtesies to the repre-
sentatives Of journalism. Give them
easy chairs and plenty Of room when
they come TO report occasions. For the
most part they are gentlemen of educa-
ton and refinement, graduates Of col.
leges, with families to support by their
literary craft, many of them weary with
the push Of business that is precarious
and huctuating, each one Of them the
avenue Of information TO thousands OF
readers, their impression Of the services
to be the impression adopted by
multitudes. They are connecting
links beAveen a sermon OF a song
or prayer and this great popula.
ton that tramp up and down the streets
day by day and year by year with theii
sorrows uncontrolled and their sins un
pardoned. More than eight hundreC
thousand people in Brooklyn, and les
than seventy-tive thousand in churches
so that our cities are not so mucl
preached to by ministers Of religion a
by reporters. Put all journalists into ou
prayers and sermons. OF all the hun
dred thousand sermons preached toda,
there will not be three preached to jour
nalists, and probably not one. OF all th,
prayers offered for c,sses Of men innu
merable, the prayers offered for thi
most potential class will be so few ant
rare that they will be thought preacher
idiosyncrasy. This world will never b
brought to God until some revival Of re
hgion sweeps over the land and take
into the kingdom OF God editors and re
porters, compositors, pressmen an,
newsboys And II you have not faitl
enough to pray for that and toll for tina
you had better get out OF our rank
and join the other side, for you are th
unbelieyers who make the wheels Of tn
Lords chariot drag heavily. The grea
final battle between truth and error, tn
Armageddon, think, will not be tough
with swords and shells and guns, bu
with pens, quill pens, steel pens, golc
pens, fountain pens, and, before that
the pens must be converted. The mos
divinely honored weapon OF the past hai
been the pen. and the most divinely hon
ored weapon Of the future will be The
pen, prophets pen and eyangelists per
and apostles pen followed by editors
pen ami reporters pen and authors pen
God save the peni The wing OF the
Apocalyptic angel will he the printec
page. The printing press will roll aheaC
Of Christs chariot TO clear t..s way.
"But, :" some ono might ask. "woult
YOU make the Sunday newspapers also I
re-cnforcementp Yes, would. lhav,