Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-06-22

people, snd walk ont in The sunshine Wit
; your hat of, snd you will come cut q
right And don't lin the crowd Of PEG
ple il cur day who spend much Of thei
time damning newspapers.
Again: Ia this effort to secure the sec
ular press as mghiier reinforcement O
religion snd the pulpit, let US make II tn
avenue OF religious information. If yCl
put the fac6 Of churches and den0mius
tions OF Christians only into the column
Of religious papers, which do NOT in thi
country have an average Of more thai
10, 600 subscribers, what have you doa,
as compared with what you dc if you pa
these facts through the daily papers
which have hundreds OF thousands O
readers. L 'ery little denomination mug
nave its little organ supported at grea
expense, when with one naN the outlay ;
column or Galf column Of room nigh
be rented IN soTne semi-omnipotent secu-
lar publication and SO the religious infor
nation would be sent round and round
the world. The world moves go swiftly
| to-day that news week old is g Gle
Give as eli the gresI church facts ard al
| the revival tidings the next morning or
the same evening. My advice, often
given TO friends WAC propose TO start s
new psper, is: "Don'ti Don't! Em-
pioy the papers already started" The
| biggest fipenciaI hole ever Dug in tnis
| AmeIicsL cOEtiueu! iS the hole IL which
! good people throw their money when
| they stsrt o newspaper. l. is almost rs
| good and IS qrick way Of getting rio OF
| money s. bpyi2g stock N L gold miIe il
| Colorado. Not more printing pGeass 3,
| bat the right Use Of those slreaiy estSb-
listed. AL their cylinders. all t3eic
Steam poWeT, SN their p=ue, all their
types, I'll their editorial clairs suG reuar-
tuIiEl rooms sEe available IL you YOU ID
engage them il behalf Ct civilization and
Christianity.
Again: II you would secure the secular
press as mignief reint1rcement OF rel
gjcn and the pulpit, extend widest snd
chest Cari5.is1
CuURTEsIss I 0 THE REPRESENTATIVE
& jJurna ism. Give tuem easy cn2i1s
arc pienty VI room When they come 10
report Gees siODs. For the most psrt they
are gentlemen Of oduC,tioa ana refine
ment, g:adustas OF colleges, with families
to support by taeic literary craft, many q
toen weary with TIE push of s bu3iuess
TINT is pTecaIious no flctaatipg, each
one OF HEN the avenue of iGf jrmatfoa 10
me serv. Ces to be Inc impression adopted
~ mulii.udes. They are connecting Inks
between sermon or q sCIg or pray er
ard this greal popul4tlon that tramp up
and down tne streets day by dsy s1d year
BY year with their sorrows uCcomIOrLed
spd rhaiT FINS UnpardGHsG. More th,n
eight hundred thousand people IL Crook
Ign and less than seventy-fVe thousand il
churches, SO tAsg Uur ci,i5s are not so
much ursScled - by minister. Of re igiop
as By reporters. Pu: 81 journalism into |
e VI pIayer3 and sermcns. o. I'll the |
hundred Thousand sermons preached to-
day, there viii rCt De three preached |
II Journalistic, ana piobsbly not ore. |
OF al the prayers off:red for Cls3ses ct |
men innumecabie, me prayers offered Cor !
this most potential class will be SO few |
and rare shat they will be though,
preachers ldiOsYEcrasy. This world will |
never be brought to 6 ID Until some re-
v.Val Of religion sweeps over the lsnd
and takes mo the Kingdom Of God eC,-
tors and reporters, Ccmpositors,
pressme0 snd neWs5Oys. And if you
have not faitn enough 10 pray for thai
snd toll for thst you h&G better get ont
Of our ranks and Join the other side, fer
you are the unbelieverS who maize the
wheels Of the Lords chariot drag heavily
Phe great final battle between truth and
error, the Armsgeddor, think, will not
De fought with swords and shells and
guns, DuG with pens, quill pens, steel
1ens, gold pens, fountain pens, and, De-
ore that,
THE PINS MUST BE CONVERTED.
The most diviuely hopoTe, weapon Of
he past he's been the pen, and the most
iIvinely honored weapon Of the future
viii be the pen; prophets pen and evaH-
,elist's pen and apostles pen, followed ,
y editors pen and reporters pen end
uthor's pen. God save the pen! The
wing of the Apocsiypt!c angel Will be the
Tinted page. The printing press will
oil ahead CT ChrisL's chariot to clear the !
vsY.
"Blt," some one might ask, "would :
GU MIKE theiSuuday newspapers also q I
e-eniOrcement?" Yes, would. have .
earned to take lhings as they sre. l r
'OuIt like to see the much sc0ff5d s. cid /
urltEn Sl3balns cJme bacE aggin. l do
Of Thick the uOG5ln Sunday VIII turn 4
~ any better men and WCman than We're :
our gvsudtstherJ ard grsndmothers Ur- Y
er the old. fasnioEsd Sunday. To say Il
3tGiDg q othe- results, Sunday neWsps. .
er5 are killing editors, reporters, com y
ositors apd pressnep. Every man, q,
Oman and child IS entitled TO twenty :;
,ur hOuts OF no.hirg 20 CO. Hi:he rewspa- y
e-s put on smother Sc Of hands that does !
1t relieve the editorial and rep1Ft9risl
JON Of rs cares aud responsibilities 60
Ut literary men de fast enough witnCu. d
ling then with Sunday work. But the il
undaY newspaper has come to stay. Ii 8,
i'll stay COED desl longer thsn any OF IN
) stay. Whist then shall we DC? In Il
ore all those who have anything to do in
18th issuing 1t to fl it with morAl and
liglous Information; live sermons and
cts elevs!iug. Urge them that all di.
,Fce cases be dropped snd instead there
have good advice as to how husbands
ID wives ought TO live lovingly together.
IL in smsll type the behavior =
the swindlirg church men,
i and in Is-ge type the
ntribution OF some Christian man TO-
ard an asylum for feehle-minded Chill
en- or q seaside saritarium. Urge all
snnging editors to put mean1ess and 81
purity in tyre pesrl or sgate snd char in
! and fidelity and Christian consistency th
BREWER or bourgeois. II we cannot pr
i've out the Sunday newspaper, let Us III
We the Sunday newspaper conJ erted. sc
le fact is het the modern Sunday news. DC
per is ; greet Improvement on the old OF
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