Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1888-06-28

tt "l.A " ele Apofalyptie angel will be
tDe printed page. The printing mess viii m
way. y vicar tne
"But," some one might ask. ss,vou,a vo,,
make The sunday newspapers also reStn.
.oseSments Yes, would. have learned
70 take things as they are. Z would Ire 10
&c me mueh-scotied-at old Puritan Sab
patn come back again. ] do not think the !
modern Sunday win turn out any hc,tar
lnen and women than were your grand.
ttNtnen and grandmothers under the old.
fashioned Sunday. 10 say nothing OF other
.iesnlis, Sunday newspapers are killing EDS
49,. isporteIs, eomrositors, and presSnlen.
VERY man, women. and child is entitled 10
tWenty-iour hours of nothing 70 do. n TIC
newspapers put on another set os hands that
does not relieve the editorial and r..
porloriai room Of its cares aad responsible.
sassa vuI hterafy men die last enough
milnout Killing them with Sunday wosk.
put the Sunday Newspaper has come 10
stAy. III VIII stay good deal longer than
any OF us stay. What then shall we ,los
lnpiore all those who have anything 10 do
MIN issuing u to III II with moral aud re-
iisious information; live sermons and facts
elevatng. Urge them that all divorce
cases DC dropped and instead thereof nave
gooa ADVICE n 10 how husbands and wives
ought 20 i've lovingly together. Put in
su ult type the behavior Of the swindling
church member and IN large TYNE tle CON.
tribution OF some Christian man taward IN
asylum Tor feeble-minded children or 4 sea.
slue sanitsrlum. Urge all managing ed ltors
70 put neSansss and impunity in type pearl
OF y. agate, and charity and fidelity and Chris
Tan consistency in BREWER or bourgeois. n
we can not drive out the Sunday nswsnaner
ies US have The Sunday newspaper convert.
ed. The fact IS that the modern Sunday
newspaper Is great improvement on the
ola sunday newspaper. What u beastIy
. .nsS was Iue sunday newspaper thirty years
| n II
spectability to leave the TIP end of il stick
ing out Of his coat pocket. What etiitorialsf
what advertisements. What pictures, The
modern sunday newspaper is as much an
Improvement on the old-time Sunday news
paper as one handred is more than twenty
hVe. In other words. about Is percent. i'm
prvfemfnt Who knows that bv PRAYER and
kindly tttiou with, our literary friendx
We may nave 1t lifted into a positively re-
llgions sheet printed on Saturday and only
distributed, like the 544nericDa uessenqer.
Oh the Missionary .jotsrRdt, or The S,adas,
Scho0t 9duOcdte. on Sabbath mornings All
things are possible with God, and my faith
Is up until nothing in the way OF religions
victory would surprise me, All the news
psper printing presses OF tie earth are go
Ing TO be the LORDS, aud telegraph and tel
epiione and type will vet ANNOUNCE nations
born in day. The first book eycr prinleI
was the Bible by Faust and his son.ip-law.
seh0efier, in 1861, and that conservation Of
y pc 10 the molly scriptures was prophecy OF
The great mission of printing for the evan.
gelization Of all the nations. The father Of
thes Aillfrican printing press was a clergy
man, Rev. Jesse Gloyer, and thai was n
prophecy of the religious use that the gospel
ministry in this country were 10 make OF the
types.
Again, we shall secure the secular nress
as mightier reinforcement of religion and
the pulpit by making our religious utter
ahces more Interesting and spirited, and
then the press wiilreproduce them Unthc
way 10 church some fifteen years ago Il jour
naiist said thing that has kept me ever
since thinking. .Are You going 20 give ms
any POINTS today" "What do YOU means-,
| asked lie said II mean by that any.
thing that will be striking enough TO he re-
nlemoered.' Then | said 10 myseif: What
kllgnt nave we IN our puipits and sunday
sehoo's 10 take the time OF people IL we have
nothing 10 say thai is memorable. David
DID not have any difficulty in remembering
Nathan's thrust: Thou art the man :, nor
Felix IN remembering PJni's point-bl4nk
ntteranee on Righteousness, temperance, and
judgment to come; nor the EnelisI, King
any difficulty in remembering What the
court preacher said. when, during the SER
mon against sin. the preacher thew his
han tkcTclfier Into the kings pew 10 ind tie
whom he meant The tendency OF criticism
In the theological seminsfies is to Tile OF
from orr Young men all the sharp points and
make them TOO smooth for any Kind of exc
cution. What we want, all OF is, Is mora
point, LEES humdrunl. II we say the right
thing IN the right way the pres will he glad
TO echo and re-eebo it, sabbath-School
Teachers. reformers, Young men and old men
in the ministry, what VIC all want If we are
TO make the printing pres an ally in Chris
tian work is that which the reporter SPOKEN
OF suggested points, sharp points, men,
oraile points. But IL the thing be dead
when uttered by living voice. il will be
llumdred-foid more dead whenit is laid ont
in cold type.
Now, as you all have something to do
with the newspaper press, either In issuing
paper or in reading 1t. either as producers
or patrons. either as sellers or purchasers Of
the printed sheet propose on this sabbath
morning. June II. 1883, treaty to be signed
between the church and the printing press,
a treaty TO be ratified by millions OF good
poop e. II we rightly fashion i, Il treaty
promising that we II help zach otlicr IN
eur work Of trying to tl.Hmine and fclieitatc
the world. we by voice, you by pen, we by
speaking oniv that wbis:n Is worth printing.
y,iu by printing only that which - tit TO
speak. lou lelp us and we Will help yor.
Side by side he these two potent agrnc. Is
Until the judgment day, when we must both
be scrntinzed for our work, heaithfui on
BLASTING. The two worst off men In that
div will be the minister Of religion and the
editor II they wasted their opportunity.
both OF US are the engineer OF long exprts:
trains of influence, and we will run them
into depo. OF light or tumble them off the
eInbankmeut.
What a useful life and what glorious de.
partIire was that of tile most famous of all
American printers, Benjamin TIT,
whom infdels in the perjury of their re.
sources have often traudulently claimed for
their own, but the printer who moved that
the Philadelphia convention be opened with
lrayeF--thc resolution lost because Il majori.
~ thought prayer unneeessay-and who
wrote at the time he was yiciou,ly attieked:
s'My rule is TO 90 straight forward In doing
what appears 10 me 10 he right leaving the
consequences to providence" and who wrote
this quaint epitaph SLOWING his hope OF res
urrection--an epltaph that 1 hundreds OF
times read while liyiag in Philadelphia:
Tie body
of