The Brookhaven leader., 1888-06-28

| by communion with the Christ, who an
swered not again, tho 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 pco-
| pie in our day who spend much Of their
time damning newspapers.
Again, in this effort to secure tie secv-
| lar press as a mightier enforcement Of
religion and the pulpit let us make it the
avenue OF religious information. II you
put the facts OF churches and denOmina-
tions Of Christians only into the columns
of religious papers, which do not in this
country have an average of more than
| 10000 subscribers, what have you done
as compared with what you do if you put
these facts through the daily papers,
which have hundreds Of thousands OF
readers. Every little denomination must
have its little organ supported at great
| expense, when with one half the outlay
column or half column of room might
| be rented in some semi omnipotent Secu-
| lar publication, and so the religious in
| formation would be sent round and round
| the world. The world moves 50 swiftly
| to-day that news a week old is stale. Give
US all the great church facts and all the
revival tidings the next morning or the
| same evening. My advice, often givon to
friends who propose to start a new paper,
is Don't! don'tl Employ the papers al
ready started"
Again: II you would secure the secular
press as mightier reinforcement Of
religion and the pulpit, extend widest and
highest Christian court estes to the repre-
sentatives of journalism. Give them easy
chairs and plenty OF room when they
come to report occasions. For the most
| +I,o, ~ nj
refinement, graduates of colleges, with
families to support by their literary craft,
many of them weary with the push of
business that is precarious and fiuctuat-
ing, each one OF them the avenue of in
formation to thousands of readers, their
impression of the services TO be the inn
preston adopted by multitudes. THY
are connecting links between o sermon,
or a song, or a prayer, and this great
popul alton that tramp up and down the
streets day by day and year by year, with
their sorrows uncontrolled and their sins
unpardoneG.
More than 10000 people in Brooklyn
and less than 5000 in churches, so that
our cities are not SO much preached t. by
ministers of religion as by reporters. Put
| all journalists into our prayers and SER
J mons. OF all the hundred thousand SER
J mons preached to-day there viii not be
| three preached to journalists, and p-oba-
bly, not one. OF all the prayers offered
: for classes of men innumerable, the pray
ers offered for this most potential class
} will be so few and rare that they will be
thought preachers idiosyncrasy. Thi,
J world will never be brought to God unit
some revival of religion sweeps over the
land and takes intothe Kingdom of God ed
; itors and reporters, ,compositors, pressmer
and newsboys. And if you have not faith
: enough to pray for that and toll for that
you had better get out of our ranks ant
join the other side, for you are the unbe-
levers who make the wheels of the LOrd'i
chariot drag heavily. The great final bat
tie between truth and error, the Arma'
5 geddon, think, will not be fought witt
swords and shells and guns, but witt
3 pens, quill pens, steel pens, gold pens
5 fountain pens, and, before that, the PEN
t must be converted. The most divinely
t honored we apon Of the past has been the
pen, and the most divinely- -honOred weap
t on of the future will be the pen; prophet
] pen, and evangelist's pen, and apostle
e pen, followed by EDITORS pen, and re
I porter's pen, and authors pen. God saw
? the pen! The wing of the Apocalyptic an
gel will be the printed page. The print
> | Ing press Will IOII VI VI CL4th1 /
t OF to clear the way.
' But" some one might ask, would yOl
make the Sunday newspaper also re- en-
forcement!" Yes, would. Ihave Learned
, to take things as they are. l would lik'
> to see the much scOffed-at old Puritan
Sabbaths come back again. / do no
5 think the modern Sunday will turn ou
| any better men and women than were
| your grandfatherS and grandmother
under the old-fashioned Sunday. To say
nothing of other results, Sunday news
papers are killing editors, reporters, com.
positors and pressmen. Every man, WON.
an and child is entitled to twenty -foul
} hours of nothing to do. II the newspapers
, put on another set of hands that does no
; relieve the editorial and reportorial room
Of its cares and responsibilities. Oul
, literary men die fast enough without
/ killing them with Sunday work. But the
Sunday newspaper has come to stay
, 1t will stay 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 and
religious information, live sermons anG
|. 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 III
! large type the contribution of some
Christian man toward an asylum for
feeble minded children or a seaside
sanitarium. Urge all managing editors
to put meanNesS and impurity in type
pearl or agate, and charity, and fidelity
and Christian consistency in brewer or
bourgeois. II we can not drive out the
Sunday newspaper let us have the Sun.
day newspaper converted.
The fact is that the modern Sunday
newspaper is great improvement on tn,
! old Sunday newspaper. What a beastlN
} thing was the Sunday newspaper thirt!
years ago. 1t was enough to destroy
mau's respectability to leave the tip enc
of II 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 hundreds i
more than twenty-five; in other words
} about seventy-fve per cent improve
5 ment. Who knows that by prayer an,
! kindly consultation with our literar
: friends we may have it lifted into posi-
D lively religious sheet printed ON Saturda
t night, and only distributed, like the AHeI'
lean Messenger, or the Missionary Journal
a or the Sunday School AdUOcdte, on Sabbat
, mornings. All things are possible wit
: God, and my faith is mp until nothing il
Q the way of religious victory would sur
S prise me. All the newspaper printin
? presses of the earth are going to be tn
? | Lords. and telegram and tsleDhone an