Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-06-18

appreciation, end no NAH inst ever LIVED
| was SO much indebted to the newspaper
press for opportunity TO presch the G IS.
pei IS an. Young men IN the ministry,
young men in ell professions and occu'
pations, wait. You can afford to visit
Take rough misrepresentation as Turk
ish towel to Start up Jour l.nguid ciEcu-
lation, or q system OF massage or SWed-
,sh movement whose pokes and
PULLS AND TWISTS And THRUsTs b.
sre salutEry treatment. There is only
one person you need to manage, and THAT
is yourself. Keep your disposition sweet
by communion with the Christ, who an
swered Tot sgsin, the society Of genial
people, and walk out in the sunshine with
your hat of, and you will come out all
right AND don't Join the Gro wd Of peo
pie In our day who spend much OF their
time damning newspapers.
Again: In this efor! to secure the sec.
ular press as mlghtier reinforcement OF
religion and the pulpit, let Us make ii the
avenue OF religious information. II you
put tie facts of churches and denomina
tons Of Christians only into the column
Of religious papers, which CO not in this
country have an average OF more than
10, ooe subscribers, what have you done
es compared with Whist 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 grest
Expense, when with one haif the outlay 3
column or half column of room might
be rented in some semi omnipotent eecu-
lar publication and SO the religious lnfor-
nation would be sent round and round
the world. TIE world moves SO swiftly
to-day that news week old is stale
Give Us sll the great church facts and all
the revival tidings the next morning or
the same evening. Ny advice, often
given to friends who propose to start 6
new paper, is: "Don't! Dent! En-
ploy the papers already started" The
biggest fnancial hole ever dug in this
American continent is the hole in which
good people throw their money when
they start & newspaper. Il is almost as
good and as quick way OF getting rid OF
money as buying stock in gold mine in
Colorado. Not more printing presses,
but the right use Of those already estab-
Iished. All their cylinders, all their
steam power, sll their p3as, all their
types, all their editorial chairs sad roper
tori.l rooms are available If yCu would
engage them In behalf Of civilization zrd
Christianity.
Again: If you would secure the secular
press as mighier reinforcement OF re!i-
gion and the pulpit, extend widest and
highest Christian
COURTEsIES TO THE REPRESENTATIVES,
CT i0urna ism. Give them easy chairs
ana plenty of room when they come to
report occasions. For the most part they
ole gentlemen OF education arc refine
ment, graduates OF colleges, with families
&c support by their literary craft, many Ct
them weary with the push OF business
that is precsrious ana fuctustiDg, each
one of them the avenue ot Information to
thousands CT readers, their impression Of
the services to be the impression adopted
by multitudes. They are connecting links
bstWeen 8 sermon or Scng or prayer
and this great population that tramp up
and down the streets day by day AMI yehr
by year with their sorrows Uncontrolled
and their Gins unpardoned. More than
eight hundred thousand people in Brook
Ign snd less than seventy-tlye thousand in
churches, so that our cities are not SO
much erenched 10 by ministers CT re igion
es by reporters. Put all journalism into
cur prayers and sermons. OF I'll the
hundred thousand sermons preached to-
Gay, there will not be three preached
to journalists, snd probably not one.
OK all the prayers offered for classes Of
men innumerable, the prayers offered for
this most potential class will be so few
and rare thst they will be thought
preachers idiosyncrasy. This world will
never be brought TO God until some re-
vival Of religion sweeps over the land
and takes into the kingdom of God edi-
tors and reporters, compositors,
pressmen and neWsboys. And if you
have not faith enough to pray for thst
aud toll for that you had better get out
of our ranks and join the other side, for
you ere the unbelievers who make the
wheels of the lords chariot drag heavily.
The grext finai battle between truth and
error, the Armsgeddor, think, will not
be fought with swords and shells and
guns, but with ypens, quill pens, steel
pens, gold pens, fountain pens, and, be-
fore that,
THE PENS MUST BE CONVERTED.
The most diviIely bonoTed weapon Of
the past has been the pen, and the most
dlvinely honored weapon of the future |
will be the pen; prophets pen and evan
gelist's pm and apostles pen, followed
by EDITORS pen and reporters pen and
authors pen. God ssSe the pen! The |
wing of the Apocslyptic angel will be the
printed pSge. The printing press viii
roll ahead Of Christ's chariot to clear the
way.
"But," some one might ssh, "would
you make theISuuday newspapers also s
re- enforcement" Yes, would. nave
learned to take things ss they are. 1
would ike TO see the much scoffed st old
Puritan S.obaths coms'b sgsin. do
not think the modem Sunday will turn
out any better men and women than were
your grandfathers and grsndmothers IN
der the oli-fashioned Sunday. To say
nothing OF other results, Sunday newspa
pers are killing editors, reporters, COM
positors and pressmen. Every man,
woman and child is entitled to twenty
our hours Of nothing to do Ifl;he newspa
pecs put on another set Of hands that does
not relieve the editorial and reportorisl
room Of its cares and responsibilities |
Our literary men die fast enough without
silling them with Sunday work. Blu. the |
Sunday newspaper has come to stay. 1t
will stay good deal longer than any OF |