Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1888-06-18

.o,ne ssmi-omnipotent secular puolicaacn
md "a the religious information wouio %
,ent round and round the world Inc
world moves 50 swiftly to-day that
NEWS A WEEK OLD Is STALE.
Ayain: if you would secure the secular
press as q mightier reinforcement o. ne
iipion and the pulpit extend wide@
and highest Christian oourtenes
70 the Representatives Of journal'am. |
Give them easy chairs and plenty Of room
when they come to report occasions For
the most part they are gentlemen of edoca'
ton and refinement, graduates ot coueees,
with families 70 support BY their literary
craft, many Of them weary with the Posh
of A business that Is precsrious and hnceo-
ting each one of them the avenueof infof1ar
tion to thousands Of readers their tmpe@
sion Of the services TO be the impremso
sdouted by multitudes. They are ss1-
Meeting links between . sermon or eooe
or a PRAYER and this great population Soes
tramps mp and down the streets day ~
dsy and year by year with their sorrsve
nncomforted and their sins unpardoael
More than eight hundred thousand peeye
in BROOKLYN and less than ssventy-sve
tbousand in churches, 20 that our citho
are not so much preached to BY minssso
of religion as by reporters
PIT ALI. JOURNALISTS INTO OUR PRAYno
and sermons. OF all the hundred thoa-
sand sermons preached to-day, there VIZ
mot he three preached 70 Journalistic, and
probably not one. OF all the prsyess
offered for classes of men innumerable,
the prayers offered for this most potential
class will be so few and rare that they
will be thought preachers idiosyncrasy
This world will never be brought to God
until some revival OF religion sweeps over
the land and takes into the kingdom o'
God editors and reporters, compositors,
pressmen and newsboys. And II you have
not faith enough to pray for that and toll
for shat, you had better get ont OF oul
ranks and join the other side, for you an
the unbelisvers who make the wheels o
the Lords chariot drag hesvily. Th'
great final battle between truth and error
the Armageddon, / think. will not b
fought with swords and shells and guns
,, but with pens, quill pens, steel pens, gol'
!, pens, fountain pens, and. before that, th
pens must be converted. The most di
, yinely. .honored weapon of the past has beel
! the pen, and the most divinely .honore'
: weapon Of the future will be the pen
, prophets pen and evangelists pen an
APOSTLES pen, followed by editors pen an
reporters pen and authors pen. God sav
!, the pen! The wing Of the Apocalyptic ar
: gel will be the printed page. The printin
: - I'll Iii ahaa1 81 Ghrist,. cha Rot
. clear the way.
!, "But," some one might AK, would 20
!. make the
. SUNDAY NEWSPAPERS
A also n reinforcement Yes, would.
"a have learned to take things as they ar
would like to see the much scoiied at ol
Puritan Sabbaths come back again. / 4
not think the modern Sunday will tuI
Y ont any better men aud women than we
YOUR grandfathers and grandmothers und
the oid.fashioued Sunday. To say nothil
:. of other results, Sunday newspapers
= - killing editors, reporters, compositors ~
" pressmen. Every man, woman and chi
,e ia entitled 10 twenty four hours Of nothiI
a to do. II the newspapers put on anoth
y set of bands that does not relieve the e
~ ~ torial and reportorial room Of It's cares al
:. =. responsibilities. Oar literary men die "a
- enough without killing them with Sund
Z. work. But
=, THE SUNDAY NEWSPAPER HAS COME
STAY.
=, n Il will stay q good deal longer than any
"A us stay. What, then, shall we dor Il
w. ~ plore oil those who have anything TO
=. With issuing il to ill II with moral and
~ ligious information; live sermons and fs
.d elevating. Urge them that all dir
=" ~ cases be dropped, and instead ther''
"a Y ,od advice as TO how husbands a
" ~ ought TO live lovingly togsther.
- small type the behavior OF the
80, church member and in large ~
y. tribution Of some Christian
~ asylum for feeble miDde'
~. seaside sanitarium. y
~, editors to put mean
a type pearl or ags'
iar ity and Christie
o- bourgeois. v
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