The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1888-07-05

Dv muItituVpa Thew Qro connecting
links between sermon or a song
or prayer and This great popula-
tion that tramu mn and down the str eets day
by day and year by year with their sorrows
nncomforted and their sins unpardoned.
More than eight hundred thousand people in
BROOKLYN. and less than seventy a We thousand
In churches, so that our cities are not so
much prsachsd to by ministers OF religion a.
by reporters Put ali journalists Into our
prayers and sermons, OF all the hundred
thousand sermons preached to day, there will
not he three preached to journalists, and
probably not one. or all the PRAYERS offered
for classes of men nnumerable 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 OF God editors and re-
porters, compositors, pressmen and news
boys. And il you have not faith
enough to pray for that and toll for that,
you had better get out OF our ranks
and join the other side for you are the un-
believers who make the wheels of the Lords
chariot drag heavily The great final battle
between truth and error, the Armageddon,
think will not be fought with swords and
shells and guns, but with pens, quill pens,
steel pens, gold pens, fountain pens and, be-
fore that, the pens must be converted. The
has been the pen, and the most divinely hon
ored weapon of the future will be the pen;
prophets pen and evangelist's pen and apos-
ties pen followed by EDITORS pen and re-
porter's pen and authors pen. God save the
penl The wing of the Apocalyptic angel will
be the printed page The printing press will
roll ahead of Christ's chariot to clear the way.
"But,n some one might ask would you
make the Sunday newspapers also re-en-
forcemeut" Yes, would / have learned
to take things as they are | would like to
see the much scoffed at old Puritan Sabbaths
come back again. do not think the modern
sunday will turn out any better men and
women than were your grandfathers and
grandmothers under the old-fashioned Sum
day. To say nothing of other results, Sun
day newspapers are killing editors, reporters,
cornpositors and pressmen. Every man,
woman and child Is entitled to twenty four
hours of nothing to do If the newspapers
put on another set Of hands that does not
relieve the editorial and reportoral room of
its cares and responsibilities Our literary
men die fast enough without KILLING them
with Sunday work Rut the SUNDAY news
naner has coma to stav r. will stay A
pood deal longer than any of ms stay What.
tben shall we dot Implors ali those who
have anvthing to do with issuing if to fiji It
with moral or religions information. live
sermons and facts eleyating, Urge them
that ali divorce cases bs dropped' and in
.tasd thereof bsve Sood advica % as to how
husbands and wives ought to live LOVINGLY
together, Put in small type the behavior Of
tbe svindlino church member and in large
type the contribution OF some CHRISTIAN man
toward an ASYLUM for feeble minded children
or seaside sanitarium. Urye ali managing
editors to mt meanness and impurity in type
pearl or agate and charity and fidelity and
christian Consistency in brevier or bour-
reois. If we cannot drive out the Sunday
newspaper lot us have the Sunday ne wspaper
converted. The fact is that the modern Sun
dav newsnaner is a preat imnrovement on
the old Snndav newsnaper What a beastly
thing was the Sunday ne wspaper thirty years
agol It was enough to destroy a mans re-
snectabilitv to lea Va the tin end of it stick
ing out of his coat pocket. What editorialsl
What ad yertisements, What ucturesl Tho
modern Sunday newspaper IS as much an
o tbSn
i've: in other words, about IS per cent i'm
provement. Who knows that by prayer and
kindly consultation with our literary friends
we may have it lifted into positively re-
ligious sheet, printed on Saturday night and
only distributed, like the American Messen-
qer, or the Missionary journal, or the Sun
dav School Advocate, on Sabbath mornings1
Ali things are possible with God,
and my faith is up until nothing
in the way of religious victory would sur
prise me. All the newspaper printing
presses of the earth are going to be the
| Lords, and telegraph and telephone and
type will yet announce nations born in day.
The first book ever printed was t. Bible by
Faust and his son .in.law, Schoeffer, in l460,
and that conservation of type to the Holy
Scriptures was a prophecy OF the great mis-
| sion of printing for The evangelization Of all
the nations. The father of the American
printing press was a clergyman, Rev. Jesse
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| ligious use that the Gospel ministry in this
country were to make of the types.
Again, we shall secure the secular press as
a mightisr re enforcement of religion and the
pulpit by making our religious utterances
more interesting and spirited, and then the
press will reproduce them On the way to
church some fifteen years ago, journalist
said thing that has kept me ever since
thinking. "Are you going to give lis any
points todayp "What do you meanW
asked. He said: 81 mean by that anything
| that will be striking enough to be remem-
bered" Then said to myself What right
have we in our pulpits and Sunday schools to
take the time of people if we have -othing to
say that is memorablea David did not
have any difficulty in remembering Nathan's
thrust: Thou art the man." nor Felix
n remembering Paul's point blank utter
nee on rightec usness, temperance and
,1gment to come: nor the English King
" difficulty 4 remembering what the
,rt preacher said, when during the SER
N against sin the preacher threw his hand
chief into the kings pew to indicate whom
meant. The tendency of criticism in the
theological Summaries is to file off from our
Young men all the sharp points and make
them too sr1ooth for any kind of execution.
What we want, all of us. is more point less
humdrum, II we say the right thing in the
right way the press will be Glad tn echo and
re1echo II. Sabbath school teachers, reform.
arr vouno men and old men in the ministry
what we all want II we ara to make tbs
nrintinp press an ally in Christian work il
that which the renorter spoken of su0eested
-no;nts sharn noints merorable noints
p,,t if the thing he dead on uttarad hv
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living VOC, ~, WI WI - ~ IL anid .vna
dead "heh III u iaiu ou' S.u;yp lh LII " A ,,;th
now, as you an 1snoIs a;thor IN ;.Snino a naneI
or in reaaiing f. either as producers or pa
! irons. either as sellers or purchasers of the
printed sheet, l propose on this Sabbath
morning. June II, 1883, a treaty to be signed
between the church and the printing press g
treaty to be ratified by millions OF good Peo
| rlo r RIGHTLY fashion it. A treaty. prOmlS
to that VIA will helm each other in our worl
of tr,,;,,o 10 ;iIpnina and felicitate the
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speaking only tudO WuiCu 10 "oiOh r.