Daily Yellowstone journal., 1888-06-24


portorial room Of It's cares and response
bilities. Our literary men die fast enough
without killing them with Sunday work.
But the Sunday newspaper has come b
stay. 1t will stay good deal longer
than any Of US stay. What then shall
we do3 Implore all those who have
anything TO do with issuing it
TO fill it with moral and religious
information; live sermons and facts
elevating. Urge them that all divorce
cases be dropped and instead thereof
have good advice as TO how husbands and
wives ought to live lovingly together.
Put in small type the behavior Of the
swindling church member and in large
type the contribution Of some Christian
man toward an asylum for feeble minded
children or seaside saIitarium. Urge
all managing editors to put meanness
and impurity in type pearl or agate and
charity and fidelity and Christian con-
sistency In BREWER or bourgeois II we
csnnot drive out the Sunday newspaper
let us have the Sunday newspaper con-
verted. The fact is that he modern
Sunday newspaper is great improve
ment on the old Sunday newspaper.
What beastly thing was The Sunday
newspaper thirty years agol II was enough
TO destroy a mans respectfully to leave
the tip end of it sticking out OF his coat
pocket What editorialsl What adver-
tisementsi What picturesl Themodern
Sunday newspaper is as much an improve
ment on the old time Sunday newspaper
as one hundred is more than twenty-five;
in other words, about seventy-five per
cent. improvement Who knows that by
prayer and kindly consultation with our
literary friends we may have it lifted into
positively religious sheet printed on
Saturday night and only distributed, like
The American Messenger, or The Mis-
sionary Journal, or The Sunday School
Advocate, on Sabbath mornings All
things are possible with God, and my
faith is up until nothing in the way of
religious victory would surprise me. All
the newspaper printing presses Of the
earth are going to be the Lords, and tel
egraph and telephone and type will yet
announce nations born in day. The first
book ever printed was the Bible by Faust
and his son. in-law, Schoeffer, in 1850, and
that conservation Of type TO the Holy Scrip
lures was a prophecy of the great mission
Of printing for the evangelization of all
the nations The father Of the American
printing press was clergyman, Rev.
Jesse Glover, and that was prophecy Of
the religious use that the Gospel ministry
in this country were TO make of the
types.
Again: we shall secure the secular
press as a mightier reinforcement of re-
ligion and the pulpit by making our re-
ligious utterances more interesting and
spirited, and then the press will reproduce
them. On the way 10 church some ff-
teen years ago, journalist said thing
that has kept me ever since thinking:
Are you going to give us any points
Uoday?" "What do you meanY I
asked. He said: II mean by that
anything that will be striking enough
10 be remembered Then | said TO
myself: What right have we in our pull
pits and Sunday schools TO take the time
Of people il we have nothing to say that
is memorable David did not have any
difficulty in remembering Nathan's
thrust Thou art the man." nor Felix
in remembering Paul's point blank utter
ance on righteousness, temperance and
judgment 10 come; nor the English king
any difficulty in remembering what the
court preacher said, when during the
sermon against sin the preacher threw
his handkerchief into the kings pew to
indicate whom he meant The tendency
Of criticism in the theological seminaries
is TO file of from our young men all the
sharp points and make them too smooth
for any kind Of execution. What we
want, all Of US, is more point less hum
drum. II we say the right thing In the
right way the press will he glad
; to echo and re-echo IL. Sabbath
school teachers, reformers, young men
and old men in the ministry. what we
all want II we are TO make the printing
press an ally in Christian work is that
which the reporter spoken Of suggested
points. sharp points memorable points.
. But il the thing be dead when uttered
by living voice, it will be hundredfold
; more dead when il is laid out in cold
type
Now. as you all have something 10 do
with the newspaper press, either in issu-
; ing paper or reading IL, either as pro
ducers or patrons, either as sellers or
!, purchasers Of the printed sheet pro-
d pose on this Sabbath morning, June IL.
b 1883, treaty to be signed between the
9 church and the printing press, treaty
s TO be ratified by millions Of good people
e II we rightly fashion it, a treaty promis-
ing that we will help each other in
our work Of trying to nlumine and
Q felicitate the world, we, by voice,
you by pen, we, by speaking only that
!, which Is worth printing, you by printing
only that which Is ct 10 speak You
,. help us and we help you. Side by side
be these two potent agencies until the
Judgment Day, when we must both be
scrutinized for our work, healthful OF
blasting. The two worst of men In that
day will be the minister of religion and
the editor, II rhey wasted their opportu-
nifty. Both Of US are the engineers oi
, long express trains Of influence, and wa
will run them into depot Of light On
tumble them of tho embankments.
What q useful life and what a glorious
! departure was that Of the most famous
Of all American printers. Benjamin
? Franklin, whom infidels In the penury