Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1888-06-23

business that is precarious and huxuattng,
each one Of them. the avenue of informa-
ton TO thousands Of readers, their impres.
sion OF the services TO be the impression
adopted by multitudes. They are connect.
Ing links between q sermon or song. or
q pray er, and this great population that
tramp up and down the streets day by
day and year by year with their sorrows
uncontrolled and their sins unpardoned.
More than sO0,0 900 people In Brooklyn and
less than 5000 In churches, so that our
cities are not so much preached TO by
ministers Of religion as by reporters. Put
all journalists into our prayers and SER
mons. Ofall the 100000 sermons preached
to-day, there will uot be three preached
to journalists, and probably not one. OF
all the prayers offered for men innumer.
able, the prayers offered for this most po-
tential class viii be so few aud rare that
they will he thought preachers idlosyn-
Grassy. This world win never be boz
TO God until some revival of q
sweeps over the land and takes
Kingdom Of good editors and
composltors, prcssmen and ,~sboys.
And II you have not faith cs6dgh to pray
for that and toll for tb. /you had better
get out Of our IS and join the other
side, for YOU C The unbclievers that make
the wheels OF the Lords chariot drag
heavily. The great final hattie between
truth and error, the Armageddon, think,
will not be fought with swords and shells
And guns, but with pcns-quill pens, steel
pens, gold pens, fountain pens, and before
that the pens must be converted. The
most divinely honorcd wepon Of the fu-
ture will be the pcn-prophet's pen, and
evangelist's pen, and apostles pen. follow
by editors pen, and reporters pen, and
authors pen. God save the pen The wing
Of the Apocalyptic angel will be the print
ed page. The printing press will roll
Nhead Of Christ's chariot to clear the way.
sUSDAy PAPERS HAVE COME TO STAY.
"EIt." some one might ask, would you
makcshc Sunday newspapers also rein
forcement 2" Yes, would. Ihave learn.
ed TO take things as they are. I would
like 70 see the much 'scoffed-at old Puritan
Sabbaihs come back again. do not
think the modern Sunday will turn out
any better men and women than were
your grandfathers and grandmothcrs un.
der the old.fashioned Sunday. To say
nothing of other results. Sunday news
papers are killing editors, reporters, CON-
positors and pressmen. Every man. wo-
man and child Is entitled to "a hours Of
nothing to do. II the newspapers put on
another set Of hands tn at does not relieve
the editorial aud reportorial room Of It's
cares and responsibilities. Our literary
men die fast enough without killing them
with Sunday work. Bnt the Sunday news
paper has come to stay. II will stay a
good deal longer than any Of US stay.
What then shall we do? Implore all
those who have anything 10 do with issu-
ing Il to fill Il with moral and religious
Information; live sermons and facts eleva.
ting. Urge them that oil divorce cases be
dropped and instead thereof have good
advice a. to how husbands and wives
ought to live lovingly together. Put in
small type the behavior Of the swindling
church members and in large type the
contribution of some Christian man to-
ward an asylum for feeble-minded chill
dren or seaside sanitarium. Urge all
managing editors to put meanncss and
impuriiy in type pearl or agate and chari'
ty and fidelity and Christian consistency
in BREWER or bourgeois. II we cannot
drive out the Sunday newspapers, let us
have the Sunday newspaper converted.
The fact is that the modern Sunday news
paper Is u great improvement ON the Old
Sunday newspaper. What beastly thing
was the Sunday newspaper 30 years ago !!
II was enough to destroy mans respect.
ability to leave the tip end Of il sticking
out of his coat pocket. What editorials! !!
What advertisements! What pictures!
The modern Sunday newspaper Is rs much
an improvement on the old.timc Sunday
newspaper as 100 Is more than 25; In
other words, about IS per cent. improve
mcnt. Who knows that by prayer and
kindly consultation with our literary
friends we may have Il lifted into n posi-.
lively religious sheet printed on Satur-
day night and only distributed like the
imerican Messenger, or the Nissionary
Journal or the Sunday.school Adrocate on
Sabbath morningsy All things are posi-
bic 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 telegraph 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
SchociIer In 1860, aud that consecratlon
of type to the Holy Scriptures was q pro-
phecy Of the great mission Of printing tor
the evangclizaiion Of all the nations. The
father of the American printing press
was n 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.
MORE POINT, LRss mUMDRUN
Again We shall secure the secular
press as n mighiier reinforcement Of re.
religion aud the pulpit by making our re-
ligious utterances more interesting and
spirited. and then the press will reproduce
them. On the way Ia church, some 10
years ago. q Journalist said thing that
has kept me ever since thinking: "Are
you going To give us any points to-dayT
"what do you mean ?" l asked. He
said: Il mean by that anything that viii
be striking enough 10 be remembered"
Then said to myself; What right have
we In our nulpits and Sunday schools 20