The Progress., 1893-01-21
LAbUhERo WIIH GOD.
REV THOMAS DIXON ON ENCOUR-
AGEMENT6 70 CHRISTIANS.

A Prelude on DECEASED .JoUrnaii,m and
the Publication Of Cyiu.na! New, Al
the world just Now s"erls Ripe for
the Christian Harvest.
NEW York. Jan. l5.--Rcv. Thomas
Dixon, Jr.. returned to his pulpit from
his western tour this morning. The ser
mon was preceded 10y q review of Mr..
Cleveland's recent remarkable utterance
about famous New York newspaper as
presenting the subject of public breeders
of crime He said:
A wild yarn was recently published
In a certain disreputable daily news
paper published in New York alleg-
ing that President Elect Cleveland had
offered the position of chief of the secret
service bureau at Washington TO Mr..
Thomas Byrnes, chief Of the police of
New York This same canard sheet
furthermore declared that Mr.. Byrnes
had taken precautions to protect nr.
Cleveland from assassination. In an IN
terview with the New York Herald the
president elect fatty contradicted these
stories and branded the editors of the
sheet as would be assassins in the fol
lowing remarkable words:
Having seen it in that paper you
might III; ,e known it isn't so. The story
is perfectly absurd, ard there is not a
word of truth in it. Nothing authorita-
tive about my movements will ever be
seen in that paper. IT'S just like that
story they published yesterday morning
about Superintendent Byrnes having &C
companied me TO my Office and his TAX
ing precautions TO protect me from the
possible attacks OF cranks. That was
another untruth. but | suppose that
sheet will put it into some crazy fellow S
head to attempt something like that
The article was published with a mali
cious purpose"
This is n most serious accusation, and
il comes from man careful in his utter
ances It was not an idle remark. 1t was
spoken to the press for publication, and
no one has questioned its authenticity
1t should present afresh to the Christian
public the character of some of the dirty
newspapers today that pose us exponents
/. of the conscience and thought of the
American people. In reality these pa
pers are the organs of crooks and crimi-
mails and the assassins of character. Their
chief business is the exploitation Of
crime, the protection of the criminals
and the slander of honesty and integrity.
This newspaper has been the friend
and champion of every distinguished
thief and crook who has figured i'm the
public life of the city during the past
twenty years. At the same time it has
deliberately sought to be the assassin of
the character Of every man who in any
field-religious. social or political-has
sought to lift the standard of our life
There is no sort of doubt about the ac-
curacy of the president elects diagnosis
Of the case. Such paper is capable
of deliberately attempting to suggest to
the army of cranks the idea of assassinat-
ing the man against whom it has rallied
in impotent rage for years. and about
whom it has long ago exhausted vocabu-
Larry slander and falsehood There is no
sort OF question that such sheets are
the breeders of a thousand crimes. They
form the daily inspirations of the Grim
inal world and pour into our civilization
daily stream of the deadliest poison.
It is time such pests were removed
from decent public life. They can be
removed by the power of Christian senti-
ment. They exist today because toll
Grated by the indifference Of the Chris
tian manhood of the nation. They are a
etigma upon the life of the American
nation; u disgrace to the Christian con
science of the country. Not only so,
they are constant threat to the peace of
every law abiding community. They
are educating a new generation OF Grim
inals and threaten to sap the manhood
Of the future.
The tide Of Christian life is rising III
our centers of civilization. 1t is time
for the church of Christ to speak in nc
uncertain voice to these public assassins.
have come to the firm conviction that
no Christian can afford to touch them
You should avoid them as pestilence.
Sooner touch the rags from the body
- leper than bring such sheet into
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