The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-11-15

Rely on Vuigarity For Wii-Da-
mas Idea of n Sunday PaDer-Rey.
Curry Rather Agrees With Him.
Boston, Nov. 1.-THE Sunday
Newspapers" was the topic which en-
gagged the attention of large attend
ance at the session of the Episcopal
Church Congress, at Music hall. TINS
evening. Bishop Lawrence presided.
The first speaker introduced was Rev
Robert A. Holland, D. D., of st. Louis
He said, in substance, that Sunday
newspapers were as diverse as their
number and no word that character
lied one would exactly describe an
other. In mastery manner he showed
Ihow the newspaper of Ire present day
was a searohlight thrown into every
hiding place.
Power of the Press.
tits condemnation turns crowns to
death caps Many a rich scamp fears
it VINO does not fear the civil laws. He
knows not the day nor the hour Tnen
upon some liason. some org1e, some
sWindling, the newspaper VIII come as
a .thief in the night and strip or ms
false reputation and wrap MIN III
shame that will burn the very Hesn
from his bones Virtue does feats, ana
whenever its deeds are featly the news
narer notes them as worthy oil tine
worlds eye.
what of the day in the seven called
the day of rest? Shall the worlds con-
seriousness sleep then, or be more than
lever awake? For myself 1 must mold
1ny of
the observance of it to be the hottest
which is sunny, most olive with light
! Because it is q holy day, it IS also a
lholilay 1t bids men feast, not last
The Sunday newspaper. without deta-n-
ling the few who seek the highest EeaV-
en-. saves millions of poor souls from
Iistless stupor or ignorant Pastimes by
drawing Their interest in the world s
i Gaily life to an ampler reading qhan
work DAYS Kermit 1t is their one BOOK;
raeir museum; their art gallery.
An Important Institution.
Rev. George Curry, D. d, presenter
the next paper. He said in part.
1T goes without saying that the sec
MAR neUsDaper is one of our most I'M
portant institutions; it is necessary 10
the present type OF civilization; 1t Is
thus indispensable to free government
it is so much So that you may safely
say it is a quasi-divine institution, YET
the Sunday paper occupies us with our
DAVIS interest. 1t oSens the stores for
US and puts us in the midst of the
markets and takes us frequently, in
column after column, through scenes
of sin and horror.
1T is hard to see how people can jus
tify the immediate prefacing of -helr
prayers and the holy communion by
partaking an hour before of the world
the flesh and the devil through the
columns of the Sunday papers,
Rev Alexander Mckay Smith, of
Washington, then spoke.
Richard Dana, the next speaker to
), support his claim as to the needless
ness of Sunday newspapers, used the
summary of a particular paper, show
ing the matter provided for the edifica-
ton Of it's readers.
A Gloomy View.
For purposes of comparison Mr.
Dana. said ne had obtained twenty-ore
papers from the cities of Boston. New
York, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Cnica-
go, Cincinnati, ST. Louis, louisville and
San Francisco. What first impressed
him was the size Of these journals, the
leverage of them being in reading mat
ter alone equal to one and one-haR
times the contents of the New Tesla
ment. The illustrations of the papers
were for the most part crude and mart
listic. The moral effect of five of them
was ba0 and two very doubtful. Only
two papers out of the twenty-one had
anything like a serious bit of church
reading. One of these had two columns
land a half headed Church Circles,
containing an original hymn, short
/ prayer or collect and an address, and
a very good one, too, on bravery. This
constituted about the one-thousandtn
part Of the paper. The characteristics
of the Sunday papers, Mr.. Dana had
examined was belittling of subjects
treated as if to bring them down to the
intelligence of inferior minds.
! There were undoubtedly articles here
and there on interesting topics Of the
lday and occasionally we'll treated arti-
Icles were seen, but in other papers but
a small part OF the whole, and many
a reader trying to confine his attention
to the best articles alone would find
himself led into reading many things
to the loss of his time, brains, and men
tai self-respect. Then, too, the man
who takes the Sunday paper just for
the purpose of glancing at a few items
Unjust remember that ne is taking into
This home, with the Illustrations, the
headlines and the alluring stories. The
weekday PAPER is usually read ON the
/ way to or from the Office or store, but
the Sunday paper is read in the home
| In concluding, Mr.. Dana. said:
80 far l have spoken of the Sunday
paper only as it is at present. AS to
what it might be made in the future, if
millions of papers taken into millions of
families on Sundays could give the
news in a short and dignifed manner
with some well Throughout discussion
of the interesting topics of the day,
stories of good style and elevating
tendency, adapted to the general reader,
helpful literature and suggestions fer
reading, good poetry and q fair variety
of what is, at least, not harmful and
| altogether about one-third the present
! length, then, though I believe most of
US would be better without it, still il
would be a great Improvement over our
present state of affairs and perhaps in
some families, would possibly be a real
benefit. The present condition of the
papers is lowering, not eievating
/ Every foreigner coming to this country
observes the fact, and every true man,
| be he American or foreign born, Ia
ments it,
a Sunday Paper Champion.
|. REV. Harry P. Nichols OF ATinneap polls,
| championed the cause OF the Sunday
newspapers in an able manner, and
| Rev. w Kirkus, D. D.. of Jersey City,
| was the closing speaker in humorous
Ihad spoken against the Sunday news
lpaper
! tomorrow mornings session will be