Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1895-11-01
ruE PRESS - pENDED.
one Clergyman Handles Nnothcr's
Criucism Of the Newspaper.

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Cridcism OF the Newspaper.
Rev. Edwards Davis took for his
subject last night, at Hamilton
Hail, Tho lheosophic Thought
of the Christian Greed" bat b.
Tore he began on his sermon he
made some causlic illusions to-
the recent speech of Rev. Arthur
Crosby, delivered at San Jose,
and in which Mr.. Cro.by roasted
The modern press to finish.
Mr.. Davis said: Before engag-
ing in the discuss on of the theme
announced that take occasion to
use the organ of my speech to in
troduce as an incidental feature
of the service a polemic vOlun-
tary. My improvisation is dedl-
Gated to my fellow laborer, the
Rev. Arthur Crosby, whose re-
cent remarks concerning the OBJ
NERVOUSNESS of the press has not
affected journalism half 50 much
a. it has reflected on religion. A
prelude, appreciate, in the wo.ds
of Lowell, should be, FIRST,
guessed by faint auroral flashes
Impersonally, then, there is a
mote in the clerical eye. The
fact that the newspaper is odor-
ferrous with carbonic FUMES of
social rottenness is not nearly so
appalling as that the gangrenous
condition exists IN our body polite.
Since sins exist in our social sys-
TEN, is it better that they be ig-
nored, and, lulled with dulcet lul-
labies, be led into delusive realmH
"W hen there is corruption cut
it out. The clergy has succeeded
in painting pictures Of the heaven
" sphere; the press is succeeding
in publishing the facts in the case.
Earth is hell that purges man to
make him fit for heaven. The
most perfect purity comes not
from innocency, but from forgive
ness, and the knowledge of good
not from an ignorance of sin. A
saint may enjoy a sinners suffer
ing because of an insight into the
inviolate obedience to infinite
law.
Through 400 years the stamp
of the printing press has made Its
impression, good OF bad. but
always better than none. More
definitely our brother maintains
that he would rather have the
sewer gas escape into his house
than to admit some of our most
popular daily papers. The mala-
ria would not be 50 deadly. But
why not bung the hole? To boy
colt the most popular dailies be-
cause of their realistic records of
truth would with the same illogi-
cal indiscrimination exclude the
writings of Whitman, Byron,
Shakespeare, Tolstoi, Hawthorne
and Hugo. There are passages of
holy writ that need be read but
once in a lifetime to learn their
fearful lesson.
The detailed account of the
most atrocious crime, the pictures
of the murders, the bood-stained
weapons, the soiled clothes, the
appraised hands, by their horror
hold us away from the heinous-
ness of sin. What has ridiculed
the Corbett-Fltzsimmons fight
more than the caricatures of the
staff artists pen? Drunken rows
in dance houses and brothels are
not reported. The occurrence is
too frequent to be counted news.
The press is not prejudiced. 1t
reports anything. The paper that
gave four columns to Mr.. Crosby's
sermon gave but two to Hanged
Both on One Gallows.'
Tomorrow morning the SER
mons of the ministers of San
Francisco and vicinity, preached
tonight to 10000 people, will be
read by a quarter of a million
souls"
This closed the preachers re-
marks on this subject, and he
picked up his theme and proceed
ed with his regular sermon.