The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-08-23
A TEMPTATION BY SATAN
EXPERIENCES OF REV. JOSEPH
KYLE WITH SUNDAY PAPERS.
Finally Yielded to the ImpOrtuninG
OF the Sinful RepOrter-HOw
He Was Saved.

batarians, but none among them seems
quite so strict as Rev. Joseph Kyle. D. D.,
the pastor Of the Fourth United Presby-
terrain Church. of Allegheny. DIR. Kyle de-
livered an especially able address on Satur-
day night and then refused to give up his
manuscript to be printed either in the
Sunday or Monday editions of the morn
ing papers, He was a man of convictions
on the Sunday question and nothing could
move him from a strict, consistent line
of conduct. If he gave up the manuscript
Saturday night for publication in an
iniquitious Sunday edition ne would be
oountenaacing fragrant desecration of the
Lords day. If he gave it up for publica-
ton in Mondays edition he would be guilty
of furnishing material for the wicked
printers who labored on Sunday. 1t was
the good doctors belief that the day of
rest should be devoted only to Gods serv-
ice, that all mankind should lay aside the
drudgery of gaining a livelihood and the
pleasures of worldly enjoyment and should
give themselves up to sacred thoughts and
the singing Of psalms.
To him the scriptural injunction to keep
the Sabbath day holy was to be interpreted
with literal strictness. The world should
be one great church on the Lords day and
all things should come to a dead stop. This
was Gods law, uttered by the prophets,
and the doctor thought that modern So
ciety was very wicked for not recognizing
the full force of the law.
ALL WORKED FOR THE DOCTOR.
Yesterday morning the glorious sun arose
just the same as it has heretofore done on
Sundays and all other days and went about
it's work furnishing the light and heat
which makes possible all life on the globe.
The clouds gathered despite its being Sun
day and watered the dry earth, and all the
birds and animals went about their daily
pursuits the same as on any other day.
DIR. Kyle himself arose and used some
water for his ablutions brought up by the
bellboy of the Denison. He slept In bed
that required the labor of a pretty cham
bermaid to refresh and straighten. He
used the elevator run by a young man who
all day hOisted the Christian UniOnists up
and down. Yet the doctor never thought
of the contribution he was making to the
boys labor. His solicitude of the night be-
fore for the printers that he might make
work on Sunday was not extended either
to the boy or to the engineer down below
who ran the machinery Getting out of
the elevator he went into the breakfast
room, where walters hustled about to furn-
1Sh him with an eye-opening cup of coffee
and some choice articles prepared in the
kitchen by the wicked Sunday labor of the
cooks. He went downstairs and handed his
room key to the affable clerk VINO spoke TO
him pleasantly as it is his business to do,
Sunday or no Sunday. Everywhere the doc
some work, some trouble; he seemed to be
assisting somebody to desecrate the Lord S
day.
During the afternoon he went to hear
Mr.. WOOlley, who earns his living by max
ing paid speeches on prohibition. He thus
made up one of the audience without whom
Mr.. WOolley would not have had the OPP
pOrtunity of labOring on Sunday. As he
walked down the streets he could see Chris
tian Unionists as they went into restau-
rants after fried chicken. He could see his
own people buying the Sunday Journal
that had full baseball and murder accounts
but not his spiritual address of the night
before. He could see them patrOnizing the
street cars to go to worship and getting
their shoes BACKED on the corner. He
could see people working everywhere that
he himself and the members of the conVen-
ton might pass a pleasant Sunday.
THE DOCTOR WEAKENS.
During the day a reporter called upon
the doctor in his room and found no evil
dences Of cold meat that might have been
cooked on a secular day. The only thing
that could be considered stale in the room
was lot of old church papers that were
not published on Sunday. The DOCTOR who
is q very congenial man, received the re-
porter cordially. He had not read the Sun
day paper and wished to observe the Sab
bath strictly. He wanted to be thoroughly
consistent, and therefore he did not want
printers to work on anything he had pro-
duced. Nevertheless many people had been
working directly or indirectly on his ac-
count during the whole day. He'appeared
never to think of the chambermaids and
the dishwashers; his entire sOlicitude was
for the printers. But after much per-
suasion and considerable mental struggle
he finally yielded and handed over his man
uscript. The thought of the amount of
spiritual good his address might do for the
thousands of readers of the Journal over
came his scruples in behalf of the printers.
Anyhow, what little sin they. might fall
into would be offset by the good of publica-
to a recognition of the demands Of society.
But his manuscript is not printed this
morning. The printers could not make it
out and the doctor is saved from the smit-
ing of his conscience at the thought of the
labor it might have caused them. Next to
godliness and cleanliness the reverend
doctor should stack up a modicum of
Photographed legibility was the comment
of the reporter who had to handle the
manuscript.