The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1897-10-13
AN UNC0OLY DEED
Church Notices Are Excluded From,
the Columns of the Daily Press.
Bringing Christianity to q Business
Basis-YOu Can't Get to Heaven
without the Cash.

Ye patient and well-tried ministers OF
the gospel in st. Paul, whose pathways
to Immortality are various and are yet
all strewn with good and unselfish
deeds, what will you say to the new
obstacle that has arisen to block your
progress towards saving the multitude
in the form of the daily press of this
city? This same daily press is fond
Of constantly declaring itself with
egotstical editorials to be the mouth
piece of the people. Alas! the poor
people are seldom heard within it's
columns, but the ministers of the gos-
pei have always been given the right
well-claimed right-to make their
voices manifest through it's columns
that the people might know when and
where to hear the word of God or
might read the utterances Of the min
listers in their homes if they were com
peeled to remain away from the houses
of worship.
Now it seems that the daily press Of
st. Paul has allowed the corporate
greed which controls it's every fiber to
shut off this last and certainly most
kindly means of communication be-
tween the ministers and their people,
and church notices must in future be
paid for in order that the corporations
in control of the daily press of St. Paul
may have a new, though it be most
small, source of income. No church
notices have appeared in the daily
press Of late, and the public no longer
enjoys the privilege heretofore ex-
tended of reading the Sunday sermons
on the day following.
What has been the cause for The
breaking off of a courtesy which, IN
the name of Christianity and human
nature, has been followed since time
immemorial, is question which, with
its customary platitudes and plausible
arguments, the daily press may proceed
to explain or it may heed to a wise
hint of the Union Advocate and mend
Its way by causing church notices and
sermons to reappear In its columns.
AS the matter stands, and has stood,
the daily papers of st. Paul have seen
f1t to close up the channels Of commuE-
ication between the clergymen Of this
city and the people. Perhaps this
mighty press has been called upon by
the grasping corporations of which it
Is most obseQuent adorer to offer it's
homage entirely to them in future, and
openly substitute Mammon for the goI
of the gospel, or perhaps it has only
discovered a means by which the peO-
pie may be shut off from hearing words
which, having the true ring of truth,
convey to their minds too much that
is wholesome for their good in the
light of which the corporations con-
slider their good.
1t remains for the ministers to seek
out their reason for this ungodly act
and bring it to the knowledge of men.
They are the servants of master
whose thoughts were not of wealth nor
of railroad trusts, but of helping and
cheering the poor, struggling masses,
of whom he was one. Let them cali
the daily press to task for this sub
version of their recognized rights an
tell to the people why they can no
longer communicate their thoughts to
them or insert their simple church no.
tices without payment for the same
st. Paul Uabor) Union Advocate.