The Progress., 1897-12-18


p RT;sbo who can wear the mantle
Of Elijah. If some evil OF 30
cietv is depicted in one column, IN
the next show the Gospel machinery
that is to drive it back into the PeroA-
ton fro,, which it assembled. More
ona more sunshine let there be in reli'
gious journalism. Publish in 1t more
sermons on texts like 10, give tnanRs
INTO the Lord. for He is gooo. anu
fewer on texts like ''Out OF 'he ueP'
of hell have cried unto Thee. y LORD.
If any one has anything gloomy to say.
| let him say it to himself. Ii he must
write it, let him not send 1t TO edltorAs.
rooms, but put it in the plgeon-ho,o VI
his own desk for his heirs ana ase't
IN read it further on, for probably
thew can stand it better than we. 1
once gave seven dollars to hear Jenny
Lind sing; I never will give cent
to hear a man groan. Up WIN 'h4
Kinds and throw back the shutters
and let the morning light come IN.
There is not so much religion IN 'ne
dampness of a cellar as IN the Ore~."
of an apple orchard in blossom Week.
: What victory David got over ninse.'
r when he closed the Psalms Win SIX
t chapters of praise We the Lord" say
/ mo it over and over again, UNTIL IN
y anv other book, it would have become
q mon otonous. If in our DIARIES anu
), our family records and our rei'gious
s. newspapers we would write Two nones
IS catalogues, the one catalogue 0.
.e blessings, and the other catalogue OK
e. trou bles, the former would be nve
lr times larger than the latter.
N PRAY for the religious newspapers OF
IN America, because of the fact that, II
he thew have the right spirit. each one
40 does as much good as five, or 81, or 2Oo
g churches What are the 500 or "OVo
re people making up Sabbath auolence
re leompared with the 10. 600, or SO. 600, OF
do 200, 900, that the religious journal ao'
"a dresses? Such journals arc PulPiIa
as, that preach day and night. Ihey reac"
nd weekly those who, through 1nvaio'sn'
ief or through Indifference. never ente1
churches. They reach people in their
es- ouietude, when their attention Is no'
lal distracted, as in church, by the hne
oti- millinery that appeals to the eye or
nd the rustic of attire that attracts the
all ear. 1t will always be our duty ano
ist our privilege, not to forsake the as
ptl- sembling of ourselves together, ou'
ist believe the consecrated printing pros
am is the chief agency under Goa 10 saw
VII the world.
not And now, let all of us who are con
and .4,a Itch either secular or religion
"a journalism remember that we Will D.
can called into final account for ever
word we write in editorial, or repor0s
nix ,;o1 or contri bu tors column-for ever
and - ,,,a cot for every press we move
pied ond for the stvle of secular or religior
5. newspapers we patronize or encoursg'
TX OF In Ezekiel's prophecy the Angel OF Got
cad. s,,nnosad tn be Christ appears with 9
one iuk-horn hung at his side, as an alto
dam news clerk in olden time had an IN
side Lorn at his side. And have no dou'
w in ~ ;nlr.horn will have an importal
S OPP n.rt in the day of Judgment Tho
istic, III have used it we'll to receive etc
to be WI nlaudit and those who have mi
,inis- ,,eed # tn receive condemnation.
their piled in all the worlds prin til
light. offices secular and religious, are t
H0rnd