The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1897-11-22

| ishing to find them set down, IN the SUI
perlative degree as the most facilitating
moral influence of the day, and it is de-
cidedly discouraging to find that the Sun
day yellow sheet holds high rank as the
deadliest enemy of home life. This last
view of the case is held by the second
insurance man quoted above, who
! writes
The sensational Sunday newspaper. 1t
| is trivial-not instructive and leads to
| waste of holy time, absence from church
and inability to apply the mind earnestly
/ to the most important subjects. Leads to
habits of Sabbath breaking.
| He might have added to habits of pro-
family, also, especially among those who
| have good taste in newspapers; but one
may well wonder whether the question
was quite clear in his mind when he
wrote the answer. This writer's sugges-
ton for diminishing vice and crime is TO
| unite the churches of a city, county or
! State in organized effort choosing dele
gates who will attend His way of hold
| ing young men is to ''have attractive lee
| lures and entertainments frequently
through the week and invite the young
men and get acquainted with them,' ETC.,
/ etc.
| OF course there are freaks of oddities
and idiosyncrasies. Among them may be
| classed an engineer, from whom this an
| swer is selected
2 Sunday newspaper and the Sunday BIZ
| cycle run.
manufacturer gives as one reason for
| Indifference among business mem
A dislike for many who go to particu-
| lar church or to the minister who Off
-ciates.
| He also gives these answers
Q Pure cussedness. either inherited or
| acquired.
5. Initiate Parkhurst.
/ g. Convert them.
Here are some answers verbatim from
an educator
/ 2. mYe cannot serve two masters"
2. The club.
! 3. The lack of unity.
Jesus Christ
g. To furnish places where they may be
religiously amused
A lawyer sends these
/. Because they do not love God as they
should and do not believe in future pun
| ishment.
etc, of the Foreign Mission Boards.
/
makes the following contributions
|; Because Of the foreign idea Of the
2. Club life with its "stags" and gem
| eral associations.
8. The SOCIAL glass.
A publisher, not the one already quot
ed from, says:-
l. Because the generality. Of ministers
! are not Intellectual or good enough, etc.
Yes, but not a pedantic Christian
s. Make virtue attractive. Why should
| the opera and music halls have the pre-
| ponderance of elevating and attractive
| music?
what innocent pleasures they like, and
/ give them as much of these as possible.
Among doctors answers are
2. Perverted ideas to a great extent due
! to neurasthenia and excesses of our fore
| fathers Believe the cause is
in the man. not the community. as it is
8. selfshness and resulting personal
| qualification. without .thought of home
| duties. This leads in many directions.
stead of only on Sunday. Have reading
rooms, gym. ETC., ETC.. as brightly
lighted as saloons as attractive as club
! houses.
A merchant writes as follows:-
q think the advent of the wheel is
1 one influence with a very bad effect The
/ example of so many well known people
| on al wheel has bad influence. even on
| those who do not ride. Il mean, of
course Sunday riding.
3. Care.
| A number of the papers lack any con-
| secutive interest, but even in these many
! single answers are found which either
suggest new thoughts or put the old ones
| in a new light Some of these will be
| found at the close of this article, classi-
| fed under the heads of the several ques-
| tions. Question No. 4 will not be found
| as a heading, because the answers re-
| duce themselves to a plain yes or no,
with perhaps word or two for emphasis
| or amplification There is one exception,
/ a gentleman who answers Both yes and
no. appending few words of explana-
/ tion. 1t will be of interest to readers to
! learn that there are 54 answers in the
| affirmative and II in the negative, MAX
| ing with the gentleman on the fence,
! the total of 65.
| A similar process of analysis has been
| applied to the other questions, and some
| of the results reached may be given be-
| fore the final round up. of the discon-
! nected answers. OF course in the an
| alysis of these answers a complete tally
| of the 65 papers cannot be obtained, there
| being many answers too individual for
| classification, and in very many cases
| more than one reason is given. To ques-
/ ton No. it is found that IS replies as
| cribe woridliness and the struggle for ex-
! istelce as the reason for the Indifference
! of business men of good lives towards
| the church. Other causes are given as
! follows:-F'atigue from business, 5; indif-
| ference to salvation or to spiritual things,
| II. the moral shortcomings of Church
| members. 16; the inferiority of ministers,
| 6: skepticism, IA; lack of confidence in
| the Church as moral support 5; de-
| 5cient home training, o. Sabbath break
| ing. 2. and the foreign idea and distrust
| of themselves, l each.
| The answers to Question No. 2, referring
| to the most debiitating moral influence,
! are about as follows:-Saloons and use
of LIQUOR. "a; Sunday newspapers z; short
comings of parents, Z; gambling, q covet-
BUSINESS and worship of success, 6; clubs,
| 6: Sabbath breaking, 5; bicycle riding, 4;
| indifference to God and future punish
ment 4; RIGHTEOUSNESS, fear of ridicule,
| and moral shortcomings of church MEM
| bers. each; tobacco, 2; foreign influence,
| theatres. craze for amusernents and
novels, each.
| Question No. 8, as to greatest enemy of
home Mfe:-Saloons, 22; clubs, 1S; lack of
family unity, II; failure on the part Of