Semi=weekly graphic., 1899-05-10

ance ft r mistakes, which necessarily creep into the daily press. but a lie which has it's rise in a desire for sen- sationalism is no more to be tolera- ted in a newspaper than it ould be in an individual.
 Sunday Journals And Empty
 Pews.
 My purpose in this article is more especially to write ab put the Sunday papers. Aside from the increased labor necessitated by the issue of the Sunday edition, l am a strong be- liever in the Sunday journals. l know that some people object to them, but are their objections Wed taken?
 One hears clergymen say that their reduced congregations are due in part to che Sunday newspapers. l suppose there is some basis of fact in this statement but I imagine that not more than five among a hundred r aders are kept from church. by tie sunday journals. and it is a question with me whether the good done to tie remaining ninety-fve does not more than offset the loss sustained by the five who are keptfrem church services by the journals. That is, are not the hundred readers better off than they would be if the five went to church, and the ninety-fve did not have the benefit of the jour. nals? Our Sunday papers are spreading considerable sermonic literature, and most clergymen a c glad to make use of the press, for by 1t they reach tue man in the home pew, which, by the way, is the best filled pew nowadays,
 The cause of religion finds an ally in the secular press. Where the strict ly religious journal reaches one read CT, the secular journal reaches fifty readers, and as the number of secular journals is so much greater than the number of strictly religious journals, it is probable that the amount of religious matter printed in the secu- lar press exceeds that printed in the religious press.
 Church Indebted to the Press.
 It is the secular, not the religious press, that carries the message of the church to the masses. The reputa- tions of our well-known were made, not through their denominational organs, but through the columns of the daily press. The people know about the Rev, Dr. Blank largely through the daily journals, and his message reaches their homes through the columns of the same.
 It is we'll to hear in mind that the Sunday newspaper need not prevent any body from going to church; that 6 great many chureh-goers are inter- ested readers of the Sunday papers; that the church can woo the five from their papers at church time if 1t give them something which interests them more.
 We must take things as we find them, and make that condition our starting point. and we find that the majority of people are not church. goers. These people will spend Sur day in some way, and if it be in the public, CT at the art galleries, or in their homes reading the newspapers, how much better occupied they are than they might otherwise be. I re- peat, for the sake of emphasis, that something must be done for the peo- pie who do not go to church. Shall it be through the channels of amuse- ment or of instruction? Ii instruc- tion, the Sunday journals can do much. Such journals are here to stay, and it remains With the read ing public to determine, to a very great extent, what their character shall be. Editors, taken as a class. de. ire to have clean and helpful sheets. Their pens are often welded