The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1900-10-30
AGAINST THE I
SUNDAY PAPER.
Rev. G. w. Harshman R0asts the
Sunday Issues.
SAIS HE READS NO PAPER
That Publishes n Sunday Edition Sen.
sational Sermon at Dueber Avenue
Church Sunday In the
Canton Churches.

In the Methodist churches of the
country, Sunday was denominated liter
airy day, when every pastor was expected
to preach on literature and present The
church papers for the consider alton Of
the audience.
Rev. DR.. c. w. Harshman, of the
Dueber avenue NJ. Il. church, made
rather sensational talk on the subject,
especially when he touched uron the
matter of Sunday newspapers.
His text was: study to saow thy
self approval unto God"-II Timothy,
HIS.
Said the saeaker: "Oc all the means
Of influence that come into our lives,
our associations home influences, school
life, nothing has greater bearing upon
the promotion of our characters than
what we read. one would es eem It
rure privilege to sit down in company
with the best minds of the past with
the philosophers, the authors, and the
politicians do not mean po,iti.
'Cclans-but statesmen-for do not
think much of a politician though l adj
mire n statesman ard listen to the
wisdom. Yet that is what we can do, #
we read the books writ II by thes'.
eminent writers. We set the best
r thoughts of their best hours, and 50
cheaply are books published in the pres
ent day that for the price of cigar or
q street car ticket you can get the
masterpieces of the ages, so there :s no
excuse for us not reading good litera-
ture.
"'Tell me what man reads. and I'll
tell you what the man is,' said phios-
. opher. And | say. tell me what a man
reads, and III tell you what he thinks
about.
Some persons who read novels de-
fend themselves by saying that they
1read them because there is some goo
in them-that they contain morals Yet
one cannot afford to wade through the
filth and mud to get the little good
they contain.
CHILDREN'S LITERATURE.
g. "Too much reading is as bad as too
little. A mother of Canton told me that
the principal of one of our schools had
advised pupils of the sixth grade to read
twenty-five books year. This in add!-
v tion to the work of the children in the
school seems to me to be too mitch.
though do not want to criticise.
81 think people put in too much line
reading the newspapers. Twenty mill
utes day is enough to devote to their
perusal.
"The worst class of papers is the Sun
day periodicals. People who read Sun
day papers do not go to church, as a
rule. l do not read Sunday papers, and
made it rule not to read any paper
that publishes a Sunday edition. II
any Of you read them l would advise
you to discontinue.
"The Civil War gave birth to our Sun
day papers. Before that time, they
could not exist No Sunday papers are
published in England. They are not
countenanced there. Sunday papers are
published to make money, which comes
mostly from the advertising, with the
result that the Saturday and Monday
editions are not so well patroniz ed.
About all you see in the Saturday nurn-
Der is lot of black lines, telling you
what can be found
IN THE SUNDAY EDITION.
A certain New York divine was called
upon by reporter, who stated that he
wanted q short and crisp interview for
the Sunday issue of his paper on he'll
All right said the minister Here It
is: He'll is the place where the Sunday
edition of your paper should be publish
ed and circulated
t"What we read effects US for good or
for bad, hence it is important that we
select only the best literature"
DR.. Harshman declared that Sunday
papers published little or no religious
matter, but We're filed with accounts Of
divorce cases. sports, prize fights. ami
. similar matters that We're of no ma
terial benefit to the reader.
q The sermon created considerable com
ment throughout the congregation.