St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1901-04-06

that ever lived was so much indebte
to the newspaper press for opportur
ity to preach the Gospel as / an
Young men in the ministry, youn
men in all professions and occupation.
wait. You can afford to wait. TAX
rough Misrepresentation as a Turks
towel to start up your languid circula
tion, or . system of massage Sr Swe6
ish mo'ement. whose pokes I nd pull
and twists and thrus:s are salutar
treatment. There is only ore persc
you need to manage, and tina. is your
self. Keep your dispositions sweet b
communion with Christ, who answere,
not again. get society Of genial peopl
and walk out in the sunshine with you
hat of. and you will come out ali right
And don't join the crowd of people il
our day who spend much Of their tim
damning newspapers.
Again, in this effort to secure tn,
secular press as mightier reen
forcement of religion, let us make i
the avenue of religious information
My advice, often given to friends WHIT
propose to start a new paper, is
Don't! Don't! Employ the paper,
already started" The biggest finan
cial hole ever dug in this American
continent is the hole in which gooi
people throw their money when they
start a newspaper. It is almost as
good and as quick way of getting
rid OF money as buying stock in a
gold mine. Not more printing
presses, but the right use of those
already established. All their cylin.
ders, all their steam power, all their
pens. all their types, all their ed.
itorial chairs and reportorial rooms
are available if you would engage
them in behalf of civilization and
Christianity.
Again, If you would secure the sec
ular press as mightier reinforce
ment of religion and the pulpit, ex-
tend widest and highest Christian
courtesies to the representatives of
Journalism. Give them easy-chairs
and plenty of room when they come
to report occasions. For the most
part they are gentlemen Of educa-
tion and refinement, graduates of
colleges, with families to support by
their literary craft, many of them
weary with the push Of q business
that is precarious and luctuating,
each one of them the avenue of in
formation to thousands Of readers,
their impression of the services to
be the impression adopted by multi
tudes. They are connecting links be-
tween sermon, or q song, or Q
prayer. and this great population
that tramp up and down the streets
day by day and year by year with
their sorrows uncontrolled and their
sins unpardoned. Oh, the hundreds
of thousands OF people in our cities
who never attend churches! Or
cities are not SO much preached to
by ministers of religion as by re-
porters. Put all journalists into our
prayers and sermons. OF all the hun
ired thousand sermons preached to-
lay there will not be three preached
to journalists and probably not one.
0f all the prayers offered for classes
of men innumera BILE the prayers Of
tered for the most potential class
will be so few and rare that they
will be thought preachers idiosyn-
.rasy. There are many journalists in
,ur church memberships, but this
world will never be brought to God
Until some revival of religion sweeps
,ver the land and takes into the
Kingdom Of God all editors, report
RS, compositors, pressmen and news
,oys.
"But," some one might ask, "would
-ou make Sunday newspapers also a
I have learned to
AXE things as they are. 1 would
ike to see the much scoffed at old
PURITAN Sabbaths come back again.
do not think the modern Sunday
will turn out any better men and
than were your grandfathers
md grandmothers under the old
ashioned Sunday. To say nothing
4 other results, Sunday newspapers
re killing editors, reporters, COM
'ositors and pressmen. Every man,
and child is entitled to "a
ours of nothing to do. If the news
'apers put on another set of hands,
hat does not relieve the editorial
nd reportorial room of its cares and
Our literary men
lie fast enough without killing them
nth Sunday work.
All things are possible with God, and
~ faith is up until nothing in the
ray OF religious victory would surprise
,e. All the newspaper printing press
5 Of the earth are going to be the
,ord's, ans telegraph and telephone
nd type will yet announce nations |
orn in a day. The first book ever
rinted was the Bible, by Faust and
is son-in-law, Schoeffer. in 1460, and
hat conservation of type to the
[oly Scriptures was a prophecy of
he great mission of printing for the |
of all nations. The
lther of the American printing |
ress was a clergyman, Rev. Jesse
lover, and that was a prophecy of
ne religious use that the Gospel min
try in this country were to make Of
,e types.
Again, we shall see the secular
ress rs q mightier reinforcement Of
.ligion and the pulpit by making
nr religious utterances more inter-
sting and spirited. and then the
ress will reproduce them. On the
nv to church some 80 years ago a
'urnalist said thing that has kept
e ever since thinking. "Are you
Ding to give us any points to-day?"
What do you msan?" 1 asked. He
lid: 81 mean by that anything that
i'll be striking enough to be remem-
ered." Then I said to myself:
What right have we in the pulpits
Id Sunday schools to take the time
the people If we have nothing to
y that is memorable!" David did
1t have any difficulty in remember
z Nathan's thrust, Thou art the
an" nor Felix in remembering
sul's point-blank utterance on right
BUSINESS, temperance and Judgment
, Cnvn> nor The EnO1ish kinU auv