Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1901-03-09

portunlty to preach the gospel as |
An Young men in the ministry. young
men In all professions and occupations.
wait. You can afford TO wait. Take
rough misrepresentation as a Turkish
towel TO start up your languid circula-
tion or a system OF massage or Swed.
ish movement. whose pOkes and pulls
and twists and thruSts are salutary
treatment. There is only one person
you need to manage. and that is your
self Keep your dispositions sweet by
communion with Christ who answered
not again. get society Of genial people
and walk out In the sunshine with
your hat off and you Will come out all
right. And don't join the crowd Of
people in our day who spend much of
their time damning newspapers.
Again, in this effort to secure the
secular press as a mighter re-enforce-
ment Of religion. let us make 1t the ave
nue. Of religious information. Ny ad.
vice. often given to friends who pro
pose to start a new paper. Is: Don't.
DON'T Employ the papers already
started" The biggest financial hole
ever dug In this American continent is
the hole in which good people throw
their money when they start newspa-
per- 1t is almost as good and as quick
a way Of getting rid Of money nS buy
ing stock in a gold mine. Not more
printing presses. but the right use Of
those already established All their
cylinders, all their steam power, oil
their pens all their types. all their edi
torial chairs and reportorial rooms. are
available If you would engage them in
behalf Of civilization and Christianity.
Reinforcement of Religion.
Again, If you would secure the secu-
lar press as a mightier reinforcement
Of religion and the pulpit extend wild
est 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 education and refinement. graduates
of colleges, with families to support by
their literary craft. many OF them
weary with the push Of "A business that
is precarous and auctuatlng, each one
of them the avenue of information to
thousands of readers, their impression
of the services to be the impression
adopted by multltudes. They are con-
Meeting links between a sermon or a
song or a prayer and this great popu-
lation that tramp up and down the
streets day by day and year by year
with their sorrows uncontrolled and
their sins unpardOned Oh. the hun
dreds Of thousands Of people In our
cities who never attend churches Our
cities are not so much preached to by
ministers Of religion as by reporters.
Put all journalists into our prayers and
sermons. or all the hundred thou
sand sermons preached today there
Will not be three preached to journal
lists and probably not one. OF all the
prayers offered for classes of men In
Vulnerable the prayers offered for the
most potential class will be so few and
rare that they will be thought q preach
ers idiosyncrasy. There are many
journalists in our church memberships,
but this world will never be brought te
God until some revival OF religion
sweeps over the land and takes into
the kingdom Of God all editors. report
ers, compositors, pressmen and news
boys And If you have not faith enough
to pray for that and toll for that you
had better get out Of our ranks and
toin the other side, for you are the un-
believers who make the wheels OF the
Lords chariot drag heavily. The great
final battle between truth and error.
the Armageddon, think, will not be
fought with swords and shells and
guns, but with pens-quill pens. steel
pens, gold pens. fountain pens. and be-
fore that the pens must be converted
The most divinely hOnored weapon or
the past has been the pen, and the
most dlvinely honored weapon or the
future will be the pen-prophets pen
and evangelist's pen and apostles pen'
followed by editors pen and authors
pen and reporters pen. God save the
penl The wing Of the Apocalyptic an
gel will be the printed page. The print
ing press will roll ahead OF Christs
chariot to clear the way.
Sunday Newspapers.
But" some one might ask, would
you make Sunday newspapers also
re.enforcementT / have learned to
take things as they are. would like
to see the much scoffed at old Puritan
Sabbaths come back again. | do not
think the modern Sunday will turn out
anv better men and women than were
your grandfathers and grandmothers
under the old fashioned Sunday. To
say nothing Of other results, Sunday
newspapers are killing editors. report
ers. compositors and pressmen. Every
man, woman and child is entitled to "A
hours of nothing to do If the news
papers put on another set OF hands
that does not relieve the editorial and
reportorial room Of its cares and re-
gponsibilities. Our literary men die
fast enough without killing them with
Sunday work.
All things are possible with God and
my faith is up until nothing In the way
of religious victory would surprise me.
All the newspaper printing presses Of
the earth are going to be the Lords.
and telegraph and telephone and type
will yet announce nations born In
day. The first book ever printed was
the Bible, by Faust and his son-ln-law.
Schoeffer, in 14G0, and that consecra-
ton of type to the Holy Scriptures was
prophecy Of the great mission OF
printing for the evangellzation OF all
the nations. The father Of the Ameri
can printing press was a clergyman,
Rev. Jesse Glover, and that was a