Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1901-03-04

lie down on that sofa and dang1e my
feet over the end. Lying New York
correspondents for ten years miSrepre-
Eented our church services. But we
waited, and people from every neigh
borhOod of Christendom came there, to
find the ma gnitude of the falsehOodS
concerning the church and concern
ing myself. A reaction set in, and soon
we had justice, full justice, more than
Justice, and as much OverpraiSe as
once we had interpretation, and no
man that ever lived was SO much in
debted to the newspaper press for OPP
pOrtunity to preach the gospel as l
am. 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-
ton 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 mightier reinforce
ment of religion, let us make it the ave-
nue. of religious information. My adj
vice, often given to friends who pro-
pose to start 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 a newspa-
per. 1t is almost as good and as quick
a way of getting rid Of money as 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, all
their pens, all their types, all their edi-
tOrial chairs and repOrt0rial rooms, are
available if you would engage them in
behalf of civilization and Christianity.
Reinforcement of Religion.
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 precarioUs and fluctuating, each one
of them the avenue of information to
thousands of readers, their impression
of the services to be the impression
adopted by multitudes. They are con-
Meeting links between a sermon or q
song or 4 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. OF 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 preach
ers idiOsyncrasy. There are many
Journalists in our church memberships,
but this world will never be brought to
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
join the other side, for you are the I'M
believers who make the wheels of the
Lords chariot drag heavily. The great
final battle between truth and error,
the Armageddon, l think, will not be
fought with swords and shells and
guns. but with pens-Quin pens, steel
pens, geld pens, fountain pens, and be-
fore that the pens must be converted.
The most divinely hOnOred weapon of
the past has been the pen, and the
most divinely honOred weapon of 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
pen! The wing of the ApOcalyptic an
gel will be the printed page. The print
ing press will roll ahead of Christ's
chariot to clear the way.
Sunday Newspapers.
But" some one might ask, would
you make Sunday newspapers also a
1 have learned to
take things as they are. l would like
to see the much scoffed at old Puritan
Sabbaths come back again. l do not