Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1901-03-06

WHO preach tAe s-.tel ana those who
make ie&sia pers. the sp3Sen word anu
the pY.utta word 10 - side by side; text,
Luke M, :, The children Of this world
are Is their generation wiser than the
children liShTn
Saercd ,gaidits and >r1emn incompc-
tency ASA saurtiiiel ia4uess tire here
rebakea hs Christ. Fl SAYS workings
are wider arake Ior opportunities than
are Christians. Men of thc world grab
orc.,siobe while Ghe;>tian people let the
riasf v8laaela oc,.asiug~ lrift by unIni-
proved That i tl,t ne;ttias Of our Lord
when he says, "Tir children Of this
world :ir3 ia yheir -aneealion wiser than
the ch.it.len Of lisht.
4 m.fGel Illustration Of the truth OF
that lfaA III is IN the slowness OF the
Chris ian religion 20 take possession OF
the secaiaF printing press. the opportu-
nifty Is open ana has heea for some time
open. Ia, The ecclesiastical courts, and
the ch3yctca, ana the ministers OF re-
li2ion :.Yt fo. the most part allowing the
golden opportunity to pass unimproYed.
That tht opportunity is open declare
from III faet that all the secular news
papers rp glad of any religious facts OF
statistics tEat you present them. ANY
aoinlated and stirring article reia ing 10
religious themes they would gladly print.
They thank yon for amy information IN
regard a. churches. If il wrong has been
done ii ANY Christian church or CHRISTIAN
institution you could so into any neWspa-
per off.rc Of the land and have the real
truth STATED Dedication services. MINIS
terial ordinations and pastoral Installa-
tons. cornerstone laying of church. an
niycrsaYy of charitable society. VIII
have reasonable space in any secular
journal il il have previous notice gwen.
If | had some great injustice done me.
there is nut I'm editorial or reporto1al
room il the United States into which
could 10; go and set myself set rlght'
and that is true of any well known Chris
tian man Why, then. does not our giorl-
Gus Christianity embrace these magnln-
cent opportunities? | have before me
subject Il first and lost Importance: how
shall We secure the secular press as
mighty reinforcement TO religion and the
pulpit:
Irliscriminats Hostility.
The hYst thing toward this result is
cessation OF indiscrimlna.e hostility
against newspapertlom. 1uu might as
well denounce the legal profession be-
cause uf the shysters. or the medical pro-
fession because of the quacks. or mef-
chanGiSe because Of the sw.ndling bar
gain maj ers as to slambans newspapers
hecaHso mere are recreunt editors and
unfair reporters and uncean columns
G,u3epl,egs the inventor of the art OF
printiuc was about to destro. his types
and extiB-uish the art becatse 1t was
suggested to him that printing might be
,uborned into the service OF the devil,
but .fterward he hetiou~ht Himself that
the RICH. use of the art might more than
overcome the evil use of it. und so he
SHARED the type and the intelligence of
all following ages. 6ut there are many
to-day II the depre Ssed mooc of Guten-
berg. with uplifte0 hammer, wanting to
pound 10 pieces the type. who have not
rrachetlhis better mood. i'll Which he saw
the ART ~ printing to be the rlp ng sun OF
the worlds Summation.
If. instead of fighting newspapers, we
spend the same length of tiIle and the
same vehenence in marshallnE their help
in religious directions we would he as
much i scr as the man who ae.s consent
If the r..rroad superintendent TO fasten
y ear 10 be end of II rail tain, shows
better $. nse than he Whp runs his wheel
barrow az the track to meet and drive
back the Chicago limited Ell r'ss. The
siiliest th.n@ that man ever does IS TO
fight newspaper. for You mas have the
floor for itterance I,erhaps for Dne day in
the week. while the newspaper has the
floor every day in the week Napoleon.
though a mighty man. had many weak
npssrs. and one of tl1 weakest shings he
ever did WAS to threaten that II the Eng
lish newspapers did not stop their adj
verse criticism OF himself he would, with
400 nan i,av0netS. cross the channel for
their chastisement. Don't fight newspa-
pere Attack provolles attack. Better
wait mil the excitement blows over and
then 70 ia and get justice, for get it YOU
will II Won have patience and common
sense and e9uipoise of disposition. 1t
ought "a he a mighty scdatiYe that there
is am enormous amount of COMMON sense
in the world. and you will eventually be
taken for wh0t yon are really Harth and
you t,anrot he puffed up. and y5I cannot
be yvrittpa down. and if you are the en-
envy Of good society, that fact will come
ont. and I You are the friend of ,1od
society ih@t fact win be established.
<row what am talking about, for
can draw On my own experience All the
respectable newspapers, rs far as | know.
are my friends now But many of you
remember the time when | was the most
continuously and meanly attacked man in
this country God gave me grace not to
answer back, and kept silence for ten
years. and much grace WAS required.
What | said was perverted and twisted
into JUS the opposite of what / did say.
There Wesr millions of people who be-
Iieved that there was a large sofa in my
pulpit. although we never had anything
Hut chair, and that during the singing
by the con eregation was accustomed to
lie down On that sofa and dangle my feet
over the Old. Lying New York CORE
Spou3cn'~ FOR ten years misrepresented
our yhgeeh services: but we waited. and
people from every neighborhood OF
Christonaom came there t. find the mag
nitgde O. he falsehoods concerning the
church 4Ll concerning myself \ re-
action 81 in. and soon We had Justice.
fall jusl.ye more than justice, and as
nurh overpraise as once we had under
appr.p. l0.l. and no man that ever lived
was s.. nlch indebted to the newspaper
press :os opportunity to preach the gos-
pei as aM Young mrn in the iuin-
iStry. yeaue men in all professions and
occupations wait YUu can ailofa 10
wait. Fake rough misTePrsS -ntatlons rs
q Fes'k.sl lswel to start up your lang nd