Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1901-03-08

the congregation I was accustomed to
lie down on that sofa and bangle my
feet over the end. Lying New York
correspondents for ten years misrep-
resented our church services; but we
waited, and people from every neigh
borhood of Christendom came there
to find the magnitude of the falsehoods
concerning the church and concerning
myself. A reaction set in, and soon we
had justice, full justice, more than JUS
tice. and as much overpraise as once
we had interpretation and no man
that ever lived was so much indebted
to the newspaper press for opportun-
ity to preach the Gospel as I 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 circu1a-
ton, or system of massage o. Swed-
ish movement, whose pokes and pulls
and twists and thrusts are salutary
treatment. There is only one person
you need to manage, and thatis your
fself. Keep your dispositions sweet by
communion with Christ, who answered
not again, get society of genial people
ard 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 mightier reen-
forcement of religion, let us make it
the avenue of religious informant
My advice, often given to friends who
- OF ri Scs
Don't! Don't! Employ the papers
already started" The biggest finan-
cial hole ever dug in this American
people throw their money when they
start newspaper. It is almost as
good and as quick a 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. ALI 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 a 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-
ton 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 fuctuating,
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 song, or a
| 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! Our
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
dred thousand sermons preached to-
! day there will not be three preached
to journalists and probably not one.
OF all the prayers offered for classes
of men innumerable the prayers Of
fered for the most potential class
will be so few and rare that they
will be thought a preachers idiosyn-
Grassy. There are many journalists in
our church memberships, but this
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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.
"But," some one might ask, would
you make Sunday newspapers also a
Reinforcement" have learned to
take things as they are. I would
like to see the much scoffed at old
Puritan Sabbaths come back again.
I do not think the modern Sunday
will turn out any 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, reporters. COM
positors 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 reportoria1 room of its cares and
responsibilities. 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 press.