The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1901-03-09

NhAiseiahitgs
Again. II you would secure the sec
ular press as a mightier reenfores-
ment of religion and the pulpit. Ak
tend widest and highest christlsn
e~ourtesies to the representatives Of
Journalism Give them sasy-chairs
and plenty of room whsa they come
TO report occasions. For the most
part they are gentiensn Of sduca-
ton and refinement. graduates Of
colleges, with families TO support BY
their literary craft many Of them
weary with the push Of . business
that q precarious and Auctuating.
each one Of them the avenue of In
formation TO Thousands Of rsaders,
their impressiea Of the services 90
be the impression adopted by multi
tudsA They are connecting links BE-
tween Q sermon. % . song. or .
prayer. and this great popuiation
that tramp up and down the streets
day by day and year By year with
their SORROWS uncontrolled and their
sins un9ardonsd. Oh. the hundreds
Of thousands Of people IN our cities
who never attend ohurcAesi Our
eities are not 30 much preached 70
by ministers Of religion ~ By re.
porters. Put ell journalists into our
prayers and sermons, OF all the hun.
dred thousand sermons preached to-
day there will not Be thrss preached
to journalists and probably not one.
OF oil 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 . preachers idiosyn-
Grassy. There are many journalists In
our church membeEshipa but shis
world will never be brought % God
until some revival OF religion sweeps
over the land and takes into the
Kingdom Of God ell editors. report.
ers. eompositors. pressmea and asws-
boys.
But" some one might AJAX. "would
you make Sunday newspapers also .
reenforcement?" 1 have learned to
take things As they are. I would
Ike to see the much seoifed a. old
Puritan sabbsths come bsek again.
l do not think the modern Sunday
will turn out any better men and
women than we're your grandfather
aud grandmothers under the old
fashioned Sunday. To say nothing
Of other results, Sunday newspapers
are killing editors, reporters, COM
positors and pressmsn. Every man.
woman and child 10 entitled TO %
hours Of nothing "a DO. II the news
papers put on another set Of hands,
that does not relieve the editorial
and reportorial room Of its cares and
responsibilities. Our literary men
die fast enough without Killing them
with Sunday work.
All things are possible with God, add
my faith Is up until nothing in the
wsy'oi religious victory would surprise
me. All the newspaper printing press
es Of the earth are going TO be the
Lords, aud telegraph and telephone
sno Up. .n ' nhse ,A''Ons
'N e'es
his son-in.law, schoefer. In 1880, and
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i~ouruAlist said a thing that has kept
me aver since thinking. aAre YOU
colnr 10 rive us any points to-d.y?"
asWhst do you mesn?" / asked. II,
said: "I mean by that anything that
will be striking enough 70 be remem.
bered." Then said to myself,
~what right have We In the pulpits
and Sunday schools TO take the time
of the people n we have nothing 70
say that Is memorabilia David dld
not have any difficulty In remember.
inR Nathan's thrust, "Thou art the
man" nor Felix In remembering
Paul's point.blank u-tteranee on rirht.
~eousness. temperance and iudemsn,
70 come. nor the English kinr any
difficulty In rememberlne What m,
court preacher said when, during tA1
sermon against ain. the preacher
threw his handkerchief into N.
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ahont %
Of an important New York ~usvupap.l
took his seat IN nv BROOKLYN churol
one Sunday night about ave pew, from
the front OF the pulpit. He took on
pencil and reporters p.S. resolved I,
c~aricature the Who'll. scene. when III,
music began he began. ana with III