Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1901-03-09


young men all the sharp points and make
them too smooth for any kind of execu-
ton. What we want, all OF Us, is more
point, less humdrum. If we say the right
thing in the right way, the press will be
glad to echo and re-echo il. Sunday
school teachers, reformerS, young men
and old men in the ministry, what we alt
want if we are to make the printing press
an ally in Christian work is that which
the reporter spoken of suggested points,
sharp points, memorable points But if
the ching be dead when uttered by living
voice it will be hundredfold more dead
when it is laid ont in cold type.
The Church and the Press.
Now, as you all have something to 10
with the newspaper press. either in issu-
ing paper or in reading it, either as pro-
ducers or patrons, either as sellers or
purchasers of the printed sheet, propose
on this Lords day treaty 10 be signed
between the church and the printing
press, treaty to be ratified by millions
of good people if we rightly fashion il,
treaty promising that we viii help each
other in our work of trying TO illumne
and felictate the world, we by voice. Won
by pen, we 10y speaking only that which
is worth printing, you By printing only
that which is ht to speak. You help us,
and we will help you. Side by side he
these two potent agencies until the judg-
ment day, when We must both be scru-
tinized for our work, healthful or blast
ing. The two worst off men in that day
will be the minister of religion and the
editor il they wasted their opportunity.
Both of us are the engineers of long ex-
press trains of influence, and we will run
them into depot of light or tumble them
off the entertainments.
That Providence intends the profession
of reporters to have a mighty share in
the worlds redemption is suggested by
the fact that Paul and Christ took re-
porter along with them. and he reported
their addresses and their acts. Luke
was reporter, and he wrote not only the
book of Luke. but the Acts of the Apos-
ties, and without that reporters work
we would have known nothing of the
Pentecost and nothing Of Stephens mar
tyrdom, and nothing of Tabitha's resur~
rection, and nothing of the failing and
unjailint or Paul and Silas. and nothing
of the sjliy wreck at Melita. Strike out
the reporters work from the Bible and
you kill a large part of the New Tesla
ment. 1t makes me think that in the
future of the kingdom of God the re
porters are to bear mighty part.
About twenty-five years ago a repre-
sentative of an important New York
newspaper took his seat in nv Brooklyn
church one Sunday night about i've pews
from the front of the pulpit He took
out pencil and reporters pad. resolved
to cHricature the whole scene. When the
music began he began, and with his pen
eli he derided that and then derided the
prayer and then derided the reading of
the Scriptures and then began 10 deridc
the sermon But he says. for some roa.
son his hand began to tremble. and he.
rallying himself, sharpened his pencil and
started again, but broke down again and
then put pencil and paper in his pocket
and his head down on the front of the
pew and began TO pray. At the close OF
the service he came up and asked for the
prayers of others and gave his heart to
God, and, though still engaged in news
paper work, he is an evangelist and hires
hall az his own expense and every Sun
day afternoon breaches Jesus Christ to
the people.
And the men Of that profession are go-
ing to come in body throughout the
country. | know hundreds of them, and
more genial or highly educated class of
men it would be hard TO find, and though
the tendency of their profession may be
toward skepticism. an organized, com
man sense gospel invitation would fetch
them to the front of all Christian en-.
deayor.
Of ia al
partments, you need the help Of the
Christian religion. In the day when poo
pie want TO get their newspapers Mt =
cents and are hoping for the time when
they can get any of them at l cent and
as consequence the attaches of the
printing press are by the thousand ground
under the cylinders you want God 10
take care OF you and your families Some
of your best work is as much unappre-
ciated as was Milton's Paradise Lost"
for which the author received S25, antr
the immortal poem, "Hohenlinden" OF
Thomas Campbell when he first offered
it for publication and in the column call
cd Notices to Correspondence" appear
ed the words: ITO r. C.-The Lines
commencing, On Linden when the sun
was low are not up to our standard.
Poetry is not 7. C.'s forte
o men Of the pencil and pen, amid
your unappreciated work you need en-.
enlargement, and you can have it. Print
crs Of all Christendom, editors, reporters
compositors, pressmen, publishers and
readers Of that which is printed. resolve
that you will not write, set no, edit
issue or read anything that debases body.
mind or soul. In the name of God hy
the laying on Of the hands of faith and
prayer, ordain the printing press for
righteousness and liberty and salvation.
All Of us with some influence that will
help in the right direction, let us put
our hands TO the work, imploring God
10 hasten the consummation. In a shin
with hundreds Of passengers approaching
the South American coast the man ON
the lookout neglected his work, and in a
few minutes the ship would have been
dashed TO ruin on the rocks. But n
cricket on board the vessel, that had
made no sound all the voyage. set up a
shril call at the smell of land, and. the
captain knowing that habit of the in