Ceredo advance. [volume] (Ceredo, W. Va.) 1885-1939, 1901-03-06
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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. 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 / am.
Young men i'm the ministry, young
men in ali professions and occupations
| wait. You can afford 10 wait Take
rough Misrepresentation as a Turkish
towel TO start up your languid circula-
ton, or 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 bv
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 Gay who spend much Of their time
damning newspapers.
Again, In this effort to secure the
secular press as n mightier reen-
forcement of religion, let us make it
the avenue of religious information.
My advice. often given to friends who
propose to start new paper, is:
Don't. Don't! Employ the papers
already started" The biggest finan-
cial hole ever dug in this American
continent is the hole in which good
people throw their money when they
start newspaper. 1t is almost as
good and as quick 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. All 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 mightier reinforce
ment OF religion and the pulpit, ex-
tend widest and highest Christian
conrtesies to the representatives of
| journalism. Give them easy-chairs
, and plenty of room when they come
to report occasions. For the most
part they arc 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 fiuctuating
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 n
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 churchesi 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 hum
dred thousand sermons preached to-
day there will not be three preached
TO Journalists and probably not one.
Ot all the prayers offered for classes
OF men innumcrable the prayers Of
Tered for the most potential class
VIII be so few and rare that they
Will be thought preachers idosyn-
Grassy. 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.
But some one might ask would
| you make Sunday newspapers also n
reenforccment?" / have learned to
take things as they are. [ would
| like TO see the much scofYed at old
! Puritan Sabbaths come back again.
| 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 prcssmen. 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 rcpOrtorial room OF its cares and
. re- possibilities. Our literary men
+ die fast enough without killing them
/ with SUNDAY work