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Show SUHDAY PAPERS. Titers is perhaps no single class of any community that tbe secular ' newspapers find it more difficult to pleade than the ministers of the goa-pel. goa-pel. If the editor be a partisan, he may be able to conduct hid journal to tbe satisfaction of bin own party at hiast; i he is without political prejudices preju-dices and affiliations be can find many friends and admirers of his ptper among the masses; but what ever his principles and politics, his aims or his policy, he is pretty certain lo run afoul of the preachers and bring down upon his head the pulpit censure. It seems singular lhat these individuals cannot work more harmoniously, har-moniously, and avoid tho frequent colliaioni:. It tniy bo tli9 result of uudetected and incurable bias in journalists that oausaa them to at tribute mare of the blame for this state of affairs to tbe pieaohers; and it may be that tbe ministerial min-isterial habit of dictating, if not openly scolding, has something to do with the trouble; but whatever the cause of the differences, these two classes of popular instructors and teachers of tho people certainly agree belter in theory than in practice. One of their old quarrels is being re vived and vigorously engaged in, at the present time. It is in reference to the Sunday newspaper, end Chicago Chi-cago divines seem to be at the head of the raid upon theae unoffending journals. jour-nals. They are pledging themselves not lo insert in the papers issued on Sunday, notices of their Sabbath services, ser-vices, and are counseling the members mem-bers of their churobes not to support by advertisement or subscription the 8unday issues of any journal. The avowed purpose of the ministers is tc prevent so far as possible, the violation of the commandment against Sabbath labor; but in attacking the Sunday morning paper they show their ignorance of when and how the work on newspapers is performed. Tbe Chicago Tribune, in speaking of tho ministerial onslaught, humorously says: "Next to getting a camel through the eye of a needle, tbe moat difficult thing in the world is to get the idea through the minis ter's head that a Sunday paper does not involve Sunday work.".- Many ministers and pious people are so conscientious that on Saturday oigbt all newspapers arc carefully put away; but after the Sabbath the Monday I morning journal is seized with avidity I and its contents ravenously devoured. This displays a bliatful ignorance of the practical workings of a newspaper that is hardly excusable in such intelligent people as ministers and Christians. Little or none ot the work of a Sunday paper is performed on tho Bahbath. Tbe reporter has thrown oft bis ubiquitous character and related the happenings o! the day before it it yet gone. The editorial is written on Saturduy and put in tj pe the same day. The mails, laden with their news for Sunday paper, ate received and culled on Saturday. The clicking of the telegraph instruments cannot be made useful for the Sunday paper long after midnight. Tbe presses have censed their clanking, tbe editors and lypoa are in bed and ihe carriers have made thi ir rounds and left the paper at the minister's door before the Sabbath euu mounts tbo horizon. Even reckoning the Sunday as beginning at midnight mid-night of Saturday, the work perfoiraed on Bunday fur that morning's morn-ing's paper ie very little compared with what is done on the Sabbath lor the Monday's issue. For the latter the editor must write on Sunday, the reporter openly and notoriously violate the fourth commandment, the light nii:g fl ish and the compositors toil, all on the Sabbath. Our clerical and tupremely pious frieudp shim tit take a more practical view of the facte, when they might be able to discuss the Sucd.iy paper question with a greater dfgreo of reaaou and without showing their ignorance. In a strictly pious sense, without regard to the necessities of life, there m-iy be eorae cause for objecting to Monday morning morn-ing papers; but there can he none to Sunday papers. |