| Show TO NEWSPAPER BEM MEN I 1 we are informed by a salt lake lako contemporary that one hundred newspaper men heard the rev IV 31 lane line preach his bermon to the news fraternity on sunday night at st pauls church this eloquent cincere tor for tho the boula souls of the journalistic profession the same contemporary publishes in full and but tor for tho the want of 0 a spare spars corner to put it in la ue we might ourselves bo be tempted to lay mr lines remarks before oar our dear readers such burning worda words spread out before a tenderhearted tender hearted public ought to make oar our path in life very much less thorny unless perchance the regale should prove too rich for their stomachs and result in elvys usurping the throne of charity in any event the absorb ing self love which mr lanes re ri birks arks have quickened in our bosom impels the risking of a few choice b alta ts jost jast as an experiment admitting the universal struggle for selfhood to be a characteristic of the present generation the speaker proceeds in his own way to for the motive power impelling thia this light rigged cli chariot arlot oer the shadowing hills of theft tu tuo a 11 liying laying hie hand oa on the aroa aad noble bleed steed yoked joked to this chariot ho christens christans it newspaper 11 then soaring aloft on hia his heraldic thema theme he hies bles him to the four hundred bundred year ear old memory of faust and gottenburg Gitt enburg whose a laventia anven II 11 in of little bits bite of metal for the par purposes poses of money setting we c int quote euch auch a luxury of eloquence in full tet the pulse oj ol the world a throbbing 11 now calling into hia his minds eye the arc de intellectual which faust and Gitten barg constructed out of theeo theto little bits bite of metal we waive the ni caties of history to the god of better eloquence be mounts t tithe the key stone and jalzes aloft his mystic wand oer tha procession of learning and antiquity that comes firth from onto out of contusion confusion under his beau incantation Wh when enlo lo 10 the glant K lant man tho the newspaper heard the troad tre id stirred in his cerement 3 strat stretched ched himself and awoke with a yawn that startled custom and shiv ered oral forms to atoms here wag a vace raddy for his use and tho feelings of its need began bezan to stir within him hiat walled in heretofore by the paucity of means for its manifestation no one dreamed that the hidden ip lendor wai there bat now it bursts forth the bad bud unfolded to the light and dew reaching its full perfection in the fruit of ho the tree we pause for a breath the one hundred newspaper men who eat sat unmoved for a whole evening under a flood of oratory liko like ibis this were tougher than any one hundred common men in or r out of the fraternity wo we have eveir ever seen in one assembly we rather inspect it was a tough crowd and the gentleman recognized tha fact none too for right at this point we almost see him looking up from his text for the first time and beholding what roust have seemed a decidedly unappreciative audience the collapse of hia blis high horse lorse could not have been more sudden and ludicrous bad had bo he at the moment discovered that bla his sublime antics had bad been performed before a congregation of grinning ba babions baba boons ons for casting hia bin eyes over the grim spectacle that breaks upon hia his vision be he struggles SF upon hia his emi cups for a saving IW f breath totters and falls grasping in the descent at the poor remnant of a hope that by taking tho the trouble ho be may find a newspaper man inan basin has a heart just like other men though some people regard newspaper men as a class of hopeless sin em ners ho he wants thorn them to know that he doea does not and in his bis lowliness of spirit be even beseeches tho the privilege to talk to them as a brother 1 I want you ho bo says pleadingly to take care of yourselves have some room that you can call home I 1 dont care whether it bo be the beat room in come some grand hotel or a back room in 8 borno orne c cheap heap fourth story lodging only lot that ono one room be your fortress let no adissi paler or unclean person come over that threshold if the thoy v come como and knock at your door meet them face to face and kindly but firmly tell them they cannot enter have some pictures pic lurea on tho the wall and if youage you are able and can play hao have a musical instrument ment have a bible by your eide side and a prayer book on the table and ovary morning before you leave that goirn read your bible and pray and every night after your daya days work is is done como come home to that room and pray make it your spot of comma nia with god your help will not come from this world it will come down from that god who in six thousand years of the worlds history never betrayed any man who good god and do right we wo wish we could give more of this eloquent concern aa as the tribune his has appropriately named it but we ca cant nt do it some time we trust mr lano lane may be heard beard again la in thia this little pleasantry we would not purposely wound thyself the self loveon love of mr lane or weaken in the slightest extent hia his christian influence over newspaper men but putting all jest aside we are constrained to believe that mr lanes discourse dis courso was not quite ready when be he delivered it allowing to him the full exercise of his is assumption that the moral ailments of newspaper men are peculiar to themselves and that their baha salva tiona therefore require epi spiritual ritual specifics specifies apart from tho balance of the race tho the rev gentleman will not be offended and call us cai cal bious it ll in turn tarn we ask that hia his remedy possess some of the qualities of a substantial if not a standard remedy since his diagnosis makes of our case a radical one it is natural that we examine the prescription for radical ingredients the physician who would prescribe bread pills for leprosy or a flaxseed poultice for a cancer of the stomach would ba be considered of a doubtful school of medicine le mr lane finds the newspaper man infected with moral ossification and gives him a peppermint It we suspect that mr lanes difficulty was more the want of a theme thin of preparation genius or skill lie he chose hia his subject tor for its eness without examining its inner substance by a trick of oratory he constructed a largo looking something eo or other which tho the bedraggled eyes of his congregation may have taken for a superstructure of intelligence when be he como come to invite them inside there was much largeness but it was a vacuum newspaper men may have an individuality vi oat ont of which a pulpit genius might entertain an audience with profit but ordinary preachers would better select themes requiring less attenuated definitions in the handling we will wager that save tho the tribune scribe who might bo be suspected of almost anything you please there was not a journalist at bt st pauls on sunday night who did not cloea class hia his sitting feeling excessively foolish for being thera |
