Jasper County Democrat, Volume 15, Number 1, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 April 1912 — The Church and the Press. [ARTICLE]

The Church and the Press.

M. ..B, Morton, managing editor of the Nashville Banner, recently addressed the members of the Men’s Club of St. Ann’s church, .on “The Press and Religion.” “The press is the vehicle in which the great religious movements of today ride. If the masses arc to be evangelized the press must do its pdrt,” he said, “and I believe I am justified in stating that it is doing so. All papers take an active part in religious movements. The press was fostered by priests and the first manuscripts saved from destruction by these priests. , Tt was |he priests who wrote the A B C’s in the dawn of history, and who wrote the story of the cross. Yes. the press and the church are close akin. I hope and believe that the day is coming when the newspaper man will be what he ought to be —the consecrated priest of God. “The church and the press are striving for the same end, and I hope to see the time when they will work still more hand in hand.*