Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 December 1894 — YEA VERILY and AMEN. [ARTICLE]

YEA VERILY and AMEN.

To Quaker Notions Being Contained in a Circular from a -—: Committee of the Indiana Yearly Meeting of Friends, held alternately at Richmond, Ind., and—S—. Waynesville, 0. To Editors and Journalists: Respected Friends—The increasing interest in the subject of a pure literature within our homes has been made manifest in various ways, and we have been pleased to note the sympathy expressed in many of the lead ing papers of the day for this good end. As representatives of Friends we turn again to-the press, wishing to share the great responsibility which rests with it in the right education of our young. We know that through its daily and weekly columns seed is sown which brings forth fruit for good or ill. As a mighty factor to this end it has scarcely a limit to its power, and that which it has already done for good proves its great influence to Elevate and guide the thousands of its readers whose weak aims it serves to strengthen and direct. Let nothing binder or retard its work. Advertisements which point to gilded crime, details of most unholy acts, personal and pictorial notices which are incentives to the violation of the higher law—let all of these be thrown aside, giving their space to better things. May not the cheering fact that journalism has already don£so much to lead to the hope that more and more it may become the faithful friend of those whose bleak lives are so much controlled by what their columns present ? Let us together hail, the advent of that day Which wiUprbduee a bright, unsullied sheet f« r e-vety home. Trustti gtt at yofi may deem this ex|Tession of <>ur views and aims fit for a place within your columns, and asking for a w< r.i of kindly interest in our work, we-iare sincerely your friends / =

signed under ord rs of the yearly meeting, an t\n behalf of said committee, by Aaron Morris. Clerk, Mil ton, Ind. Tenth month-4th, 1894.