Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 21, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 March 1900 — Sizing: Up Sheldon’s Scheme. [ARTICLE]

Sizing: Up Sheldon’s Scheme.

| Rev. W. A. Quayle, of Meridian street, Indianapolis, sizes up the Rev. Charles A. Sheldon’s sensational not to say sacrelegious scheme for runuing The Topeka Capital, as Christ would run it, about right. The following is an abstract of Mr. Quayle’s sermon on that subject, last Sunday. “There is a book called ‘ln His Steps’ that is having a wonderful sale. It is a good intentioned book, but misleading. The author seeks to tell us what Christ would ■do if he were on earth at present. | This is not the question that concerns us in cur various callings. We should not ask what Christ would do if he were in our business. Our question should be, what would Christ have -us do? We .cannot hope to do as Christ would do, because we have not Christ’s breadth of knowledge and insight into men. If we tried to do as Christ did, some of us would become caviling critics. It is ordered to ‘Judge not that ye be be not judged,’ while Christ is ‘The J udge of the quick and the dead.’ How can we do, then, as Christ would do?” “The effort.' that Mr. Sheldon will make to edit the Topeka Capital a week ‘as Christ would edit it,’ is the boldest piece of effrontery I ever heard of. It is sacrilegious in the extreme. It is using Christ for advertising purposes. What can Mr. Sheldon hope to do in the week that he will run the Topeka Capital? I read the Capital for yeafs.' It is the cleanest secular paper I ever saw, cleaner even than the Indianapolis papers, and that is saying a great deal, for the Capital, will not even print a liquor advertisement. About the only thing Mr. Sheldon can do in the week that he will have charge, will be to refain from printing such items of news an prize fights and other things that have not an uplifting influence. If he runs - the newspaper as a newspaper should be run, he crnn make little, if any, change in its policy.’’