[In His Steps by Charles M. Sheldon]@TWC D-Link bookIn His Steps CHAPTER Four 9/17
When he came down to the office Friday morning he was confronted with the usual program for the Sunday morning edition.
The NEWS was one one of the few evening papers in Raymond to issue a Sunday edition, and it had always been remarkably successful financially.
There was an average of one page of literary and religious items to thirty or forty pages of sport, theatre, gossip, fashion, society and political material.
This made a very interesting magazine of all sorts of reading matter, and had always been welcomed by all the subscribers, church members and all, as a Sunday morning necessity. Edward Norman now faced this fact and put to himself the question: "What would Jesus do ?" If He was editor of a paper, would he deliberately plan to put into the homes of all the church people and Christians of Raymond such a collection of reading matter on the one day in the week which ought to be given up to something better holier? He was of course familiar with the regular arguments of the Sunday paper, that the public needed something of the sort; and the working man especially, who would not go to church any way, ought to have something entertaining and instructive on Sunday, his only day of rest.
But suppose the Sunday morning paper did not pay? Suppose there was no money in it? How eager would the editor or publisher be then to supply this crying need of the poor workman? Edward Norman communed honestly with himself over the subject. Taking everything into account, would Jesus probably edit a Sunday morning paper? No matter whether it paid.
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