Editorial March 29, 1900 Issue

The Christian Daily

Editor

We have read of the numbers of The Topeka Daily Capital, which was edited as a Christian daily newspaper for one week by Rev. Charles M. Sheldon, commencing March 13. Certainly as an advertisement it has been a success, for it has received wide notice and generous comment at the hands of the press of the country, and has also been the subject of many sermons, as well as interviews by both clergymen and laymen. Yet we do not for a moment think that it was promoted merely as an advertising scheme; there is nothing on its face to indicate this. On the contrary, there is much to warrant the conclusion of a well-meant purpose to do good. How much good its brief existence has done or may do is a question.

It contained a fair quantity of healthful reading matter, and enough of current news to have kept its readers well informed. It was clean and unobjectionable in its moral aspects throughout; a newspaper fit to go into any family at any time. Its editorials were given over largely to religious subjects.

Surely no religionist could object to this item from an editorial in the first issue:—

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