PRAYING FOR A REPORTER.

Freethought Review, Volume II, Issue 13, 1 October 1884, Page 13

PRAYING FOR A REPORTER.

We transcribe the following from the ' Reporter's Magazine,' which takes it from an American shorthand journal. The article is entitled, " Praying for a Reporter," and reads as follows:—" The Salvation Army prayed for a Philadelphia reporter thus : —' We have a reporter here, a miserable reporter, a sinful reporter, a servant of the unholy newspapers, a good young man gone wrong. Satan has made him obstinate, and he will not yield to persuasion and be saved. Oh ! help the wicked reporter. Help this reporter. The devil holds the fort in this reporter's brain. He is going to hell. Hallelujah ! Oh, may he join the Salvation Army; oh, give him repentance. He is a type of all reporters, and they are all a wicked lot.' The lieutenant stopped, to give the reporter a chance of kneeling. The men and women soldiers, shouted 'Save the reporter; help the reporter; down with the devil. I was wicked once, but now lam pure.' The lieutenant then began again. 'Oh, kill this reporter, kill him, take him away, that he may do evil no more. He is too obstinate to yield. Pie knows he ough'j to, but he is too proud; all reporters are. Oh. strike this reporter down; he is the devil in disguise."