The weekly Oskaloosa herald. [volume] (Oskaloosa, Iowa) 1855-1885, 1871-07-06
THE NEWSPAPER PRESS.

Rev. L. ID. W. Talmage of Brook
Ign, in a recent sermon presented
the following earnest, stirring
thoughts representing the power
and capibilaties of the newspaper
prese. An instrumentality of such
vast influence as this is in our
day, should be welded by those who
appreciate their momentous RESPONSE
bility, and employ it for the improve
ment and elevation of their fellow
men. The eloquent discourse is re-
ported geographically In The
Methodist"
The newspaper is the greatest ed
ucator of the nineteenth century.
There is no force compared with it.
1t is book, pulpit, platform, forum,
all in one. And there is not an in
terest--religious, literary, CONNER.
cial, scientific, agr icultural, mechan.
ical--that is not within it's grasp.
All our churches, and schools, and
colleges, and asylums, and art gal
leries feel the quaking of the printing
press.
In our pulpits We pre- ach to few
hundreds or thousand of people; the
newspaper addresses the audience
of twenty thousand, fifty thousand,
or two hundred thousand. We
preach three or four times a week;
they every morning or evening of
the year. Ifthey are right, they are
gloriously right if they are wrong,
they are awtully wrong.
| find no difficulty in acc counting
for the worlds advance. What has
made the change? Next to the BIZ
Bile, tie ne~spaper-switt-wing and
everywhere present-fying over the
fence, showed under the door, tossing
into the counting house, laid on the
work bench, hawked through the
cars! AllIead it! White and black.
German, 1rishman, Swiss, Spaniard,
American, old and young, good and
bad, sick and well before breakfast
and after tea, Monday morning, Sat.
urday night, Sunday, and week
day!
| consider the newspaper to be the
grand agency by which the gospel is
to be preached, ignorance cast out,
oppression dethroned, crime extir
pated the world raised, heaven re-
joiced and God glorifed. In the
clanking of the printing-presscs as
the sheets fly out hear the voice of
the Lord Almighty proclaiming to
the dead nations of the earth, Lax.
arus, come forth % and to the re-
treating gorges of darkness, "Let
there be light"
"NaLions are to be born in day."
Will this great thrush into the king
dom of God come from the personal
presence of missionary or pailan-
thropists? No. When the time comes
for that grand demonstration of the
Spirit, / think the press in all the
earth will make the announcement,
ana give the calls to the nations. As
at some telegraphic centre, an OPP
orator will send the messages north
and south, and east aud west, San
SOuttul CdLCH-
ing the fash at the same instant; so,
standing al some centre to which
shall reach all the electric wires that
cross the continent and undergrad
the sea, some one shall with the fore
fingerof the right hand click the in
strument that shall thrill through all
the lands, across all the islands, un-
der all seas, through all places, into
all dungeons, and startle both hemis-
pheres with The news, that in few
moments snail rush out from ten
thousand times ten thousand print
ing-presses of the earth: Jesus hath
come! Fall into line, all ye nations
Glory to God in the highest, and on
earth peace, good will toward men
Hallelujah p