New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1874-11-26
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WHO FIRST REPORTED SERMONS IN
DAILY NEWSPAPERS

| CARD FROM THE VETERAN FOREMAN OF TIE
TRIBUNE.
TO the Edifor Of The Tribune.
SIR You print in to-day's TRIBUNE the following
as portion Of the Rev. Henry Ward Beecher's dis
course on Sunday:
"You aware that in the remarkable development
OF modern times the publication ol sermons daily
NEWSPAPER has become regular and necessary feature
We have at present with lis the son OF the proprietor OF
of sermon the column beng then hired by the year.
aud that was the beginning OF what you SEQ now IN The
daily Journals"
do not know whom Mr.. Beecher meant when he
said, "We have ct present with us the of the
proprietor Of the paper that first devoted column
to the publication of a Sermon" but do know that
THE TRIBUNE was the first, and the only daily
journal for q long time. which organized system
for publishing full, verbatim reports OF the sermons
delivered by the most eminent Divines in this city
and Brooklyn. When Mr.. Charles A. Dana
Managing Editor of The TRIBUNE, he. at my
solicitation. permitted me to call on Mr.. Bcecher
and request the privilege Of reporting his
sermons. Mr. Beecher will remember my saying,
Mr.. Beecher wish your consent to send reporter
to your church next Sunday evening for the purpose
OF reporting yOur sermon and printing 1t IN The
TRIBUNE on Monday morning. l believe that If you
do good by talking to your congregation, you can
do additional good by increasing your audience
not know what his congregation would say when
they saw newspaper reporter at table taking
down his remarks; but he believed that if be bene-
fitted 1000 people by his spoken words, it not
unreasonable to think that others might be bene-
fitted by reading them print at tho breakfast
table He also said. Send your reporter l will
have a table and chair ready for him." On Sunday
evening the reporter in his place, and when Mr.
Bcecher had concluded lis services, he accompanied
tho reporter and myself to The TRIBUNE Office, and
remained until the report was in type and nc had
read the proof. which was about o'clock a. M This
was 1" the beginning of what you now in the
daily journals" of full, verbatim reports of sermons
by our most eminent Divines
Science is also indebted to THE TRIBUNE for hav-
ing been tho first daily journal to give verbatim
aud illustrated reports OF the most notable sclen-
fists. Before rHE TRIBUNE two years old 10 re-
ported and printed in full DR. Lardners Lectures,
delivered in this city, which were thoroughly Illus
trated by cuts engraved expressly for them.
could name many Ike enterprises undertaken by
tie pTvprietDrs and managers OF The TRIBUNE,
which have had their share IN winning Tor 1t the
large patronage and powerful influence 1t has AMI
does enjoy among tho people. Having been emit
pOyed III its cOmpOslng-rOom from April g. 1911,
until now, [ know much of the grow and pros
perty of this journal, and beg to you. who
have taken i'll charge the work begun by Horace
Greeley, that at time have such exertions to oh.
tain news and such persisten and careful editorial
scrutiny and criticism, as well as vast outlays for
mechanical success, been seen by me az now.
Aep York. Nov. %, 1874 THOMAS y. ROCKER