Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1882-12-21

SO nara unQer the hepuDllcan rule as TO
have come to a fixed determination to
tolerate it no longer. If ever state
paper presaged the waning influence and
coming downfall of a political party, it is
the message delivered yesterday at Wash
ington by man so blind to the true issues
lying ahead of him and SO infirm of pur-
pose as President Arthur
DIR, TALMAGE ON PLAGIARisTs.
The Brooklyn Pastor StiGncti=es the Mr.
listers Who PurlOin His Sermons.
DR.. Talmage's sermon in the Tabernacle,
last Sunday, was throughout personal
one, in the nature of an indignant protest
against the frequent use of his discourses
by other ministers without quotation or
credit of any kind. The large audience
showed by their frequent applause that
they fully appreciated their pastors posi-
ton. The text was the significant one
"Thou shalt not steal" 1t is high time,
said DR.. Talmage, that a sermon be
preached on the subject of plagiarism. It
is a most practical subject, question of
right and wrong. and is charged with ire
mendous issues. Much of the worlds
knowledge is common property, but the
peculiar presentation of knowledge may
be private property. Plagiarism begins
when you appropriate without credit some
one else's way of putting things. The
vice has crept on some of the platforms
and into some of the pulpits. 1t is a most
bedwarfng vice. No man can keep such
sin and keep his religion. 1t is mental
suicide. mans capacity for origination
shrivels up. No man ever successfully
plagiarized without being found out. The
newspaper press of the day is detective
on the track of all such desperadoes. Now
all the literary and scientific and religious
knowledge of the world turns over at least
once week, and the most of it turns over
everyday Each one of the great dailies sends
forth IN each publication enough material
for one volume. A man might as we'll try
to steal the town clock as to expect to car
~ off literary work and not be found out.
Quote from all books that you can lay
your hand on. but be sure to announce that
1t is a quotation. Four commas upside
down would have saved many mans in
tegrity. Plagiarists have no idea of the
damage they do.
TIME TO PROTEST.
AdSO ouUIuAtt0u w du dUuOUut VI pO-
sition to which shall submit no longer.
(cntrary to the advice of my friends I
have never objected one word. The time
has come for me in a kindly spirit and
without any acerbity to make a protest. In
justice to myself I am going to present
three or four facts. Last Friday night a
week I lectured in Detroit The following
night received a telegram say
ing the lecture in Detroit
was identical with one. delivered
few nights before in the city of Chicago
by ano her lecturer. It was the first lee
ture ever prepared, and it was twenty
one years old. 1t was just of age laugh
ter and had delivered it at least hun
dred times on this and on the other side of
the sea. do not take the responsibility
of saying that tAb lecturer in Chicago pla-
giarized my lecture, but will say that if
had not been able by ten thousand wit
nesses to prove the priority of my lecture
it would have been very damaging to me.
[Applause] Another fact-jnst after I
came to Brooklyn preached sermon on
'Hagar in the wilderness" Ten years
after I reproduced it. Before the week
was out received letters from Pittsburgh,
Chicago, Boston and Louisville, saying
that that very sermon had been preached
one or two months before in those
cities and asking "Did you take it from
them or did they take it from your"
Laughter sat down and wrote four in
dignant letters and carried them in my
pocket, and, as is my custom with such
letters, finally burned them up. Laugh
ter. knew what plight those plagiar-
lists would have been in if I had referred
my correspondents to newspapers which
had published the sermon ten years before.
was wrong in rondoning their faults-I
shall never let such thieves again escape.
Applause. If Christian workers want to
employ sermons preached in this house
they have full liberty. 1 believe that what
preach is the truth of the gospel, aud the
wider it goes the better. Years ago
prayed G ID for the.result which has come
in the publishing of my sermons week by
week in all the cities of Christendom.
am grateful to God and to the reporters.
But is it right that the opportunity should
be abused of plagiarists to put me in
wrong light! I tell you the nuisance has
become intolerable.
Another illustration. The president of
the Wesleyan conference in Australia wrote
that they suspended a minister not so
much for preaching my sermons, but for
saying that one of my sermons was his.
OF course he denied the plagiarism, for tho
man who will steal will lie. Applause.
book of my sermons was produced, ana
he was Immediately suspended from the
ministry. 1 have more remarkable case.
On the 25th of last month Pennsylvania
paper interviewed an eminent divine and
that eminent divine gavethefollowing state
meat: "The sermons of Talmage are fire.
quently stolen, yet once heard of case
where he was caught in the
act himself. Great laughter
He preached an I'm ually elo-
quent sermon. A Methods minister of
Brooklyn preached the same sermon on
the following Sabbath. Being pressed on
the point he produced an English news
paper containing the sermon. thus admit
ting his own guilt but pulling Talmage
from his pedestal at the same time"
Laughter.
VERY LIKE BET.
Now, if that eminent minister of Pitts
burgh will prove that some minister in
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