Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1886-04-12
SHVDN-DAY LADORTRS.
The Great Educator Of the Nine
teenth Century---No Force
10 be Compared with IT.
The Agency by Which Ignorance Is
Cast Ont, Crimo ExtIrpated, and
the Gospel Preached.
pIen % the Press-rhsir Responsibility
ereSter than That % Any Other
Glass OF Persons.
rAnERNAcLE sERMoN.

special 10 tbs Gazette
BRooKLYN, NY. April li.--Rev. I. ID
witt Talmage, D.. d., preached before
vast congregation this morning. The open
ing hymn begins
etiefore JchovAhs awful throne
We nations hoE with sacred ioy.F
After expounding passages In reference
70 the spread OF knowledge all over Tx
world the eloquent speaker announced
his text zachariah v, l., "Behold a fyins
rolf" DIR. Talmage said:
This winged sheet Of the text had on I
prophecy, The dying roll to-day Is th'
newspaper. In calculating the influences
that AFFECT society you can no more afford
to ignore IL than you can ignore the noon.
day sun or the Atlantic ocean.
Ii Is high time that preach a sermon
expressing my appreciation Of what the
newspaper press has done and IS doing.
No man, living or dead, l. or has been so
Indebted 10 it as ! am, for IL gives me
perpetual audience in every city, town
ina neighborho0d Of Christendom, ani
AXE this opportunity before God and
lhis people to thank the editors, the pub
fishers, and compositOrs and type-setiers
the world over, and l give fair notice
that | shall take every opportunity Of
EiAluAAAlE AANH ntA4f NMNAuAA ~ 0A-AA-
ogmpnlc report on the sabbath, or galley
proofs on Monday, or previous dictauon.
have said again and again 20 the objects
of this church, whoever else are crowded,
don't let the reporters be crowded.
Each responsible sud intelligent reporter
Is ten or ilfteen churches built on to
this church. Nlnety-flve per cent. Of the
newspapers are now my friends, and do
me full justice aud more than
justice, and the other FIVE OF the hundred
are such notorious liars that nobody he
lieycs them. II was IN seli-deiense that
sigteen years ago ! employed an official
stenographer Of my own because OF the
appalling misrepresentation Of myself
aud church From that things have
miracul0usly changed, until now it Is
just aS appalling Ia the marvellous opPOg-
tunity opened.
The newspaper is lhe great educator ol
the nineteenth century. There Is no
force compared with e. 1t is book, pu.-
pli platform, forum, gil IN one aud
There Is not an iutsfest religious, liter
aiyi commercial scientific, agricultural
or mechanical tAat is not within It's
grasp, AN our churches, aud schools,
and colleges aud asylums aud arr gal
cries feel the quaking Of the printing
iress
The Institution Of newspapers arose In
Italy. IN Venice the FIRST newspaper was
published, and monthly, during the time
Inst Venice was warning against Solomon
the Second ia Dalmntia, II was printed
for the purpose of giving military and
commercial information To the Vene.
uans. The first newspaper published in
England was IN 1888, and called the
English Mercury. Others were STYLED
the Weekly Discoverer, the Secret Owl,
Heraclitus Ridens, etc
VINO can estimate the political, soien-
tide, commercial aud religious revolu-
tons reused up In England for many
years past by Bells Weekly Dispatch,
the Standard, the Morning Chronicle, the
Post, aud the London Times2
The first attempt az this institution In
France was In 1881, BY physician, who
published the News, for the amusement
and health Of his patients. The French
aation understood fully how 10 appre-
ciate this power. Napoleon, with his
own hand, wrote articles for tho
press, aud so early as in 500 there were
in Paris 100 journals. But in the
United States the newspaper has come to
unlimited sway, Though In 1915 there
were but thirty-seven in the whole coun-
try, the number Of published Journals Is
now counted by thousands; and to-day
we may as well acknowledge Il as not
the religious and secularnewspaper are
the great educators OF the country.
ilnd no difficulty in accounting for the
worlds advance. -Four centuries ago,
in Germany, in the courts OF Justice, men
fought with their lists 70 see who should
have the decision of the court; and II the
Judges decision was unsatisfactory, then
the Judge fought with counsel Many OF
the lords could not read the deeds OF
their OVID estates. What has made the
Champ.
"BoOks,N you say.
No, sir The vast majority of citizens
do not road books, Take Tins audience,
or any other promiseuous assemble e,
and how many histories have they reads
How many treatises on constitutional law,
or political economy, or works OF sclenceP
How many elaborate poems or hooks Of
uavelg How much 81 Boyle, or De
IOcqueville, Nenophon, OF Heradotus,
OF ferciysl9 Not many
in the United States the people would
not average one such book q year for
each Individual Whence, then, this in
tclligence-th this capaolty 70 talk about an
themes, secular and religious this ac-
quaintance with science aud art--thls
power to appreciate the bcautlfu! and
grand9 Next to the hlhle, the Newspaper
swlit-winged, aud everywhere present,
dying over the fences showed under the
door, tossed into accounting house, laid
on the work-bench, hawSed through the
cars All read it white snd black, GER
man, lrlshman, Swiss, Saanlard, Amer. |
can, old and young, good and bad, sick
and well, before breakfast and after tea, !
Monday morning. SATURDAY night, sun.
day and week day.
now declare that l consider the news. l
paper 20 be the grand agency by which /
the gospel Is 90 be preached, ignorance /
cast ont, oppression detaroned, crimeex- !
tirpsted, the world raised. heaven re. /
ioiced and God glorlded.
In the clanking OF the printing press, /
as the sheets ny out, hear the voice OF I
the Lord Almighty proclAsming to all the 4
dead nations OF the earth, Lazarus,
come forth,n and TO the retreaung
surges Of darkness, "Let there DE lightgn
In many Of our city newspapers, profess
ing no more than secular information,
there have appeared during the past ten
Years some ulthe grandest appeals IN be-
half OF religion, and some OF the most ef.
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