Springfield daily republic. [volume] (Springfield, O. [Ohio]) 1887-1888, 1888-06-18
PRESS AND PULPIT.
SUNDAY MORNING SERVICES IN THE
BROOKLYN TABERNACLE.

bROOklHN EAbeHNAClE.
Rev. Dr, Taimage Would Secure the secu
lar Press ax q Reinforcement OF Re
ligion and the PuIpis-The Modern Sun
BRooKLYS, June I7-At the service in tn
Tabernacle this morning, the Rev T. D.
Witt Talnage, d D., took for the subject O
his discourse. Pulpit and r, ess Made Allies
His text was Luke xvi, .: "The childrer
of this world are In their generation wisel
than the children of light" He said:
Sacred - ,idty and solemn incompetency
and sanctitied laziness are here rebuked by
Christ He says woridings are wider awak,
for opportunities than are Christians Mer
of the world grab occasions while Christian
people let the most valuable occasions drift
by unimproyed That is the meaning Of oui
Lord when he says: .The children Of this
world ere in their generation wiser than the
children of light
marked illustration Of the truth Of tina,
maxim is In the slowness Of the Christian re
iig,on to take possession of the secular print
lux pcsS 70 opch hiih ufA1
for some time been open, but the ecclesiasti-
cal courts and the churches and the ministers
of religion are for the most part allowing the
golden opportunity to pass unimproved.
That the opportunity is open l declare from
the fact that the secular newspapers are glad
OF any religious facts or statistics that you
present them ANY animated and stirring
article relating to religious themes they
would gladly print They thank you for any
information in regard to churches II a
wrong has teen done TO any Christian
church or Christian institution you
could 60 into any newspaper of the land
and have the real truth stated Dedica-
tion services, ministerial ordinations and
pastoral installations, corner stone laying Of
a church, anniversary Of a charitable society
will have reasonable space in any secular
Journal, II IL have previous notice given. ff
had some great injustice done me there Is
not an editorial or a reportorial room In the
United States into which | could not go and
get myself set right, and that Is true Of any
well known Christian Already the daily
secular press during the course Of each week
publishes as much religious information and
high moral sentiment as does the weekly re-
ligious press Why then does not our glori-
Gus Christianity embrace these magnificent
opportunities have before me a subject of
first and last Importance How shall we Sc
cure the secular press as a mightier re-en,
forcenent to religion and the publici
The first thing toward this result Is cessar
tion Of indiscriminate hostility against news
paperdom- You might as well denounce the
legal profession because of the shysters, o.
the medical profession because of the quacks
or merchandise because of the swindliug ban
gain makers, as to slambang newspapers be
cause there are recreant editors and unfair
reporters and unclean columns Gutenberg,
the inventor OF the art of printing, was about
to destroy his types and extinguisb the art
because it was suggested to him that print
ing might be suborned into the service of the
devil. but afterward he bethought himself
that the right use of the art might more than
overcome the evil use of it, and 50 he
spared the type and the intelligence OF all fol-
lowing ages, But there are many today in the
depressed mood Of Gutenberg with uplifted
hammer wanting TO pound TO pieces the
type, who have not reached his better mood
in which be saw the art of printing to be the
rising sun Of the worlds illumination Ii in
stead OF fighting newspapers we spend the
same length of time an, the same vehenence
IN marshaling their help in religious direc
tions. We would be as much wiser as the man
who gets consent of the railroad superin
tendent TO fasten a car to the end of a rail
train, shows better sense than he who runs
his wheelbarrow up the track to meet and
drive bach the Chicago limited express. The
silliest thing that man ever does is to fight
q newspaper, for you NAV have the floor for
utterance perhaps one day in the week. while
the newspaper has the floor every day of the
week. Napoleon, though a mighty man. had
many weaknesses, and one OF the weakest
things he ever did was to threaten that If the
English newspapers did not stop their ad-
verse criticism of himself he would with four
hundred thousand bayonets cross the channel
fu, their chasrisement
Don't fight newspapers Attack provokes
attack Better wait till the excitement blows
over and then go in and get Justice, for get
i you will IL YOU have patience and common
,ense and eauipoise of disposition. Il ought
20 be a mighty sedative that there ia an
enormous amount of common sense in the
world. and you will eventually be taken for
what you are really worth. and YOU cannot
be puffed up and YOU cannot be written
Town, and II you are the enemy of good so
.iety that fact will come out, and IL YOU are
he friend of good society that fact will be
Established. | know what 1 am talking
bout. for 4 can draw on INV own exoerience
All the respectable newspapers as far as |
,now are my friends now. But many of
,ou remember the time when 1 was
he most continuously and meanlv at
,.cked man In this country God
rave me grace not to answer back. and
,ept silence for ten years, and much grace is
.eauired. What | said was perverted and
visited into Just the opposite of what did
nv NV person was maligned, and | was
presented as a gorgou, and was maliciously
by persons who had never seem me
IS a monstrosity in body, mind and souI
There we're millions of people who believed
hat there was a large sofa in this pulpit. al.
hough we never had ANYTHING but a chair
md that during the singing by the conerepa-
ion I was accustomed to lie down on that