Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1888-06-29
.,,F>s AND PULPIT
,,sielt Of an Eloquent Discourse
fy t5e Rev. 7. De Witt
TalmaJe.
=, Secure the Secular Press as Re-
wv .,.c.mens of Religion and the
Pulpit.

~, se.y.ce III the Brooklyn Tabor
j u. me Rev. i. De Witt Talmage,
o;s' took for the subject of his dis
u, sPulpit and Press Made Allies"
curse. vas Luke xvi. S: The children
El s,?A' World are i'll their generation
I'M .t,n the children of light" He
'..as al, stupidity and solemn incom-
s@v', and sanctified laziness are here
s5'ssanI7 Iv Christ. He says worldlings
s's .I;,Ier awake for opportunities than
Pr S Si1 Men of the world grab
Pc ; ;, while Christian people let the
fcas Unable occasions drift by unim-
P's That is the meaning of our
fF','T |ten He says: The children of
et" ND are in their generation wiser
(S I'l the children of light"
"a !. naked illustration Of the truth of
~ = mn, naxiln is i'll the slowness of the
| n". religion to take possession of
t., NJ secnai printing press. The oppor-
av;ty is open and has for some time
'an cpen. but the ecclesiastical courts
EE the churches and the ministers of
aIGior are for the most part allowing
h. golden opportunity to pass unim-,
n-ovTl. That the opportunity is open
| declare from the fact that all the sec
rsr newspapers are glad of any relig-
; ss. facts or statistics. that you present
tSam, Any animated and stirring arti-
Il. a., ,catins to religious themes they
rolld gladly print. They thank you for
any information in regard to churches.
# r. :. wrong has been done to any Chris
|sn Church OF Christian institution,
Vol could 60 into any newspaper of the
iml and have the real truth stated.
Dedication services, ministerial ordina-
lions and pastoral installations, corner
.one LAYING of church, anniversary of
charitable society will have reasonable
mace in any secular journal, if it have
Ieyious notice given. If had some
neat injustice done me, there is not al
.i..orial or reportorial room in the
'n;tcd States into which I could not go
nd get myself set right, and that is true
Il any wellknown Christian man. AL
eady the daily secular press during the
curse of each week publishes as much
esious information and high moral
eltiment as does the weekly religious
less. Why, then, does not our glorious
.hristianity embrace these magnificent
I have before me sub
tof first and last Importance: How
ball We secure the secular press as a
lighter re- enforcement to religion and
he pulpit?
The first thing toward this result is
sssation of indiscriminate hostility
gainst newspaperdom. You might as
ell denounce the legal profession be-
.use of the shysters, or the medical
RECESSION because of the quacks, or
erchandise because of the swindling
srgains makers, as to slam bang news
lrerS because there are recreant editors,
I'd unfair reporters. and unclean col
ms. Gutenberg, the inve ntor of the
t of printing was about to destroy his
pes and eNtinsuish the art because it
as suggested to him that printing might
: suborned into the service of the devil,
ut afterward he bethought himself that
he right use Of the art might more than
,ercome the evil use of it, and SO he
Jared the type and the intelligence Of
! modern ages. But there are many to-
~ i'll the depressed mood of Gutten-
erg with uplifted hammer wanting to
Ound to pieces the type, who have not
.ached his better mood in which he
Nv the art of printing to be the rising
N of the worlds illumination. If in
cad Of fighting newspapers we spend
!e same length Of time and the
ane vehemence in marshaling their
clip in religious directions, we would
2 as much wiser as the man who gets
)nsent Of the railroad superintendent
) fasten car to the end of a rail train,
lows better sense than he who runs his
heelbarrow up the track to meet and
rive back the Chicago limited express.
he sllliest thing that a man ever does
to fight q newspaper, foryou may have
lie floor for utterance perhaps one day
/. the week, while the newspaper has
+e floor every day in the week. Napo-
on, though a mighty man, had many
eaknesses, and one of the weakest
llnSs he ever did was to threaten that
the English newspapers did not stop
lelr adverse criticism of himself he
ould with 100000 bayonets cross the
4annellfor their chastisement.
Don't fight newspapers. Attack pro-
okes attack. Better wait till the ex-
telnent blows over and then go in and
ct justice, for get it you will if you
ave patience and common sense and
lulpoise Of disposition. It ought to be
mghty,sedative that there is an enor-
Gus amount of common sense in the
orld, and you will,eventually be taken
" what you are really worth, and you
'nnot eipuffed up and you cannot be
ntten down, and if you are the enemy
good society that fact will come out,
I'D IT you. are the friend Of good society
lat fact will be established. I know
hat | am, talking about, for can draw
my own. experience. All the respect
DE newspapers as far as l know are my
lends now. But many of you remem-
er the time when Iywas the most con-
niuously and meanly- attacked man IN
us country. God gave me grace not to
lswer back, and I kept silence for ten
s:ars. and much grace is required:
nat l said was perverted and twisted
ITO Just the opposite of what L did
y. My person was maligned, and ]
as presented as gorgon, and l was
allcionsly described by persons who
40 never .seenme as q monstroslty IN
'dy, mind, and soul. There were mill
ms OF people who believed:that there
as large sofa in this pulpit, although
never had anything but q chair, and
lat during the singing by the congre-
'1lon l v'as accustomed to lieMown or
lat sofa and bangle my feet oyer, the
10: Lying New York correspondents
II ten years maa2epresented our .churct
'rvlces, but we waited, and peopls, from
very neighborhood Of Christendon
me here to find THE magnitude Of the
'lseloods concerning the church anc
incoming myself A reaction SET IN
"a NOW we have Justice, full Justice