Daily Yellowstone journal., 1888-06-24
PRESS AND PULPIT.
SUNDAY MORNING SERVICES IN THE
BROOKLYN TABERNACLE.

hSes' Df. hhmase "ouid secure the Secu-
lar Press as q Reinforcement OF Re-
iigioo and the Pulpit-The Modern Sun
day Newspaper.
BROOKLYN, June 17.-At the service
In the Tabernacle this morning, the Rev.
7. De Witt Talmage, d. D.. took for the
subject of his discourse, "Pulpit and
Press Made Allies" His text was Luke
xvi, 8: "The children of this world
are In their generation wiser than the
children Of light" He said:
Sacred stupidity and solemn incom-
potency and sanctified laziness are here
rebuked by Christ. He says worldlings
are wider awake for opportunities than
are Christians. Men of The world grab
occasions while Christian people let the
most valuable occasions drift by unim-
proved. That is the meaning Of our
Lord when he says: "The children of
this world are in their generation wiser
than the children of light"
A marked illustration of the truth of
that maxim is in the slowness of the
Christian religion to take possession of
the secular printing press. The oppor-
tunity is open and has for some time been
open, but the ecclesiastical 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 | declare from
the fact that all 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 been done
to any Christian church or Christian in
stitution. you could 60 into any news
paper of the land and have the
real truth stated Dedication services,
ministerial ordinations and pastoral
installations, corner stone laying of a
church, anniversary of a charitable So
ciety will have reasonable space in any
secular journal. If it have previous notice
given. If had some great injustice
done me, there is not an editorial or a
reportoria room in the United States into
which could not 60 and get myself set
right, and that is true Of any well known
Christian man. Already the daily secu-
lar press during the course OF each week
publishes as much religious information
and high moral sentiment as does the
weekly religious press. Why then does
not our glorious Christianity embrace
these magnificent opportunities? have
before Inc subject Of first and last i'm
portance: How shall we secure the secu-
lar press as a mightier reinforcement to
religion and the pulpit
The first thing toward this result is
cessation Of indiscriminate hostility
against newspaperdom. You might as
well denounce the legal profession be-
cause OF the shysters, or the medical pro
fession because of the quacks, or mer
chandise because Of the swindling bar
gain makers, as to slam-bang newspapers
because 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 extinguish the art because It was
suggested TO him that printing might be
suborned into the service Of the devil,
but afterward be bethought himself that
the right use of the art might more than
overcome the evil use of il, and so be
spared the type and the Intelligence OF
all modern ages But there are many
today In the depressed mood of Gutten'
berg with uplifted hammer want
ing to pound to pieces the type, whC
have not reached his better MOOD
in which he saw the art Of printing to b.
the rising sun of the worlds illumination
II instead Of fighting newspapers W,
spend the same length of time and TIN
same vehemence in marshaling theil
help In religious directions, we would b,
as much wiser as the man who gets con
sent of the railroad superintendent tC
fasten a car to the end of a rail train
shows better sense than be who runs hi
wheelbarrow up the track TO meet anc
drive back the Chicago limited express,
The silliest thing that man ever does Is
to fight newspaper, for you may have
the foor for utterance perhaps one day il
the week, while the newspaper has thu
floor every day Of the week. Napoleon
though a mighty man, had many weak
nesses, and one Of the weakest things b,
ever did was TO threaten that If the Eng
lish newspapers did not stop their advers'
criticism of himself he would with 400
900 bayoncts cross the channel for theii
chastisement
Don't fight newspapers. Attack pro
vokes attack. Better wait till the ex
citement blows over and then go In an,
get Justice, for get II you will II 20,
have patience and common sense anC
eouipoise Of disposition. IL ought to b
a mighty sedative that there is an enor
nous amount OF common sense In th,
world. and you will eventually be takel
for what you are really worth, and yol
cannot be pulled up and you cannot b
written down. and II you are the enem.
OF good society that fact will come out
and II you are the friend OF good societ,
that fact will be established ! know
what am talking about for ] can draw
on my own experience. All the respect
able newspapers as far rs | know are m,
friends now. But many Of you remem
Der the timo when ! was the mos
continuously and mcanly attacks
man in this country. God gav
me grnce not to answer back, and
kept silence for ten years, and muc
grace Ia required. What J said was per
vortcd and twisted into just tho opposit