Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1888-06-23
DIR. TAIN A.GE.
TnEBRookLYNDIv SUNDAY
SERMON.
Subject: "Pulpit and Press Made
Allies"

Allies"
rrxT. "The children of this ,Uond are
IN tFsjr generation wiser thaa The chttdrcn
1ht."-I.ukc xvi, s
Sacred stupidity and solemn incompeteenIc s.,
.rI s,nctilied laZ.ncSS are here reuuSeu ny
Christ He saws workings are wider awake
Gov n,nortunities than are Christians Men
- th. world crab occasions while CHRISTIAN
,aonle let the most valuable occasions drirt
tx nnimproved. That is the meaning OF our
7 ord when he says: Tho children oil tnls
world arc in their generation wiser imam the
children of light ..,, :, ,hot
,,,o1;n is in the SlowncSS Of the Christian re-
,;,,;Hm to take possession OF the secular PRINT,
i',r nross The opportunity is open, AMI has
|nr some (; he been open, hut the eccleSaStl-
ri courts ana the churches anu the ministers
nj rejirion ara for the mostpart allowing 1ne
Golden opportunity to pass uniiiiproVeu.
That the opportunity Is open ueei'.,e I'LL ,i
thn f,rt tho the secular newspapers are Glilu
~ any religious facts or statistics tnat you
, y, ,bcm. ANY animated and stirring
p.,.t;cl, relating To religious themes thcy
u. Gladly print. They thank You for any
inro.m1t: on in regard TO churches II y
wrong has been done to any CHRISTIAN
church or Christian institution you,
could 90 into any newspaper oi l1e Itilu
- bave The real truth stated. Dei'ca-
. s;o,, S,,,.vicrs ministerial ordinations and
,,os. oval installations. cSrnor stone laying or
~ "l1,rrh anniversary OF a cliarltabls society
nll have rcasonli le sptc, il, any secular
ionruol if il have p rv!"tis notlce gwen. IL
had some crent injustice done ln' there IS
not m editorial or aroporSorlal room III tue
United States into which could not 80 ana
pet myself set right. and that Is true Oh any
sccu,ar press during the course oil each week
nN,'l.shes rs much religious information ana
b;gn neral sentiment rs dos the weekly re-
i;T;ons r ess. Why then does not our glorl-
oTs christi atty embrace these magniilcenG
o,,,,o,r,,nit;esa ] have before me asublect OF
Srtt and last importance How shall We Sc
cure the secular press rs nliTollet re'ei-
forcement to religion AMI the pulpit:
The first thing toward this result Is ceSSa-
tion of indiscrimnate hostility against news
ronerlom. You might rs well denounce the
fsrol nrofcssion because of the shySterS, or
the medical profession because of Tine quackS'
or merchandise because of thu SwndlinS ar
min makers. rs to SlambanG newspapers be
cause there are recrcant editors ana unfair
reporters and unclcan columns GuttenGerS.
the inventor Of The art OF printing WaS''ooao
to destroy his types and cxtnsu's;' .'.e ~ :
because it was suggested to him that print
mo- MIGHT be suborned into the Ssr.:ce OF the
favil INT afterward h tethought himself
shst the right uss Of the art might more th1n
Svercoma the evil use of it. and 50 he
Shared tine tvpe and the intelligence OF ;tll lo''
lowing ages But there ars many TO DAY III tue
\ depressed mood of Gutenberg with uptlte
illamn;er, wanting to pound TO p Gees th9
ttyne who have not reached his letter MOOD
III, which he saw the art of printing to be the
rising sun of the worlds illumination II M
stead of fighting newspapers we spend the
same length of time and the same vehemence
Yin marshaling their help i'll religious dlrec-
(tionS y-e would be as much wiser us the man
who rcts consent of the railroai superlti.
endent 10 faS en- 4 car 10 the ent OF Il ran
rain shows better sense than lie VINO runs
is whealharrow up the tracy 10 meet an III,
rive hack the Chicago limited express. nc
hiest thing that a man ever does IS to light
,e,rsp ,pe1.. for YOU may have thu floor !or
terance perhaps one day Ill the week, white
rewsnaner has the floor every' day OF the
week. Napoleon. though mighty man. MAJ
many weaiin asses, and one OF the weakesl
things he ever did was to threaten THAI II Inc
English newspapers did not se93 'ner uu.
verse criticism of himself he would with TOUR
hundred thousand bayonets cross tue ci1uiiel
for their chasJiSement.
Don't firht newspapers. Attark provokes
attack. & sitter wait till the eXc.t.lncnC p!owS
over and then 20 in AMI get Justlre, Tor get
il YOU will il Won have patience and common
sense and cluipo'se OF disposition, IL olTh1
to be n mighty sedative that there Is an
enormous amount of common nSe Ill the
would and YOU will eventually be taken for
what Won are really worth. and you cannot
be pulred ND snd you cannot te written
down and if YOU are the enemy or good So
ciety that fact will come out and II you are
the friend of COOL society that fact will be
established. ] kr DIV what am talElnG
about, for can t.raw OIL NY own experience;
All the responsible newspapers rs lar as
Know are nv friends now. But many of
YOU remember the time when was
the most continuously and meanly at
tackled man in this country. Col gavo
me grace not to answer hack, and kept
silence for ten Years, and much grace Is
required What said was perverted ana
twisted into Just the opposite OF what d!d
say. Ny person was mailSned, anu was
presented rs sorgon' ana was nillicloasly
described by persons who had MAYER seen Inc
as a monstrcsty in hody, mind and soul;
There we're millions Of people who believed
that there was large sofa in this pulpit. al
though we never had anything but chair,
and that during the singing by the conSrcg2-
tiCn was accustomed to lie down on tna1
sofa and dangle my feet over the eni Lying
New York correspondents for ten years
misrepresentei Our church services, pu1
y
hood of Christendom came here to lind the
magnitude OF the falsehoods concerning the
church and concerning myself. A reaction
st in and now we have justice, full Justice,
more than lust e and us much overpralse as
once we had under appreciation ana no man
tat ever lived WIS so much indebted 10 the
newspaper p;,ss for opportunity to preach
the GOSPEL as am. Young men In the mn
iStry, Young men in all professions and occu'
pations. wait. You can afford to walt.
Take rough Misrepresentation as turkish
towel to start up your langud circulation,
or a aystem of massage or Swe tsh move.
ment, whose po!ies and pulls and twists and
thrrsts are lutary treatm mt There Is
person YOU need to manage and that Is
yourself. Yeep your disposition sweet by
communion with the Christ who answered
n t again, the society oil genial people. ana
walk in the sunshine with YOU. hat oil and
you will come out all right. And don JOIN
the crowd of people i'll our day VINO spend
much of their time damnug newspapers.
Again, in this effort to secure the secular
press as a m ghticr reinforcement OF religion
and the pulpit, let US make 1t the avenue OF
religious information. Ii you put the facts
of churches and denominations OF ChrStlans
only into the columns OF religious papers,
which do not in this country have an aver
age of more than ten thousand subscribers,
what have YOU done as compared with VIII 1t
YOU do if You put these facts through the
daily pap RS which have hundreds OF tholi
sands Of readers! Every little denomination
must have its little organ, supported at great
expen e, when, with e.half the outlay, a col
umn or half column of room might DC
rented in some semiomnipotcnt secular pnb
lication and so the religious information
would he sent round and round the world
The world moves so swiftly to-day that news
week old is stale Give us all the grea
church facts and all the revival tldlngs tnt
next morning or the same evening. My ad
vice, often given to friends who propose t.
start newspaper is: Don't! Don't! EN-
ploy the papers already started" The big
gest financial hole ever dug in this American
continent is the hole in which good people
throw their money when they start news
paper Its almost as good and as quick
way of getting rid Of money ms buying stocS
in gold mine in Colorado Not more prlnt
inc presses but the right use of those alread,
established All their cylinders, all thcil