Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1888-06-28
PULPIT AND PRESS.
Interesting Discourse on Newspa-
pers by DR.. Talmage.
The Powers OF the Press for COOd-Ths
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mails and Journalistic.
In late sermon delivered at Brooklyn
.ae subject, pulpit and Press Made Al
iies," DE-. Talmage took his text from
Luke xvi. 8: The children OF this world
are, in their generation, wiser than the
children OF light" He said:
Sacred stupidity and solemn incompet
ence and sanc,i6ed laziness are here re
huked by Christ. He says worldfngs are
wider awake for opportunities than are
Christians. Men OF the world grab occa
ATOMS. while Christian people let the mos,
valuable occasions drift by uuimproved
That is the meaning Of our Lord when be
says: Il he children OF this world are, IL
their generation, wiser than the children
Of l.Rht."
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 opportunity is open
and has for some time been opened, bu,
the ecclesiastical courts, and the churches,
and the ministers of religion are for the
most part allowing the golden opportunity
10 pass uuiW ptONcu
That the opportunity is open / declare
from the fact hat all the secular newspa-
pers are GLAD of any religious facts or sta.
tstics that you present them. Any AMI
mated and stirring article relating to re.
ligious themes they would gladly print
They thank you for any information in re.
gard to the Church.
IL a wrong has been done to any Chris
could go into any newspaper OF the land
and have the real truth stated. Dedication
services. ministerial ordinations and pas
tOral installations, corner stone laying OF a
church, anniversary society Of q charitable
society will have reasonable space in any
secular journal if it have previous notice
given. Ii had some great injustice doue
me, there IS not an editorial or repertorial
room in the United States into which
could not 60 and get myself set right, and
that is true OF every well known Christian
man. Already the daily secular press during
the course Of each week publIs hes as much
religious information and high moral senti-
nent as does the weekly religious press.
Why then does not our glorious Christlani-
ty embrace these magnificent oppOrtuni-
test have before me q subject OF first
and last Importance: How shall we secure
the secular press as mightier reinforce
ment to religion and the pulpit.
The first thing toward this result is ces-
sation OF indiscriminate hostility against
newspaperdom. You might as well de-
nounce the legal profession because Of the
9uacks, or merchandise because of the
swiEdlrg bargain makers, as to slam bang
newspapers because there are recreant ed
itOrs and unfair reporters and unclean col
umns.
Gutenberg, the inventor of the art of
printing, was about to destroy his types
and extinguish the art because 1t was sug-
gested to him that printing might be sub
Orned into the service OF the devil, but
afterward he bethought himself that the
use of the art might more than over come
the evil use of it and 90 he spared the type
and the intelligence Of ell following ages.
But there are many today in the de.
pressed mood OF Gutenberg with uplifted
hammer wanting to pound to pieces the
type, who have not reached his better mood
In which he saw the art of printing to be
the rising sun Of the worlds illumination
II instead of lighting newspapers we spend
the same length OF time aud same vehe-
mence in marshsling their help in religious
directions, we would be as much wiser as
railroad superintendent to fasten q car
to the end of the rail-train shows bet
ter sense than he who runs his wheelbar-
row up the track to meet aud drive
back the Chicago limited express. The
silliest thing that q man ever does is to
fight newspaper, for you may have the
floor for uttsrance 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 il the English newspapers
did not stop their adverse criticisms of
himself he would with 1000 bayOnets
cross the channel for their chastisement
Don't fight newspapers. Attack provokes
attack. Better wait till the excitement
blows over and then go In and get JUSTICE
for get it you will il you have patience and
common sense and eQuipoise Of disposi'i ion.
1t ought to be q mighty sedative that
there is an enormous amount of common
sense in the world and you will eventually
be taken for what you are really worth
and you can not be pulled up and you can
not be written down, and if you are the
enemy Of good society that fact will come
out. and il you are the friend Of good
society that fact will be established
know what l am talking about for can
draw on my own experience. All the re-
spectable newspapers as far as know are
my friends now. But many OF you remem-
Der the time when was the most continu-
ously and meanly attacked man in this
country. God gave me grace not to
answer back and I kept silence for
ten years, and much grace is re-
Quired. What l said was perverted and
twisted into just the opposite of what
did say. My person was maligned and
was presented gorgon, and was malic
iously described by persons who had never
seen me as monstrosity in body, mind
and soul. There were millions of people
who believed that there was>a large sofa
in this pulpit, although we never had any
thing but chair, and that during the sing
Ing by the congregation l was accustomed
TO lie down on that sofa and daugle my
feet over the end. Lying New York COR
respondents fer ten years misrepreseuted
our church services, but we waited, and
people from every neighborhood Of Christ.
endom came here to find the magnitude of
the falsehoods concerning the church, and
now we have justice, full justice, more
than justice, and as much over-pralse as
once we had under-appreciation, and no
man that ever lived was so much indebted
TO the newspaper press for opportunity to
preach the Gospel as l am.
Young men 10 the ministry, young men
in all professions and occupations, wait.
You can afford to wait. Take rough mis-
representation as Turkish towel to start
up your languid circulation, or system of
massage or Swedish movement whose
pokes and pulls and twists and thrusts are
salutary treatment. There is only one
person you need to manage and that is
yourself Keen YOUR disposition sweet