The Nicodemus cyclone. [volume] (Nicodemus, Graham County, Kan.) 1887-1888, 1888-06-29
DIR. TALMAGE'S SERMON.
PULPIT AND PRESS MADE ALLIES.


tabernacle this morning, the Rev. T. d,
WIT Ialmage, D. D., took for the subject o
his discourse, 'Pulpit and Press Made AL
les" His text was, Luke xvi, v S; 9Th,
} children Of this world are in their genera
tion wiser than the children of light" H,
said:
sacred stupidity and solemn incompetency
and sanctified laziness arc here rebuked b,
christ lie says workings are wider awake
Tor opportunities than are Christians. Mer
OF the world grab occasions while Christian
J people let the most valuable occasions drift
by unimproved. That is the meaning of ou1
Lord when he says "The children of this
world are in there generations wiser than the
children Of light"
A marked illustration of the truth of that
maxim is in the slowness of the Christian re.
llglon to take possession of the secular print
Ing press. The opportunity is open and has
Ior some time been open, but the ecclesiastical
courts and the churches and the ministers OF
rellglon are for the most part allowing the
goluen opportunity to pass unmproYed. That
tue opportunity is open | declare from the
TACT that all the secular newspapers are GLAD
OF any religious facts or statistics that you
present them. Any animated and stirring arti-
Gle relating to religious themes they would
gladly print They thank you for any infor-
nation in regard to churches. If o wrong
mas been done to any Christian church
or Christian institution, you could 90
into any newspaper of the land and
have the real truth stated Dedica-
ton services, ministerial ordinations and
pastoral installations, corner stone laying of a
cnuFcn, anniversary of a charitable society
| VIII nave reasonable space in any secular
journal, II 1t have previous notice given. If
had some great injustice done me, there
Is not an editorial or a reportorial room in
the United States into which | could not 90
| ana get mysef set right, and that is true of
] any Well-knOWn Christian man. Already the
! ualIy secular press during the course of each
week publishes as much religious information
| ana nlgh moral sentiment as does the weekly
| religious press. Why then does not our
glorious Chratianity embrace these magntff-
| cent opportunities | have before Inc q
subject of first and last Importance: How
Shall we secure the secular press as
mlghter reinforcement to religion and the
pulpit!
The first thing toward this result is ces-
satlon OF indiscrimnatc hostility against
neWspaperdOm. You might as well denounce
the regal profession because of the shysters
or the medical profession because of the
Quacks, or merchandise because of the
sWlndling bargain Makers as to glam-bang
newspapers because there are recreant edi-
tors and unfair reporters and unclean col
umns. Gutenberg, the inventor of the art
OF printing, was about to DESTROY his tyDes
ana extlnguish the art because it was sug-
gested to him that printing might be suborn-
Ell into the service Of the devil, but after
ward he bethOught himself that the right
use OF the art might more than overcome the
the eVll use of 1t and so he spared the type
and the intelligence of all following ages.
0pn fod i,,4 4,
mood OF Gutenberg with uplitted hammer
wanting to- pound to pieces the type, who
nave not reached his better mood
III which he saw the art of printing to be the
rising sun OF the worlds Illumination. If in
stead OF frighting newspapers we spend the
same length of time and the same vehemence
IN marshalling their help In religious direc.
lions, we would be as much wiser as the man
VINO gets consent OF the railroad superintcnd-
ent to fasten car to the end CT a rail train
shows better sense than he who runs his
WheelDOrroW up the track to meet and drive
PACK the Chicago limited express. The sill
Hest thing that man ever does is to fight a
newspaper, Tor you may 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
n2l for their chastsemeut.
DON'T night newspapers. Attack prOvOkes
attack. Better wait till the excitement blows
over and then go in and get justice, for get it
you Will II you have patience and common
sense and equipoise of disposition. 1t ought
to be mighty sedatve that there is an enOr-
nous amount OF common sense in the world
ana you will eventually be taken for what
you are really worth, and you cannot be puffed
up ana YOU cannot be written down, and if
ara I hn Of
will come out, and if you are the friend of
good society that fact will be established. |
KNOW what am talking about for can draw
on my own experience. All the respectable
newspapers as far as know are my friends
now. But many OF you remember the
time when / was the most continuously and
meanly attacked man in this country. God
gave me grace not to answer back and | kent
silence Tor ten years, and much grace is re-
quired. What said was perverted and twist
ell into Just the opposite of what | did saw
My person was maligned and / was presented
as gOrgon, and | was maliciOusly described
by persons who had never seen me as a mon
strOsity in body, mind and soul. There were
millions of people who believed that there
was large sofa in this pulpit, although we
never had ANYTHING but a chair, and that dur
ing the singing by the congregation | was ac-
customed 10 lie down on that sofa and danrIe
my feet over the end. Lying New York cor
respondents for ten years misrepreserted our
from every neighbOrhood Of Christcndom
came here to find the magnitude of the false.
hoods concerning the church ana concern
ing myself. A reaction set in and now we
have justice, full justice, more than Justice
and as much over praise as once we had un-
der-appreci and no man that ever lived
was SO much indebted TO the newspaper press
1or opportunity TO preach the Gospel as am
foung men in all professions and Occupa-
lions, wait. You can afford 10 wait. Take
rough Misrepresentation rs Turkish towel
To start up your languii circulation. or a
system of massage and Swedish movement
whose pokcs and pulls and twists and thrusts
are salutarv treatment. There is only one
person YOU need 10 manage and that is YOUR
self Keep your disposition sweet hy com.
munion with the Christ, who answered not
sgain, the society Of genial people, and walk
out in the sunshine with our hat of and
lou will come out all right. And don't Join
the crowd of people in our day who spend
much oil their time damning newspapers
Again: in this effort 10 secure the secular
press as mightier reinforcement of religion
and the pulpit, let us make IL the avenue of
rel gious information. If YOU put the facts
of churches and denominations OF Christians
only into the columns of religious papers.
which do not in this country have an av-
frage OF more than ten thousand subscribers
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