The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1888-09-05


our side, and so we have more prospect of
the worlds evangelization. Instead of one
against six, 1t is two against five. Besides
that, 1t helps to make ministers of religion
more honest in the preparation OF ser
mons. Plagiarism will curse any pulpit
1t is as dishonest to steal a sermon as to
steal ham. Ministers are put on their
guard, and there is not so much preaching
OF other peoples sermons now.
1t is unsafe to take sermon from Jere-
my TAYLOR or John Wesley. for on Mon
day night somebody will take down from
the library discourse and compare it with
the one IN the newspaper and find it is
the same. Besides that, it helps to keep
ministers from being dull The minister
who consents to be dull makes the people
take the dose on Sunday, but on Monday
the papers make him take his own medi-
cine. You may complain that the report
ers did not do you justice, but the proba-
bility is that if they did not pick up any
thing worth reporting there was nothing
to pick up. 1t is their professional bust
ness to see point, and, if they cannot see
1t with their drilled eye, how can you eX-
pect the unframed eve TO see itP The
world is hungry for the bread OF eternal
life, and do not care much how the slices
are cut if they only get the bread.
Again, this sermonic publication in
daily newspapers gives the people wide
choice OF pulpit ministration. In country
villages there may be but one church, and
the services may not be edlfylng, or IN
the city circumstances may make it best
10 attend a church where the pulpit serv-
ice is not edifying. Here comes your
Monday newspaper, which gives you
oh IS lV.rf aIzfT~Q a
You pick up the paper and see sermon /;
it does not suit YOU You look at another
sermon; you do not like it. You keep on
looking until you find one that does SUIT
you. Unless you are an infidel or fool,
you will find something for your soul to
feed on in every faithful sermonic publ
cation in the weekly papers.
Then such publication gives You sym
metrical presentation of the truth. One
minister is full of soft sentimentality, and
his religion is as a jelly-fsh. Another
gives YOU nothing but the rigors of the
bible, and his religion is a javelin. The
one mans sermon is all heart the others
all backbone. But put them together in
the same column, the heart in its place,
and the backbone in its place, and you
have a healthy organization. Morality is
all that one man breaches. Faith is all
that another man breaches. Put them
side by side, and let the one tell you that
you are saved by faith. and the other man
tell you faith, if it hath not works, is
dead, being alone" Then you will have
the whole truth; you will have a complete
temple of truth-one man laying the solid
foundation another setting up the tiuted
columns; another springing the groined
arch, and another ringing the gospel
chimes, inviting all to come and worship.
So all together we shall complete the
architecture of the temple. Now, let us
De frank in the church of God and ac-
knowledge that the printing press is
mighty AUXILIARY of the christian pul pit.
Go teach 81 nations How will you teach
them? In every way possible. Some
times byamusic, sometimes by tract, some
times by newspaper. Who cares which
way the people get the gospel, If they
only get it? Instead, therefore, OF harsh
criticism blythe religious press of the Sec
ular press, and instead OF great indiffer-
ence on the part of good people-some-
times they sheer at sermonic reporting in
the secular press-let God be praised that
the gospel is carried every week on the
wings OF the secular press to those who
would otherwise never see or hear
the message. This is the telephone
which God has set up to make all the
churches and ali The earth one great au-
dience-A- Let thescylinder of the printing
press roll, and the compositor continue TO
set up his 5000 "ems" a day. Let the
stereotyper hasten through his work, and
Hoes cylinder press strike ofa miracu-
lous number Of copies an hour. Place
them all in line, the secular and religious
press of the country and of christendom,
and at the command OF Gods providence,
rush these battering-rams against the
walls OF Jericho, Numbered down by the
Lord God of joshua