The Warner sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1885-1???, 1888-06-29
TALMAGE'S SERMON.
The Brooklyn Divine DiscOurses on the
Relations That Should Exist
Between Pulpit and Press.
<asbese Two Great Powers should Per
feet a Treaty to illuminate and
Facilitate IA World.

IA l. ~ " 80
we subject Of his discourse, pulpit and
press Made Allies"
The children OF this world are in their
F.eneration wiser than the children Of light,
Luke XYI.I B.
= He said: Sacred stupidity and solemn in
nee and sanctifed lazlncss are here
Eebuked by Christ. lie says workings ere
wider awake for opportunities than are
Christmas, Men Of the world grab occa.
Siona while Christian people let the most
valuable occasions drift by unimproled.
ThSt Is the meaning Of our Lord when he
Gays: "The children Of this world arc n
their generation wiser than the children Of
light"
4 marked illustration Of the truth OF thai
maxim is in the slowness OF the Christian re
ifgion 20 tlkG IOSSCSSlOn Of the SeCuear print
ERg-prcsS Tho opportunity / : open and has
Or some time been open, but the eCcle>ias-
0caI courts and the CHURCHES and the minis
Gers Of religion are fer the most part allow
Gng the golden opportunity to pass mim-
proved. That the opportunity Is open | de-
CIare from the fact that ali The secular news
papers are glad Of any religion, facts or sta
TfsUcs that Oh present them. ANY animated
and stirring article relating 10 religious
themes tdey wou d gladly print. They
thank you for any mlOTmltlOn IN regard to
churches, If a wrong has been done 10 any
Christian church or Christian institution
you could go into any newspaper Of the land
and have the real truth suited. Dedication
services, ministerial ordinations and astoTal
installations, cornerstone laying Of a church,
anniversary Of q charitubl society will have
reasonable space in any secular journal II 1t
have previous notice gwen. If | have some
great injustice done ne there is not an edi.
Horial or a reportOIiu room in the United
States into which | could not 20 and get N.Y.
aeIf set right; and that is true OF any we'll
known Christian man, Already the daily
GecIiar press during the course OF eaCn
week publishes aS much religious intOrma-
0OH aud high moral sentiment as does the
weekly Telgious press Why, then, does
nat our glorious Christianity embrace these
magnificent opportunities? l have before
me q subject OF first and last importance:
How shall we secure the secular press a. a
mfghtler reinforcement 10 religion and the
Eupit3
the fiEst thing toward this result is cessa-
0on OF indisCImiRate hostility against news.
Paperdom. You might rs well denounce
enc legat prOfessyon because OF the shySteTs,
or the medical profession because OF the
auRcks, or merchandise because of the swim
ding kargatn-makers, as TO Slam-bang news
papers because there are reereant editors
and unfair reporters and unClean columns.
sSuttenberg, the inventor Of the art Of
gprm1ing, was about to destroy his types and
e~xttnguish the art because it was suggested
90 him that printing might be suhorned into
The service Of the deEil, but afterWard he
betl ought himself that the right use OF the
aft might more than overcome the evil use
Of Il, and so he spared the type and the in
eelh4gence Of all following ages. But there
arc many to-day In the depressed mood Of
Gutenberg with uphited hammer wanting
% peBnd to pieces the type, WhO have not
Teaehed his better mood in which he saw
sire aft OF printing TO be the rising sun of
she words Llumin ttiOn. II instead OF fight
ing newspapers we spend the, same length
q time and the same ~yehemence in mar
ahaltng their help IN religious directions, we
would be as nuch wiser rs the man who gets
consent Of the raifWaysaperintendent 10 fasten
9 car 90 the end OF a railroad train shows
BETTER sense than he who runs his wheesbar-
row up tie track to meet aud drive back the
Chicago limited express. The silltest thing
shat a man eVeredaes is to fight a newspaper
Cor you may have the floor for utteranee per-
haps one day in the week while the news
paper has the hoor every day Of the week.
Napoleon, though a mig hty man, had many
weaknesses, and one OF the weakest things
he ever did vas TO threaten tAat If the Eng
tish newspapers dad not stop their adverse
criticism Of him elf he would with four hun.
0red thousand bayonets cross the channel Tor
their enlistment
Don't fight newspapers. Attack proyokes
attack. better wait until the excitement
blows over and then 60 and get justice, for
get Il you will Il yon eve patience and cem-
nsou sense and equil oise OF disposition. It
ouNht 70 be a mighty sedatiye that there Is
en- enormous atouut OF common sense IN the
world, and you wifi eventually be taken for
what you arc really worth, and you cannot
ec pulled up and you cannot be written
down, and II yoa are the enemy Of good So
ctefT that fact will come out. and II you are
she friend OF good society that fact VIII be
established ! know what am talking
a6gtA for 1 can draw on my own experiences.
Al she Respectable newspapers as far as /
A1GW are M friends now. BuS many OF
goA remember the time when / was the most
spontaneously and meanly at aeked man in
THIS country. G0d gave me grace not to an
Ewer back = 1 KEPT silence for ten years,
aNDn much grace VI required. What i said
Mas perverted and twisted into just the OPP
pceiie Of what ] did say. Ny person was
matiNneQ unG 1 WAS pr senfed MS a p0rgon,
Amd WAS maliCi0usly aescifDed bY persons
10 never Naw me as Il monstr0slty III body.
u1na and soul, There We're millions OF
People who believed that there was q large
o Nj this pulpit, although We never had
anything hut a ca IT, and that during the
q tGstg THE congge@asin was accustomed
- 4 Il Town on that sofa and dangle my feet
over tAe end Lynn New York eorrevpnBd-
cots igr ten wears uilsrs presented our church
HrFf lrrsI 1us we WuGtpu anu peOpi8 from
every nelghborlo0d Of Christend9m came
AHra - hnd The magnitude az the fAlsehoods
ccacefnins the church and concerning my
eet. a reaclien Sc III, and now we have
8hliee fusl jastice, more than Justice, ami as
n~gH pxcrpfaise ~ o ee we hsd undefsap-
NTeHatit b, and no min that ever dy q was
ma a. iebted 10 i newspaper press for
opfogf4 ttY 81 Nreash ting GOSPEL lis ] am.
XouHg mcn II the ministry, Young men in
uN pspi q 0ns and oeeupatt NJ wait. You,
cen a1ofd % wait Take rough misrcpsen-
14tiop ~ a Turkish towel 20 start up your
Ianxgtd circulation. ora system Of massage
A. kWed 81 movement whose rokcs and pulls
aad twists and thru>ts are saluiary treat
nEnt There Is only one person you need to
&napaga, and flat II yourself. Keep yOnr
fE9kaiou sweet BY communion with the
Christ. who answered not again, the society
Isl NeniAi people. and walk out IA The sfr-
&Nre MIta yoAr bat on and you will come
Oil allfizlt, And don't join the crowd Of
people ~ nir day who spend much Of their
Lime aAmaing newspapers.
HNstn, ID this effort 10 secure the secular
a. q mtglller reinforcement Of religion
vs. fne pUiDit ltt Us nsake It fko ayenhe 81
rrfisiQggs information. IL youpnk tho fncta
" chsndsfs and denAmlnqtlnnA 81 Christians
cniy into che columns u religious papers,
<Fifebi % not IA this country have ali ay6Fake
mogQ ssliai Tan fhou I'D subscribers,
wkat uNse you flppe ~ compared wltn whal
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