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PULPIT AND PRESSALLIES
a GOLDEN OPPORTUNITY FOR
CHRISTIAN MINISTER'S.

mate Hostility to Newspapers-The
Highest and Widest Christian Cour-
tesies Should Be Extended and It's
Help Solicited.
BROOKLYN, June 17-At the service In
the Tabernacle this morning the Rev. T.
Dewitt Talmage, d.. took for the subject
of his discourse, Pulpit and Press Made
Allies" His text was Luke xvi, s;
The children of this world are in their
generation wiser than tho children of
| light" He said:
Sacred stupidity and solemn incompe-
tency and sanctihed laziness are here re-
buked by Christ. He SAYS worldlings are
wider awake for opportunities than are
christians. Men of the world grab occa-
sions while christian people let the most
| valuable occasions drift by unimproved.
| That Is the meaning Of our Lord when ho
says; THE children of this world are in
! their generation wiser than the children Of
| light
A marked illustration of the truth OF that
maxim IL 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 open, but the
| ecclesiastical courts, aud the churches, and
|
allowing the golden opportunity to pass un-
| improved. That the opportunity is open l
| declare from the fact that all Of the secular
newspapers are glad Of any religious facts
| or statistics that you present them. Any
animated and stirring article relating to
religious themes they would gladly print.
| They thank you for any informatian in re-
gard to churches. III wrong has been
done to any christian church or chris
tian institution, you could go into
any newspaper of the land and
have the real truth stated. Dedica-
tion services, ministerial ordinations aud
pastoral installation, corner stone laying ofa
church, anniversary of charitable society,
| will have reasonable space in any secular
journal, If 1t have previous notice given. II
| had some great injustice done me, there is
not an editorial or "a reportorial room in the
| United States into which | could not go and
get myself set right, and that is true of any
well-known christian man. Already the
daily secular press during the course Of
each week publishes as much religious in-
| 70, nation and high moral sentiment as
does the weekly religious press. Why then
does not our glorious christianity embrace
these magnificent opportunities / have
before me a subject of first and last impor-
ance: How shall we secure the secular
press as a mightier reinforcement TO relig-
ion and the pulpit
| no nTbJ JulIlR uOWuFu LllS TOhulb lb Cobhd-
tion OF indiscriminate hostility against
newspaperdom. You might as well de-
nounce the legal profession because of the
shysters, or the medical profession because
OF the quacks, or merchandise because OF
the swindling bargain makers, as TO slam
bang newspapers because there are recreant
editors and unfair reporters and unclean
columns. Gutenberg, the inventor OF the
| art OF printing, was about TO destroy his
| types and extinguish the art because it was
suggested to him that printing might be
| suborned into the service of the devil, but
afterward he bethought himself that the
| right use of the art might more than over
come the evil use of 10, and SO he spared the
! type and the intelligence Of all following
depressed mood Of Guttenburg, 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 fighting newspapers we spend
the same lengCh of time and the same We
hemenco in marshalling their help In re-
| ligious directions. we would be as much
wiser as the man who gets consent Of the
railroad superintendent to fasten a car to
| the end OF n rail train, shows better sense
| than he who runs his wheelbarrow up the
track to meet and drive back the Chicago
limited express. The silliest thing that a
man ever does is TO fight newspaper, for
| you may have the floor for utterance per-
| haps one day in the week, while the news
paper has the floor every day Of tho week.
Napoleon, though a mighty man, had many
| weaknesses, and one Of the weakest things
he ever did was TO threaten that IL the En-
| glsh newspapers did not stop their adverse
criticisms Of himself he would with four
| hundred thousand bayonets cross the chan
| mel for their chastisement.
Don't fight newspapers Attack provokes
attack. Better wait Till the excitement
blows over and then go in and get justice,
forget it you will If you have patience and
| common sense and equipoise OF disposition.
1t ought to be mighty sedatlve 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 cannot be puffed up and you cannot 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 | am
talking about for | can draw on my own
experience. All the respectable newspapers
as far as know are my friends now. Bud
many Of you remember the time when /
was the most continuously and meanly at
tackled man In this country. Coo
gave me grace not TO answer back and
kept silence for ten years, and much grace
is required. What | said was perverted
and twisted into just the opposite OF what
did say. My person was maligned and l
was presented az a gorgon, and was malici-
ously described by persons who had never
seen me as n monstrosity 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 chair, and that during the singing OF
the congregation / was accustomed to lie
down on that sofa and dangle my feet ovei
the end. Lying New York correspondents
for ten years misrepresented our church
services, but we waited and people from
every neighborhood of christendom came
here 10 find the magnitude of
the falsehoods concerning the church and
concerning myself. A reaction set in and
now we have justice, full justice, more
than Justice, and as much over-praise as
once we had der-appreciation, and nc
man that ever lived was so much indebted
To the newspaper press for opportunity tc
preach the gospel as l am. Young men ir
the ministry. young men in all professions
and occupations, wait. You can afford TO
wait. Take rough Misrepresentation as
Turkish towel to start up your languid cir
culatlon, or a system Of massage or Swed-
ish movement whose pokes, and pulls, and
twists and thrusts are salutary treatment
| There Is only one person you need TO man
age, and that is yourself. Keep your dispo'
| sition sweet by communion with the Christ,
who answered not again, the society oi