New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1888-06-27
lTALMAGE'S SERMON.
The Brooklyn Divine Diseourses on the
Relations That Should Exist
Between Pulpit and Press.

Between Pulpit and Press.
xbese Two Great Powers should Per-
- feet "a Treaty to Illuminate and
Facilitate the World.
rev. Z. De Witt Talmage, d. D., took for
che subject of his discourse, s.Pulpit and
Press Made Allies"
The children of this world are in their
isseneration wiser than the children of light
Luke XVI, 8.
= He said: Sacred stupidity and solemn in
competence and sanctifed laziness are here
rebuked by Christ. He says worldl1ngs are
wider awake for opportunities than are
Christians Men of the world grab occa-
Gions while Christian people let the most
valuable occasions drift by unimproved.
That Is the meaning of our Lord when he
= aaya tsThe children of this world are in
their generation wiser than the children of
light"
~ a marked illustration of the truth of that
maxim is in the sloWness OF the Christian re-
ligion to take possession of the secular print
Sng-press. The opportunity is open and has
fof some time been open, but the ecclesias.
6fcaI courts and the churches and the minis
= Eers OF religion are fer the most part allow
eng the golden opportunity to pass unin1-
fpLOhOus iHdb GHc opportunity is open i de-
clare from the fact that all the secular news.
papers are glad of any religious facts or sta
'slstlcs that you present them. ANY animated
and stirring article relating to religious
Shemes they would gladly print. They
Thank you Tor any information IN regard to
GhurcheS. Ii a wrong has been done to any
Christian church or Christian institution
4 you could go into any newspaper of the land
and have the real truth stated. Dedication
services, ministerial ordinations and PASTORAL
InStal1atlons cornerstone laying of a church,
anniversary OF q charitable society will have
reasonable space in any secular journal if it
nave previous notice gwen. If have some
great injustice done NE there is not an edi-
Soflal or reportorial room in the United
: states into which i could not go and get n.y.
s s SET right; and that is true Of any we'll
kRoWn Christian man. Already the daily
secular press during the course of eacn
week publishes as much religious intorma-
Gon and high moral sentiment as does the
weekly rengious press Why, then, does
not our glorious Christianity embrace these
magnificent opportunities? / have before
sne subject of first and last Importance:
3doW Shall we secure the secular press as a
nlgntler reinforcement to religion and the
pulpit?
34 The first thing toward this result is cessa-
Saon of indiscuminate hostility against news
paperdom. You might as we'll denounce
Sne iegai profess on because OF the shysters,
or the medical profession because of the
9uacks, or merchandise because of the swim
S1lng nargalfl-makers as TO slam-bang news
papers because there are recreant editors
sand unfair reporters and unclean columns
8Suttenberg, the inventor of the art of
printing, was about to destroy his types and
8eXungulsh the art because it was suggested
10 him that printing might be suborned into
ghe service of the devil, but afterward he
beti ought himself that the right use of tie
art might more than overcome the evil use
OF It, and so he spared the type and the in
Selltgente OF all following ages But there
are many to-day in the depressed mood Of
Guttenbers with upllfted hammer wanting
60 ptUnu 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 Word'silumination. If instead of fight
ing newspapers we spend the same length
OF Tune and the same yehemence in mar
shaflng their help III religious directions, we
would De as much wiser as the man who gets
consent of the railwaysUperintendentt 10 fasten
q Car TO the end OF Il railroad train shows
better sense than he who runs his whee bar
EoW up the track to meet and drive back the
Chicago limited express. The siIltest thing
that a man ever does is to fight ne Wspaper.
for you may have the floor for utterance per-
maps one day i'll the week while the news
paper has the floor every day of the week.
Napoleon, though IL mis- htv man, had many
weaknesses, and one OF the weakest things
me ever uld was to threaten I'll at if the Lng-
lIsh newspapers did not ST. D their adverse
CRITICISMS of him elf he would with four hun.
sdred thousand bayonets cross the channel for
their enlistment.
Don't light newspapers. Attack provokes
attack. better wait until the excitement
blows over and then go1n and get Justice, for
get you will it yon GIVE patience and COM
mon sense and equiv Olse OF disposition. 1t
ought 10 be Il mighty sedative that there is
an enormous amount OF common sense in the
world, and you will eventually be taken for
HAITI DsJ Nv, Il
be pulled up and you cannot be written
down, and if you are the enemy of good So
cletY that fact will cone out. and if you are
E{ae friend OF good society that fact Will be
established. L know what | am talking
about for can draw on my own experience
All the respectable neWspa as far as /
know are my fire DIS now. But many OF
you remember the tine when was the most
continuously and meany at aclad man in
GLASTONBURY. God gave me grace not to all
sWer back and kept silence for ten years,
and niuch grace 1t required. What said
Was perverted and twisted into Just the op-
spesIte of what / dld say My person was
aGnaiigned and 1 was pre- sented as gorgon,
and 1 was maiiciousIy described by persons
StSFho never saw me as monstroslty in body,
mind and soul. There We're millions of
people who believed that there was a large
sofa In this pulpit, although we never had
anything but CHI; il, and that during the
slngil y the congrega.in was accustomed
10 e down on that SOFA ana bangle my feet
over the end. Lying New York correspond
ents for ten years misrs senttd our church
services, but we waited and people from
every neighborhood Of Christend5m came
here to find the magnitude of the fasehoods
concerning the church and concerning N.Y.
eetf. A reaction sc in, and now we have
Justice, full justice, more than stice, anu lis
much over-praise as osce we h i'd underap-
preciatien, and no man that ever iiy d was
so mu h IN lebted 70 Il newspaper press for
oppolti ity to preash the gospel as am
Young men in the ministry. young men in
all prof IS ons and oeeupatlen, wait. You
can afford to wait. lake rough misrepsen-
tation rs Turkish towel to start up your
languid circulation, ora system OF massage
or SWed sh movement whose nokes and pulls
sGId twists and tlrlists are salutary treat
anent There is only one person you need to
manage, and that is yourself Keep yonr
disposition sweet by communion with the
Christ. who answered not again, the society
OF genial people, and walk out in the sum
shane Will your hat off and you will come
out all right. And don't join the crowd of
people in our day who spend much Of their
time damning newspapers.
Again, in this effort to secure the secular