Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1890-07-20
,Iur SUNDAY NEWSPAPER.
A p,.t,nru,.hcd New York Minister OF 'ne
oos,rI breaches Thereon.


cosycI breaches Thereon
The following is the gist OF the Sermon
preached to bis, New ,oi 1 eons 3,irnn.
summary 49,, years ago of North Carolina,
't;, no' s,,I,iscf Il The Sunday Press, ana
o.a s va,r attention for the key-thougne
insi' ,a,asnth verse OF the tenth cnap-
.o 'n9 pnn,ans. But say. Did Israel not
49,, FIRST Moses saith. VIII proVohe
rnn 70 jealousy with that wnicn Is no ia
non, For the past Tour years nave oedn
irving carefully and prBsIiuns ~ a,,ars
tbe uuostion of the SUNDAY neWspap.o'
t ~ qJ 49, most difficult subject 10 me,
h,,t II Is n question OK paramount I'M
,ortance a question which you nor can
p,,a;J Il, IL n question that refuses 10 les
,,s nasa on without taking notice OF u.
Tbdf ,,ore we look at it, the more we siuuy
IL the more tremendous US hnpoI.nIIor
annears. The influence OF tne sunua!
nress- from on educational pom, Oh 49,,
"a enormous. As | came lnlo 'te os,io
tJ;s mornino | passed dozens OF peoPle
tsho we're reading these papers they Jay
Mod mn In great heaps on the news-slhnos
rnr COO them everywhere, ana 'neir III, IN
3,,a,co can scarceiy be estimated. Inc
f,.t tb.t the papers are here IL tremeh-
dnus fact that has provoked the Cnurch 10
jealousy. That this new power nas eo,io
and has arraigned the Church OF tus is M
God IL no longer 10 be questioheu. ~
most serious question u, 'f w 40 deyiiS
eject is il Of God or or the ue'h
There 10 no question "a TO the OPINION Oh
some Of the GOOD brothers in the cnurcn.
"a sbort time ago ] went 90 tnlca-o'
ord some nersons who had heard OF some
tninc I had said in sermon some lline
previous with regard to the heWspapei
hunted me up with al haste, ana 1t Vas
rather warm in the car wbeio VIC mn No., 10
onto n distance on the journey. lnere
yyas no ouestion rs to the attitude OF some
Of them upon the Sunday newspaper. AZ
was of the devil il was born IN nell ana
IL influence was OF the devil and or hel.
mat was all there was about it. told the
brotber who said this that wish L knew.
as much as he did and had the sources o,
information that he seemed to nave, l Tau
been studying the question Oh SUNDAY
newspapers for the past Tour yeals ah9
never had arrived at that certainty VI
oplnion which he seemed to have,
There is 10 question that there Is IN
this new power that has arisen chanenge
10 the Christian Church. lhe more we
look ~ this new power, and the more we
study it in the light Of Gods Word ana
Gods Truth, the more the birth and growth
and development OF the sunday ,ne"spa.
per is seen to be tremendous lndlcIheht
Of the visible. living Christian ChurcnLan
Indictment of those people wnoin uoI t, has
chosen in the past to do His work. How
did the Sunday newspaper como here
Where was Il born. In hell? No. III was
born of the weekday newspaper. no"
did the weekday newspaper come 10 ue-
yelop such a branch as thus Inc pulpI'
neglected its true field OF labor ana *
norod the living questions or the gay thaI
bear upon the life OF the people, ana
narrowed this Sunday editor down 10 cere-
monies and ecclesasticism until the great,
throbbiup. thrilling world was left outside.
Carlisle has we'll said, as | quoted two
weeks ago, that the clergy OF England is
not found in the pulpit to-day. but IN the
newspaper- offices. We saw Sunday or
two ago how the newspaper press, has
| usurped the prophetic function wnlch
once belonged tothose who were especiaiiy
called of God to that office, because
it is the only power through whlen
| n man to-day may talk with the
| Kline. II is the power that goes before
parliaments and says: This Is Goa
| truth. This is right and that is wrong"
The only power to-day that lays its
| hand on wrong-doing in this city is the
power that sits in those tall towers down
| town. We have seen that the newspaper
editor has assumed this prophetic function
and has sat beside hun that read ana
/ instructor Dllu. NOW, btt"uoV VIZ NN"'''
| has crown to this enormous stature,
| because he had come TO be O moral
! teacher and leader, q preacher for the
masses. we find that he took 20 preaching
! on Sunday. That is all. The Sunday news
paper was born because the newspaper
| press had taken its stand upon the plat
| form where the prophets OF God once
| stood. 1t is here because II Is DONG lne
work that used TO be done by the pulpit,
| but which the pulpit was peglecting. That
| is vhy the pless gradually became tho
| moulder and fashioner and director OF the
moral sentiment of the world.
| There are some who say that the sun
| dav newspaper was started because OF tho
money there was in il. That Will not do.
| No newspaper can exist for any length OF
| time that does not appeal to the moral
| consciousness of constituency. mat ls
| the condition upon winch all newspapers
| purely commercial reason can account
| for the tremen dous power OF the
| weekday press: and you might just
| "a well attribute the power or the
| Sunday press to that source as the
weekday. 10 say that tho Sunday news
oaper was born purely for money specu-
| iation Is false, every inch of it. IL was born
because the weekday press had already
assumed the functions of the teacher, and
| I
| dav was the best day of all the week e
preach on. Iwould Just IA Willingly preach
| ON Monday as on Sunday il 1 could preach
| TO better account. If l could draw larger
| congregation on Monday than on Sunday
| would preach on Monday and close vi
Sunday.
this morning to very good congregation
In tins city there are 500 preachers address
ing the people from their different pulpIts
TODAY. To how many people do you thinl
we 500 preachers will speak to-day! lt
about one hundred and fifty thousand
Not more than that with these threatening
skies above us. This morning those great
throbbing cylinders paused about
o'clock, perhaps little later ana thos'
wagons went rolling from end TO end OF
this great city they took out this messag
that had been prepared by that new powe
in those great tall towers-seven mel
around the City Hail sent forth their mes
SAGE TO q million people on Manhattan
Island. Five hundred preachers will reael
$50, 900. but those seven men OF tho news
paper Offices Will reach million people o.
this island. The common people are li'
tening to the message which this grea
mower brings to them to-day. and let m
; tell you, men and brethren, that this trt
, mendous fact TO-DAY is tremendous IL
, dictment of your methods and my methods
, and of the methods that the Christia
Church has used and is using to-day.
1.-The mightiest educational influence J
this great city to-day is. the press. and th
Sunday press is Just three times as goo
and three times a. strong as the week-da
I press. / know that it can be improve
/ upon, but it is better in its quality, bette
, in the matter that il contains. and bette
all the way through than the week-da
press. You should pray for the man tha
! edits the Sunday newspaper, and 20
should feel for him who breaches to mi
. lion people in one day. God has put tn
, responsibility on the editor OF the Sunda
paper. and You should pray that he
{ that has been placed in nm. and rejoiC
that God has given you the power thus
pray"
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