Fairhaven herald. [volume] (Fairhaven, Wash.) 1890-????, 1890-07-13
THE SUNDAY PRESS
pay Thomas Dixon Preaches
a Pithy Sermon
Thereon
Add Tells Wholesome and
Palpable Truths
Withal
# Is the Preacher That
breaches to Millions, Most
Infiuentially

'r.ooty-third street Baptist church, says
tho New York World. He breaches IN a
I.rrch that is singularly free from all
ttat /, solemn or somber in appearance,
..n5 he breaches boldly on unusual topics.
Yesterday morning he preached on The
Sunday Press" to very large congrega-
zion -,
"Our subject is The Sunday Press,
said DR.. Dixon. 'and invite your atten-
,i5n Tor the key thought to the nineteenth
arsr of the tenth chapter OF Romans:
'Rut | say. did Israel not know? FIRST
Moses saith. will prove you TO Jealousy |
With that which is no nation. For the
ri.i four wears | have been trying care |
mlly and prayeriully to STUDY the ques-
IAN of the Sunday newspapers. IL has
bcen most difficult subject TO
me. but it Is "a question OF para
mount Importance. question when
neither YOU nor ! can avoid. IL Is
n question that refuses to let Us pass
"o {fithout taking notice of il. The more
Nc look at it, the more we study II. the
more tremendous its importance appears.
Tbp influence of the Sunday press. from
am educational point OF view. Is enormous
As | came into this house this morning
passed dozens of people who were reading
these papers: they lay piled up In great
beaps on the news-s lands: you see them
everywhere. and their Influence can
scarcely be estimated. The Tact that
these papers are here Is tremendous
fact that has provoked the church TO
jealousy. That this new power mas
come and has arraigned the church OF
the living tod Is no longer To De ques-
tioned. The most serious question Is,
What is To be its effect? l. it of God or OF
the devil? There is no question as 10 the
opinion of some oil the goou Oro'hers III
"a short time ago | went to Chicago,
and some persons who had heard OF some
Thing had said in a sermon some time
previous with regard 70 the NEWSPAPER
hunted me up with all haste. aud IL was
rather warm in the ear where we met Tor
quite a distance ON the journey. Ihere
was no question as To the attitude of some
of them upon the Sunday newspaper. ~
was of the devil. IL was born in hell, ana
its influence was of the devil and Of he'll
That was all there was about IL. tod
Inc brother Who said this that ] wish ]
knew as much as he did and had the
sources of information that he seemed To
have. had been studying the question
of the Sunday newspaper for the last -FOUR
years and never had arrived AT That Ger :
iainty of opinion which he seemed 10
have. Z, 4,
This new power that has arisen chal'
lenge TO the Christian church. The more
we look al this new power and the NOR,
,ye study ii in the light Of Gods word ant
Gods truth. the more the birth an,
growth and development OF the SUNDAY
newspaper is seen To be a tremendous IN
dirtmcnt of the visible living Christian
church-an indictment of those peopi'
whom tod has chosen IN the past 10 u'
Ills work How did the Sunday news
naper come here? Where Was u Dorn
Ia hello No ID was born of the week
day newspaper. How did the week-da
neNsnaper come to develop such branc
as this? The pulpit neglected us tru
field of labor and ignored the living ques
tions of the day that bear upon the Ire .
lie people and narrowed this Sunda
editor down to ceremonies and ecclesiast
cism until the great throbbing, thrillin
word was left outside. Carlyle has we
said. as | quoted two weeks ago. that Vi
clergy Of England Is not found IN the a ou
nit to-day. but in the newspaper Once
We saw Sunday or Two AZ
how the newspaper press ~
usurped the prophetic iuncti'
which one belongs 70 those VINO We
osnecinlly called OF God TO that offic
bo,ouse IL is the only power throus
which man today may talk with !
king Ii Is the power that goes beio
parIiaments and says; inns Is Voc
ruth This is right and that Is wron
ON wrong doing in this city Is the pow
thar sits in those tall towers down-tow
Ne have seen that the newspaper edll
has assumed this prophetic Junction. a
las SAT beside him that read ana
structed him. Now. because the e9r
mi uroWp to this enormous statu
because he had come TO be a mo
teacher and leader. a preacher ior
masses. we find that he took 70 preach
an sunday. That Is all. The sumo
newspaper was born because Ine ne
paper press had taken It's stand upon
platform where the prophets OF 1ou
stood. 1t is here because " Is doing
work that used To be done by the pul
bnt which the pulpit was neglect
That is why the press gradually pee
the moldcr and fashioner and directu
tie moral sentiment OF the world. :.
There are some who say that the
day newspaper was started because OF
money there was in it. That VIII not
No newspaper can exist l0f any nns'
time that does not appeal 10 the ~, ~
consciousness of a constituency. In
the condition upon which all newspa
exist. whether week day or sunday.
purely commercial reason can accouh
the tremendous power OF the Meeh
press: aud YOU might just as Wen az
ute the power OF the Sunday press 10
source a. the week day. To say ina
sunday newspaper was born purely
money speculation is false every IN
IL. ID was born because tne Meeh
press had already assumed the iuhc
of The teacher. and 1t had TO preac
sunday because sunday was the besl
of all the week to preach on.
Just rs willingly preach on MONDAY
Sunday II could preach 70 De,.e,
count. If | could draw a larger co
CATION on Monday than on sunni
would preach ON Monday ana cio'
Sunday. .
AS congregations go, ! am prea
this morning to very good congLe as'
I'm this city there are JOo preachei,,
dressing the people from their diil
nnlnits today. TO how many people q
think we 800 preachers VIII SPEAK :
About one hundred and ffty thou
Not more than that Win these .nI'
ing skies above us. This morning
great. throbblng cylinders paused
NJ o'clock. perhaps a little later: and
wagons went rolling from end 10 =
This great city: they took out this
sage that had been prepared ny .hs
powe. In those great tail lowers
men around the city hall sent iorti
message TO a mill ion people on Man
island Five hundred preachers VIII
l.N.OD, but those seven men OF the
paper offices will reach million
on this island. The common pcoE
listening to the message which TN
power brings To them today; ana
tell YOU men and brethren. that IN
mendous fact today Is a tremenuo
dictment of your methods ana my
DDS aud OF the methods that the
tian has used and Is using today,
The mighties educational infu
this great city to-day Is the press,
SUNDAY press Is Just three u, liz az, %
ard three times as strong as the We
nress, l know that IL can be IN
iinop hut ID Is better In It's quarry,
ID the matter that / c ,nnS ,Ss a MS
nress. You should pray Tor tne ~
edits the sunday newspaper, "a
should feel for him who preachss
miiiicn people II one day s GGa
B this responsibility ON the eaiVo n,.
Sunday paper ana you sn 9 M
A. Il 4. IL