Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1897-11-29
THE FLYING ROLL"
REV. DR.. TALMAGE AND THE RE-
uGIOUS NEWSPAPERS MISSION.

Drop Benedictions Upon the Nation-De-
nominational Differences.
copyright, 1887, by American Press Assoc
ciation.l
WASHINGTON, Nov. 2S.-In a previ-
Gus discourse DIR. Talmage, having
shown the opportunities of the secular
press, in this discourse speaks of the
mission of religious newspapers His
text is, ''Then I turned and lifted up
mine eyes and looked, and behold fly
ing rolf (Zechariah V, u.
In a dream the prophet saw some
thing rolled up advancing through the
heavens 1t contained divine message.
1t moved swiftly, as on wings. 1t had
much to do with the destiny Of nations.
But if you will look up you will see
many flying rolls. They come with
great speed and have messages for all
the earth The flying rolls of this cen
fury are the newspapers. They carry
messages human and divine. They will
decide the destiny Of the hemispheres
There are in the United States about
20, 900 newspapers. The religious news
paper of which I am the editor was
born 10 years ago, but born again
years ago. In this brief time it has
grown to about 900, 900 circulation,
and, by the ordinary rule of calculating
the readers Of paper, it has about
1000. 900 readers. Our country was
blessed with many religious journals,
edited by consecrated men, while their
contributors were the ablest and best of
all professions and occupations. Some
of those journals for half century had
been dropping their benedicticns upon
the nation, and they live on and will
continue to live on until there will be
no more use for their mission, the world
itself having become a flying roll on
the tempests Of the last day, going out
of existence. There will be no more
use for such agencies when the world
ceases, because il the spiritual state we
shall have such velocity that we can
gather for ourselves all the news Of
heaven, Or, seeing some world in con-
fagration, may go ourselves in an in
slant to examine personally the scene
of disaster.
All Regiments In Cce ARMY.
Was there room for another religious
journal il this land, already favored
with the highest style Of religious jour
nalism? Oh, yes, if undenominational,
plenty of room! Nothing can ever take
the place of the denominational newspa
per- When the millennium comes in, it
will find as many denominations as there
are now. People according to their
temperaments viii always prefer this
or that form OF church government, this
or that style CT worship. You might
as well ask US all to live III one
house as to ask US all to worship in enc
denomination CT to abolish the reGi-
ments Of an army in order to make them
one great host.
Each denomination must have its own
Journal, set apart especially to present
the charities, explain The work ard Ter
ward the interests Of that particular
sect. The death CT Onc denCminatiCpal
journal is calamity to all the other Ge
nominations I would almost feel that &
great misfortune had happened ne II
The Christian Intelligencer Of tho Re
formed church {1ly mother church) cid
not come to ny house every week, fer
was brought up on it, and 1t has become
household necessity. Such denOn3-
national journal had better be edited by
some one who, rocked in the cradle CT
that church and ordained at her affairs,
having become venerable in her sCTyice,
sits specialized and wise and with Heart
full OF sacred memories addresses the
living Of today. In the NEST sacred crypt
of our mercry stands tho statc1e of tie
religious editors Abel Levers ard
Joshua Leavitt, and the royal family Of
the Primes--Iren2us and Eu&ebluS--
while others linger Gu the banks of the
Jordan, where they will rot have lcEe
to wait for Ilijah's chariot, ard when
they go Up, If we still be sitting at our
editorial desks, We Will cry out III tie
memorable words, MY father, my "a
ther, the chariot Of Israel and the horse
men therSOfP
But, then, there are great movements
in which all denominations wish to join,
and we want more mathematician
newspapers to marshal and advance and
inspire such movements. Yet such jour
mails have difficult task, because all
Christian men, If they have behaved
well in their denominations, for some
reason preferred the one Of their natural
and spiritual nativity, and even looking
off upon the general field and attempt
ing wider work will be apt to look at
things through denominational prefer
ence and to treat them with demon
national twist.
In the issuing of the religious jour
nal whose seventh anniversary [ preach
that difficulty has been met and over
come by the fact that its publisher is a
Methodist, and in its editorial rooms
there are Presbyterian, an Episcopal
liam and Congregationalist, and a limo
of denominational prejudice in editorial
or reportorial column would run against
immediate protest. Against John Yves
ley's free grace or Calvin's eternal de-
1-.,.- ~ I2;cl,n-, NInIl1znir1n1s c,nncnr,i l.