Connecticut western news., 1897-12-02
THE FLYING ROLL"
REV. OR. TALMAGE AND THE RE. i LeloUs NEWSPAPERS MISSION.
The Flying Roll" Zechariah Saw and the Modern "Flying Rolls"-Journals That Drop Benedictions Upon the Nstion-De- nominational Differences.

Modern "Flying Rolis"-Journals That Drop Benedictious Upon the Nation-De- nominational Differences.
 Copyright 1887. by American Press Asso-
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 WASHINGTON, Nov. 2S.-In preyi- ous discourse Dr. Talmage, having shown the opportunities of the secular press, in this discourse speaks of the mission of religious newspapers. His text is, Then l turned and lifted up mine eyes and looked, and behold q fly ing roll'' (Zechariah V, D.
 In dream the prophet saw some thing rolled up advancing through the heavens. It contained divine message. It moved swiftly, as on wings. It had much to do with the destiny of nations. But if you will look up you will see many flying rolls They come with Rrsats speed and have messages for all the earth. The flying rolls of this cen tury are the newspapers They carry messages human and divine. They will decide the destiny of the hemispheres.
 There are in the United States about 90, 900 newspapers. The religious news paper of which I am the editor was born 19 years ago, but born again years ago. In this brief time it has grown to about 200, 900 circulation. and, by the ordinary rule of calculating the readers of paper, it has about 1.0OO,0 ,00O 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 benedictions 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 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 in 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- migration, may go ourselves in an in- stant to examine personally the scene of disaster.
 All Regiments In One Army.
 Was there room for another religious journal in this land, already favored with the highest style of religious jour- nalim? Oh, yes, if undenominational, plenty of rooml 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 will always prefer this or that form of church government, this or that style of worship. You might as we'll ask us all to live in one house as to ask us all to worship in one denomination or to abolish the regi- ments of an army in order to make them one great host.
 journal, set apart especially to present the charities, explain the work and for ward the interests of that particular sect. The death of one denominational journal is 8 calamity to all the other de- nominations. would almost feel that a great misfortune had happened me if The Christian Intelligencer of the Re formed church (my mother church) did not come to my house every week, for was brought up on 1t, and it has become household necessity. Such denomi- national journal had better be edited by some one who, rocked in the cradle of that church and ordained at her altars, having become venerable in her service, sits spectaoled and wise and with heart full of sacred memories addresses the living of today. In the most sacred crypt uf our memory stands the statue of the religious editors Abel Stevens and Joshua Leavitt, and the royal family of the Primes-IrenRus and Eusebius- while others finger on the banks of the Jordan, where they will not have long to wait for Elijah's chariot, and when they go up, if we still be sitting at our editorial desks, we will cry out in the memorable words, My father, my fa- ther, the chariot of Israel and the horse nen thereofp'
 But, then, there are great movements In which all denominations wish to join, and we want more undenominational newspapers to marshal and advance and inspire such movements. Yet such jour- nals have difficult task, because all Christian men, if they have behaved we'll in their denominations, for some reason preferred the one of their natural and spiritual nativity, and even looking of 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 denom- 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 it's publisher is 8 Methodist, and in it's editorial rooms there are Presbyterian, an Episcopa- Han and a Congregationalist, and line of denominational prejudice in editorial or rcportorial column would run against immediate protest. Against John Wes- ley's free grace or Calvin's eternal de- crees or Bishop McIlvaine's canonicals pr Dr. Bowling Baptistery from year s end to years end not word is written or printed. On all these subjects we have convictions, but undenominational Journalism is not the place to state them. He who tells all he knows and expresses all he thinks on all occasions and in all places without reference to the proprieties is boor or crank and of no practical service either to church or state.
 Complete Unity.
 Undenominational journalism is ab- solutely necessary to demonstrate the unity of the Christian world. Wide and desperate attempt is made to show that the religion of Jesus Christ is only q battle-ground of scots, and the cry has been: "H you want us to accept your religion, agree, gentlemen, as t what the Christian religion really is This denomination says few drops 0 water dripping from the end of the fin gers is baptism. and another demand the submergence of the entire body This one prays with book, and that on makes extemporaneous utterance. Tn