Owingsville outlook. [volume] (Owingsville, Ky.) 1879-192?, 1898-02-24
PRINTING PRESS POWER.
Some IN .ormstion a;ri Oh. cring Words
Regarding Kew papers.
br. T. D"Wut Tnlmi.u'~ Two ThuuSl ndth
Sermon Recalls the starr OF Iii> NJ
Ncr,al Preaching The O. ,aurnt
Preachers Valuable AID Ia
Law student.

| Express, rail train and trlcgraphic
communication are suggested if not
for, told in this text. aud from il
start To- preach a sermon ia graft
| tudc Ia tod and the newspaper press
tor the fact that have had the "ppor-
| tunity ut delivering through the news
paper press 2,O1u sermons or religious
addresses. 81 that | have tor many
years hcru allowed the privilege al
prrachinw the Gurpci every week Ia
every nrighiorhuoi in ChriStcndom.
and in many lands outside Chris'rn-
dom. NanN nave wondered at the pro-
cess 10y " hIch il has come To pass and
for the first time i'm public place | state
the three CAUSES Many years age, "A
| Young man, who has since become
eminent in his profession, was then
studying law in a distant city. lie
came Ia me and said that for lack of
funds he must stop his studying un-
less through stcnu~raphy would give
him sketches OF sermons. that hr
might 10y the sale uf them secure means
for the completion nf his education
positively declined. hvcau>' it seemed
Ia m, AN imlu~~ihIiity. hut after some
months had a-~,d and | had reflected
upon the great SaGnc,~ for such bril-
| liant young man Ia b. defeated in his
ambition Tor the legal profession, |
undertook Ia serve him: %. course. free
| Of CHARGE. Within three weeks there
came a request for tlu~r stcno"raphic
reports from many parts of the CON
| tinrnt Time passed on and some
IDENTITY thinking that there was hardly
room for them and for myself in this
continent. began to as>all me, and hc-
came - violent in their assault that
the chief newspapers of America put
! special CORES poudrntN in my church
! sabbath 10y sabbath Ia take down such
reply ~ might Il axe.
J never made reply, except once for
about three minutes. but those corrc-
| SpundcntS could not waste their time
and 80 they photographed the sermons To
| their particular papers After a y lille
/ DR. Louis klopsch. Of New Work, sys-
tcmatizcd the work into a syndicate
until through that and other syudi-
Gates he has put the disruur>, week by
week before more than 20.00a. 0Ol peo-
| pie ON both sides the sea. There have
been 80 many gucss,s on this subject.
many of them inaccurate, that | now
| tell the true story. | have not inn
| proved the opportunity a. ! ought, hut
! | feel the time has come when a. a mat
ter of common Justice Ia the nrwspa-
| per press, | should make this statement
| in a sermon commemorative of the two
! thou>audth iull publication of sermons
and religious addresses saying notn-
ing Of fra Ementary reports. which
would run up in,o many thousands
| more.
There was one incident that | might
mention in this conn ,ction. showing
how an insignificant event might in
fluencc Us for lifetime. Many years
ago on sabbath morning on my way
to church in brooklyn, a representa-
tive of a prominent newspaper met he
and said: Are YOU going to give Us
any points to-day" said: What
10 YOU mean 10y points," lie replied:
"Anythin" we can remember" | said
to myself. 1--WE ought To he making
points all the time in our pulpits and
not deal in platitudes and inanities."
| That one Interrogation put to me that
morning started in m the desire of
making points all the time and moth
ing but points
And now, how can | more appropri-
! atclv commemorate the two thousandth
publication than 10y speaking of the
newspaper press as an ally of the pull
pit. and mentioning some of the trials
of newspaper men?
The newspaper is the great educator
of the nineteenth century. There is
no force compared with it. 1t is book.
pulpit, platform, forum. all in one.
And there is not an interest--relig-
ious, literary, commercial, scientific,
agricultural or mechanical-tha is not
within its grasp. All our churches,
and schools. and colleges, and asylums,
and art galleries feel the quaking of
the printing press.
The institution of newspapers arose
in Italy. In Venice the first newspaper
was published, and monthly, during
the time Venice was warning against
Solyman the second in Dalmatia. it
was printed for the purpose of giving
military and commercial information
To the Nenetians. The first newspaper
published in England was in 1855, and
called the English Mercury. Who can
estimate the political, scientific, com
mercial and religious revolutions
reused up in England for many years
past by the press?
The first attempt at this institution
in France was in 1851, by n physician,
who published the News for the amuse-
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French nation understood fully how To
appreciate this power. So early as in
| 1870 there were in Paris 1863 journals.
But in the United States the newspaper
has come to unlimited sway. Though
in 1873 there were but 81 in the whole
country, tine number of published jour
mails is now counted by thousands, and
to-day-we may as well acknowledge
it as not-the religious and secular
newspapers are the great educators of
the country.
But alas! through what struggle the
newspaper has come to its present de-
velopment Just as soon as it began
to demonstrate its power, superstition
and tyranny shackled it. There is moth
ing that despo:;sn 50 much fears and
mates as inc printing PRESS n great
writer in the south of Europe declared
that the King of Naples had made it
unsafe for him to write on any subje
save natural history. Austria could
not bear Kossuth's journalistic pen
Pleading for the redemption
of hungary. Napoleon L., wanting
| to keep his iron heel on the neck of
nations, said that the newspaper was
the regent of kings, and the only safe
place to keep an editor was in prison.
But the great battle for the freedom of
the press was fought in the courtrooms
of England and the United States be-
fore this century began. when Hamil-
ton made his great speech in
behalf of the freedom of j.
Peter Zenger's Gazette in America,
and when Erskine made his great
speech in behalf of the freedom to
publish Paine's Right of Man" in
England.
Those were the Marathon and the
Thermopylae where the battle was
fought which decided the freedom of
the press in England and America, and
1 oil Of Al