The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1898-03-02
An Appeal 90 Editors.

Thousandth Publication oc Bis S2!rn ms
An Appeal 20 Editors.
For the first time Dr.. Talmage in
this discourse tells in WIS: wsv his
sermons have cone TO multiplicity
of publication such SIS has never II
sny other case heen known since the
art of printing was invsntsG; !S4',
NAHUM ii, 4 They sbsti SeeL! EEe
torches; they shall run Ike the AgAt-
nipgs."
Exoress, rail train a1d telsgrsphic
communicate sre sus g: STD, II cot
foretold, in thiS text, aGd Ir.m !: l
start to presch s sermon IN 2r2tltu0e
to God and the reUsp2psr press for
the fact that I hare had The o0po:tn-
nifty of oeaivsring through me news
paper press 600 serm2cs or religious
addresses, SO thai ! have for maoy
wears been allowed the privilege OF
preaching the gospel every weak TO
every neighborhood IL Christenoorn
and in many lands cutside OF Christ
erdom. Mary have woI dered at the
process by which it hiss come to pas,
and for the first tins IN public place !
state the thIes causes. Many years
ago young man who has since ba-
come eminent in his pr2fsssion w2s
studying law in distant city. he
came to me sud said that tor lack OF
funds ne must stop his studying un
less through s:enography TToHlG give
him sketches Of sermons, that ne
might by the sale OF then secure
means for the completion OF his eou
cation. I positively aec,ioed. because
it seemed to me an impcss!b !blllty, 5ut
after some months had passed, and l
had reflected upon ths great sadness
for such brilliant young man TO o9
defeated in his ambition for the legal
profession, I Undertook TO serve him,
of course free of charge. Wlthln
three weeks there came request for
those stenographic reports from many
parts of the continent.
Time passed or, and some gentle
men of my own profession, evidently
thinking that there was hardly room
for them and for myself in this cont
nent, began to aSssl me, and became
so violent in their assault that the
chief newspapers of America put spec,
ial correspondents in my church Sab
bath by Sabbath to take down such
reply as might make. I never made
reply, except once for abou! three
minutes, but those correspondents
could not waste their time, and so they
telesraphed the sermons to their par
ticular pspsrs. Asier awhile Dr.. Louis
Klopsch of New York systematized
the work into syndicate until
through that and oth5r syndicates he
has Put the dscourses week by week
before more than % 600, 900 people on
both sides the Sea. Thore have been so
many guesses on this subject, many OF
them inaccurate, that I noW tell the
true story. I have not improved the
opportunity as ought, bat l feel that
the time has come when SIS mst,er OF
common Justice to the newspaper
press ] should make this statement IN
q sermon commemorative Of tho two
fhousandth full publication OF sar-
mons and religious addresses, saJlng
nothing o; f-agmentary reports, which
would run Up into many thousands
more.
There was one incident that I might
mention in this connection, showing
how su Insignificant event might Il
Guence US for life time. Many years
ago on aSabpath morning on ny way
to church in Brooklyn g represents,
tive of 8 prominent newspaper me- ne
and said, care you going to gre Us
any points todaya" Isaid, 'sWhat do
you mean by points," He replied.
Anything we can remem5er.- l
said to myself, eve ought to be max
ing points ali the time in our pulpits
and not deal in platitudes and mani
ties" That one interrogation put to
me thst morning started n me the
desire of making points all the time
and nothing but points.
And now how can more approprl
ately commemorate the two thous
andth publication than by speskin g
Of the newspaper press SIS an silly Of
the pulpit and mentioning some OF the
trials of newspaper men?
The newspaper is the great educator
of the nineteenth century. Inere Is
no force compared with it. It IS book.
pulpit, platform, forum, all IN one.
And there is not an iateress, religious
literary, commercial, scientific. agrl.
cultural or mecaanical-thar Is not
within its grasp. al our churches
and schools and colleges and asylDms
and art galleries feel the quaking OF
the printing press.
The institution of newspapers arose
in Italy. In Venice the first newspa-
per was published, and monthly. dur
ing the time Venice vas wsrriDg
against Solyman II IN Dalmssia, 1t
was printed for the purpose OF giving
military and commercial information
to the Venetians. The first newspaper
published in England was in 1888 and
called The English Mercury. Who
can estimate the political, scientific,
commercial and religious revolution
reused up in England for many years
past by the press2
The FIRST attempt at this institution
in France was in 1851, by physician,
who published The Mes, for the
amusement and health of his patients.
The French nation understood fully
how to appreciate This power. So
early as in 1920 there were in Paris
169 Journals. But in the United States
the newspaper has come to unlimited
sway. Though in 1775 there were out
81 in the whole country, the mum ber
of published journals is now counted
by thousands, and today-we may as
well acknowledge it as not-the reli-
gious and secular newspapers are the
great educators Of the country.
But, alss, through what struggle the
newspaper has come to its present de-
velopmsnt. Just as soon IS it began
to demonstrate its power superstition
and tyranny shackied it. There IS
nothing that despotisn SO mech fears
l.