Connecticut western news., 1898-02-24
PHARMACIES. SERMONS.
DlsTlNGulSHeo DIVINE TELLS HOW .fAtY ARE PUBLISHED BROADCAST.
An Address Commemorative of the Two
 rhousandth Fun Publication of Sermons. ! Glowing Tribute to the Prsss-Trisls and
 Tenn mptations of Newspaper Work.

An AuuFess sSonhehofAtlse oE the lWo Thoasandth Fun Publication of Sermons. Glowing Tribute to the Prsss-Trisls and
 Temptations of Newspaper Work.
 Icopyright, 1898. by American Press Asso-
 ciationl
 WASHINGTON, Feb. 20.--For the first time Dr. Talmage in this discourse tells in what way his sermons have come to a multiplicity of publication such as has never in any other case been known since the art of printing was invented; text, Nahum ii, 1, They shall seem like torches; they shall run like the ...
 Express, rail train and telegraphic are suggested if not fore told in this text, and from it start to preach a sermon in gratitude to God and the newspaper press for the fact that have bad the opportunity of delivering through the newspaper press 2,0OO ser mons or religious addresses, so that l have for many years been allowed the privilege of preaching the gospel every week to every neighborhood in Chris tendon and in many lands outside of Ghristendom. Many have wondered at the process by which it has come to pass, and for the first time in public place state the three causes. Many years ago 6 young man who has since become eminent in his profession was then studying law in distant oity. He came to me and said that for lack of funds he must stop his studying unless through stenography I would give him sketches of sermons, that he might by the sale of them secure means for the completion of his education. I positive ly declined, because it seemed to me an impossibility, but after some months had passed and had reflected upon the great sadness for such brilliant young n,Sn to be defeated in his ambition for the legal profession undertook to serve him-of course free of charge. Within three weeks there came request for those stenographio reports from many parts of the continent.
 Time passed on, and some gentlemen of my own profession, evidently think ing that there was hardly room for them anu kOk AlJ DULL HI bhlS COlAlhCuby DCS1h to assail me, and became so violent in their assault that the chief newspapers of America put special correspondents in my church Sabbath by Sabbath to take down such reply as might make. I never made reply, except once for about three minutes, but those corre- spondents could not waste their time. and SO they telegraphed the sermons to their particular papers.
 Organization of the Syndicate.
 After awhile Dr. Louis Klopsch of Now York systematized the work into syndicate until through that and other syndicates he has put the discourses week by week before more than 90, 000,- 900 people on both sides the sea. There have been so many guesses on this sub- ject. many of them inaccurate, that I now tell the true story. have not i'm proved the opportunity as I ought, but I feel the time has come when as mat ter of common justice to the newspaper press I should make this statement in a sermon commemorative of the two full publication of sermons and religious addresses, saying nothing of fragmentary reports, which would run up into many thousands more.
 There was one incident that I might in this connection showing how an insignificant event might in- fiuence us for lifetime. Many years ago on Sabbath morning on my way to church in Brooklyn representative of a prominent newspaper met mo and said, "Are you going to give us any points today?'' I said, "What do you mean by 'points?' :" He replied, "Any- thing we can remember" I said to myself, We ought to be making points all the time in our pulpits and not deal in platitudes and inanities. '' That one interrogation put to me that started in me the desire of making points all the time and nothing but points.
 And now how can I more appropri ately commemorate the two thousandth publication than by speaking of the press as an ally of the pulpit and mentioning some of the trials of men?
 The newspaper is the great educator of the nineteenth century. There is no force compared with it. It is book, pull pit, platform, forum, all in one. And there is not an interest-religious, lit erary, commercial, scientific, agricul- tural or mechanical-that is not within it's grasp. All our churches, and schools, and colleges. and asylums. and art gal leries feel the quaking of the printing prSss
 The institution of newspapers arose in Italy. In Venice the first newspaper was published, and monthly during the time Venice was warning against Soly- man the second in Dalmatia it was printed for the purpose of giving mili- tary and commercial information to the Venetians. The first newspaper pub lished in England was in 1888 and called The English Mercury. Who can estimate the political, scientific, con- 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 1881, by physician, who published The News, for the 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 jour- nals. But in the United States the news paper has come to unlimited sway. Though in 1775 there were but 37 in the whole country, the number of pub lshed journals is now counted by thou sands, and today-we may as we'll ac- knowledge it as not-the religious and secular newspapers are the great edu- cators of the country.
 Early Struggles of the Press.
 But, alas, through what struggle the has come to it's present de. velopment! Just as soon as it began to demonstrate it's power superstition and tyranny shaokled it. There is nothing That despotism so much fears and hates as the printing press A great writer in the south of Europe declared that the king of Naples had made it unsafe for him to write on any subject save nat .ufai history. Austria could not bear