The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1898-03-04
TALMAGE'S SERMONS.
DIS TINGUISHED DIVINE TELLS
HOW THEY ARE PUBLISHED
BROADCAST.

Work.
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, 4, They shall seem like torches;
they shall run like the l~ightnings."
Express, rail train and Geographic
communication are suggested if not
fOretold in this text, and from it |
start to preach a sermon in gratitude
to God and the newspaper press
for the fact that l nave had the oppor-
tunity of delivering through the news
paper press 1000 rmO or religious
addresses, SO that | have for many
years been allowed the privilege of
preaching the gospel every week to
every neighborhood in Christendom
and in many lands outside of Christen-
process by which it has come to pass,
and for the first time in public place
state the three causes. Many years
ago a young man who has since be-
come eminent in his profession was
then studying law in a distant city.
He came to me and said that for lack
Of funds he must stop his studying
unless through s~tenOgraphy l would
give him sketches of sermons, that he
might by the sale of them secure
means for the completion of his edu-
cation. I positively declined, because
it seemed to me an impossibility, but
after some months had passed and |
had reflected upon the great sadness
for such a brilliant young nan to be
defeated in his ambition for the legal
profession | undertook to serve him
of course free of charge. Within
three weeks there came a request for
those StenOgraphic reports from many
parts Of the continent.
Time passed on, and some gentle
men Of my profession, evidently think
ing that there was hardly room for
ILGIIl anu IcI III sell Ill IUlS continent,
began 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. | never made reply,
except once for about three minutes,
but those correspondents could not
waste their time, and so they tele-
graphed the sermons to their particu-
lar papers.
ORGANIZATION OF THE SYNDI-
CATE.
After awhile DR.. Louis KiOpsch of
New York systematized the work into
a syndicate until through that and
other syndicates he has put the dis
courses week by week before more
than 20, 600, 900 people on both sides the
sea. There have been so many guesses
IN this subject, man Of them inaccu-
rate, that | now tell the true story. |
have lot improved the opportunity as
| ought, but | feel the time has come
when as a matter Of common justice
to the newspaper press | should make
this statement in a sermon commence
rative of the two thOusandth full pub
VI pCI AllOIo dHu 1CllSlOUo III
dresses, saying nothing of fragmentary
reports, which would run up into many
thousands more.
There was one incident that | might
mention in this connection showing
now an insignificant event might in
fluence us for a lifetime. Many years
ago on a Sabbath morning on my way
to church in Brooklyn a representative
Of n nyntt1irnpt cD 70, ,,,Ot NO ~
said. Are you going to give us any
points tOday?" | said. What do you
mean by 'points?'" He replied, Any
thing we can remember" | said to
myself, I'VE ought to be making
points all ,-e time in our pulpits
and not deal in p%latitudes and imam
tiles" That one interrogation put to
me hat morning started in me the de-
sire of making points all the time and
nothing but points.
And now how can | more apprOpri-
atCly commemorate the two thou
sandth publication than by speaking
Of the newspaper press as an ally of
the pulpit and mentioning some CT 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 ne.
And there is not an Observation-Disclosures,
literary, commercial, scientific, agri-
cultural or Northumberland 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. III Venice the first newspa-
per 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 Venetians. The first neWspa-
per published in England was in 1888
and called the English Mercury. Who
can estimate the political, scientific,
n1nrDio1 ar1 ra1iCi0IIC rpVOIutiOOc