The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1901-03-09
CHURCH AND PRESS.
A Warm Friendship Should Exist
Between Them.
Dr.. raimass says That the Spoken
woraand the PslatsdWerd sheuid
dc side by side-ooa and
the Printing Press.

nCopyrght. fsn. by Louis Klopsch-1
Washington. March
In this discourse DR.. Talmage calls
for a warm friendship between those
who preach the Gospel and those who
make newspapers. the spoken word
and the printed word TO 60 side by
side: text, Luke 1875; 'The children
OF this world ire in their generation
wiser than the children of light"
Sacred stupidity and solemn ineom.
potency and sanetihed laziness are
here rebuked by Christ. He says
worldlings are wider awake for OPP
portunities than ere Christians. Men
OF the world grab occasions, while
Christian people let the most valu-
able occasions drift by unimproved-
That Is the meaning Of u Lord
when He says; The children OF this
world are in their generation wiser
than the children OF light"
A marked illustration Of the truth
OF that maxim Is in the slowness OF
the Christian religion 10 take pos
session of the secular printing press.
The opportunity is open and has
been for some time open, but the
ecclesiastical courts. and the
churches. and the ministers OF re-
ligion are for the most part allow
ing the golden opportunity TO pass
unimproved. That the opportunity
IL open I declare from the fact that
all the secular newspapers are glad
Of any religious facts or statistics
that you present them. Any animat-
cd and stirring article relating 70 re-
Hgious themes they would gladly
print. They thank you for any tn
formation in regard TO churches. II
. wrong has been done 10 any Chris
tisn church or Christian institution
you could go into any newspaper Of
fee Of the land and have the real
truth stated. Dedication services,
ministerial ordinations and pastoral
Installations. cornerstone laying Of
. church, anniversary Of a charitable
society, will have reasonable space In
any secular journal IL It hays previ-
Gus notice given. II l had some
great injustice done me. there Ia not
an editorial or a reportorial room
In the United States into which /
could not go and get myself set
right, and that is true OF any we'll
known Christian man. Why. then,
does not our glorious Christianity
embrace these magnificent opPortuni
tissH / have before m. . subject Of
Graf and last Importance: How shall
we secure the secular press a. Q
mighty reinforcement TO religion and
the pulpit?
The frst thing toward this result
is cessation Of indiscriminate hos
tiiity against newspaperdom. You
might as well denounce the legal pro-
fession because Of the s~hysters, or
the medical profession because OF the
Quacks. or merchandise because Of
the swindiing bargain makers. Is to
siambang newspapers because there
ars recreant editors and unfair re-
pertsrs and unclean columns. Guten-
berg, the inventor Of the art OF print
ing. was about TO destroy hia types
and extinguiAh the art because IL was
suggested TO him that printing might
be saborDed into the service OF the
devil, but ~aftsrward he bethought
himself that the right use Of tina art
might more than overcome the evil
use Of st. and so he spared the type
aAA4tA. AntAihEenee Of all following
ages. But there are many to-day In
the ~dspresssd mood Of Gutenberg.
with uplifted hammer, wanting to
pound 10 pieces the type, who have
not reached his better mood. In
which he saw the art OF printing TO
be the rising sun of the worlds
Illumination.
II, instead Of fighting newspapers,
We spend the same length Of time and
the same vehemence In marshallng
their help in religious directions We
would be Is much wiser Is the man
who gets consent Of the railroad super
I~lrtendsnt 10 fas,en a car 10 the end
Of . rail train shows better sense thkn
be who runs his wheelbsrrow up the
track to meet and drive back the Chi
esgo limited express. The silliestthins
that = mas ever does is to fight . news
paper. for you may have the aoor for
uttsrsnee perhsps for q day In th,
week. while the newspaper hss tn,
floor every day in the week. Napoleon
though . mighty man, had many weak
nsssss. and Of the weakest thing,
be ever cid was 10 threaten that II The
English newspapers did not stop theil
adverse criticism Of himself he would
with 100000 bayonets, cross the chan
rel for their ehastisement. Dom
hght newspapers. Attack provokes At
tack. Better wait until the excite
ment blowsore and then 60 in and gs'
justice, for get It you will II you hGv,
patience and common tense and equi
poiss Of disposition. II sught to BE-
mighty sedative that there 10 AZ snor
mous smount Of eommen sense IL III,
world, and you will eventually b take
for what you are really worth, and 10,
cannot DO pulled up. and you ssnno
be written down. and II you are th,
Enemy Of good society. hst fact vii
come out, and II you are the fItepd o
good society that fact will be sstah
Iiked.
know what ] am talking about, 10
/ can draw or my own experience. Al
the respectable newspapers, "a far q
know, are my friendsnow But man,
OF you remember the time when I wa
the most continuously and msanly al
tackled msn 10 this country. God CAV
me grace not 10 snSwsr back, and
kept silence for ten years, and mucI
grace was required. What I said wa
perverted and twisted into just th
opposite Of what ] did say. There wsr
millions Of people who believed Via
there was a large sota IN my pulpit
although we never had anything but
chair, and that during the singing b
the congregation 1 was accustomed
lie down on that sofa and dangle IN
feet over the END. Lying New Yor
correspondents for ten years misrsI
resented u church ~tervicesi but "
waited, and people from every neigh
borhood Of Christendom came Their
10 1ndthe magnitude OF the falsehood
concerning the church and eoncernin
myself. A reaction set in, and soon "
had Justice, full justice. more than jul
tice. and as much overprsise as ono
We had interpretation. and no ma
that ever lived was 80 much indebts
10 the newspaper press for opportur
ity 10 preach tb. Gospel a. ! an
Young men In the ministry, youn
men In al professions and occupations
wait. You can afford TO wait. TAX
rough misrsprsEentstion az a Turks
towel 10 start up your iapguid cireull
tion, or . system Of massage or Sweet