Show TALMAGE it is not often that devote much attention to alie press when they occupy the pulpit in choso rare instances where such a course has been taken it has generally been for the purpose of decrying the newspaper as a public enemy of all that is good in a conr the rev T de witt tali mage however the illustrious orator of the brooklyn tabernacle on sunday last deviated from the beaten track and harangued hib assembled on the subject newspaper the learned divine anthis was loud in his praises of the newspaper and he exhibited a remarkable acquaintance with the methods of honora bac and straightforward journalism the newspaper saps dr tal maga is the great educator of the nineteenth century there is no force compared with it it is book pulpit platform forum all in one and there is not an interest religious literary commercial agricultural or mechanical that is not within its grasp allour churches and schools and colleges and asylums and art galleries feel the quaking of the printing press after eig a brief history of the newspaper its rise and progress in various nations and on its universal circulation the reverend gentleman says the great armageddon of the nations ie not to be fought with swords but with steel pens not bullets but with type not with cannon but with lightning perfecting presses and the Sump and the moul tries end the Pu laskis and tha of that conflict will he the editorial and of our great newspaper establish ments that man who neither reads nor takes a newspaper would be a curiosity in the present age and the power of the press is again exams by the preacher when ho berred to the fact that a man on the sabbath day may preach the gospel to five hundred people while on monday through the secular journals ho may preach gosiel to millions addressing himself to are engage din any way in the newspaper profession dr talmage proceeds notwithstanding all this that you have gained iu position and influence men of the press bowmans words of sympathy do you get during the course of a year N it ten how nany sermons of practical helpfulness for your profession are preached during the twelve months not one how many words of excoriation and denunciation nuncia tion and hypercriticism do you get in that earah length of time about ten thousand if you are a type setter and get the type in the wrong font the foreman storms at you if you are a foreman and can not surmount the insurmountable and get the forms ready at just the time the publisher denounces you if you are a publisher and make ment theu jhc thc owners paper will be hard on you for lack of dividend if you aro an editor and you announce an un popular sentiment all the pens of christendom arc flung at you if you are a reporter you shall be held responsible sible for tho indistinct ness of public speaker ppe aker a ud for the blunders of type fur the fact that you can not work quite eo well in the flickering gag light and after midnight as you do in the noonday if you are a proof reader upon you shall come the united wrath of editor reporter and reader because you do not properly arrange the periods and the semicolons and the exclamation points and the asterisks plenty of abuse but no sympathy one of the great trial of this profession is the fact that they are compelled to see more of the shams of the world than any other profession through every newspaper office day by day go the of the world the vanities that want to be puffed the revenges that want to be wrecked wreaked wre aked all tho mistake that want to be corrected all the dull speakers gp eakers who want to be thought eloquent all the meanness that wants to get its wars noticed gratia in the editorial columns in order to aavo tho tax of the advertising col dmn all the men who want to bo set right who never were right all the crack brained with story as long as their hair and a gloomy their ir mourning because bereft of boap all the itinerant bores alio como to stay five minutes and atop an hour from the editorial and rooms all the follies and shams of he world arc been day by day and he ia to believe neither iu god anan nor woman it is no surprise to me that in your profession there are some skeptical men I 1 only wonder that you believe anything unless an editor or n re porter has in his present or hie early bomea model of earnest chalao ter or he throw himself upon the upholding grace of god he must make temporal and eternal shipwreck the limbed limned by dr tal mago is not overdrawn and yet how many ambitious 1 there are who think that those connected in any way with a newspaper repose on a bed of rosee only have to dash off a column or two per day and draw their salary when it is due it is the easiest occupation in the world to manage or edit a paper because everybody is satisfied and no one ever thinks of telling how the work should be done 1 |