Plattsmouth weekly herald. (Plattsmouth, Nebraska) 1882-1892, June 21, 1888, Page 6, Image 6
. TL.r. v - .M.u. PLAlTrfMOUTil WEEiiLi rinrnv, xiiUltsDAY JUNE 21, 1S;8. V, ritMSS and' ruiriT. 6UNDAV MORNING SERVICES IN THE BROOKLYN TABERNACLE. Ilrv, Dr. Tiilinngo Would Secure the Secu lar I'l-c-va u tt llo-cnforcemeut of Ke Ueton anil Hie Iullt 1'lto Modern Sun day Noi)iiicr. IJrooklvn, Juno 17. At tho Bt-rvice In tlio Talxrn.iclo tlii.3 morning, the Rev. T. Do Witt Taluiago, IX D., took for tho Bubject of his discourse, "Pulpit anl Prcs3 Mado Allic3." Ilia text was I.uko xvi, 8: "Tho children of this world aro in their generation wiser than tho children of light." Ho 6aid: S.icred stupidity and bolemn incom petency and Banclifieil laziness aro hero rebuked by Christ. Ho naya worldlings nre wider awako for opportunities than uro Christian:!. Hen of tho world grab occasions while Christian peoplo let tho most valuablo occasions drift by unim proved. That is tho meaning of our liord when ho Kays: "Tho children of this world iiro in their generation wiser than tho children of light." A marked illustration of tho truth of that maxim is in tho (slowness of tho Christian religion to tako possession of tho secular printing prei-s. Tho oppor tunity is open and has for some timo 'own open, but tho ecclesiastical courts and tho churches and tho ministers of religion nro for the most part allowing tho golden opportunity to pass unimproved. That tho opportunity is open I declaro from the fact that all tho Kccular newspapers are glad of any religious facts or statistics that you present them. Any animated and stirring article relating to religious themes they would gladly print. They thank you for any information in regard to churches. If a wrong has been dono to any Christian church or Christian in stitution, you could go into any news paper of the land and have the real truth stated. Dedication services, ministerial ordinations and pastoral installations, corner fctouo la3ing of a church, anniversary of a charitable so ciety wiil have reasonable space in any secular journal, if it have previous notice given. If I had somo great injustice done me, tlvcro is not an editorial or a rpxrtoriaI room in tho United States into which 1 could not go and get myself set right, and that is truo of any well known Christian man. Already tho daily secu lar press during tho course of each week publishes as much religious information and high moral sentiment as does the weekly religious press. Why then dots not our glorious Christianity embrace these magnificent opportunities? I have leforo mo a subject of first and last im portance: How shall wc secure tho secu lar press as a mightier ro-enforccment to religion and the pulpit? Tho first thing toward this result is cessation of indiscriminate hostility against newspajierdom. You might as well denounce the legal profession lie cause of the shysters, or tho medical pro iession because of tho quacks, or mer chandise Ijecauso of tho swindling bar gain makers, as to slam-bang newspapers Ix-cause there aro recreant editors, and unfair reporters, and unclean columns, (juttenberg, the inventor of tho art of printing, was about to destroy his types and extinguish tho art because it was suggested to him that printing might be suborned into the service of the devil, but afterward he bethought himself that tho right use of the art might more than overcome tho evil use of it, and so he spared the type and tho intelligence of all modern ages. Hut there are many today in the depressed mood of Gut ten berg with uplifted hammer want ing to pound to pieces the typo, who have not reached his better mood in which he saw the art of printing to be the rising sun of tho world's illumination. Jf instead of fighting newspapers we spend the same length of time and the same vehemence in marshaling their help in religious directions, we would be as much wiser as the man who gets con sent of the railroad superintendent to fasten a car to the end of a rail train, shows better sense than he who runs his wheelbarrow up tho track to meet and drive back the Chicago limited express. The silliest thing that a man ever does is to tight a newspaper, for you may have the lloor for utterance perhaps one day in tho week, while the newspaper has the lloor every day of the week. Napoleon, though a mighty man, had many weak nesses, and one of the weakest things he ever did was to threaten that if the Eng lish newspapers did not stop their adverse criticism of himself ho would with 400, 000 bayonets cross the channel for their chastisement. Don't fight newspapers. Attack pro vokes attack. Better wait till the ex citement blows over and then go in and get justice, for get it you will if you have patienco and common sense and equipoise of disposition. It ought to be a mighty sedativo that there is an enor mous amount of common sense in the world, and you will eventually be taken for what you are really worth, and you cannot be pulled up and you cannot be written down, and if you are tho enemy of good society that fact will come out, and if you are the friend of good society that fact will lo established. I know what I am talking about, for I can draw on my own experience. All the respect able newspapers as far as I know aro my friends now. But many of you remem ber the timo when I was tho most continuously and meanly attacked man in this country. God gave jne grace not to answer back, and 1 kept 6ilence for ten years, and much grace is required. What I said was per verted and twisted into just the opposite of what I did say. My person was ma ligned, and I was presented as a gorgon, and I was maliciously described by per sons who had never seen me a3 a mon strosity in body, mind and soul. There were millions of people who believed that there was a large 6ofa in this pulpit, although we never had anything but a chair, and that during the 6inging by the congregation I was accustomed to lie down on that sofa and dangle my feet over tho cmd. Lying New York corre epondentj for ten years misrepresented our church services, but we waited, and ieopIe from every neighborhood of Christendom came here to find the magnitude of tho falsehoods concerning the church and concerning myself. A reaction set in, and now we have justice, full justice, mora than justice, .and as much overpraise as onco wo had under uppreciation, and no man that ever lived was so much indebteclaV the newspaper press for opportunity W preach tho Go pel as I urn. Young men in tho ministry, young men in all professions and occu pations, wait. You can afford to wait. Tako rough misrepresentations as a Turk ish towel to start up your languid circu lation, or a system of massage or Swedish movement whoso pokes and pull uud twists and thrusts aro salutary treatment. Thero is only 0110 person you need to manage, anil that is yourself. Keep your disposition sweet by communion with Christ, who answered not again, the society of genial people, and walk out in tho sunshine with your hsit off and you will como out all right. And don't join the crowd of people in our day who spend much of their time damning newspapers. Again: in this ofTort to secure tho sec ular press as a mightier re-enforcement of religion and tho pulpit, let us make it tho avenuo of religious information. If you put tho fact.i of churches and du noiniiiations of Christians only into the column of religious papers, which do not in this country have an average of more than 10,000 subscribers, what have 3-011 done as compared with what you do if you put these facts through tho daily papers, which havo hundreds of thou sands of readers? I'very littlo denomina tion must have its littlo organ, supported at great expense, when with one-half the outlay a column or half a column of room might le rented in somo 6emi-omniio-tent secular publication, ami so tho religious information would bo sent round and round tho world. Tho world moves so swiftly today that news a week old is stale. Give us all the great church facts and all tho revival tidings tho next morning or the sameeven ing. My advice, often given to friends who proposo to start a new paper, is: "Don'tl Don't 1 Employ tho papers already started." Tho biggest financial hole ever dug in this American continent is tho hole in which good people throw their money when they start a news paper. It is almost as good and as quick a way of getting rid of money as buying stock in a gold mine in Colorado. Not more printing presses but the right uso of those already established. All their cylinders, all their steam ower, all their pens, all their t'pes, all their editorial chairs and reportorial rooms are available if you would engage them in lchalf of civilization and Christianity. Again: if you would secure tho secular press as a mightier re-enforcement of re ligion and tho pulpit, extend widest ar.d highest Christian courtesies to tho repre sentatives of journalism Givo them easy chairs and plenty of room when they come to report occasions. For tho most part they are gentlemen of educa tion and refinement, graduates of col leges, with families to support by their literary craft, many of thorn weary with the push of a business that is precarious and fluctuating, each ouo of them the avenuo of information to thousands of readers, their impression of tho services to be tho impression adopted by multitudes. They aro connecting links between a sermon or a song or a prayer and this great popula tion that tramp up and down tho streets day by day and year by year with their sorrows uncomforted and their sins un pardoned. More than eight hundred thousand peoplo in Brooklyn, and less than seveuty-livo thousand in churches, so that our cities aro not so much preached to by ministers of religion as by reporters. Put all journalists into our prayers and sermons. Of all the hun dred thousand sermons preached today there will not bo three preached to jour nalists, and probably not one. Of all the prayers ollered for classes of men innu merable, the prayers offered for this most potential clas3 will bo so few and rare that they will be thought a preacher's idiosyncrasy. This world will never be brought to God until some revival of re ligion 6vccps over the land and takes into the kingdom of God editors and re ;orters, compositors, pressmen and newsboys. And if you have not faith enough to pray for that and toil for that you had better get out of our ranks and join tho other side, for you are the unbelievers who make the wheels of the Lord's chariot drag heavily. The great final battle between truth and error, the Armageddon, I think, will not be fought with swords and shells and guns, but with pens, quill pens, steel pens, gold pens, fountain pens, and, before tl:ut, :he jens must be converted. The most divinely honored weapon of the past has been the pen, and tlio most divinely holl ared weapon of the future will be the pen, prophet's pen and evangelist's pen and apostle's pen followed by editor's pen and reporter's pen and author's ien. God save the pent The wing of the Apocalyptic angel will be the printed page. The printing press will roll ahead of Christ's chariot to clear the way. "But, " some one might ask, "would you mako the Sunday newspapers also a re-enf orcemcnt ?" Yes, 1 would. 1 have learned to take things as they are. I would liko to see the much scoffed at old luritan Sabbaths come back again. I do uot think the modern Sunday will turn out any better men and women than were j our grandfathers and grandmoth ers under the old fashioned Sunday. To say nothing of other results, Sunday newspapers aro killing editors, reporters, compositors and pressmen. Every man, woman and child is entitled to twenty tour hours of notliing to do. If the newspapers put on another set of hands that does not relievo the editorial and re portorial room of its cares and responsi bilities. Our literary men die fast enough without killing them with Sunday work. Dut the Sunday newspaper has come to stay. It will stay a good deal longer than any of us stay. What then shall wo do? Implore all those who have anything to do with issuing it to fill it with moral and religious information; live sermons and facts elevating. Urge them that all divorce cases bo dropped and instead thereof have good advice as to how husbands and wives ought to live lovingly together. Put in small type the behavior of the swindling church member and in larg? type the contribution of some Clu istiar man toward an asylum for feeble minded children or a seaside sanitarium. Urge all managing editors to put meanness and impurity in type pearl or agate and charity and fidelity and Christian con sistency in brevier or bourgeois. If we cannot drive out the Sunday newspaper let 13" have the Sunday newspaper con verted. Tlio fact Is that tho modern Sunday newspaper U a great Improve ment on tho old Sunday newspaper. What a Ixrabily thing was tho Sunday newspaper thirty years ago I It wa3 enough to destroy a man's resicctability to leave the tip end of it sticking out of his coat pocket. What editorials! What adver tisements! What pictures! The modern Sunday newspaper is as much an improve ment on the old timo Sunday newspaper ;w ono hundred is more than twenty-five; in other words, about seventy-fivo per cent, improvement. Who knows that by prayer and kindly consultation with our literary friends we may havo it lifted into a iositivcly religious sheet printed on Saturday night and only distributed, like The American Messenger, or Tho Mis sionary Journal, or Tho Sunday School Advocate, on Sabbath mornings. All things are jiossiblo with God, and my faith is up until nothing in the way of religious victory would surprise me. All the newspaper printing presses of the earth are going to bo tho Lord's, and tel egraph and telephone and tyio will yet announce nations born in a day. The first book ever printed was the Bible by Faust and his son-in-law, School Tor, in 1100, and that consecration of type totho Holy Scrip tures was a prophecy of the great mission of printing for the evangelization of all the nations. Tho father of the American printing prcs3 wus a clergyman, Rev. Jesse Glover, and that was a prophecy of the religious uso that tho Gospel ministry in this country were to make of tho types. Again: wo shall securo tho secular press as a mightier re-enforcement of ro ligion and tho pulpit by making our re ligious utterances more interesting and spirited, and then the press will reproduce them. On tho way to church somo fif teen years ago, a journalist said a thing that has kept mo ever since thinking: ''Are you going to givo us any points today?" "What do you mean?" 1 asked. He said: "I mean by that anything that will be striking enough to bo remembered." Then 1 said to mj'self: What right have we in our pul pits and Sunday schools to tako tho lime of people if we have nothing to say that is memorable? David did not have any difficulty in remembering Nathan's thrust: "Thou art the man;" nor Felix in remembering Paul's point blank utter ance on righteousness, temjeranco and judgment to come; nor the English king any difficulty in remembering what the court preacher said, when during the sermon against sin the preacher threw bis handkerchief into tho king's pew to indicate whom he meant. The tendenej' of criticism in tho theological seminaries is to file off from our j-oung men all the sharp points and make them too smooth for any kind of execution. What we want, all of us, is more point, less hum drum. If we say tlio right tiling in the right way tho press will bo glad to echo and re-echo it. Sabbath school teachers, reformers, young men and old men in the ministry, what we all want if we are to make the printing press an ally in Christian work is that which the reporter spoken of suggested points, sharp points, memorable points. But if the thing be dead when uttered by living voice, it will be a hundredfold more dead when it is laid out in cold type. Now, as 3rou all have something to do with the newspaper press, either in issu ing a paper or reading it, either as pro ducers or patrons, either as sellers or purchasers of tho printed sheet, I pro pose on this Sabbath morning, June 17, 1SS3, a treaty to be signed between the church and the printing press, a treaty to be ratified by millions of good people if we rightly fashion it, a treaty promis ing that we will help each other in our work of tiding to illumine and felicitate the world, we, by voice, you by pen, we, by speaking only that which is worth printing, you by printing only that which is fit to speak. You help ns and we help you. Side by side be these two potent agencies until the Judgment Day, when we must both be scrutinized for our work, healthful or blasting. The two worst off men in that day will be the minister of religion and tho editor, if they wasted their opportu nity. Both of us are tho engineers of long express trains of influence, and we will run them into a depot of light or tumblo them off the embankments. What a useful life and what a glorious departure was that of tho most famous of all American printers, Benjamin Franklin, whom infidels in the penury of their resources have often fraudulently claimed for their own, but the printer who moved that the Philadelphia con vention be opened with prayer, the reso lution lost because a majority thought prayer unnecessary, and who wrote at the time he was viciously attacked: "My rule is to go straight forward in doing what appears to me to be right, leaving the consequences to Providence," and who wrote this quaint epitaph showing his hope of resurrection, an epitaph that I hundreds of times read while living in Philadelphia: The Body of Bcnjaiun Fraxsuk, Printer, (Liko tho cover of an old booli. Its contents torn out. And stript of its lettering and gilding) Lies here food for worms. Yet the worS itself shall not be lost. For it will (as ho believed) appear once more In a new And more beautiful edition. Corrected and amended By The Author. That Proviaence intends the profession of reporters to have a mighty share in the world '8 redemption is suggested by the fact that Paul and Christ took a re porter along with them and he reported their addresses and reported their acts. Luke was a reporter and he wrote uot only the book of Luke but the Acts of the Apostles, and without that reporter's work we would havo known nothing of the Pentecost, and nothing of Stephen's martyrdom, and nothing of Tabitha's resurrection, and nothing of the jailing and unjailing of Paul and Silas, and nothing of the shipwreck at Melita. Strike out the reporter's work from the Bille and jou kill a large part of the New Testament. It makes me think ihat in the future of the Kingdom of God the reporters are to bear a mighty ?art. About thirteen years ago a representa tive of an important newspaper took his seat ia this churcli, one abbath night, about G e pews from the "front cf this pulpit. He took out pencil and reporter's pud, resolved to caricature the whol scene. When the music began he legan, and with his pencil ho derided that, and then derided tho prayer, and then ks rided the reading of tho Scriptures, and then Ix-gsn to deride the sermon. But. ho says, for some reason. hi3 hand be gan to tremble, anil ho, rallying himself, sharpened his pencil and started again, but broke down again, and then put I x'ncil and pajier in his pocket nnd his head down on tho front of tho ew and tn-gan to pray. At tho close of the service ho came up and asked for the prayers of others and gave his heart to God; and. though still engaged in newspaper work, bo is an evangelist, and hires a hall at his own e.ense, and every Sabbath afternoon preaches Jesus Christ to tho jieoplo. And the men of that profession are going to conic in a body throughout tho country. 1 know hundreds of them, and a more genial or highly educated class of men it would bo hard to find, and, though tho tendency of their profession may bo toward skepti cism, an organized, common sense, Gos pel invitation would fetch them to the front of all Christian endeavor. Men of the pencil and pen, in all departments, you need the help of tho Christian re ligion. In the day when people want to get their newspapers at three cents and are hoping for the time when they can get any of them at ono cent, and, as a consequence, the attaches of tho printing press are by tho thousand ground under tho cylinders, you want God to take care of you and your families. Some of 3-our Ijcst work is as much unappreciated as was Milton's "Paradise Lost," for which the author received !f 23; and the immortal poem, "Ilohenlinden," of Thomas Campbell, when ho first offered it for publication, and in tho column called "Notices to Correspondents" ap jieared the words: "To T. C. The lines commencing 'On Linden when the sun was low' are not up to our standard. Poetry is not T. C.'s forte." Oh, men of the pencil and the pen, amid you unappreciated work 3ou need encouragement and you can havo it. Printers of all Christendom, editors, re porters, compositors, pressmen, publish ers and readers of that which is printed, resolve that you will not write, set up, edit, issue or read aii3"thing that debases body, mind or soul. In the nam of Gxl, by the laying on of the hands of faith :ind prayer, ordain the printing press lor righteousness and liberty and salvation. All of us with somo influence that will help in the right direction, let us put our hands to the work, imploring God to hasten tho consummation. A ship with hundreds of passengers approach ing the South American coast, tho man on tho lookout neglected his work, and in a few minutes the ship would have been dashed to ruin on the rocks. But a cricket on board tho ves sel, that had made no sound all tho voy age, set up a shrill call at the smell of land, and tho captain, knowing that habit of the insect, tho vessel was stopped in time to prevent an awful wreck. And so, insignificant means now may do wonders and the scratch of a pen may save the shipwreck of a soul. Are 3-ou all ready for tho signing of tho contract, the league, the solemn treaty proposed between journalism and evangelism? Aye, let it bo a Christian marriage of the pulpit and the printing press. Tlio ordination of the former on my head, the pen of the latter in 1113' hand, it is appropriate that I publish the banns of such a marriage. Let them from this day bo one in the magnificent work of the world's redemption. Let thrones and powers and kingdoms be Obedient, mighty God, to thee; And over land and stream aud male Now wave the scepter of Thy reigu O, let that glorious anthem swell. Let host to host the triumph tell, Till nut one rebel heart remains, But over all the Saviour reigus. Adaptability of Trained Mechanics. It is a notable fact, and one, too, not generally known, that some of the "best all-around" mechanics i. e., those who am turn their hands to all kinds of gen eral machine work are men who learned '.heir business in 6mall shops, where all sorts and all classes of work are 'done. An ingenious, thinking man placed in such a shop has the best possible chance to develop all -the talent there is in him The hundred and one odd jobs required to be done will cause him to devise ways and means, and "to think," and in these ways be will grow to be a man fertile in resources, dexterous in touch, and ready for nearly an3T kind of work which may come along. Now mark the difference: A man trained in a largo shop, with its score or more of departments, learns or works through, as a rule, one, two or three dif ferent departments, of course becoming an expert in the several branches; but should occasion arise for him to do some particular work of which he has but a slight knowledge, he is out of his lati tude, and makes poor progress, simply because he has not done all kinds of work; while the man trained in the small shop can adapt his hand to almost any thing which turns up. Industrial World. A Prophecy of the Present. In tearing down an old building at McKeesport, Pa., some workmen discov ered in the chimney a pint flask of whisky and a tin box, containing a prophecy written in 1S33. This singular writing was a prediction that in thirty five year3 (in 1873) slavery would have ceased to exist. The writer added: "Men will communicate from beach to beach of ocean easier than indite a letter. The tallow candle of today will not even be used to grease the boots. Men will touch the wall as Moses touched the rock for water, and light will dispel the darkness. Prohibition will be a battle cry, with temperance a formidable enemy. The flask of spirts which I place herewith will rise in the midst of a conflict which will claim it as one of the principals." Demorest's Monthly. Remedy for Nose Rleed. Introduce into the nostril, for a con siderable distance upward, a piece of fine sponge, cut to the size and shape neces sary to enable it to enter without diffi culty, previously soaked in lemon juice or vinegar and water. Tho patient is to be kept lying on the face for a length of time, with the sponge in place. This is the procedure employed by M. Sirederg for controlling nose blted in typhoid fever jiatients. Medical Digest. telery li ' lTRE!i Mervoua Pro:-.trat ion, tlervons Headache, lJ;url ;ir'., Ncrvouj Weaiciic:.-:, anil Livrr Discsc. K hcui:i:itiL.ii. ;-epaia, ur.d til l.:.jtio:'. j it" tl.o J Will call your attention to the fact that they are headquarters for all kinds of Fiuito and Vegetables. We are receiving Freeh Strawberiiec every day. Oranges, Lemons and Fanonss constantly cn hand . Just received, a variety cf Ccr.r.cd Scups We have Pure Maple Sugar r. d r. o rrietcke. 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