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rl"tilt . tlI%CTSSle1.8 POST. .APRIL 28, 1896.
TALMA(3-E
A Sermon on Journals`
and Journalists.
The Rev. Z. Do Witt Tltlninge, I).
D., preached in the Brooklyn taber-
ilaelo April 11. The opening heron
began :
"Before Jehovah's awful throne
Ye nations bow with sacred joy !"
After expounding passages in reGer-
enoe to the spread of knowledge all
over the world, the eloquent speaker
preached from the text, Zechariah V.,
I : "Behold a flying roll !" Follow.
ing is the sermon in 0111 :
This winged sheet of the text had
on it a prophecy, The flying roll to•
day is the newspaper. In calculat-
ing the influences that effect sooiety
you can no more afford to ignore it
than you can ignore the npod•day sun
or the Atlantic ocean.
It is high time that I preach a ser-
mon expressing my appreciation of
what the nowepaper has dorm and,fe
doing. No man, living or dead, is or
has been indebted to it as I am, fat
it gives mo perpetual audience in
every city, town and neighborhood of
Christendom, and I take this oppor•
tunity, before God find this people, to
thank editors, publishers, compositors
and setters the world over, and I give
fair notice that I shall take every op
porttinity• of enlarging tine field,
whether by steuogrephie report on the
Sabbath, or gallery -proofs on Mon-
day, o`+•,previous dictation. I have
said again and again to the officers.of
this church, whoever else aro crowd
ed, don't let the reporters be crowded.
Each responsible and intelligent re-
porter is ten or fifteen ahurcbee built
an to this church•. Ninety-five per
cent. of the newspapers arenow my
friends, and do me full justice and
more than justice, and the other five
are such notorious liars that nobody
world believe theme.. It was in self-
defence that sixteen years ago I em-
ployed:an official stenographer of my
own because of the appalling misrep
resentations of myself and church.
From that things hived miraculously
changed until now it is lust as ap-;
palling in the marvellous opportunity
opened.
The newspaper ie Vie great cdueet-
,nr of the niueteentli century. There
re no force compared with it. It is a
!look, pulpit, platform. forum, all in
are. .And there is not an interest-
religious, literary, commercial, scion•
dile, uncultured, or meohanical—
that is not within its grasp. All nur
churches, and ,schools, and colleges,
and asylums, and art'gallories feel the
quaking of the priuting press.
The institution of newspiipors arose
in Italy. Iu,Venice the first news•
paper was published, and monthly,,
during the time that Venice was wt1r-
riug ageing Solyman the Second, in
Dalmatia, it was printed for the Or
pone of giving military and commer-
cfal information to the Venetians.
The first newspaper published in Eng-
land was m 1588, and called the Eng-
lieli Mercury. Others were'etyled the
Weekly Disoovsrer, the Secret Owl,
Pio-eoliths Ridene, &c.
enophon, or Horodotue, or Percival'?
ot matey)
In the United States, the people
would not average one oche book a
year for each individual, !
'Whence, then, this intelligence—
this capacity to talk about all the
themes, secular and religious --this.
acquaintance with science and art—
this power to appreciate tho beautiful
and grand ? Nest to the Bible, the
newspaper,—swift-winged, and every-
where present, flying over the fenooe,
eslloved under the door, tossed into the
counting house, laid on the work-
bench, hawked through the cars l
All read it ; white and blank, Gor-
man, Irishman, Swiss, Spaniard,
American; old and young, good and
bad, eiok and well, - before breakfast
and atter tea, Monday morning, Sat-
urday night, Sunday and weelc day.
I now declare that I coneider tbs
newspaper to be the grand agency by
which the gospel is to bo preaohed,
iguoranee cast but, oppression de-
throned, crime extirpated, the world
raised, heaven rejoiced, aced God
glorified. •
lu the olanking of the printing
press, as the sheets fly out, I hear the
voice of the Lord Almighty proolaim•
ing to all the dead nations of the
earth,—"Lazarus, 'come forth 1" and
to the retreatin^ surges of darkness,—
"Let there bo light !" In many of our
city newapapers, professing no more
than secular information, there hays
appeared during the, past tun years
some of the grandest appeals in be-
half of religion, and same of the most
effective iuterprotatione of God's gov-
ernment among• the nations.
Who can estimate the political,
scientific, oommeroial, and religioun
revolutions roneed up in England for
many years past by Bell's Weekly
Dispatch, the Standard, the Morning
Chronicle, the Poet, and the London
Times, ,
The first attempt at thie institution
in France was in 1661, by a physic-
ian, who published the News, for the
amusement and health of his patients.
The French nation understood fully
bow to. appreciate this power. Na-
poleon, with his own hand, wrote
articles for the press, and so early as
ice 1829 there were in Paris 169 jour-
nals. But in the United States the
newspaper has come to unlimited
sway. Though in 1775 there were
thirty-seven in the whole country, the
number of published journals is now
counted by thoueande • and to day—
There are only two kinds of news
papers—the one good, very good, the
other ha I, very bad. A newspaper
may be etarted with an undecided.
character, but afterit has been going
on for years, everybody finds out just
what it is, and it is very good 'or it
is very bad. The one paper is the
embodiment of news, the ally of vir-
tue, the foe of crime,. the defectionof
elevated taste, the mightiest agency
on earth for making the world better.
The other paper is a brigand amid
moral forces, it is a beslimer of re-
putation, it ie the right arm of death
and hell, it the mightiest agency in
the universe for making the world
worse auU battling the cause of God.
The nue au angel of intelligence and
mercy ; the other a friend of darkness.
Between" this archangel and this fury
is to he fought the great battle which
is to decide the fate of the world. If
you have any doubt as to which is to
be victor, ask the prophecies, ask
God ; the chief batteries with which
he would viudioato' the right and
thunder down the wrong, have not
yet been unlimbered. ' The great Ar-
mageddon of the nations is not to be
fought with swords, but with steel
peps ; not with bullets, but with
types : not with oanaou, but with
Hoe's ten,cylindor presses ; and the
Surepters, and the; ' Moultries,
and the Puiaskis, and the Gibraltars
of that continent will be the editorial
and reportorial roums of our goat
newspaper eitnblishmeuts. Men of
the press, under God you are to de-
cide whether the human race shall be
saved or lost. God has put a more
stupendous responsibility :upon you
than upon any other class of persons.
What long strides your profession
has made in influence and power since
the day when Peter Sheffer invented
east metal type, andbeceuse two books
were found just alike they were as-
cribed to the work of the devil ; and
boots wero printed on stripe of bam-
boo ; Rev. Jesse Glover originated the
first American printing press ; and
the common council of Nety York, in
solemn rseolutiou, offered £80 to any
printer who would oome there and
live :;.whenthe speaker of the bailee
of parliament in Tri ngland announced
with indignation that the puha prints
had recognized dome of their doings,
until in this day, when WB have in thie
country about five hundred skilled
phonographers, and about five thous -
we may its well acknowledge it as not r and newspapers printing, 1n one year,
—the religions and secular nowspap- oke billion five bnadred million cop.
ies: The prese'and the telegrapb'are
gone down into the same harvest
field to reap, and the telegraph says
to the newspaper : ; "I'11 rake . while
you bind ;" and the iron teeth of the.
telegraph are Bet down' at ono and of
the harvosb,fiold and drawn clean a•
Dross, and theuewepaper gathers up
the sboavee, setting clown one sheaf
on the breakfaet table in the chap° of
a newspaper, and putting down an
other sheaf on tho tea table in tho
shape of an evening newspaper ; and
that ]ran who neither reads; nor takes
a nowepaper would be a curiosity.
What Vast progresa since the day
when Cardinal Woleoy declared that
•sitl,ior the printing press frust go
down, or the clniroh of God must go
dOwn, to this tittle when the printing
era ars the groat educators of the
country.
I find no difficulty in accounting
for the world's advance. Four cen-
turies ago, in Germany, in courts of
justice, inen fought with their fists to
see who should leave the decision of
the court ; and if the judge's decision
was unsatisfactory, then the judge
fought with the counsel. Itleny, of
the lords could not read the deeds of
their own estates. What !flee made
the change ?
"l3oolca," you eay.
No, err 1 'the Yob majority of cit.
izene do not read books. Take this,
Audience, or any other promiscuous
ttssolnblago, and how many histories
have they road ? How many treater -
es on oonets a tuna law, .o p
drat people, avhrle `oil, Monday morn-
ing he natty prea0h that gospel to mil-
lions.
Notwithstanding all title that you
have gained in position and influence,
Dien of -the pros, how many words of
sympathy do yon get during the
ammo of a year ?• Not ten. flow
many 80Y1110114 of practicably helpful
for your profession aro preached dare
ing the twelve months ? Not one.
How many words of excoriation and
donunojatiou and hypereriticism , do
you get in that same length of time ?
About ton thousand. If you aro a
typesetter, and got the typo in the•
wrong fou!, the foreman storms at
you. If you are a foreman, and oan-
not surmount the instu'fnoclotitble,
and get the "form," ready at just the
trine the publisher, denounces ' you.
If you ars a publisher, and make psis.
management, then the owners of the
paper will be hard ou yon for lack of
dividend. If you ure an editor, and
you announce an unpopular senti-
ment, all the pens of Christendom are
flung at you. If you are a reporter,
you shall be held responsible for the
indistinctness of public a:poakors, and
for the blunders of the type..eotters,
and for the fact that you cannot work
quite so well in the flickering gas•
light and after midnight as you do in
the noonday. If you are a proof-read-
er, upou.you shall come the united
wrath of editor, reporter, and reader,
because you do not properly arrange
the periods, and the semi -colons, and
the exclamation points, and ithe as-
terisks. Plenty of abuse for you but
-no sympathy. Having been in a pos-
ition where I could see. these things
goiug ou from •day to say, I have
thought that this inoruiug I would
preach a sermon on the trials ot the
newspaper profession, praying that
'God may blue the sermon to all those
to whom this message may'eome, and
heading those not in the prefeseiou to
a more kindly and lenient bearing to
those who are.
One of the great trials of the noes
paper profession is the fact that they
are compelled to see more of the shame
of the world, than any:other
profoesion. Through every news
paper office, day by day, go the weak•
noses of the world, the vanities that
want to be puffed, the revenges that-
want
hat
want to be reeked, all the mietakes
that want to be corrected, alt the
dull speakers who want to be thought:
eloquent, all the meanuess that wants
to get its wares uetioad gratia in the
editorial column in order to save the
tax of the advertising column, all the
men who want th be set right who
never were right, all the crack brain-
ed philosophers, with a story as long
ns their hear and as gloomy as their
finger nails, in mourning because
bereft' of soap ; all the itinerant bores
who come to stay five mifilutes and
stop en hour. From the editorial and
reportorial rooms, fill the follies and
shame of the world are eoen d'ay by
day,; and the temptation is to believe.
neither in God, man nor woman. Is
is no surprise to me that in your pro-
feseiou there are some akeptioal men.
I only wonder that you believe , any-
thing. Unless an editor or reporter
has in his present or early home, a
model of earnest character, • or he
throw himself upon the upholding
grace of God, ho must make temporal
and eternal shipwreck.
Another great trial of the new
paper profession is inadequate cone-
peneaticn. Sines the days of Haz-
lite, and Sheridan. and John Milton,
and the wettings of Grub street, Lon-
don,literary 'toil, with very few ex-
ceptions, has not been properly re-
quited: When Oliver Goldsmith re•
carved a, friend in his house, he, the
author, had to sit on the window, be-
cause there Ives only ono chair.
Limos sold his splendid work for a
throat. De Foe, the author of two
hundred and eighteen volumes, died
penniless. The learned Johnson
dined behind a eereen because his
clothes, were too shabby to allow him
to dine with gentlemen who, on the
other side of the.acreen„,were applaud-
ing his work. And so on down to
the present time, literary , toil. is e
great struggle for bread.. The world
seems to have a grudge
agai sb s by
CUM
who, as they say, gta
his wits ; and the day laborers says
to the man of literary toil, "Yop come
down hero and shove a plana and
haunter a shoe last, and break cobble-
stones, and earn an honest laving as
I do, instead of sitting there in 'idle--
noes soribbliug 1” lent God' knows
that there aro to harder worked men'
on all the earth than :the nowepaper
people of thie country. It is; not a
matter of hard times ; it ie character.
little, of all times. Men have a better
appreoiation for that which appeals
to the etamech !pain for that which
appeals to tho brain. They hays no
tt' 1 r olttical idea of the immense financial and in -
economy, or works of mance ? Hove prays and the pulpit are in eombin- tellecteal exhaustious of the news-
manjfelaborato"poems of travel? How atton ; and It 011111 on the Sabbath day paper prose. They grutuble besattse
tench of Boyle, or De Toequevillo, may preach the gospol to five hun• they have to pay five cents 4 copy,
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W. B. Dloxsore,
Solicitor,}
Brussels, Ont.
Money, to,. Loan.
PRrY4TE FUNDS.
$20,000
of Pr,vatePundahavejustbeeu placed in
, myhandefor Investment
AT 7 PER CENT.
Borrowers can have theirloan scomplete
,1 three day s if title iaisatisfaotory,
Apply to , E. E. WADE.
The undersigned takes pleasure in in
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where he is prepared to attend to the ,re-
pairing of
Watches, Clocks, Jewelry, Etc.,
In a manner that will give the best ofeatis-
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All work guaranteed to bo done in a
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made. A call solicited..
-Sliop opposite Robertsons Hotel,Ethe1.—
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CONIF011,TABLE HOUSE. FOR
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r385e44000 to bo paid down and the balance to
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' At the Post Dake, Brussels.
lies, 13(3 aro 01141.1 ad en the
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CUSTOM TAILORING..
The undersigned begs leave, to intimate
to the public that be, Imo opened re tailor
slop in the Garfield Moine block, ovar
Poweil'.s store, whore lis is prepared to at-
tend to the wants of the public In cutting,
fitting and ranking clothing in the latest
and most faebicnablo etylss. My long ex-
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Straight Loans r•itli privilege of
repaying when required. Apply
to
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Division Court Clerk, Brussels.
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The undersigned begs to inform the public
that they have manufnotured and ready
for use
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WOOD .1 IRON.,
Cisterns of
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whore, -
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