THE PULPIT AND THE PRESS.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 1647, 27 August 1887, Page 3

THE PULPIT AND THE PRESS.

Dr Talmoge, speaking at tho inauguration of a monument by tho New York Press Club over the graves of some of their dead, said be had to thank tho printiag press for what it had done for the pulpit. "It has," he added, " filled our sacred auditoriums with men and women who know how to think It has awakened u« to more vivacity by the fact that it has made our congregations impatient of humdrum. It has mado us preach less platitudes, because that which is flit as. delivered, tho next day is more awfully flat when the tjpe exposes it. It has made our pulpits more intelligent by the fact that all the religious intelligence of the world— not waiting, as once, for some sectarian journal the product of scissors and paste pot to come slowly round— is now twice a day brought to our studios. It has takon Gospel morfsages that would otherwise have atopporl at tho four walls of a mooting house or cathedral and rolled them across Christendom m a day. When ecclesiastical courts have sometimes, without any disci imination, reprimanded journalism, I wish to say that, while that profession, liko all others, has those unfit and uawonhy, m all my acquaintance I havo never found men characterised by more fidelity and spirit of fairness than thono who for tho moßt part compose the newspaper profession."