THE POWER OF THE PRESS.

Kumara Times, Issue 786, 7 April 1879, Page 2

THE POWER OF THE PRESS.

Listen to this, my snarling masters; listen to this, and never again dare .to speak disrespectfully of pressmen. The Rev. De Witt Talrnage, in holding forth on the profligacy of the city of New York, says*—“l shall speak of my second night oi exploration. I have bugibi to >cli r the cities, an ?, God hr-Ip* ing mo, 1 will go llnough. 1 Jo not know what course t will take in thcM: Sabbath morning sermons, but whoever else Will be Crowd, d or kept standing outside the doo*>, I charge tin* trustees ot the church that they give, full elbow room to journalists, since each one is another church five tiiui« or ten times or twenty times largei 1 than tin- august assemblage, and it is by the printiug-preas that the Gospel of the Son of God Is to be preached to the world. May the blessing of Almighty God crime down on all the editors, reporter*, and comjKi-itofi..” (Mafiftnrs ot approval ) Murmurs of apprdVal, indeed, why there should have been thunders of applause, for if any class of men are badly in riev 1 of heave i’s blessing It is the Fourth Estate, who are t-dlingand moiling from week’s end to week’s 6nd in order to illnmimv-: an ungrateful peripK On behalf of all the Press folk in New Zealand, from tli j esfc editor to the most diminitiv ; devil, I return my sincere thanks to tu Rev, De Witt Talrnage. May his vdic.j never grow weaker nor his shadow ovar be less.—-“ Frank Fudge,” iu Saturday Advertiser!