THE PULPIT AND THE PRESS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1663, 22 November 1887, Page 3

THE PULPIT AND THE PRESS.

Dr Tallage, speaking at the inauguration of a monument by the New York Press Club over the graves of some of their dead, said he had to thank the printing 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 us to more vivacity by the fact that it has made our congregations impatient of humdrum. It has made us preach less platitudes, because that which is flat as delivered, the next day is more awfully flat when the type exposes it. It has made our pulpits more intelligent by the fact that all 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 studies. It has taken Gospel messages that would otherwise have stopped at the four walls of a meeting house or cathedral and rolled them across Christendom in a day. "When ecclesiastical courts have sometimes, without any discrimination, reprimanded journalism, I wish to say that, while that profession, like all others, has those unfit and unworthy, in all my acquaintance I have never found men characterised by more fidelity and spirit of fairness than those who for the most part compose the newspaper profession."