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Library of Congress1886

Image 4 of The Magnolia gazette (Magnolia, Miss.), April 30, 1886

TALMAGES SERMON Dlsoourse on the Trials of News paper Editors and Reporters The Shams They See ancl the Temptations They Meet in Their Search for News An Underpaid Clans a Rule and Their Souls Nobodys Car or Rev T DeWitt Talmage in a reoent sermon took up the cudgel for the news paper men illustrating their trials temp tations and almost ceaseless labors in the fight for current news in a forcible man ner He took for his text Behold a flying roll Zacliariah Dr Talmage said This winged sheet of the text had on it a prophecy The flying roll today is the newspaper In calcu lating the influences that affect society no more afford to ignore It than you you can iernore the noonday sun or the Atlantic Ocean It is high time that I preach a sermon expressing my appreciation of what the newspaper press has done and is doing No man living or dead is or has been so indebted to it as I am for it gives me perpetual audience in every city town and neighborhood of Christendom and I take this opportunity before God and this people to thank the editors and publishers and

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Library of Congress1888

Image 4 of The Bossier banner (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.), July 12, 1888

TAL AGES SERMON A Discourse on the Palpit and Press as Allies The Power of the Press for Good or Evil The Folly of Antagonizing ItA Force that Should be Culti vated and Promoted Rev T DeWitt Talmage preached a sermon in Brooklyn Tabernacle on the Pulpit and Press Made Allies taking for his text The children of this world are in their gener ation wiser than the children of light Luke xvi 8 He said Sacred stupidity and solemn incompetency and sanctified laziness are here reVuked by Christ He says world lings a wider awake for opportunities than are Christians Men of the world grab occasions while Christian people let the most valuable occasions drift by unimproved This is the meaning of our Lord when He Bays f The children of this world are in their genera tion wiser than the children of light A marked illustration of the truth of that maxim is in the slowness of the Christian religion to take possession of the secular printing press The oppor tunity is open and has for some time been open but the ecclesiastical courts and the churches and the ministers of re ligion are for the most part

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Library of Congress1886

Image 4 of The Brookhaven leader (Brookhaven, Miss.), April 22, 1886

TALMAGETS SERMON Discount ou the Trlels of News paper Editors and Reporters Tt Shim Thr See and the TtmptMltM They Meet In Their Search for News Aa rnderpald Clema a Rule and Their SoaU tohodyi Care Rev T DeWitt Talmage In a recent aertnon took up the cudgel for the news paper men illustrating their trials temp tations and almost ceaseless labors in the fight for current news in a forcible man ner He took for his text Tthnld a flying rollZacharlah v1 Dr Talmage said This winged sheet of the text hd on it a prophecy The flying roll today is the newspaper In calcu lating the influeneea that affect society you can no more afford to ignore it than you can ignore the noonday son or the Atlantic Ocean It is high time that I preach a sermon expressing my appreciation of what the nwspaper press has done and is doing No man living or dead is nr has been so indebted to it as I am for it gives me perpetual audience in every city town and neighborhood of Christendom and I take this opportunity before Clod and this people to thank the editors and publishers and

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Library of Congress1903

Image 6 of The Republican journal (Belfast, Me.), February 5, 1903

Alls Well That Ends Well A STORY OF FOURSIDED LOVE I He looked for the most part straight in front of him as they walked across the held side by side His forehead w as puckered his mouth set his peculiarly youthful face paler than its wont Life he said is such a huge re sponsibility Unconsciously his voice took the dog matic tone which so often characterized it in the performance of his clerical du ties Life is such d serious matter 1 do not think we half realize its tremendous seriousness Talkingofertigers said she His voice dropped to one of surprise almost of irritation Wliat do you mean he asked I havent grasped the connection she said It is only when I am in pain that I feel like that Plainly he was seriously affected for he even ignored her frivolous aside Oh what is it she asked There must be something she continued Has the vicarhere she smiled al though unwillinglyhas his reverence been insisting on the fifteen minutes limit for your sermon again You couldnt neglect your mother for any one she said bravely No he admitted no thats true bo you are forced to make

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Library of Congress1907

Image 6 of The Republican journal (Belfast, Me.), June 20, 1907

LEST m FORGET Extracts from the Memorial Sermon to the Members of Kenesaw Post G A R in Eastside congregational Church Los Angeles California BY REV F S FORBES An old Hebrew patriot who with his companions was a slave in Babylon made a vow recorded in the 137th lsalm 5th and Oth verses which read as follows If X forget thee 0 J erusalem Let my right hand forget her shill Let my tongue cleave to the roof of my mouth If X remember uot Jerusalem Above my chief joy More than two thousand years have passed since ttiese words were spoken Since that time many nations have risen and perished but no nation has ever died with old age 2s o nation ever died until the forces of patriotism first died in the hearts of its people It was unselfish patriotism coupled with righteousness that made of the He brew people the greatest uatiou of an cient times It is this same spirit of righteousness which has made this na tion what it is today This morning I do uot wish to dwell long on the past The past is the past Let the dead bury the dead

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Library of Congress1958

Image 2 of Jackson advocate (Jackson, Miss.), March 15, 1958

131 AND STILL LIGHTING THE WAY to FREEDOM tSggEif IH _ THE JACKSON ADVOCATE Is Proud to Cooperate with Fellow Publishers In the Observance of NEGRO NEWSPAPER I MARCH 16 22 Commemorating the founding of Freedoms Journal the first Negro Newspaper by John B Russwurm on March 17 1827 in New York City r S Special Events SUNDAY MARCH 16 In mon Churches special sermons will be preached commemora ting the 131st Anniversary of the first Negro Newspaper TUESDAY MARCH 18 A Negro Newspaper Week Radio Broadcast over Station WXXX 000 megacycles at 545 P M featuring Sammy Davis Jr Billy Eckstine Jackie Robinson and William O Walker announced by Beverly Carter FRIDAY MARCH 21 Open House at the Jackson Advocate Plant Visitors are welcome See how a modem newspaper is edited printed distributed and managed SATURDAY MARCH 22 Another Negro Newspaper Week Radio Program on Sta y tion WZZZ 000 megacycles at 915 P M featuring Lena Horne Ella Fitzgerald Rev Martin Luther King Jr and h Frank L Stanley announced by Thomas W Young No Other Source of Information or Entertainment Gives You All These Negro Newspapers like the Jackson Advocate present the truth about stumb ling blocks

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Library of Congress1898

Image 4 of The Opelousas courier (Opelousas, La.), October 22, 1898

The Toledo Weekly Blade Every intelligent family needs in ad dition to their local paper a good na tional weekly The greatest and most widely known general family newspa per is the Toledo Weekly Blade For thirty years it has been a regular visit or in every part of the Union and is well known at almost every one of the 70000 postofiices in the country It is edited with reference to a national cir culation It is a Republican paper but men of all politics take it because of its honesty and fairness in the discus sion of all public questions It is the favorite family paper with something for every member of the household Serial stories poetry wit and humor the Household department best in the world Young Folks Sunday School Lessons Talmnages Sermons the Fat m stead the Question Bureau which an swers questions for subscribers the news of the week in complete form and other special features Specimen copies gladly sent on application and if you will send us a list of addresses we will mail a copy to each Only 1 a year If you wish to raise a club write for terms Address The

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Library of Congress1879

Image 3 of The Bossier banner (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.), December 11, 1879

mm K gosßw e 1 belleV ira LA jpSOAV LEW r SHREVEPORT Court very srooil Busnu ou paid your taxes r Have u or Dill Ao i PDCEW BER 11 18yf j Jt is j j 1 Bellevue prior high figures I Bellevue merchants enjoyed a djtradeduring all of the past 1 j Bellevue Masonic Lodge will jUkir officers for ensuing year wtoy __ _____ SfÜniag to people laying in tir supplies our merchants are good jiisiuess IfBeiuember Henry Dreyfuss jonShreveport when you want ef cloHres OEev Mr Ilartfield Kfbed fine sermons hero and Friday nights r Monday was a wet log ni dayone calculated to j rrseii a fit of the blues Kpîhen is a demand for now I i I ässnd dwellings m and around hajMtport merchants in the Ban Aud till the cotton comes in y Bellevue merchants happy jijconUuitctl Everybody is looking for a Christinas is tiie boss cotton SAnnmbcrof legal lights have attendance upon Parish ______ Trance to the Iront and make tart glad when jou sell our i a apt ist Thurs ilfvao Who will build thetnî 1 Our remitrs will do well to id tiie advertisvim nts of t lie Hifis week IFWeljgter

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Library of Congress1886

Image 2 of The Grenada sentinel (Grenada, Miss.), April 24, 1886

TALMAGES SE1UI0X i Discourse on the Trials paper Editors aqg R N fbr Shams They See aad the Temptation They Meet In Their Seaich for News An lliKlirpald fUfrM W Their Koala Nobody Care PeWittj Talmagjei In a recent ormon took up tnecudgePfor the newe pper men illntfcratiug thair triaia temp tations and almost ceaselesn labors in the fight for current news in a forcible man ner He took for hta text Behold a flying rolltZachariah vL Dr Talmage said This winged sheet of the text had on it a prophecy The flying roll today is the newspaper In calcu lating the influences that aflfecj society you can no more afford to igUjttrir it than you can ignore the noonday sun or the Atlantic Ocean It is high time that t preach a sermon expressing my appreciation of what the newspaper press has done and is doing No man living or dead is or has been so indebted to it as I am for it gives me perpetual audience in every 5yTfcwn and neighborhood of ChrMtendWlfnd I ake this opportunity before God and thi ieople to thank the editors and publishers and compositor and typesetter the world over and I

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Library of Congress1921

Image 6 of The Grenada sentinel (Grenada, Miss.), September 16, 1921

OXBERRY ITEMS Mr and Mrs Wade Smith left Sunday afternoon to go to Mr J M Smiths so Mrs Smith could nurse her mother Perry son of Mr and Mrs Jim Hudson Jr is very sick at present but we hope he will soon be well Messrs Archie and Herman Massey were guests at Mr Henry Yarbroughs Sunday Mr Albert Massey was a guest Mr Benton J Madden Sunday As a car load of logs was crossing the bridge across Tipno the trussel broke in All cars fell in but there was no one hurt Mr and Mrs Lewis Cunninghams little twoyear old baby died Wednes day and was buried Thursday Lay conducted the funeral services at Bethel cemetery Mr and Mrs Robert Massey and family spent a pleasant visi at the Misses Musselwhites home Sunday Mr and Mrs Edd Massey guests of Mr and Mrs Jim Hudson Sr Sunday Mr and Mrs Chester their parents home Wade Smith for Greenville They were going home after a weeks visit in Oxberry community Last Tuesday night the members ordained Messrs Robert Massey and Walter Philip deacons and ordained Pro Leroy Sellers into the ministry He made his opening sermon Satur day

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Library of Congress1960

Image 1 of The Petal paper (Petal, Miss.), May 12, 1960

t I THURSDAY MAY 12 I960 __ yCL NUMBER 27 Side By P D Whether Im believed or not isnt too important not really but I want to point out that I am not of the Yeah and yo big brudders one too school of journalism I know of course there are a couple of editors in the South today who have leanings in that direction in that they seem to close their eyes to the evil and wrong at their door steps and search for and stir up the dirt around the door steps of the North MidWest and West Well to heck with all that in view of the fact that this is neither an apol ogy nor a sermon Not long ago a friend of mine who lives in Colorado excited my interest by an incident which happened in the town of Canon City Colorado I report the matter as something which interested me not as an attempt to justify the dirt of which I am a part In a letter to me the friend sent a clipping from the Rocky Mountain News and it carried a threecolumn twoline head which read CANNON CITY CHURCH GIVES UP

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Library of Congress1944

Image 1 of The Echo (Meridian, Miss.), February 25, 1944

LA Pome Paper With A Horn Mississippi Standard Negri WLi mu x m n x newspaper of character circa rEditor That Tells State A l lafon and opinion with mar x News Weekly than 10000 readers j __ J iiinrTffmsssmJSSLMMMri fr6 nri hiii BiwiiMi ii Published Weekly At 250S5th Street aim mi VOLUM X X THE WEEKLY ECHO FEBRUARY 25 1914 NUMBER 22 PIN III I1 SOLDIER _ i r _ iii Ixclujiv JPS photvpnmt Vivacious Dolores Brown wants every soldier sailor and marine to know that she is their Valentine Come one come all And boys Dolores will gladly forward an autographed picture of herself if you write in and make the request All letters are to be written direct to the singing star with Don Red mans Orchestra in care of this newspaper The editors as a contribution to the morale of our fightin i n vll nblige by forwarding the requests to Miss Brown __ __ I Christianity As A Challenge To The I Races Of The World I The above Sermon was delivered at the First Presbyterian Church White of this City in an Interracial Service February 13th by Rev B Washington Coates Pastor of Union

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