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