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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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