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