Christian Herald, Vol. 27: January 6, 1904 (Classic Reprint)
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Excerpt from Christian Herald, Vol. 27: January 6, 1904
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Louis Klopsch was a German-born American publisher and humanitarian. He was the owner and editor of the American edition of the Christian Herald Magazine.
Background
Louis Klopsch was born on March 26, 1852 at Lübben, a suburb of Berlin, Germany. His father, Dr. Osmar Klopsch, was a physician by profession, and a liberal in politics. Louis's mother died shortly after his birth, and when he was two years old his father emigrated, arriving in New York with him in 1854.
Education
Louis received a scanty education in the New York City public schools. Later he studied journalism in Columbia University and graduated with high honors.
Career
At an early age Klopsch was employed in advertising and publishing establishments. When he was twenty (1872) he launched out for himself with a four-page publication entitled Good Morning, to be distributed among customers by retail merchants. This he followed with the Daily Hotel Reporter (begun in 1877), and shortly afterward he was able to purchase a printing establishment. Young Klopsch was of an essentially religious nature and devoted much time to evangelistic work, through which he was brought into contact with the Reverend T. DeWitt Talmage, of the Brooklyn Tabernacle. Klopsch conceived the idea of syndicating Talmadge's sermons to several hundred newspapers (1885), and this syndication, together with another original idea, the Pictorial Associated Press, brought prosperity and success. Klopsch traveled with Talmage through Europe and the Holy Land in 1889-1890, and on this journey took over the management of the American edition of the Christian Herald.
Thereafter he relinquished his other publishing interests and purchased control of the Herald. At last he had found his lifework. Through its pages he appealed to the American public for funds to support a wide variety of philanthropic and religious undertakings. In eighteen years a total of $3, 365, 648. 14 was thus raised. Approximately half this sum went to famines in China (1901, 1907), India (1897, 1900), Japan (1906), Russia (1892), and Cuba (1897). While more than eighty charities are listed as having been supported by him, dearest to his heart of all were the Children's Homes at Nyack, founded in June 1895 with money left over after the relief of recent famines. He established his residence at Tarrytown, across the river, that he might be near them. In 1895 he became president of the Bowery Mission, which long continued one of his major interests. His untimely death, following an operation, was mourned from the White House to the poorest tenements. Messages of sympathy were received from the Viceroy of India and representatives of many foreign governments.
Klopsch was a man of broad sympathies and limited by no narrow creed.
Quotes from others about the person
"He preached with bread; he prayed with human kindness; he blessed with wheat and corn. His best missionaries were loaded ships; his happiness was in mitigated pain. His weekday was as holy as his Sabbath, his office as consecrated as his church. " - Irving Bacheller
Connections
In 1886 Klopsch married Mary Merritt, daughter of the Reverend Stephen Merritt. His wife shared his enthusiasms, and their union was a most happy one. To them four children were born, three sons and one daughter, all of whom survived him.