TAL3I AGE'S SERMOX oojrt jxvf 'DIVINE MISSION OF THE NEWS PAPER.- HIS SUBJECT. tmfnt of th Condition That Sorronnd N'ewipiprrdom Tb Awt rtally or Weekly (a.(xv la u iMtromeat fr Groat OomL A S HINGTON, March 22, 1896. "Newspaper Row," as it is called here In Washington, the long row of offices connected with prominent journals throughout th land, pays so much attention to Dr. Talmage they may te glad to hear what he thinks of them while he discusses a subject in which the whole country is interested. His text today was: "And the wheels were full of eyes." Ezekiel x: 12. "For all the Athenians and strangers which wre there spent their time in nothing 6e but either to tell or hear some new thing." Acts xvii: 21. What is a preacher to do when he finds two texts equally good and sug gestive? In that perplexity I take both. Wheels full of eyes? What but the wheels of a newspaper printing press? Other wheels are blind. They roll on, pulling or crushing. The manufac turer's wheel, how It grinds the operat or with fatigues, and rolls over nerve and muscle and bone and heart, not knowing what it does. The sewing machine wheel sees not the aches and j pains fastened to it tighter than the j band that moves It. sharper than the needle which It plies. Every moment j of every hour of every day of every month of every year "there are hun- j dreds of thousands of wheels of mech anism, wheels of enterprise, wheels ; of hard work, in motion, but they are . eyeless. Not so with the wheels of the printing press. Their entire business Is to look and report. They are full of ; optic nerves, from axle to periphery. ! They are like those spoken of by Eze- ! klel as full of eyes. Sharp eyes, near- sighted, far-sighted. They look up. j They look down. They look far away. ; They take in the next street and the ! next hemisphere. Eyes of criticism, i eyes of investigation; eyes that twinkle with mirth, eyes glowering with indig- nation, eyes tender with love; eyes of j uspicion, eyes of hope; blue eyes, black ! eyes, green eyes; holy eyes, evil eyes. ' sore eyes, political eyes, literary eyes, j historical eye3, religious eyes; eyes that ! see everything. "And the wheels were j full of eyes." But in my second text is the world's cry for the newspaper. Paul describes a class of people in Athens who sn,ent their time either in gather ing news or telling it. Why. especially In Athens? Because the more intelli gent people become, the more inquisi tive they are not about small things, but great things. The question then most frequently Is the question now most frequently asked: What is the news? To answer that cry in the text for the newspaper the centuries have put their wits to work. China first succeeded, and has at Pekin a newspaper that has been printed every week for one thousand years, printed on silk. Rome succeed ed by publishing the Acta Diurna, in the same column putting fires, mur ders, marriages and tempests. France eucceeded by a physician writing out the news of the day for his patients. England succeeded under Queen Eliza- beth in first publishing the news of the i Spanish Armada, and going on until she had enough enterprise, when the battle of Waterloo was fought, deciding the destiny of Europe, to give it one third of a column in the London Morn ing Chronicle, about as much as the newspaper of oar day gives of a small fire. America succeeded by Benjamin Harris' first weekly paper, called Pub lic Occurrences, published In Boston in 1690, and by the first daily, the Amer ican Advertiser, published in Philadel phia in 17S4. The newspaper did not suddenly spring upon the world, but came grad ually. The genealogical line of the newspaper-is this: The Adam of the race was a circular or news-letter, cre ated by Divine impulse in human na ture; and the circular begat the pam- I phlet, and the pamphlet begat the quar- j terly. and the quarterly begat the week- t ly. and the weekly begat the semi- ! weekly, and the semi-weekly begat the 1 daily. But alas! by what a struggle it came to its present development! No sooner had its power been demonstrated than tyranny and superstition shackled It. There is nothing that despotism so fears and hates as a printing press. It has too many eyes in its wheel. A great writer declared that the king of Naples made It unsafe for him to write of anything but natural history. Aus- tria could aot endure Kossuth's jour- ', nalistic pen, pleading for the redemp- ( Hon of Hungary. Napoleon L, trying to keep his iron heel on the neck of na tions, said: ."Editors are the regents of sovereigns and the tutors of nations, and are only fit for prison." But the battle for tbe freedom of the press was fought in the court rooms of England and America and decided before this century began by Hamilton's eloquent plea for J. Peter Zen gers Gazette in America and Erskine's advocacy of the freedom of publication in England. But I discourse now on a subject you fcave never heard the immeasurable end everlasting blessing of a good news paper. Thank God for the wheel full of eyes. Thank God that we do not have like the Athenians-to go about to gather up and relate the tidings of the day. since the omnivorous news paper does both for us. The grandest temporal blessing that God has given to the nineteenth century ' T,oper- e wou,(I bave btter appre cl&tJon of this b,esBln lf we knev; lbe esslng -morey, the brain, the losses, the 'exas peration?. thr anxieties, the wear and tear of hearts involved in the produc tion of a sontf r.v.-spaper. "Under the Impression that almost anybody ran make a newspaper, scores of inexperi enced capitalists every year enter the lists, and. consequently, during the last few years a newspaper has died almost every day. The disease is epiaeinic . . - i The larger papers swallow the smaller ones, the whale taking down fifty min nows at one swallow. With more than seven thousand dailier and weeklies in the United States and Canada, there are but thirty-six a half century old. News papers do not average more than five years existence. The most of them die of cholera infantum. It is high time that the people found out that the most successful way to sink money and keep it sunk Is to start a newspaper. There comes a time when almost everyone is smitten with the newspaper mania and starts one. or have stock In one he must or die. To publish a newspaper requires the Bkill, the precision, the boldness, the vigilance, the strategy of a commander-in-chief. To edit a newspaper requires that one be a statesman, an essayist, a geographer, a statistician, and in acqul- i sition. encyclopedlac. To man. to gov ; em. to propel a newspaper until it shall be a fixed institution, a national fact, demand more qualities than any busi ness on earth. If you feel like starting any newspaper, secular or religious, understand that you are being threat ened with softening of the brain or lunacy and. throwing your pocketbook Into your wife's lap, start for some in sane asylum before you do something desperate. Meanwhile, as the dead newspapers, week by week, are carried out to the burial, all the living news papers give respectful obituary, telling when they were "born and when they died. The best " printer's Ink should give at least one stickful of epitaph. If it was a good paper, say. "Peace to its ashes." If it was a" bad paper, I sug gest the epitaph written for Francis Chartreuse: "Here continueth to rot the body of Francis Chartreuse, who, with an inflexible constancy and uni formity of life, persisted in the prac tice of every human vice, excepting prodigality and hypocrisy; his insati able avarice exempted him from the first, his matchless impudence from the second." I say this because 1 want you to know that a good, healtby. long lived, entertaining newspaper is not an easy blessing, but one that comes to us through the fire. First of all, newspapers make knowl edge democratic and for the multitude. The public library is a hay-mow so high ' up that few can reach it. while the i ne-wEnaner throws down the foraee to our feet. Public libraries are the reser voirs where the great floods are stored high up and away off. The newspaper i3 the tunnel that brings them down to the pitchers of all the people. The chief use of great libraries is to make newspapers out of. Great libraries make a few men and women very wise. Newspapers lift whole nations into the sunlight. Better have fifty million peo ple moderately Intelligent than one hundred thousand solons. A false im pression is abroad that newspaper knowledge is ephemeral because period icals are thrown aside, and not one out of ten thousand people files them for future reference. Such knowledge, so far from being ephemeral, goes into the very structure of the world's heart and brain and decides the destiny of churches and nations. Knowledge on the shelf is of little worth. It is knowledge afoot, knowledge harnessed, knowledge in revolution, knowledge winged, knowledge projected, knowl edge thunder-bolted. So far from be ing ephemeral, nearly all the be3t minds and hearts have their hands on the printing press today, and have had since it got emancipated. Adams and Hancock and Otis used to go to the Boston Gazette and compose articles on the rights of the people. Benjamin Franklin, De Witt Clinton, Hamilton, Jefferson, Qulncy were strong in news paperdom. Many of the Immortal things that have been published In book form first appeared in what you may call the ephemerarperiodical. All Macaulay's essays first appeared In a ! review. All (jariyie s, ail uusKin a, ail Mcintosh's, all Sydney Smith's, all Ilazlett's, all Thackeray's, all the ele- vated works of fiction in our day, are : reprints from periodicals in which they ' appeared as serials. Tennyson's poems. Burns' poems. . Longfellow's poems. Emerson's poems, Lowell's poems. Whlttier's poems, were once fugitive j pieces. You cannot find ten literary men In Christendom, with strong j minds and great hearts, but-are or have j been somehow connected with the newspaper printing press. While the i book will always have its place, the notent. Because , the latter is multltudiBOUS ao noi con clude It Is necessarily superficial. If a man should from childhood to old age see only his Bible." Webster's Diction ary and - his newspaper, he could be prepared for all the dutleB of this life and all the happiness of the next. Again, a good newspaper is a useful mirror of life as it Is. It is sometimes complained that newspapers report the evil when they ought only to report the good. They must report the evil as well as the good, or how shall we know what Is to be reformed, what guarded against, what fought down? A news paper that pictures only " the honesty and virtue of society, is. a misrepre sentation. That family is best pre pared for the duties of life, which, knowing the evil. Is taught to select the good. Keep tbe children under the Impression that all is fair and right in the world, and when they go out Into it they will t is poorly prepared to strurele with It as clilld who Is thrown Into the middle of the Atlantic ad told to learn how to swim. Our only com plaint Is when 6in Is made attractive and morality dull, when vice is painted ' with great headlines and good deeds are put In obscure corners, iniquity set ! up in great primer and righteousness In nonpariel. Sin is loathsome, make U loathsome. Virtue is beautiful, make It beautiful. It would work a vast Improvement if all our papers religious, political, literary should for the most part drop their impersonality. This would do better Justice to newspaper writers. Many of the strongest and best writers of the country live and die unknown, and are denied their Just fame. The vast public never learns who they are. Most of them are on comparatively small income, and after awhile their hand forgets its cunning, and they are without resources, left to die. Why not. at least, have his Initial attached to his most important workT ' It al ways gave additional force to an article when you occasionally saw added to some significant article in the old New York Courier and Enquirer J. W. W., or in the Tribune H. G., or in the Her ald J. G. B.. or in tbe Times H. J. R., or in the Evening Post W. C. B., or in the Evening Express E. B. While thie arrangement would be a fair and Just thing for newspaper writers, it would be a defense for the public Onoe more I remark, that a good newspaper is a blessing as an evan gelistic Influence. You know there is a great change In our day taking place. All the secular newspapers of the day for i am not speaking now of the re ligious newspapers all the secular newspapers of the day discuss all the questions of God, eternity and the dead, and all the questions of the past, pres ent and future. There 13 not a single doctrine of theology but has been dis cussed In the last ten years by the sec ular newspapers of the country. They gather up all the news of all the earth bearing on religious subjects, and then they scatter the news abroad again. The Christian newspaper will be the right wing of the apocalyptic angel. The cylinder of the Christian ized printing press will be the front wheel of the Lord's chariot. I take the music of this day, and I do not mark it diminuendo I mark it crescendo. A pastor on a Sabbath preaches to a few hundred, or a few thousand people, and on Monday, or during the week, the printing press will take the same ser mon and preach it to millions of peo ple. God speed the printing press! God save the printing press! God Chris tianize the printing press! When I see the printing press stand ing with the electric telegraph on the one side gathering up material, and the lightning express train on the other side waiting for the tons of fold ed sheets of newspapers, 1 pronounce it the mightiest force in our civiliza tion. So I commend you to pray for all those who manage the newspapers of the land, for all type setters, for all re porters, for all editors, for all pub lishers, that, sitting or standing in po sitions of such great influence, 4hey may give all that influence for God and the betterment of the human race. An aged woman making her living by knit ting, unwound the yarn from the ball until she found In the center of the ball there was an old piece of newspaper. She opened it and read an advertise ment which announced that she had become heiress to a large property, and that fragment of newspaper lifted her from pauperism to affluence. And I do not know but as the thread of time un rolls and unwinds a little further, through the silent yet speaking news paper may be found the vast inheri tance of the world's redemption. Jesus shall reign where'er the sun Does his successive journeys run; His kindom stretch from shore to shore Till suns shall rise and set no more. RELICION AND REFORM Over 600 preachers in Connecticut work for salaries that do not average more than $750 a year. It was a Connecticut woman who re fused to buy a copy of the Bible from an agent because it did not contain portraits of the presidents of the United States. The Church of Messiah, Brooklyn, Dr. Charles R. Baker, rector, has main tained for several years a circulating library for the blind, probably the only one in the United States. . Hnl Kin is the first Chinaman to be ordained as a Christian minister in the eastern part of the United States. He is a Presbyterian and has lived in New York since he came to this country twenty years ago. Rev. Benjamin Waugh has retired from the editorship of the London Sun day Magazine, his work in connection with the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children leaving him no leisure for other labors. " Dr. Alexander Charles Garrett, bish op of northern Texas, has just been elected bishop of the newly created dio cese of Dallas, Texas. Dr. Bishop has for years been one of the most aggress ive missionary bishops in the Episcopal church. A priest of the Greek church in Thes saly died lately at the age of 102. Dur ing the last years of his life his mem ory became so much impaired that he often forgot whether or not he had dined, and sometimes he dined twice or thrice in succession. Rev. Dr. George W. Miller, now of St. Andrew's Methodist church, New York, has accepted a call to succeed Rev. Dr. Richard Harcourt of Grace church, Baltimore. Dr. Miller has had charge of the largest church of his de nomination in Kansas City, was for merly pastor of Grace church, Wil mington, and began his ministry In Chambersburg. . . The love that never speaks until it does it on a gravestone, keeps still too long. He Bad Heard Her Say So. That it is only a step from the sub lime to the ridiculous iswell illustrated by the following amusing incident that happened a few Sabbaths ago in a well known church, and caused no little merriment among- the teachers. The superintendent was telling- the wee small folks of the custom in certain countries of chaining- the prisoners' hands and feet together. "And."' she asked, "don't you suppose that if some one came and released them they would be happy and grateful?". It was unanimously agreed that they would. "And," continued the superintend ent, coming to her point, "Je6UB was sent to the world to release people from their sins. Are any of you here bound with the chains of sin?" 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The grave and reverend justices of the supreme court sometimes oftener, indeed, than might be suspected de scend from the dig-nit j that marks their official and public life, and do not scorn to indulge in little pleasantries and frivolities that ordinary mortals enjoy. The other day Mr. Justice (Jray was in a reminiscent mood and began the nar ration of an incident with the sentence, "When I was a little boy." Mr. Jus tice Shiras broke in with the incredu lous remark, "You don't mean to say you were ever a little boy?" Washing ton Star. I believe Piso's Cure is the only medicine that -will cure consumption. Anna M. Ross, Williamsport, I'a., Nov. 12, U5. Nye' Favorite Story. 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