TALMAGE’S SERMON. -DIVINE MISSION OF THE NEWS PAPER." HIS SUBJECT. A Fair Statununt of tbo Condition! That Surround Nawipapartlom — Tbo aabty Tapor la an • Wood. S H I N O T 0 N, arch 22, 18M — newspaper Row," l It Is called here Washington, the ng row of offices > n n e c t e d with omlnent journals roughout the nd, pays so much tentlon to Dr. ilmage they may be glad to hear what he thinks of them while be discusses a subject in which the whole country Is Interested. His text today was: "And the wheels were full of eyes.” Ereklel x: 12. "For all the Athenians and strangers which were there spent tbelr time in nothing else but either to tell or hear some new thing.” Acts xvll: 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 pains fastened to It—tighter than the band that moves It, sharper than the needle which It plies. Every moment of every hour of every day of every month of every year there are hun dreds of thousands of wheels of mceh anlsin, wheels or enterprise, wnenis of bard work. In motion, but they are eyeless. Not so with the wheels of the pjlntlng press. Their entire business la to look and report. They are full of optic nerves, from axle to periphery. They nre like those spoken of by Eze kiel as full of eyes. Sharp eyes, near elghted, far-sighted. They look up. They look down, 'lhcy look far away. They take In the next street and the next hemisphere. Eyes of criticism, eyes of investigation; eyes that twinkle with mirth, eyes glowering with indig nation, eyes tender with love; eyes of suspicion, eyes of hope; blue eyes, black eyes, green eyes; holy eyes, evil eyes, sore eyes, political eyes, literary eyes, historical eyes, religious eyes; eyes that see everything. "And the wheels were full of eyes." But In my second text Is the world’s cry for the newspaper. Paul describes a class of people In Athens arho spent 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 amall things, but great things. The question then mo3t frequently Is the question now most frequently aeked: 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 nubllshlng the Acta. Dlurna, In the same column putting fires, mur ders, marriages and tempests. France succeeded by a physician writing out the uewB of the day for his patients. England succeeded under Queen Eliza beth In first publishing the news of the Spanish Armada, and going on until ehe bad enough enterprise, when the battle of Waterloo was fought, deciding the destiny of Europe, to give It oue third of n column in the London Morn ing Chronicle, about as much as the newspaper of our 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 dally, the Amer •v*»u aumiioM, |ruunBUbu iu a uiiauwr pblu In 1784. Tbo newspaper did not suddenly spring upon the world, but came grad ually. The genealogical lino of ih« newspaper Is this: Tbe Adam ot the race was a circular or news-letter, cre ated by Divine Impulse In human na ture; and tbe circular begat the pain phiet. and the pamphlet begat tbe quar terly. and tbe quarterly begat tbe week ly. and the weekly begat tbe semi weekly. and tbe aenit-weekly begat the dally. Uut alaa! by ahat a struggle II came to tta present development! Nc auoner bad It* power been demonstrated than tyranny and superstition shackle*. It There la nothing that despotism *> fears and balsa as a printing press. 1 baa too many eyes In Its wheel. A great writer declared that lb* king u Naples made It unsafe for him to writ* of anything but natural history. Aus trim con id not endure Kossuth's pur Balletic pen. pleading for tbo redemp lion of Hungary. Napoleu.’ 1., trytai to beep bli ln*n heel on tbo neck of na that, said "tMlisrs nr* the regent* •f novsteigne and tbs tutors of nation and nr* only St tur prison “ Hut th< battle fur tbe freedom of the prees «•< fought ta the court rooms ot KagUnd gad America ssd derided before Ibu century be««a by HMattie* s #i»qo*«i plea for J Net geugers ttesett* U Amen a nn t Kcsbtt*. • *•!**>. a. y of th< freedom of puhttniw t In Kngtend Hut t di*t*ur*» now on n subject ye* hat* peter h**»d tbe tuil»v »•>•* abli end *seetesting Meting *1 a good new* paper f***b f)«>d t-u Ui* Wb*e| fut •if eye* Than* tied that •• do •«* has* lib* the Atbenten# to go shew lo gathei op gad teUto tb* tiding* w the day. slace Ibe ..aaiiunio* new* paper doe# b*th for «* Tb* grshde* temporal blessing D»t Hod bos gtrei ta tba algtMdatHb fm-mri >• "*• ■**•* paper. We would have better appre ciation of this blessing If w# knew the money, the brain, the losses, the exas perations, the anxieties, the wear and tear of hearts Involved In the produc tion of a good newspaper. Under the Impression that almost anybody can make a newspaper, score* of Inexperi enced capitalist* every year enter the lists, and, consequently, during the last few yean a newspaper has died almost every day. The disease Is epidemic. The larger papers swallow the smaller onea, the whale taking down fifty min nows at one awallow. With more than •even thousand dallies and weeklies In the United States and Canada, there are but thirty-six a half century old. News papers de not average mors than five yean' existence. The most of them die of cholera Infantum. It Is high time that the people found out that the moat 1 successful way to alnk money and keep It sunk Is to atart a newspaper. There comes a time when almost everyone Is smitten with the newspaper mania and •tarts one, or have stock In one hs must or dls. To publish a newspaper requires the skill, the precision, the boldneaa, tbs vigilance, the strategy of a comroander In-chlef. To edit a newspaper requires that one be a statesman, an essayist, a geographer, a statistician, and In acqui sition, encyclopedias To man, to gov ern, to propel a ne^peper 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 aro being threat ened with softening of tbe brain or lunacy and. throwing your pocketbook Into your wife’* lap, start for some In sane asylum before you do something desperate. Meanwhile, ns the dead newspapers, week by week, are carried out to the burial, all the living news paper* give respectful obituary, telllDg 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 eood naner. say. "Peace to Its ashes." If it was a bad paper, I sug gest the epitaph written for Francis Chartreuse: "Here contlnueth 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; bis Insati able avarice exempted him from the (lrst, his matchless Impudence from the second." I say this because I want you to know that a good, healthy, long lived, entertaining newspaper Is not an easy blessing, hut cne that comes to us through the fire. First of all, newspapers make knowl edge democratic and for the multitude. The public library Is a bay-mow so blgb up that few can reach It, while the newspaper throws down the forage to our feet. Public libraries are the reser voirs where the great floods aro stored high up and away off. The newspaper la 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 biairi and decides the destiny of churches and nations. Knowledge on the shelf la of little worth. It Is knowledge afoot, knowledge harnessed, knowledge in revolution, knowledge winged, knowledge projected, knowl tUfeC lUUBUCt -UUUVU. UW UUUI Uv Ing ephemeral, nearly all the best minds and hearts have their hands on the printing press today, and have bad since it got emancipated. Adams and Hancock and Otis used to go to tbe Boston Gazette and compose unifies on tbe rights of the people. Benjamin Franklin, I>e Witt Clinton, Hamilton, Jefferson, Quincy 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 ephemeral periodical. All Macaulay's essays first appeared In a review. All Carlyle's, alt ltuskln's, alt McIntosh's, all Sydney Smith's, all ! Hazlett's, all Thackeray's, all tba ele vated works of fiction In our day, are reprints from periodicals In which they appeared as serials. Tenny son's poems. Burns' poems. Longfellow's poems, Emerson’s poems, Lowell's poems, Whittier's poems, wsre once fugitive pieces. You cannot find ten literary men In Christendom, with strong minds and great hearts, but are or have bsen somehow connected with th* newspaper printing preen. While the book will always have Ita place, tbe newspaper Is more potent. Because tbe latter I* multitudinous do not cett’ elude It Is necessarily superficial. If a man should from childhood to old age . *•# ealy his Htble. Webster's l>i«rly prepared to •truaale •Mhtt a* a child who la lhrt*b Into the middle of the Atlantlo and told to leant how to awtm. Our only com plaint la when aln la made attracts and morality dull, when rice te painted with great headlines and good deeds ere put In obscure corner*, iniquity **t up In great primer and rlghteouaneaa In nonparlel. 8ln la loathaome. make It loathaome. Virtu# Is beautiful, make It beautiful. It would work a vast Improvement If ell our papers—religious, political, literary—should for the moat pert drop their Impersonality. This would do better justice to newspaper writer*. Many of the atrongeat and beat writers of the country lire and die unknown, end ere denied their just fame. The vast public nevar learna who they are. Moat of them era on comparatively email Income, and after awhile their hand forget* Ita cunning, and they are without resource#, left to die. Why not, at least, have bla Initial attached to hie most Important work? It al ways gave additional force to aa 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. O., or In the Her ald J. O. B., or In the Times H. J. It.. or In the Evening I’ost W. C. B., or In the Evening Eipress E. B. While this arrangement would be a fair and Juat thing for newspaper writer*, It would bo u defense for the public. Once more I remark, that a good newspaper is a blessing as an evan gelistic Influence. You know there is a great change In ouv day taking place. All the secular newspapers of the day —for I am not speaking now of the re ligious newspaper*—all the secular newspaper* of the day dlscuae all the questions of Ood, eternity and the dead, and all the question* of the paat, pres ent and future. There is not a single doctrine of theology but haa been dis cussed In the last ten years by the sec ular newspapers or the country. They gather up oil the news of oil the earth bearing on religious subjects, and then they scatter the news abroad again. Tho Christian newspaper will be the right wing of the apocalyptic angel. Tho cylinder of the Christian ized printing press will be the front wheel of the Lord’s chariot. 1 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, Cod speed the printing press! God Have the printing press! God Chris tianize the printing press! When I see the printing press stand ing with tho electric telegraph on tho one aide gathering up material, and the lightning express train on the other side waiting for the tons of fold ed sheets of newspapers, I pronounce It the mightiest force In our civiliza tion. So 1 commend you to pray lor 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 lniluence, itiey 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 da not know hut as the thread of time un rolls and unwinds a little further, through the silent yet speaking newa 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 klndom stretch from shore to short Till suns shall rise and set no more. RELIGION AND REFORM. Over 600 preachers in Connecticut work for salaries that do not average more than $750 a year. It waa a Connecticut woman who re (used 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 I)r. Charles R. Baker, rector, ha9 main i mined for several years a circulating library for the blind, probably the only one In the United States. Hut Kin la the first Chinaman to bt ordained as a Christian minister in the eastern part of the United States, lit Is a Presbyterian and has lived in Nee York elnee be came to this country twenty years ago. Itev. Benjamin Waugh has retired from the editorship of the London Hub day Magaslne, his work in eonnectiot with the Society tor the Prevention o Cruelly to Children leaving him at leisure for other labors. Dr. Alexander Charts* Oarrett, bUb op of northern Ttxas. has Juxt beet elected bishop of the newly created dio ces# of Dallas, Texas. Dr Bishop bsi tor years been one of I he most aggrsaa Ive missionary bishops In the Upisvop* church. A priest of the tireeb church In Thea wly died lately at the age of 103 Dur tag the that years ef his life his »tm ery became so mu b Impaired that hi often forgot whether or hot he ha< >lttied, and sometime* he dihed twlei w thrice Ig suci»*eioa. Rev. Dr Oeuege W Miller, sew a •t Andrew's Methodist church. Net | » i-pted * call t« ■ >■ H#» Dr Richard I Ur court of Urn* Cbm It tlalllm r. Dr Milter b*. ha chare* ef the Urgset church nl big da nemiitais*» tn k*t.«u CBy w*a f«r marly paalar of Cleave shareh. Wil mlngten, and began hit ministry li Che tuber* bur * l t he n-*a that «e«et until It dess l on a gravestone bsaya still too team DAIRY AND POULTRY. INTERESTING CHAPTERS FOR OUR RURAL READERS. Hnw Kum'.ufol Farum Optrat. This D.pirim.nt of tba Farm A Fow Minis ss to lbs Caro of l.t.a Slock and Poultry. AST week a manu facturer of filled cheese, whose fac tories are In North ern Illinois, ap peared before the ways and means committee In Wash ington arid made a lengthy argument In favor of his pro duct. His state ments were very transparent. He said that the filled cheese Industry did not Injure the dairy business, that, on the contrary, It stimu lated It. Now this Is a very bold state ment. Filled cheese has not Injured the dairy business! Indeed! More than 40 per cent of our cheese trade with Hngland has been lost within the lust few years, principally because this mis erable stuff was sent over there and sold for full cream. In the meantime, Can ada haa Increased her sales In Kngland 400 per cent because she has a law that will not permit filled cheese to be sold at all or manufactured. Up says also that the manufacturer of filled cheeae has made It possible for the farmer to get much more for his milk than he otherwise would. This statement also Is not true. The price paid for skim milk by the filled cheese men has been as low as H cents per hun dred, and not higher than IB or Ifl, we are Informed, This Is less than skim rnllk Is worth for feeding hogs, calves and poultry. --OTC— er* oftener state what they are doing, that all may be benefited. V. J. Wenninger, Livingston County, Michigan. This In my first winter'* ex perience with poultry, I began feeding about tbe middle of December, and at that, time they were not laying at all. Within a week from that time they began. For the month of January I received Just 181 egg* from about 80 fowl*, mixed breed*. I have Marled In with a pair of pure bred Red Cape. Of the»e I kept no egg record during January. She laid nine egg* from Feb ruary l*t to 18th. During the month the fowla kept healthy a* iieual. John Htout Cook County, llllnola.— I am almost afraid to anbmit my egg record for January. I fear If la far be low the average. But then I will say that the fowla really did not have a fair *how. They number about forty and are kept In a little hotiae te** than 8 by 12 feet. Thirteen of the bird* were old one* and the r#*f young. *om* of them too young to lay. Well, I re ceived 174 egg* during the month. That I* only Hbout 4 and 35-100 egg* per hen. However, I hope *how that the giest need is cleanliness When the milk Is . xposed to foul air of ! the stable or milk room the cultures 1 that get Into the tallk have like prop erties snd give to the butter flavor* nut commercially valuable. On the i other band. t» the milk be exposed to j pur* air tbe cultures that get into It , ► will rl(» n It with a flavor that la much I ittaliH by the butter consumer burl. I j cultures ars equal In every way to j those purchased ecu toe ttu’lhcb j 'I his emphasises two thing*. First, ! that tbs tnllh should be got from the . I stable to the mttk room a# seen a* pos . att le, amt second, that the air of tk* I uiiife room must be perfectly pui •»«»• i.«uoi baa N•««•»<*» > (From the Farmere' H»»t*w t i ! la a newer to our request sf two | I seeks ago s# have received the tel* l j hewing reporie on whet the hn»* »r* ■ I doing Ike reports are gut at all ex ( traotdinar*, but are fair hr can* I aidsr the r*-uid of ike tweat< ltr«>wn 1 i.eghorne below aa very good with th* ' I suppo. ttlna that the* did »** have a grat .,rM pea warmed h* a eteee We I would Ilk* to hear from Ike wr.ter t • sere \\ • .v vuM like tv have eqg r«a4* I feed scraps from the table, also corn and some wheat. My hens are fat and healthy. Single «