- ' .f- . TA ETA GE S SERMON. "DIVINE MISSION OF THE NEWS- - . HIS SUBJECT , 3- A FnIr Stntcment of the Cmdltlons Thnt Surround Newepaperdom-The Avnrage Daily or weekly Paper Ys an Instrument for Great Good. a 4 rvf C /6 „ ' test it - f ot A S HINGTON , March 22 , 1896.- "Newspaper Row. " i as it is called here in Washington , the long row of offices connected with prominent journals i throughout t h e land , pays so much attention to Dr. I Talmage they may be glad to hear what he thinks of them II II I I While be discusses a subject in which I 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 were there spent their time In nothing else but either to tell or hear some new I thing. " Acts xvil : 21. What Is a preacher to do when he i finds two texts equally good and suggestive - 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 operator - 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 pairs 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 hundreds - dreds of thousands of wheels of mechanism - 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 Ezekiel - kiel as full of eyes. Share eyes , nearsighted - sighted , far-sighted. They look up. They look down. They look far away. They take in the next street and the next hemisphere. Eyes of critjcism , eyes of investigation ; eyes that twinkle with mirth , eyes glowering with indignation - 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 ' . sec 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 who spent their time either in gather- lug news or telling it. Why especially I in Athens ? Because the more intelli- 1 ' gent people become , the tnore inquisitive - 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 sUk. Rome succeeded - ed by publishing the Acta Diurna , in the same column putting fires , murders - ders , marriages and tempests. France t succeeded by a physician writing out the news of the day for his patients. England succeeded under Queen Elizabeth - beth in first publishing the news of the Spanish Armada , and going on until she had enough , enterprise , when the battloof Waterloo was fought , decidingg the destiny of Europe , to give it one- third of a column in the London Morning - 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 Public - lic Occurrences , published in Boston in 1690 , and by the first daily , the American - ican Advertiser , published in Philadelphia - phia in 1784. The newspaper did not suddenly spring upon the world , but came grad- ually. The genealogical line of the I newspaper is this : The Adam of the race was a circular or news-letter , created - ated by Divine impulse in human nature - ture ; and the circular begat the pamphlet - phlet , and the pamphlet begat the quarterly - terly , and the quarterly begat the weekly - ly , and the weekly begat the semi- I weekly , and the semi-weekly begat the ' 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 l ' Naples made it unsafe for him to write of anything but natural history. Austria - tria could not endure Kossuth's journalistic - nalistic pen , pleading for the redemption - tion of Hungary. Napoleon I. , trying , to keep his iron heel on the neck of nations - tions , . said : "Editors' are the regents I of sovereigns and the tutors of nations , and are only fit for prison. " But the battle for the 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 Zenger's Gazette in America and Erslane's advocacy of the .freedom of publication in England. But I discourse now on a subject you have never heard-the immeasurable .and everlasting blessing of a good newspapers - papers 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 newspaper - paper does both for us. The grandest temporal blessing that God has given is thA fPtyR- to the nineteenth century e . a Te , N /k , cr S { ,1x I paper. We would bavo better appre- . elation of this blessing if we knew the mbney , tbo brain , the losses , the exas- peratlons , the anxieties , the wear and ' tear of hearts involved In the production - tion of a good newspaper. Under the Impression that almost anybody can make a newsPaPer , scores of inexperienced - enced capitalists every year enter the lists , and , consequently , durinz the last few years a newspaper has died almost I every day. The disease is epidemic. I The larger papers swallow the smaller ones , the whale taking down fifty min- flows at one swallow. With more than seven thousand dallier. and weeklies In the United States and Canada , there are + but thirty-six a half center } old. Newspapers - papers do not average more than five years' existence. The most o [ them die of cholera infantum. It is high time that the people found out that the most stTccessful 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 muster or die. To publish a newspaper requires the skill , 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 acquisition - sition , encyclopediac. To man , to govern - ern , to propel a newspaper until it shall be a fixed institution , a national fact , demand more qualities than any business - ness on earth. If you feel like starting any newspaper , secular or religious , understand that you are being threatened - ened with softening of the brain or lunacy and , throwing your pocketbook into your wife's lap , start for some insane - sane asylum before you do something desperate. Meanwhile , as the dead newspapers , week by week , are carried out to the burial , all the living newspapers - papers give respectful obituary , telling when they were born and when they died. The best printer's ink should give at least one sticlful of epitaph. If it was a good paper , say , "Peace to its ashes. " If it was a bad paper , I suggest - gest the epitaph written for Francis Chartreuse : "Here continueth to rot the body of Francis Chartreuse , who , with an inflexible constancy and uniformity - formity of life , persisted in the practice - tice of every human vice , excepting prcdigality and hypocrisy ; his insatiable - able avarice exempted him from the first , 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 , but cne that comes to us through the fire. First of all , newspapers make knowledge - edge democratic and for the multitude. The public library is a hay-mow so high up that few can reach it , while the newspaper throws down the forage to our feet. Public libraries are the reservoirs - voirs where the great floods are stored high up and away off. The newspaper is 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 people - ple moderately intelligent than one hundred thousand solons. A false impression - pression is abroad that newspaper knowledge is ephemeral because periodicals - 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 wliiged , ' knowledge projected , knowledge - edge thunder-bolted. So far from being - ing ephemeral , nearly all the best 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 r.4 the people. Benjamin Franklin , De 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 , all Ruskin's , all McIntosh s , all Sydney Smith's , all Hazlett's , all Thackeray's , all the elevated - 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 , Lowelrs poems , j Whittier's poems , were once fugitive ' pieces. You cannot find ten literary ' men in Christendom , with strong minds and great hearts , but are or have been somehow connected with the ' newspaper printing press. While the I book will always have its. place , the newspaper is more potent. Because the latter is multitudinous do not conclude - t clude it is necessarily superficial. If a g man , should from childhood to _ old age see only his Bible , Webster's Dictionary - ary and his newspaper , he could b prepared for all the duties of this life and all the happiness of the next. I 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 gco'd. They must report the evil as well as the good , or how shall we know ivhat is to be reformed , what guarded against , what fought down ? A newspaper - paper that pictures only the honesty and virtue of society is a misrepre- sentation. That family is best prepared - pared for the duties of life which , knowing the evil , is taught to select the good. Keep the children under the impression that all is fair and right in the world , and when they go out into 1 it they will be as poorly prepared to i struggle with it as a child who is thrown J 3 ' tv . Into the mlgtlle of the Atlantic and told ! to learn how to 'swim. Our only complaint - plaint is when sin 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 ronpariel , Sin is loathsome , make it 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 tht'm 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 work ? It always 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. , o : in the Tribune H. G. , or in the Herald - ald J. G , B. , or in the Times H. J. R. , or in the Evening Post W. C. B. , or in the Evening Express L. B. While this arrangement would be a fair and just thing for newspaper writers , it would be a defense for the public. Once more 1 remark , that a good newspaper is a blessing as an evangelistic - gelistic influence. You know there is a great change In ou : day taking place. All the secular newspapers of the day -for I am not speaking now of the religious - 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 , pros- cut anti future. There is not a single doctrine of theology but has been discussed - cussed in the last ten years by the secular - 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 Christianized - 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 ft ' 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 sermon - mon and preach it to millions of peo- ple. God speed the printing press ! God save the printing press ! God Christianize - tianize the printing press ! When I see the printing press standing - 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 folded - 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 reporters - porters , for all editors , for all publishers - lishers , that , sitting or standing in positions - sitions of such great influence , they may give all that influence for God and the betterment of the human race. An aged woman making her living by knitting - 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 advertisement - ment which announced that she had become heiress to a large property , and that fragment of newspaper lifted her from pauperism to affluence. And 1 do not know but as the thread of time unrolls - rolls and unwinds a little further , through the silent yet speaking newspaper - paper may be found the vast inheritance - tance of the world's redemption. Jesus shall reign where'er the sun Does his successive journeys run ; His kindoin stretch from shore to shore 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 was a Connecticut woman who refused - 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 maintained - tained for several years a 'circulating a library for the blind , probably the only one in the United States. Hui Kin is the first Chinaman to be i ordained as a Christian minister in the eastern part of the United States. He is a Presbyterian and has lived in ? ; ew York since he came to this country , twenty years ago. t Rev. Benjamin Waugh has retired from the editorship of the London Sunday - 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 , bishop - op of northern Texas , has just been elected bishop of the newly created diocese - cese of Dallas , Texas. Dr. Bishop has for years been one of the most aggressive - ive missionary bishops in the Episcopal church. A priest of the Greek church in Thes- saly died lately at the age of 102. During - ing the last years of his life his meni- orv , became so much impaired that he i often forgot whether or not he had dined , and sometimes he dined twice or thrice in succession. Rev. Dr. George W. Miller , now of c St. Andrew's Methodist church , New C York , has accepted a call to succeed c Rev. Dr. Richard Harcourt of Grace church , Baltimore. Dr. Miner has had charge of the largest church of his denomination - i nomination in Kansas City , was formerly - merly pastor of Grace church , Wilmington - mington , and began his ministry In Chambersburg , i ( The love that never spear until it does it on a gravestone , keeps still too long. + P . . J . . . . . 1t'i , u1lrM4 ' ° lYS h > * ' AaLJ.-vw + kkY.j ko- . WACES i11 CHILL COMPETITION THAT AMERICAN LABOR MAY MEET. hates l'alcl In Spilled Inrhustries Mcan Starvation for Aurricans - Existing Chinese Trade Against the United States-Adequato I'rotectlon. I { 1. = r t r No country in the world is more abundantly supplied with labor than China , and in no country in the world does the laborer receive less compen- sation. A Chinese laborer will save money on wages that would hardly be sufficient to supply the absolute necessities - sities of an American laborer , This is made possible by the cheapness of the vegetable diet on which the Chinese laborer - borer is content to live ; the small cost of house accommodations , for several families will subdivide one room of a house and live in contentment in it , and the low price paid for clothing , which is made of the coarsest cottons. . But the cheapness of labor in China does not mean that the products of that labor are inferior in quality , The Japanese laborer , receiving higher wages , is more artistic in his work- his productions are more finished ; in dyes and blending of colors he is superior - perior to his Chinese rival , but in substantial - stantial and lasting quality the latter is fully the equal , and in some instances the superior. There is in Chinese character a conservatism - servatism which has discouraged all progress in China. The principle , "let well enough alone , " has been adhered to under the mistaken idea that "well enough" was the best ; but in China this adherence to custom , this opposition to change , has filled the Empire with an impoverished population , for a people that use in their trade and business a currency of so small a denomination as one-tenth of a Mexican cent cannot be said to have felt the quickening influence - fluence of hn enlarged and civilizing commerce. The cheapness and small denominations of Chinese currency and the low price of the diet and clothing of the Chinese laborer are evidences of nonprogressiveness , but it should not be inferred from these that the capacity - ity for progress is absent from Chinese character. During the last fiscal year the value of the aggregate trade relations between - tween China and the United States was estimated at $25,500,000 , with a balance against the United States of $7,200,000 , while in China , as in Japan , Great Britain checks off large balances in her favor , although more remote from China by thousands of miles. European nations are sustaining the efforts of European merchants more substantially than the American merchant - chant is sustained. The latter , in the competition , has to rely upon his own skill and energy , while the merchants of Europe are encouraged by the aid given to the great steamship lines which carry their flags and pour the productions of Europe into Asiatic ports. At the port of Shanghai , the great commercial and distributing center - ter of Asiatic trade , Great Britain , France and Germany have direct mail and commercial communication-the steamers entering and leaving the port every week , carrying the flags of their respective nationalities , while no ship carrying the American mail and flying the Stars and Stripes touches at Shanghai - hai at all. Frm this standpoint the advantages to American interest of the cutting of the Nicaragua Canal would evidently be great. Should the United States cut the canal and say that vessels carrying the flag of the United States should pass toll free , or at very moderate tolls , for certain period , would not the benefit to American shipping be almost ineal- culable ? Would it not create a new life n the shipyards of the United States , anti soon restore our flag to its former supremacy on the ocean ? In conclusion , we give the value of Chinese labor , the rates of wages being hose paid at Shanghai , and reduced to American currency , by Consul Jerni- gan , On September 30 , 1895. WAGES OF CHINESE AT SHANGHAI , SEPT. 30 , 1895. Wages with food. Per Per day. month. Blacksmith . . . . . . . . . $ 0,13 Brass worker. . . . . . . . ,1G Barber . . . . . Bootmaker : Native . . . . . . . . . . . . .10 . . . . . . Foreign . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55.23 Bamboo cabinet maker - er . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .11 . . . . . . Bricklayer . . . . . . . . , . , .11 Compositor : Native . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5.28 Foreign .t . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7.92 to 15.84 arp + rnter . . . . . . . . . . , .11 abinatmaker . . . . . . , 13 oolieY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .13 . . . . . . Bookbinder : Native . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4.22 Foreign 6.34 Litho ' aPher # . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10.56 Furniture polisher. . .21 Tailor : Native . . . . . . . . . . . . .10 . . . . . . Foreign . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6.34 ressman . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6.34. , ' - Y : i Coachman : Native . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3.17 Foreign . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . w 6.3.1 House boy : . . . Native ° . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Fo 1 4 75 Cotton mill machinist - ist * . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .11 t0 22 . . . . . . . Cotton factor' handsa. . . . . . . . . . . . .1S ' . . . . . . . ° Witllout food' Who Got Our Gold ? Country. 1894. 1S9 ; . United Kingdom.$12,822,895 $47,212.366 France . . . . . . . . . . 3,604,312 10,456,397 Germany . . . . . . . . 3,503,570 9,455,139 Austro-Hungary . 48,584 144,199 Belgium . . . . . . . . 228,406 596,168 Other Europe. . . . 1,821221 2,581,449 South America , . . 1,444,960 ,717,574 British N'th Am. . 480,446 1,353,785 China . . . . . . . . . . . 1,342,985 1,510,57 Japan . . . . . . . . . . . 12,055 6,083 Other Asia and Oceanica : . . . . . 1,814,524 2,913,671 Other countries. . 577,370 2,328,593 Totals . . . . . . . $27,701,328 $82,275,996 This shows only the payments for wool , carpets , cloth and.dress goods , as the official statistics do not give details of the amounts paid to different countries - tries for rags , shoddy , shawls , knit goods , yarns , ready-made clothing , or "all other" woolen and shoddy goods. Policy of Inclebtednesi The policy of the nation , during the past two years , has been one of indebt- edness. And so it has been , in too many instances , on the part of the in- dividual. We are confronted now with a proposition for a new loan. If this be put through , then the combined payments - ments for principal and interest of new bonded debt , incurred under the present administration , will approximate half a billion of dollars. This in time of peace , and following so closely upon a time of unparalleled prosperity , as we had in 1892 , is appalling.-The Morning Union , Springfield , Mass what Free Tra + le Did. Port Townsend , Wash. , Feb. 2,1896. One of the most mammoth trusts ever formed on the Pacific Coast went into effect last night. It was the formation of the Central Lumber Company of California - ifornia , representing a combined capital of $70,000,000 , and including in its membership - bership every lumber mill and all wholesale and retail dealers and ship owners on the coast. The first move will be to advance the price of lumber $2 per thousand feet. The effect of free trade is growing here as in England. It creates trusts and monopolies and advances prices to the consumer. 6 arrel a P rta ' . t ? fl Id bu 1 11 < uch Su Ps i u yarl J on ,1,169Z , Jon.ll8g6 Sugar Sugar i q ° p2tFd p.r&uld. 26Palyds X11 ? gyn. e j a - Q is ' sla I.an 3. . h EI . . + ao'1 Ao = I Qv , ' ' ' 1 po as . . . . -oc Ii an.l Is96 qa - spotrfl:6o'J : 60c I2 : I i'ii'- i'ii'I I II ; 3oe , _ 6 : yrds io9 20 c IOt i r i ft tic Kinl , P Garrait When a barrel of potatoes can be exchanged - changed for 28 pounds of granulated sugar , as was the case on January 1 , 1892 , farmers were not doing so badly. But when a barrel of potatoes was I worth only 14 pounds of sugar , as was the case at the beginning of this year , it comes pretty hard upon farmers. They realize , now , the difference between - i tween McKinley Protection and Democratic - cratic Free Trade , Cheap Wages , Cheap Buying. Men who labor for twelve cents a day are poor customers for our farmers , and i we do not want that sort of people to' furnish the goods we use. We will not compete with them in making their kind of rags , of lanterns , or firecrackers - ers , or fans , or sun umbrellas , and we will be very foolish to let them supplant - plant us in the more substantial manufactures - factures , by which the millions of home customers of our farmers get their living.-The Commercial , Louisville , I Ky. + Eailroads .ced l'rotertion. Railroads are not exempt from the general depression in this country caused by the Wilson tariff , so-called. I . think our Democratic friends , or many of them , not only see it , but feel it , and I hope they will get enough of it. For railroads give us a Protective Tariff and I for all other kinds of business. ' I B.8S. R. R. , By Wm. F. Perry , President. I Bridgton , Me. i Picked from Europe's Sever. Another record broken. The first year of free wool brought us 250 per cent. more foreign rags and shoddy than in 1589 , the year of largest previous - vious importations. 1 E c . f"t i 1 Extremetired feelingafliictsnearlyovery- ' body at this season. The hustlers cease to push , the tireless groic weary , the energetic - getic become enervated. You know just what we mean. Some men and women endeavor temporarily to overcome that Tired reeling by great force of will. But this fs unsafe as it pulls powerfully upon the nervous system , which will notlongstand such strain. Too many people "work on theirnerves , " and the result is seen in unfortunate - fortunate wrecks marked "nervous prostration - tration , " in every direction. That tired , lug is a positive proof of thin , weak , Impure - pure blood ; for , if the blood is rich , red , vitalized and vigorous , it imparts lifeand energy to every nerve , organ and tissue of the body. 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