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The Exeter Advocate, 1898-2-26, Page 7PULPIT AND PRESS. DR. TALMAGE TAKES THE PRINTING ART FOR HIS SUBJEOT. Zepressee Nis Gratitude to God and the Newspaper —, Commemorates the WPM Thousandth, r ublioation of Ifis Sermons —Au Appeal to Editors. Oepyright 3,438, by American Press Apron- tiona Wasbiugtort, Feb, .20.-1'or the nest time Dr. nalmagie In this discourse tells in wbat way his sermons be,ve come tie a nallItIplieity of publication such as Ion never in any other ease been knewn tince the art of printing was invented; tent, Nahum ii, 4 "They shall seemlike tereht es; they shall run line the lightnings." Express rail train and thiegraphiccorri- rotudeation are suggested, if not foretold, in tine text, and. Irmo it I start to preach a sorrn°,11 n gratinnle te God and the newspaper press for the Viet then I have had the opportunity of delivering through the newspaper prees 2,0Q0 sermons or re, ligious addresses, so that I have of many years been allowed the privilege et preach - tug the gospel every week to every neigh- borhood in Christendom, and in Mann lands, outside ot Christendom. Many leave svontlere4 au the procees by which it: Itias come to pass, and for the first time in Priblic place I state the three muses, Mann yes ago A eating Mall who bas eine() beeente ernU t ble preteesien Was then Sine:lying itan* in a tilstallt City, He tame to me orel sail that tor leek at foods he must stop his stadybag melees through eeenograplen I would give him snetches of sermons, thet he miglet the sale of them seoare Means fee. the completioo of bis eduention, I positively declined, beceuse it seemen to roe an inn possibility, but after some months had Reined, and I bad refloated Untothe greet stidneen for snob a brilliant young RUM to be deteeted in Ms ambitlen for tile legal proiession, I undertook to serve him, of course free of obarge. Within three weeks there came a request for those etenographio reports on many parts of tbe coutintnt, Time ponied en, and Some gentlemen of My own profession, evideutly thiukiug that the was bonny room for them and Sor myself in tine continent, began to assaU and became ne violent in tbeir assault that tbe chief newspapers at America put special correspondents in my ehurelx Sabbath by Sabbatb to take down such reply as I might make. Troyer made reply, except once for about three minutes, but those emnespoudents could not waste their tbne, and so they telegraphed tbe sermons to their particular papers. Atter awhile Dr, Louis itlopsch of New York systereetized the worn into a syndicate until through that and Other eyncileetes he has put the discourses week by week before nore than g0,000,000 people on' both sides the sea. There leave been so xnany guesses OD tbis subject, many of them inaceerate, that 1 lione tell the true story. I bat el nem improved the opportun- ity as I ought, but I feel the time bas come when as a minter of common jus- tice to tbe newspaper press Ishould. make this statement in a sermon commemora- tive of the two thousandtlx full publica- tion of sermons aud religious addresses, , saying nothing of fragmentary reports, whioli would run up. into many thousands more, Nothing but Points. Man" in England. Those were the Mara. then and the Thermopylae where the battle was feoght whit*decided the free- dom of the press in England and A-merit:a, end-all the powers et earth and hell will never again be able to putupon theprint- ing press the bandouffs and the topples ot literary and political despotism. It is remarinible that Thomas jeffereon, wlo wrote tbe Declaration ot Independ- enee, also wrote thethwords, "It I had to choose between a government without newspapers and newspapers without a government, I would prefer the letter." Stueg by some new fabrication in px•Int, we mile to write or speak &vat an "un- bridled. Printing press," Our book ground up in unjust criticism, we come to write or speak aboutthe "Unfair print- ing Press." Perhape tiarough our own in- distinctness of utterance we are reported as saying 5ust the opposite et what We did ge.)", told there a a small. riot .ot Semi. colons and hyphens and commas, and we come to write or talk About the "blued- oring printing press," or We tate up a newspaper full of social scandal ann, of eases of divorce, and 'we writ° or talk about a "filthy, scurrilous printing press." But this' lamming I ask you to consider tne immeasurable and everlasting bless-, ing ot a geed newspaper. There was one incident that I might mention in this connection, showing how sin insignificant event might influence us for a lifetime. Maley years ago on a Sab- bath moroing on my way to church In Brooklyn a representative of a prominent newspaper met no and said, 'Are you going to gho us any points to -day?" I said, "What, do yott mean by 'points?' " Be replied, "Anything we can remem- ber."' I said to myself, 'We ought to be snaking nonits' alt the time in our pul- pits and nos deal in platitudes and inani- ties." That one interrogation put to no that morning started in me the desire of making points all the time and nothing but points. And now bow clan I naoreappropriately commemorate the two -thousandth publi- cation than by speaking of the news- paper press as an ally of the pulpit and naentioning some of the trials of news• paper men? The newspaper is the great educator of the nineteenth century. There is no force compared with it. It is book, pulpit, plat- fozne forum, all ill ono. And there is not an interest—religious, literary, commer- cial, soientifin agricultural or mechanical —that is not within its grasp. All our churches and sohools and colleges and • asylums and art galleries feel the quaking of the printing press. The institution of newspapers arose in Italy. In Venice the first newspaper was published, and monthly, during the tins° Venice ..was warring againstt Solyman 11. In Dalthetie, it was printed for the pur- pose of giving military and coniniereial information to the Venetians. he first newspaper published in England Was in IBM and called the English Mercury. Who can estimate the political, scientifin commercial and, religious revolutions roused tip in England for many years past by the press? The first attempt at this institution in Trance was in 1631, by a physician, who publishea the News, for the amusement and health of his patients. The French nation understood fully bow to appreciate this Power. So early as in 100 there were in Paris 169 journals. But in the United States the newspaper has come to unlini- tkel sway. Though in 1775 there were but Or in the whole •country, the number of pliblished journals is now counted by thousands, and to-day—we may as well acknowledge it as not—the religious and sthulannewspapers are the great educators et the oouotry. rower of the Press. But, alas, through what struggle the newspaper has come to its present develop- xnentl Just as soon as it began to demon- • strate its power superetition and tyranny shankled it. There is nothing that despot- ism so much fears and hates as •• the - printing press. A great writer in the south of Europe declared that the King of Naples had made it unsafe fax' him to write on any subject savenatural history. Austria could not bear Inosguth's journal- istic pen pleading for the redemption of Hungary. Napoleon I., wanting to keep his iron heel on the neek of nations said that the newspaper was the regent of kings and the only safe place th keep an editor was in prison. But the great battle lor the freedom of the press was fought in the court -rooms of England and the ;United States before this century began, when Hamilton made his great speech in behalf of the freedom of J. Peter Zenger's Gazette in America, and when Erskine made his great speech in behalf of the ger nails, all the itinerant beres who come blasted, that L my out bpis morn ng freedom to publish Paine's ea:tights a 50 stay fivo minutes and stop an hour. the words of another, "Look not upon suns shall rise and set no more. !nem the editorial and reportorial rooms all the follies apd shams of the world are seen day by day, and the temptation Is to believe neither in God, man, llor woman. It is no surprise to me that In yeur profession there am some skeptioal men. I only wonder Opt you believe anything. Unless an editor or a reporter has iri bis present or in bis early home a model of eatnest tharecter, or he throw bianself upon the upbolding grace ot God. he may make temporal and eternal shipwreok, Pinnnude of the nanny, Another great •trial a the newspape lg9teSSIOli is Inatioattate compensation. Since the dans ttf Ithzlitt and Sheridan, and John =too, and the wailirigs Grub street, London, literary toil, with very few excepeions, bast not been, proper- stnitiined. Wheu Oliver Geldsmitle ee- ceived a friend in his house, be Ithe au, Ow/ had to sit on the window, •because there was only ane chair. Linnaeus sold, his splendid worn tor a ducat. Defee,. the antiwar of se maiuy volornes, died. pen- niless. The learned Johnson dined behind a Sereen be,eause bis clothee were too shabby to. anew him to dine with the gentlemen who, on the (Aber side of the mem, were applauding hie works. And so on down to tbe present time literary toil is a greett etruggie for breed. Th. Next to tite mtge. world theme to have a grudge against a I find no difficillty in aceeuntingfor .„, mart who, as they say, gets his living by the world's advance.. What has made the hea wits„ anti the dy laborer gays to the Mart of htentry toil, "roe c,ortie down here and shove a plene and hemmer a shoe last end break eobblestones and. earn an ireneee living as I. deineteed of eitting there in Idienees scribbling!" But there are no harder worked men in ell the earth than the newspaper people of this country. It is not a matter or herd. times; it is charecteristio at all times. Men have a better appreeiatiou for that which eppeols to the stemach then for thetwbich appeals to the brain, They heve no idea ef the immense financial and, intelleotnel exleetistieu at the newspaper press. Ole men of the prase, it will be a great help to you, if when you get home late at night, fagged out and nervous with your work, you would just kneel down and, commend your ease to tied, who bas watched all the fatigues of the day and tbe nigbt, and who has prombied to be your God and. the Gad at your children forever! Aoother great trial of the newspaper profeseien is the disetteed appetite for un- healthy intelligence, You 'blame the newspaper press for giving stio"i Promin- wave to murders and scandals. Do Ton suppose that ee many papers would give pr ,minence to these thlugs if the people did not demend theme If 1 go into tbe meat market of a foreign city, and I ilnd that the butohers hang, up on the most conspicuous heoke meat thee is taiuted, while the meat that Is (ratite and savory Is put away without any special care, I come to the conclusion that the people ot that city love tainted. nteot. You know very well that it the great mass of people ebanize? "Books," you say No, sir! The -vast majority of citizens do not read books. Take this audience or any other Prtanisellous aseentintige, and haw many histories have they reed? /few zneny treatisee on eonstitutional law er econemy or works of science? 1191T =my elaborate poems or books of travel? Nee many, In the 'United, State!, the people 'would not average one such book a year for eaoh individual. Whence, then, thie intelligence, this eepaeity to talk about all themes, secular and. eligioue, tbia aequalotence with science and art, ibis poWeir to appreeiate the beautiful and grand? Next to the Bible, the newspnper, swift wiuged and everywbere present, fly- ing over the fenee, shovedunderthe door, tossed into the counting house, laid on the worlebenieh, bawked througb the ears! All read le—white and blitok, German, Irieltman, wiss, peniard, At:aerie:tie, old and young, good and bail, stole and well, beforebrokfast and after Oa, Mon- day roaming, naturdny ;light, Sunday and weekday, 1 now declare that I coin sider the newspaper to be the grand ageney by which the gospel is to be preached, iguorance east oat, oppression dethroned, crime extirpated, the world. thiste.1, heaven rejoiced and God glorified, In the chinking of the printing press as the sheets fly out Ulcer the voice of the Lord Almighty proclaiming to all the dead tattoos of theeartin "Lazarus, come forth!" and to the retreetIng surges of darkuess, "Let there be light:" In many of our city nowspepere, professing no more than thoolar information, there have appeared during the past 30 years soma in this country get holt' of a newspaper of the grandest appeals in behalt at ran- anti them are in it no runaway matches, elm and some of the inost effective inter- no broken up !Amines, no defainaeion of pretations of eod's government among men in ingh position, they pronounce the the nations. paper insipid. They say, "It is shookiug- Two gnats of Newspapers. ly dull thelight." I believe it is one of Tom are ante net ulnae of ronettapert the trials of the newspaper press that the —the one good, very good, the other bad, people of this country demand noral Flush instead of healtbnand intellectual very bad. A newsp 'per may be starten with an. undecided ober:Later, but after it fwa• Now, you are a .i.e41)e"e'llle man' has been goina on for years everybody an intelligent man, and a paper comes Into your hand. You open it, end there are three columns of splendidly written editorial, recommending seine moral sentiment or even:lug teen; scientific theory. In the next column there is a loiserable, contemptible divorce case. Which do you road iirst? You dip into the editorial long enottull to say, "Well, that's very ably written," and you read the divorce oath from the "long pr1mer" type at the top to the "nonpareil' type at the bottom, and then you ask your wife if she bus reed hi Oh, it is only aces° of supply and demand! Newepziner men are nos fools. They know whae you want, and they give 15 50 you. I believe that if the church and the world bought nothing but pure, Inmost, healthful newspapers, nothing but pure, holiest and healthful newspapers would be published. If you should gather all the editors and the re- porters of this country in one great con- vention, and ask of them what kind of a paper they would prefer to publish, I be- lieve they would unanimously say, "We would prefer to publish an elevating paper." So long as there is an iniquitous demand there. will be an iniquitous sup- ply. I -make no apology for a debauched newspaper, but I am saying these things in order to divide the responsibility be- tweentliose who prhit and those who read. Temptations of Journalists. Another temptation of the newspaper profession is the groat allurement that surrounds thena, Ilvery occupation and fInds out just what it Is, and it is very good or it is very bad. The one paper el the embodiment of news, the ally of virtue, the toe of crime, the delectation of elevated taste, the rnightest agency on earth for making the world better. The other paper is a brigand among moral forces; it is a beslimer of reputetion, it is the right arm of death and hell, it is She mightiest agenoy in the universe for nutkiug the world worse and battling against the cause of God, the one an angel of intelligence and mercy, the other a fiend of darkness. Between this arch angel and this fury is to be fought the great battle which is to tleolde the fate of the world. If you ha-ve any doubt as to whiall is to be -victor, ask the prophecies, ask God; the chief batteries with wbich he would vindicate the right and thunder down the wrong are now unlimbered The great Armageddon of the nations is pot to be fought with swords, but with Steel pens; not with bullets, but with type; not with cannon, but with lightn- ing perfecting presses, and the Sumter, and the Moultries, and the Pulaskis, and She Gibraltars of that conflict will be the editorial and reportorial rooms d our great newspaper establishments. Men of the press, God has pus a inore stupendous responsibility upon you than upon any other bless of persons. What long strides your profession has made in influence and power since the day when Peter Sheffer invented cast metal type, andbecause two books were found just alike they were has temptations peculiar to at - ascribed to the work of the devil, and Profession self, and the newspaper protoselon is not books were printed on strips of bamboo, an exceptaon. The great demand, as you axid Rev. Jesse Glover originated the first Axuerican printing press, and the know,ison the nervous force, and the coin- neen council of New York, in solemn brain is racked. The blundering political speech must read well for the sake of the resolution, offered•it200 to any printer party, and so the reporter or the editor who would come there and live, and has to make it read. well, although every when the epeaker of the House of Parlia- sentence were a catastropbe to the Eng• inent in England announced with indig- must heanall nation that the public prints had recoe- lish language. The reporter nized some of their doings, until in title that an inaudible speaker, who thinks it IS 'nig= to speak out, says, and ,it inust day, when we hay° in this country many right the next morning or the next newspapers sentg out copies by the bo night n the papers, though the night be - billion. The Pre and the telegraph have i fore the whole audience sat with its hand gone down into the stone great harvest lield to reap, and the telegraph says to bebind its ear in vain trying to catch it. This xnan must go threugh killing night the newspaper, "I'll rake, while you bind," and the iron teeth of the telegraph work. He must go into heated assero Wages are set down at one end of the harvest and into unventilated audience rooms that are enough to take the life out of field and drawn • clear across, and the newspaper gathers up the sheaves, setting him' He must visit c°11111wIns, whial are almost always disgusting with rum and down one sheaf on the breakfast table in tobacco. He xxiust expose himself at the She shape of a morning newspaper, and fire. He must write in fetid alleyways, putting down another sheaf on the tea table in the shape of an evening news- .Added to all that, he must have hasty neastioation and ireogular habits'. To bear paper, and that man who neither reads U p under this tremendous nervous strain nor takes a newspaper would be a curl - they are tempted to artitlinal sthnulus, • osity. What own progress since the days and how many thornands have gone down when Cardinal Wolsey declared that under their pressure God only knows. either the printing press must go down They must have something to counteract or the °Mirth of God naust go down to the wet, they must have something to this; time, when the printing press and keep out the -chill, and after a meet the pulpit are in hundreds of glorious combination and alliance, night's eleep they must have thinething to revive them for the morning's work. Trials of the Editor.Thi• s is what made Horace Greeley suoh One -of the great trials of tide news- a stout temperance Man. I said to him, paper professiot is the fact that they are "Mr. Greeley, why are you more eloquent compelled to see more of the shams of the on the subject of temperance than any world than any other profession. Through other subject?" He replied,- "1 have seeu every newspaper oMce day by day, go the so many of my best friends in journalism weakness of the world, the vanities that go down under intemperance." On, nay want ,to be puffed, the revenges that Want dear brother a the newepaper profession, to be wreaked, the mistakes that want what you eannot do without artificial to be corrected, all the dull Apeakers who sthnulus God does not 'want yon to dot Nyant to be thought eloquent, all the There is no half way ground for our lit • naeanness that wants to get its waree erary people between teetotalism.and dis- noticed gratis in the editorial columns in eipation.. Your professional success, your order to save the tax of the advertising domestic peace, your eternal salvation, colinnn, all the mon who want to he set will depend upon tour theories in regard right who never were right, all the creole to artificial stimulus. I have had so many brained philosophers, with story as long friends go down Under the temptation, as their hair and en gloomy as their fin. their brilliancy quenched, their homes the wine when it is red, when it givetn its color in the cup, when it novena itself aright, tor at the last it biteth iLire a serpent, and It stingeth like An adder," Another trial of this profession is the teet ne one seen e to eare for their souls, n'hey teal bitterly about it, though they laugh, Pe >pie soreetlines laugh the loon- ese when they feet the worst. They are expected te gather up religious proceed- ings end to discuss ealigione decerines ip the editorial columns, but vim experts them to be soved by the sermons they stenograph or by tbe doctrthe.e they din. ouss in the editorial columns? The world ioote upon them as pretessional. Who preaches to reporters and editors? Seine of them none from religious homes, and when they left the parental roof, 'whoever regardeci or disregarded, they came 02 with a father's benediction and* loother's prayer. Timy never think of those good cad times hut tears conic into their eye; end they move through these greav cities beeneeick. Oh, if they only knew what a helpful thing 15 is fear a man to put bis weary bead down 021 the bosora Of a. stM- pathetic Christi De knows how neevOlie and tired you are. He has a beam large enough tn take in all your interests for this world and, the next. Oh, men et the newspaper mess, yen sometimes get *Lek of this world, 14 seems so hollew and. an- satisfyiegi If there are any people in alt the earth that need God, yen are the men, and you shall have him it only tins day you implcre his mercy. .6- man was found at the foot of Canal street, New Yerk. As they picked him up from the water end brought him te the morgue they 84,W by the econteor ef biz foreheae that he heti great Mental *epee- ity. Ile bad entertd, the newspaper pro- fession. Re had gone dowo in health- Ile took te artifice:4 stimulus, Ile went dawn further and further, until one summer daY, hot and huugry and sick and in des. Pair, he flung Mundt off the +leek. They foued In his pocket a reporter's peel, a lead pencil, a photograph of some One who had loved him long ago. Death, sornotiines it will, smootitee out ell the wrieleles that had gathered prematurely on his brow, and as he lay there his facie was as fair as when, seven years befere, he left his country home and they bade hira goedby forever. The world looked through the window at the morgue aml said, "It's nothing but an outcast," but God said it Was a gigantio stall that per- ished Wenn the world gave bina no olaance, • riot Corruption. Let me ask all men connected with the printing press that they help 'tie more aud more in the effort to make the world better. I charge you in the name of God, before whoma you met account for the tremendous influence you hold in this country, to consecrereyoureelyes to higher endeavors. You are themen to figlat back this invasion of corrupt literature. Lift up your right hand end Swear nevr 0100 to the cause of philanthropy and religion. And when at lass, standing on the plains of judgment, you look out upon the unnumbered tlirongs over whom you hey° had intimation may it be found that you wore among the mightiest en- ergies that lift men upon tho exalted pathtvay that leads to the renown of heaven. Better thim to bath sat In edi- torial obalr, front within with the finger of type, yen decided the desttnies of ern - pine:, but decided there wrong, thnt you had been some dungeoneil exile, who, by the light of window iron grated, on scraps of a Now Testament leaf, picked up from the earth, spelled out the story of biln win> taketh away the sins of the world. In eternity Dives Is the beggar. Well, my friends, we will ull soon got through writing and printing and, proof- reading and publishine,•,. What then? Our life is a book. Our years are the chapters] Our months are the paragraphs. Our days are the sentences. Our doubts are the interrogation points, Our imitation of others the quotation marks. Our attempts at display a dash. Death the period. Eternity the peroration. 0 God, yellers will we spend it? Rave you beard the tows, more startling than any found in the journals of the lest six weeks? It is the tidings that man is Jost. Have you heard the news, the gladdest that was ever announced, coming this day from She throne of God, lightning couriers leapiug from the palace gate? The news! The glorious news! That there is pardon for all guilt and comfort for all trouble. Set it -tip in "double leaded" columns and direct it to the whole race. et, 11111:111 1.081 AND FOUND. The Story of a Young 130yPe Trials. Was Growing Too Rapidly end it Health Gaye Way—seTeral Mouths Doctoelea Aid gine No Cietod-eftis Pariahs AlMosil Discouraged,. Frain the Napanee Beaver. It hi truly pleiable eo see Imes euet be. ginning to realize the possibilittee of We stricken down with disease, the wraps trom wIlich Is sometlenee thought to be little sheet of a miracle. Hearing ef ouch case a reporter called on Mr, Suilth, living near Fredericksburg Sta- tion, in Lennox Co., audinterviewed him regarding the eure of his sea who Warill% bad health and regained 10 by the use Of Dr. Williams' Pink Pills. Mr. Smith ie one ef she eidees residents In the locailter. of &nee llr. Leyellet deeeelet, and, bee resided alt his life on the Mem on whiele he lives. He is eansequentln well /Known throughout the distriet. In reply to the scribe's query he gave the detelle of the came "My SIM, Stanley, was taken eiRk about the first of Febreary, 1895. became very deaf and lied A dull °engem* pain50 his head. lIa grew Tory week, such aeooditiou being more preperly de. scribed by the term 'general rauticeler weakness. - fie WAS tr011iged With Went pain la the heck and had no Appetite, continuing to steadily grew weaker and. finally lose ail ambition. Etc beet little niere color in idol than a bit of white paper. A physician was consulted On the first appearance of the trouble. lie care- fully examined the ease, !tinting that the hearing was effected by eetarrind deg» the pain* in the back origleating from museuler rheumatism end the WM* lit tired feeling and metal weeknese was caused by overgrowth. TbcedIfleu1' ties together with time Weer effects of In grippe left lebn a Ousted wreak. He had the benefit of careful medical attention for four months. Ti,. doctor bed carefully treated hira for the deafness and, succeed- ed in restoring Ids hearing, but in other respects was no better. Ile ordered that he should bo carefully nursed, which MS about all that could be done. To make tbings more clearly understood, 1 neigbt may he was at this time past twelve pm?' of age, having grown very fast, was 'ergs enough for ane six years Ills senior. The doctor said medicine could not benefit birn and all that could be done must come by nursing. We naturally felt great- ly disconraged at the prospect, not know- ing what course to pursue in the future. At this juncture one of the druggists at Napanee,who had previously orempounded many prescriptions, reoommeoded a trial of Dr. Williams' Pink Pills. It was then the first of June when we purehased three boxes and commenced the treatment. When he had finished the xecond box his appetite, previously fickle and unsteady, bed wouderfully improved, Ha tiontdnued taking the pills until seven boxes had been used, His strength returned with, renewed -vigor, and all signs of muscular rheumatism had vanished and be steadily regained a strong healthy color, and was able to do considerable light work in the harvest field, such as riding the mower, reaper or horse -rake. He has &Mee attend- ed sohoOl regularly and thougha year has elapsed, he bag had 230 symptoms." Mrs. Smith spoken to about the matter readily concurred in all that bad been said rela- tive to her son's ease, and was -eery de- ckled in her views regarding the health giving properties contained In Dr. Wil - Items' Pink Pills. Dr. Williams' Pink Pills are a blood builder and nerve restorer. They supply the blood with its life and health -giving properties, thus driving disease from the system. There are nunierous pink colored hnitations, against which the public is Warned. The genuine Pink Pills can be had only in bexes the wrapper around which bears the full trade mark, "Dr. Williams' Pink Pills for Pale People." Refuse all others. The Angel's mum Awl now before 1 close this sermon, thankfully commemorative of the "Two Thousandth" publieation, I wish more fully to acknowledge the services rendered by the secular press in the matter of evangelization. All the secular news- papers of the day—for I am not speaking this morning of the religious newspapers —all the seoular newspapers of the day discuss all the questions of God, eternity and tbe dead, a,nd all the questions of the past, present and future. There is not a single doctrine of theology but has been discussed in the last ten years by the sec- ular newspapers of the country; they gather up all the news of all the earth binning on religious subjects, and then they scatter the news abroad again. The Christian newspaper will be the right wing of the Apocalyptic angel. The ;with - der of the Christianized printing press will be the front wheel of the Lord's chariot. I take the music, of thie day, and I do not mark it diminuendo—I mark it crescendo. A pastor on a Sab- bath preaches to a few hundred or a few thousand people, and on Monday or dur- ing the week the printiug press will take the same sermon and preach it to mil - Bons of people. God speed the printing press' God save the printing press! God Christianize the printing press! When I see the printing press standing with the electric telegraph onthe one aide gathering up material and the lightning express train once other gide waiting for the tons of folded sheets of newspaper, I pronounce it the mightiest force in our civilization. So I commend you to pray for a.11 those who manage the newspapers of the land, for all typesetters, for all editors, for all publishers, that, sitting or standing in positions of such great itflu- once, they may give all that influence for God and the betterment of the human race. An aged woman making her living by knitting unwound the yarn from the ball until•she found in the center of the ball there was an old pleee of newspaper. She opened it and read an • advertisement which announced that she bad becoine heiress to a large property and that frag- ment of a newspaper lifted her up from pauperism to affluence, And I do not know but as the thread of time unrolls and unwinds a little farther through the silent yet speaking newspaper may be found the vast inheritance of the world's redemption. • Jestts shall reign where'er the sun Does his successive journeys run, His kingdom stretch from shore to shore AN INTELLIGENT POL-LY, Whoa Considered Feroperlae. the Bird Woe All the Senor Ken Claimed. The men With. a sailorlike appear - ;ince murmured something ebout heving got on the wrong street awl tried to flodge when the lady ran deWn the etert and made for him. "Yon ought to he ashamed of your - ;ail 14.sci"ehueare:Iyinelairoferclfront ottam s sbetookto pe - vent aseape. "Yon ain't the lady I fold the Pare net tiro, are you" be asked, throwing hack his head aud looking at ;Or with one eye. "Ys, 1am," "An how's the par‘rot tr I Fiu"eioll:43erraaltiti"aler,** lie dropped his head and shook it deprecatingly, sail keeping one eye plow]. 44 You told me," she went on with ie. creasing indignation, "that par- rot Wee' One of the =Get intelligent fini- Mals Of its *eines euta that it had a gift of language which you lied never heard =Tossed," "Did 1 tell you all dont things?" he inci"roUftlelligneetiellabln did." "Well, then I'll staled by 'ern. on got aprize an you don't appreciate it. •That berd bee even mare wanness than give him credit fur. Talk about intel. ligeuee I lie's a marvel.. An hekin talk, Soo, though 1 never perteaded50 bad had the advantage of good swiety. • kin roll off observations of the roost Opted character without end, though call on you to remember that there warn% nothiu said about politeness." "But it deem.% say a word." "That's jes " it, ma'am. Tliet"S vbat shows his intelligence. The unnute he wen you he kuowed you was a lady an be holds his tonstte." Washington Star. Look Out for the Newspaper Men. The late lamented Bill Nye once said: "Do not attempt to eheat an editor out of his year's subscription to his paper, or any other 'sum. Cheat the minister, cheat any- body and. everybody, but if you have any regard for future consequences don't fool She editor. You will be put up fox' office some tine, or want some public favor for yourself or friends, and when your luck is a thing of beauty, a joy forever, the editor will open on you and knock your castles into a cocked hat at first fire. He'll sub- due you, and then you'll cuss your stupid- ity for a drivelling idiot; go hire some man to knock you down and kick you for falling." Minard's ti4iniett for ghOthali41, Pe Saved Ifer sttcuie. Some of the Dritish troops in titelrish rebellion (3id not Aght particularly well. A certain general at a lord lieutenant's party in Dublin Was admonishing a begging woman Oa leave the place arben ahe JAW, "It is 1 that UM proud to see your honor here in the zed coat you worfrthe very day when yea saved the life of ray bey, little Melte." "Indeed!" replied the general, ret,4 ataxy to hear anything to his credit on such a distinguittlaed occasion, "1 bad forgotten all about it. How did 1 save his life?" "Well, your honor, when the battle was at its hottest your honor was the first to run, and when :no ltttle Mioltie saw the general run he ran, too, the Lord be praised I" Argonaut. • Its Chief Charm. "We can all eujoy the snow," Bain Mr. Froogle, looking out of the front window. "Itis the most delightful aecompaniment of the glad holiday season. Come and see it, children. See how white and beatitiful it is. Watch it whirl and endy and dance fantastically along There is nothing on earth so beautiful, A Christmas without snow would be incomplete. And it doesn't cost anythingl" he added, hugging him - telt delightedly. me red. "The blond captive," otmSdentially whispered the undersecretary to the king of the (;arbago islands, 'is a bird. Which is it your wish to discuss for dinner?" A. smile playetl upon the Inelbile ea - tures of the dusky potentate. "Do you lotow," he murmured, "I have always been something of a bird fancier? 'ea.'. • M us cul ar Vish. The most prodigious power of muscle is exhibited by fish. The whale moves with a velocity through a dense medium of water that would carry him, if continued, • round the world in something less than a fortnight; and a swordfish has been known to strike his weapon clean through the oak plank of a ship. No Criterlote Allxiatie Mother—My doer, It's per.,' featly abominable the way the men hug you at these hotel hops. Now look at that conple coming this way. See how respectfully that gentleman treats the lady he is dancing with. Ie holds her almost at arms' length. 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