Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1878-11-19
THE DEVIL
HAS COME DOWN UNTO NEW YORK,
But He is Bankrupted, aad is Winding up
Business; However, He is Still Active
on Wall Street and in the News
paper 0ffices-Talmage
on THE Night Side
Of City Life"

standing the day was stormy, the Brook
lyn tabernacle was crowded to the doors
again Sunday morning. The interest
in this thrilling series oil sermons is still
undated, but appears to be rather on
the increase, and they will be continued.
The following is the sixth of the series.
Subject-Satanic Excitement.
Revelations, xiii, l2. Thedevilis come
down unto you, having great wrath be-
cause he knoweth that he hath but u
short time.
In some way the enemy of all good
has found out the hour OF dismissal from
our world. He cried QUITO Christ: cart
thou come to torment us before the
time" 1t is healthful symptom that
in our day Satan is unusually active in
our cities. 1t seems that he is winding
up business. He is stirring in a way
that is as much as to say: "What do
against these cities must do quickly;
my time is almost up. Give
me 10000 souls, and give them to
me Immediately or / will never get
them at ALL" That Satan is in a paroxy-
ism of excitement is proved to me
every day. The fact is that nearly
all his establishments are bankrupt. Ii
q plain man stands in a church and
speaks plain word against them they
all f1utter. A few nights ago riding
through Broadway | asked the driver to
stop near street-lamp, that | might
examine my memorandums. 1t hap
pened to be near place of amusement,
and man rushed out with anxious and
alarmed manner, saying to the driver:
lis that Talfnage you have inside there?'
Men in large commercial handwriting
send ME letters protesting, evidently
disturbed lest in some OF their midnight
carousals they meet some Christian ex-
pl0rer. | started with the idea of some
four or five sermons on the night side
of city life, but find the powers of dark
ness so worried that plant anew the
batteries for still further assault The
satanic excitement is described in the
text. The devil is come down unto you,
having great wrath because he knoweth
that he hath but short time.
WALL STREET AND THE PRINTING OFFICES.
On. AS the solitary Clstter Of our
horses hoofs rang out on the night air,
We passed Wall street, and, looking
down, two rows OF lights had revealed
to us that not foot was stirring. But
we could imagine that there came up on
the night air the cachinnatiOn of men on
whose hands the stocks had gone up,
and the sigh of the jObbers on whose
hands the stocks had gone down. Only
hall mile long that street, yet the ave
nues of fabulous accumulation and ap-
palling bankruptcy and wild swindle
and suicide and catastrophe and death.
On the sough of the wind that swept
from the street toward old Trinity
there seemed to whisper the ques-
tons. Where is Swarthout? Where
is ketcham? Where is Gay? Where
is Fisk? Where is Commodore Van
derbilt, the bull, and Daniel Drew, the
bear? Where ia Black Friday? Then
the clock at the head of the street tolled
nine, three for the bapkrupted, three for
the swindled, three for the dead.
Hurry on George" / said to the
driver, for though | had nO.belief in
ghosts | wanted to. get past the solemn,
forsaken and all-suggestive scene Of
Wall street by night, where by the
flicker OF the gas-light there was some
thing that might be taken for the wan
dering spirits Of 10000 fortunes dead
and damned.
fastening on up few blocks. what
are these majestic buildings, all ablaze
from foundation To capstone? The
printing houses of New York daily news
papers. We get out and 60 in and 90
up from editorial rooms TO type settlers
and proof readers loft. These are the
foryes where the thunderbolts OF public
opinion are forged-great torrents of
opinions, ofaccidents, Of crimes. OF polit-
ical wrath, of ruined regulations and Of
avenged character. Who can tell the
mightiness for good or evil OF a daily
newspaper? Fingers ofsteel picking off
the end of the telegraph wire the facts
of religion, and philosophy, and art and
information from the four winds of
heaven. The Associated Press began in
1855 to pay S2O0,0O0 for news, some Of
the newspapers paving so, 900 extra for
special dispatches, and others, independ-
ent OF the Associated Press, with their
own wire rake gathering up the sheaves
of news from all the world. 1t Is high
time that good men understood that
the press is the mightiest engine OF all
the centuries. BY the high water mark
on the type case YOU can tell the ebb or
flow OF the great tides OF civilization and
Christianity. The combined circulation
of the New York daily newspapers i'll
1885 was only 10000 q day. Now it is
800 900, and at the estimate that five
persons peruse each paper, they have
two rnd one-half millions Of readers per
day. Ii used to be mystery how, ac-
cor,,iny To the Bible statement, nations
were Ia be born in day. 1t seems to
me easy now. Get the telegraph opera
tors and the editors converted, and IN
twenty-four hours all nations will see
the salvation of God. In midnight New
Yoik there is nothing more full of
solemn import than the midnight print
inc press. But with what aching eyes
and exhaustion of health the work goes
on, noticed that night that not more
than one out OF the ten seemed Ia have
brawny health. The mal-oders OF ink,
however complete the ventilation; and
the necessity OF toll at hours when
God has drawn the curtains of the
world ior natural sleep; the pressure
ofpublishing every morning or evening,
whatever breaks down; n;thetemptation to
Intoxicating stimulants in order TO keep
up the nervous system through hours
Of untimely neutrality-suspicious.
which only the strongest can resist
make the lives Of newspaper men some
thing To be sympathized with. Don't
beyrudge the three or five cents you pay
for the newspaper, for, in addition to
the knowledge gained, you are paying
for sleepless ntghts and smarting eye
balls, and fatigues Of brain and early
sepulcher.
THE NEwsBoYs' LODGING HOUSE
With the buzz and click and roar and
bewildering activity of the midnight
newspaper Offices in my mind, started
up town. Now" said, let us
strike out from Broadway to the right,
and see what CHANGE there is for New