The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1878-11-26
Z, OHIO. TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 26, 1878.

Z, NOVEMBER 26, ]
THE DEVIL
Has Come Down Unto New York,
But He is Bankrupted, ,and is Wind
ing up Business; However, HeiS
Still Active on Wall Street
and in the Newspaper OF
fices--Talmage on the t
"Night Side of City
Lite"
New YoRK. Nov Is 8-Notwithstand.
ing the day was stormy, the Brooklyn
tabernacle was crowded to the doors
again Sunday morning. Tue interest in
this thrilling series of sermons is still
unabated, but appears to be rather on
the increase, and they will be continued.
The following is the sixth of the series:
snhject-- satanic Excitement. 20
Revelations xii, II. The devilis come
down unto you, having great wrath be-
cause he knoweth he hath but short
time.
In some way the enemy Of all good
hath found out the hour of dismissal
from our world. He cried unto Christ:
"Art 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 be is winding
up business He is stirring in a way
that is as much as to say: "What / do
against these cities I mus. do quickly;
my time Is almost up. Give me 10000
souls, and give them to me Immediately
or I will never get them at all.' That
Satan is in paroxysm of excitement is
proved to me every day. The fact is
that nearly all his establishments are
bankrupt. II plain man stands in q
church and speaks plain word against
them they all autter. A few nights ago
riding through Broadway asked the dri-
yer to stop near street-lamp, ,thatI might
examine my memorandums 1t happen,
ed to be near place Of amusement, and
q man rushed out with anxious and
alarmed manner, saying to the driver !:
sis that Talmage You have inside 2"--
Men in large commercial handwriting
send me letters protesting, evidently dis
turbed lest in some OF their midnight
carousals they meet some Christian ex-
plorer. l started with the idea of some
four or FIVE ser mons on the night side of
city life, but I find the powers of dark
ness SO worried that l 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 clatter of our
horses hoofs rang out on the night air,
we passed Wall street, and, looking
down, two rows OF lights had revealed
to rs that not foot was stirring But
we could imagine that there came up on
the night air the cachination 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 bali mile long that street, yet the
avenues OF fabulous accumulation and
appalling 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 questions, Where
is Swarthout? Where is Ketcham ?
Where is Gay2 Where is Fisk Where
is Commodore Vanderbilt, the bull, and
Daniel Drew, the bearp Where is Black
FridayP Then the clock at the head Of
the street tolled nine, three for the bank.
rupted, three for the swindled, three for
the dead. "Hurry on, George" / said
to the driver, for though had no belief
in ghosts l wanted to get past the SOL
emn, forsaken and all suggestive scene Of
Wall street by night where by the flicker
of the gas.light there was something
that might be taken for the wandering
spirits of ten thousand fortunes dead and
damned. .s.sr. t-..,s,
Fastening on up few blocks, what
are these majestic buildings, all ablaze
from foundation to, capstone ? The print
ing houses of New York daily newspa-
pers. We get out and 60 in and 60 up
from editorial rooms to type settlers and
proof-readers' loft. These are the forges
where the thunderbolts OF public opinion
are forged d-great torrents Of opinions,
of accidents, of crimes, of political
wrath, of ruined regulations and Of
avenged characters Who, can tell the
mightiness for good or evil OF daily
newspaper? Fingers of steel picking off
the end OF the telegraph wire the facts Of
religion, and philosophy, and art. and
information from the four winds Of heav-
en-. The Associated Press began in
1856 to pay S200, 900 for news, some Of
the newspapers paying $50, 600 extra for
special dispatches, and others, independ-
ent Of the Associated Press, with their
own wire rake gathering up the sheaves
ofSnews 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 ideas of civilization and
Christianity. The combined circulation
Of the New York daily newspapers in
1885 was only 10000 day. Now it. is
500, 600, and at the estimate that FIVE per-
| sons peruse each paper, they have two
and one.half millions of readers per day.
1t used to be mystery how, according
to the Bible statement, nations we're to
be born in day. It seems to me easy
now. Get the telegraph operators and
the editors converted, and in twenty
four hours all nations will see the saliva
ton of God. In midnight New York
there is nothing more full Of solemn i'm.
port than the midnight printing press.
But with what aching eyes and exhaus.
ton of health the work goes on! no.
1 ticed that night that not more than. one
out of the ten seemed to have brawny
health. The mal.oiers of ink, however
4 complete the ventilation; and the neces.
sity of toll at hours when God has
j drawn the curtains Of the world for nat
ural sheep; the pressure of publishing
every morning or evening, whatever
breaks down the temptation to intoxi