The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1886-04-21


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DR.. Talmage said: This winged sheet OF |
the text had on It a prophecy. The flying |
roll to-day is the newspaper. In calcu-
lating the influences that affect society
you can no more afford to ignore 1t than
you can ignore the monday sun or the
Atlantic Ocean.
It is high time that preach sermon
expressing my appreciation of what the
newspaper press has done and is doing.
No man, living or dead, is or has been SO
indebted to it as l am, for it gives me
perpetual audience in every city, town
and neighborhood of Christendom, and 1
take this opportunity before God and this
people to thank the editors and publishers,
and compostors and type-setters the
world over, and give fair notice that I
shall take every opportunity Of enlarging
this field. whether by stenographic report
on the Sabbath. or eallev-proofs ON Mon
day. or previous dictation. l have said
AGAIN and aoain To the officers of this
church wboever else are crowded, don't
lat the reporters he crowded. Each re-
snonsible and Intelligent reporter is ten
or f,fteen churches built on to this church.
Ninety.Hye per cent. of the newspa-
ners are now nv friends, and
do me full iustice and more than Justice,
and the other Ave of the hundred are such
notorious liars that nobodv believes them.
II was IN self. .defense that sixteen wears
ago 7 aynnIoved an official stenographer of
my own because Of the appalling misrep-
reservations Of myself and church. From
that things have miraculously changed,
until now it is Just as appalling in the
marvellous opportunity opened.
The newspaper is the great educator of
the nineteenth century. There is no force
compared with it. 1t is book, pulpit, plat
form. forum. all In one. And there Is not
nm interest-religious literary, CONNER
cial. scientific, agricultural or mechanical
that is not within its grasp. All our
churches, and schools, and colleges, and
asylums, and art galleries feel the quak-
ing of the printing press.
The institution of newspapers arose in
Italy. In Venice the first newspaper was
published, and monthly, during the time
that Venice was warning against Solyman
the Second, in Dalmatia, it was printed
for the purpose of giving military and
commercial information to the Venetians.
The first newspaper published In England
was in 1888, and called the English Mer-
curry. Others were styled the Weekly Dis
cOUerer, the Secret Olol, HeTdclts Rtdens,
etc.
Who can estimate the political, scientific,
commercial and religious revolutions
reused up in England for many years past
by BelPs Weekly Dispatch, the Standard,
the Morning Chronicle, the Post and the
London Times?
The first attempt at this institution in
France was in 1881. by a physician, who
published the Neios for the amusement and
health Of his patients. The French nation
understood fully how to appreciate this
power. Napoleon, with his own hand
wrote articles for the press, and so early as
In 1929 there were in Paris 100 journals.
But in the United States the newspaper
has come 10 unlimited sway. Though In 1775
there were but thirty seven in the whole
country, the number OF published journals
Is now counted by thousands; and to-day
we may as well acknowledge 1t as not
the religious and secular newspapers are
the great educators OF the country
find no difficulty in accounting for the
worlds advance. Four centuries ago, in
Germany, in courts Of justice, men fought
with their fists to see who should have the
decision Of the court; and II the judges
decision was unsatisfactory, then the
Judge fought with counsel Many Of the
lords could not read the deeds Of their own
estates. What has made the changer
Books" you say.
No, sir The vast majority OF citizens
do not read books Take this audience OF
any other promiscuous assemoiage' ana
how many histories nave tney reaut now
many treatises on consti'utlohai Jaw, 0,
political economy, OF Works OIL science,
now many eiaDora.e poems VI oOoA' ~
traVeif now nuch Oh DOyn' VI De
Tocquevile, Aenopnoh' OF herouo'uS' o'
ferc'vai' MOI many ,,
In tne Ohi'eu o.aSeS sno Peopie "ouiu
not average one Sucn oook year ior cue"
INDIVIDUAL
Whence, then, this intelligence-this ca
pacity TO talk about all themes, secular
and religious-this acquaintance WIFE
science and art-this power 70 appreciate
the beautiful and grandf Next TO tht
Bible the newspaper-swift-winged ano
everywhere present, flying over the FENCES
showed under tne door, 'osseo ln'o 'n' u
counting mouse iaid on tne work-penGn
hawked tnrougn tne cars, All reao "
white and biack, sernan' irisnman, owlss
spanish, American oid ana young, gooI
and bad, sick and WELL before oreakias
and after tea, Monday morning. SATURDAY