Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1886-04-12
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begins:
aBe,ore Jehoyah's awful throne
VIBRATIONS bow with ssered joy !"'''S '-
After expounding passages In References
to the spread Of knowledge all over ,n'
world the eloquent speaker announced h's
text Zschariah v. l: Behold a flying
ro!lr DR. Talnsge said:
This winged sheet Of the text had on 1t
prophecy.
THE FLYING ROLL TO DAY
is the newspaper. 10 calculating the III
auences that effect society yen can no more
afford to ignore it than you can Ignore the
pooDday sun or the Atlantic ocean.
1t is high time that l preach sermon
expressing my appreciation OF what the
nevspaper press has done and is
doing. No map, living or dead is
or has been 80 Indebted to it IS l am'
for it gives me perpetual audience in every
city, town and neighhorhood OF CnTisten-
dom, and | take this opportunity 0etofe
God and THE people to thank the EDITORS
and publishers, and compositors and type
settlers the world over, and | give talr no,
lice that | shall take every opportunity oil
enlargipg this field, whether by steno'
graphic report on the Sabbath, or galley
proofs on Monday, or previous dictsuon'
have said again aud again to the ohSets
ofthis church, whoever else are crowded
don't let the reporters be crowded. Each
responsible aud intelligent reporter ls ten
or Eftesn churches built on to this church.
Ninety. five per cent Of the newspapers
are now my friends, and do
me full Justice and more teap
Justice, and the other FIVE OF the hundred
are such notorious liars that nobody De-
Iievps them. 1t was in self defense thai
sixteen years ago | employed an official
stenoprapher Of nv own because o! the aP,
psllipg Misrepresentation OF myself and
church From that things have miracu!-
ously changed until now it is just as ap-
paIIing in the marvellous opportunity
opened.
The newspaper is
THE GREAT EpUoATOg OF TIE NINETEENTH
CENTURY.
There is no force compared With It, 1t
is book, pulpit, platform, forum, oil IN one
And there ia not an interest st-reiiglous'
literary, commercial, scientific, agrtculEur'
al, or me Observation-Disclosures is not within It's
grasp. All our churches and schools
and colleges, and asylums, and art CALLER
les feel the quskiug Of the printing presS
The institution of newspapers arose In
[taly. la Venice the frst newspaper
was published, and monthly, dur
ing the time that Venice was warning
against Solyman the Second in Dalmatia
1t was printed for the purpose OF giving
military and commercial information TO
the Yenetisns. The hrst newspaper Euo.
ished in England wOs in 1888, and called
the English Mercury. Others were styled
the Weekly Discoverer, the Secret oEi'
Heraclitus Ridens, etc.
Who can estin ate the political, scien'if
commercial, and religious revoluhons
reused ND in England for many years past
, by Bells Weekly Dispatch. the Standard,
the Morning Chronicle, the Post, old the
London Times,
The frat attempt at this institution III
France was in 1881, by a physician, who
published the NeWs, for the amusement
and health OF HIS patients. The french
nation understood fully how TO appreciate
this power. Napoleon, with his own hand
vrote articles for the press, and &c
aarly "a in 1929 there were il
Paris 169 journals. But IN thi
United States the newspaper has come to
unlimited sway. Though in 77i there
were but thirty seven In the whole coun
try, the number OF published journals II
now counted BY thousands; and 10 day
we NAV az we'll acknowledge it as not
the religious and secular newspaper are th'
great educators Of the country.
end no difficulty in accounting Tor th'
worlds ADVANCE -Four eenturies ago, u
Germany, in courts of justice, men Tough
with their fists to see who should have to-
: decision Of the courts; and II the Judge
decision was unsatisfactory, then the judg
fourht with counsel. Many OF the lord
could no, read tle Seeds ot their own es
tstes. Whist hss made the change
Books" you say.
; No, sir The vast
MAJORITY OF CITIZENS DO Not READ BOOKS
Take this audience, or Gny other prohIscr
Gus sssemblaCe and how many historic
have they reed2 How many treslises o
constitutional law, or political economy, Q
works of science2 How many elaborat
poems or books OF trsvelt How auch
, Boyle, or De Tocqueville, Nenophon,
!. Herodo.us or Percival2 Not many
In the United States the people would NJ
; average one such book year for each ii
diyidusl! Whence, tken, this int lligenc
4 this capacity TO talk about al theme
secular and religious-this scqusintsnt
, with science and art this power to sppr
ciate the beautiful and grsndH Next to Il
Bible, the neWspsper-sSift-wiDged al
everywhere present flying over the fence
4 showed under ths door, tossed into u
!. counting houses, laid on the work-benc
hswked through the cars All read
white and black, German, Irishmsn, STis
!, Spsniard, American, old and young, go'
and bad, sick and well, before breakta
, sad after tea, Monday morning, Ssturd'
: night, Sunday and week day.
!. l now declare that consider the Ies
. paper TO be the grand agency By which L
= Gospel 10 to be preached. ignorance ca
y out, oppression dethroned, crime extrPate
i the world raised, heaven rejOiced, and u
glori6ed.
;s In the clAnking Of the printing press,
:. the sheets fly out hear The voice OF I
n Lord Almighty proclaiming to all the oe
~ nations of ths earth, Lazarus, come fortn
" and to the retrsating surges OF darkne
=, LET there be light" In many OF our C
, newspapers, protesting no more than Se'
~ lar information, there have appeared d
:, ing the past ten years some of the graz
:" tst appeals in behalf Of religion, and so'
. of the most effective interpretations
ba Gods government among the nations
II There are only
TWO KINDS OF NEWSPAPERS
ity the one good, very good, the other b
.xt yery bad 4 newspaper may be star
with an undecided character, but ate
Do has bsen going on for years, everyb'
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