The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1886-04-27
DIR. TALMAGE
breaches on Newspaper Mems
Trials.
A NOBLE TRIBUTE TO THE PRESS.

Text: Z,chariah Y. .1-"Behoid . fly.
ing roll!" DR.. Talmage said:
This winged sheet OF the text had on
it, prophecy.
TRE FLYING ROLL TODAY ts,
is the newspaper. In calculating the in
auences that affect society you can no
more sfford to oigEore 1t than you canig
more the MONDAY sun or the Atlantic
Ocean. I'll azs
II is high time that preach sermon
expressing my appreciation OF what the
ne Sspaper press has done and 10 doing.
No man, living or dead, is or has been so
indebted TO 1t ss / am, for It gives me
perpetusl audience in every city, town
and neighborhood Of Christendom. and
l take this opportunity before God and
this people to thank the editors,and pub
listers, and compositor and type-setters
the world over, and ] give fair notice
,hatI sball take every opportunity Of en-
lsrgiug this field, whether by stenogrsph.
ic report ou the Sabbath, or galley proofs
on Monday, or previous dlctation. !
have said again and again to the officers
OF this church, whoever else are crowded,
don't let the reporters be crowded. Each
responsible and intelligent reporter is ten
or fifteen churches built IN to this
church. NinetYs6ve per cent OF the
newspapers are now my friends. and do
me full justice and more than justice, and
The other Eve Of the hundred are such
notorious liars that nobody believes
them. II was IN self-defense that sixteen
years ago / Iemployed an official steno-
grapher OF my own because OF the sp-
palling m;srepresentations.ofm myself and
church. From that things have mirac.
lously changed until pow it is just as sp-
palling 10 the marvellous opportunity
opened. tsat ae rsw q
The newspaper is
THE GREAT EDUCATOR OF THE NINETEENTH
CENTURY.
There is no force compared with Is. 1t
10 book, pulpit, platform, forum, all in
one. And there is not an interest--re-
ligioas, literary, commercial. scientific,
agricultural or mechanicai-that is not
within its grasp. All our churches, and
schools, and colleges. and asylums, and
art galleries feel the quaking OF the prin,
ting press
The Institution OF re Eewspspers srose
in Italy. In Venice the 6rst newspaper
Was published. and monthly. during the
tire that Venice was warning against
Solyman the second in Dslmstia 1. was
printed for the purpose Of giving militia
ry and commercial information to the
venitians. The 6rst newspaper publish.
ed in England was ID 1888, and called
the English Mercury. Others we're styl.
ed the Weekly Discoverer, the Secret
Owl. Heraclitus Ridens, etc. 81 e.
Who can estimate the political, scien-
tific, commercial and religious revolu.
tions reused up in England for many
wears past by Bells Weekly Dispatch,
the Standard. the Morning Cbronicle,t the
Post and the London Times2
The first attempt at this institution in
France was 10 1881, by physician. who
publi.hed the News, for the smusemen,
and health OF his patients. The French
nation understood fully how to appre.
ciste this power Napoleon, with bis
own hand, wrote articles for the press
and 80 early as in 1929 there we're ir
Paris 1853 Journals. But in the United
States the newspaper has come to nnlim
tied sway. Though IN ITS there wer,
but 81 in the whole country, the number
lof published journals ia now counted b.