———— REY. DR. TALMAGE. The Eminent Washington Divine's Sunday Sermon. Subject: “Newspapers and Their Influence,” Texrs: “And the wheels were)full of eyes, ~BErokiol x., 12. “For all the Athenians and strangers which wore there spent their time in nothing else but either to tell or to hear some new thing.''— Acts xvil,, 21. What is a preacher to do when he finds two texts equally good and suggestive? erplexity 1 take both, Wheels full of hat but the wheels of a ing press? Other wheels are roll on, pulling or crushing. The manufac. turer's wheel—how it grinds the operator with fatigues and rolls over nerve and mus- ele and bone and heart, not kaowing what it does, The sewing machine wheel sees not the aches snd pains fastenad to it—tighter than the band that moves it, sharper than the needle which it plies, Every moment of every hour of avery day of avery month of uvary year there are hundreds of thousands of wheels of mechanism, wheels of enterprise, eyes? blind, They eyaless, Not go the wheels of the Their entire husiness isto look printing and report. of by eyes, near up. They They tak pmariphery, They are like those spoken sgakiel as fail eyes. Bharp sighted, far sighted, They look look down. Thney look tar away. inthe next street and the next hemispheres, Byes of eriticism, eyes of investigation, eyes that twinkle with mirth, eyes glowering with fadignation, tender with love, eyes of suspicion, biue eyes, blaek eyes, green eves, h eyes, poli | eyes, relimious thing. ‘And the Bat in my seco the newspaj peopls in Atl in gathering the especially in Ath teiligent people bee tive they are great th . The question tl question now 1 is the news? To answer t ory for the newspaper th their wits to work first suceeaded apd has at Pekin printed every we silk. R Acta D eves eyes of hope, ns W ~-0ot 1enliy asked, What is the text Tel 1 ¢ Ie suee irna, WS of it land succeed first publishis armada, an enterprise, n fought, deciding give it one-third ¢ Morning Chr REWSPRPEOTS « Amerien saeco weekly ghed 1 dilly, The Ame in Ph:ladeiphin i The newspaj ’ There is hates as a Great Brit and heil 1 the hande wilitieal : i anendesnee sepenaen of In choose betw BPO OF § Ap» fF shonid prafer the lat base fabrication come 10 Wr rinting pres EP An jn spenk of the or, per of utter the a small riot commas, and we come the blundering printing paper filled with div scandal, we spe rinting press; or, ses wribery, whee to the other eorrupt print the empirici of the printing 205 t Snow onasubin ty never hened eimmeasurable and everinat. ing blessing of wi newspaper. Thaok God for the wi Thank God that we do not have, Hike the Athenians, to gO about to gather up and relate the tidings of the day, sine / does both blessing that God sontury i= the preas, 4 hnve owl ey s the nmnivor for us, The grandest temporal bas given to the nineteenth ewsoa: We would have better appreciation blessing if we ay of this exasperations, the anxieties, the wear and tear of heartstrings, involved in the produe- tion of a good newspaper. Under the im- pression that almost anyboly ean make a newspaper, scores of inexperienced capitals ists every vear enter the lists, and conse. quently during the last few years a news- paper has died almost every day. The dis. ease is epidemic, The lar ‘er papersswallow the smaller ones, the whale taking cown fifty minnows at one swallow. With . and Canada, thers are but thirty-six a hail eantury old. Newspapers do not average more than five years’ existence, The most of them Aif of cholern infantum, It ie hich time tha: the people found ont that the most successful way to sink money and keep it punk is to stare a newspaper. There comes 8 time when almost every ons issmitten with the newspaper mania and starts one, or have stock in one he must or die, The course of procedure is about this: A Hterary man has an agricultural or scientific or political or religions idea which he wants to ventilate. He has no money of his own literary men seldom have. Bat he talks of bis ideas among confidential friends until become inflamed with the idea, and forthwith they buy type and press and rent composing room and gather a corps of edie tors, and with a prospectus that proposes to eure everything the fiest copy is ey ofi the attention of an admiring world, After awhile one of the plain stockholders finds that no great revolution has been effected this daily or weekly publication; that neither sun Bes mows SE 8 still; Jhat 2h world goes on lying an eating stealing just as ft did before the first issue, Fret ro matter of fact stockholddr wants to sell out his stock, but nobody wants to buy, and other stockholders get infected and slok of newspaperdom, and an enormous bill at the paper factory rolls into an avalanche, and the printers refuse to work until back wiges are paid up, and the compositor bows to the ‘managing editor, and the managing editor bows to the editor-in-chief, and the editor. in