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Wheels of eyes and the blessing of a good newspaper
Reverend Talmage surveys the newspaper press as the world’s eye, tracing its history from ancient notices to modern print, and argues the press empowers knowledge democracy, public reform, and moral witness. He warns of journalism’s perils, praises its editors, and urges spiritual aims for printing.
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Izekiel
Paul
Athens
China
Pekin
Rome
Acta Diurna
France
Hagland
Queen Elizabeth
Waterloo
Europe
London ‘Morning Chronicle
America
Benjamin Harris
Public Occurrences
Boston
American Advertiser
Philadelphia
Naples
Austria
Kossuth
Hungary
Napoleon I
England
Hamilton
J. Peter Zenger
Gazette
Erskine
United States
Great Britain
Earth
Hell
Thomas Jefferson
Canada
Sun
Moon
Binquantees
Bank of Dagland
Yale College
Francis Chartreuse
Adams
Hancock
Otis
Boston Gazette
Benjamin Franklin
de Witt Clinton
Jefferson
Quincy
Macaulay
Carlyle
McelIntosh
Allydney Smith
Hazlitt
Thackerary
Tennyson
Burns
Longfellow
Hmerson
Lowell
Whittier
Christendom
New York Courier and Enquirer
Tribune H. G
The
Herald
Times H. J. R
Evening Post
W.C. B
Evening Express
Idonort
Princeton
Harvard
Yale
Rochester
Negapo de
Bancrofts
Boston News-Letter
New York Gazette
American
Royal Gazetteer
Independent Chronicle
Massachusetts
Philadelphia Aurora
Perry
Washington
Paul Revere
Rhode Island
South Carolina
God
Jesus