A Newspaper.

New Zealand Mail, Issue 936, 7 February 1890, Page 4

A Newspaper.

I could preach a whole serme/i 6,n thp. everlasting blessings of a good liev^s paper,*' A good newspaper is tfie grandest temporal bfessing tfiat h as given to tho people of th,is country. In the first place all the people read the newspapers, ami the newspapers furnish the greater proportion of the reading to the people. They don’t read

books. The old people look for tho deaths, the young look for marriages, the business men read the business and linancial columns, and those who are unemployed read the want advertisements. Great libraries make a few intelligent men aud women, but newspapers li f t the nations into the sunlight. My idea of a good newspaper is a mirror of life itself. Some people complain because the evil of the world is reported aa well as the good. The evil mu* tbe reported as well as the good, or how will wg know what to guard against or what to reform ? I here is a chance for discrimination as to how much space shall be given to reports of such things as prize fights, but the newspaper that merely presents the fair and beautiful and the bright side of life is a misrepresentation. That family is best qualified for the duties of life who have told to them not only what good there is in the world but the evil, and is told to select the good atod reject the evil.—Talmage.