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AMERICAN AGRICULTURIST 
[January, 
WEEKLY WITNESS. 
Send by Postal Card for JMCJEJE Sample Copy, 
$1.3® a Year (postage paid), or 3® cents for n Months on trial, Circulation, December, 74, 
THE NEWSPAPER PRESS THE SECOND 
LEVER POWER FOR ELEVAT¬ 
ING THE WORLD. 
It is an oft-repeated saying that the newspaper is the 
greatest power of the times, and the universality of news- 
aper reading in the rail car, the street car, the steam- 
oat, the family, and the office, morning, noon, and night of 
every day, appears to confirm the saying. Nevertheless, 
highly as we appreciate the power of the press, and much 
as we are inclined to magnify our office, we believe the 
living voice of the Gospel ministry is, and must always 
(because of its special divine appointment) be the greatest 
power in society. But unquestionably, next to the living 
ministry, the printed page is most important, and news¬ 
papers exert probably more influence than all other kinds of 
printed pages put together, with the exception ot the Bible. 
Now, dear reader, whoever you are, is it a matter ot in¬ 
difference to you what kind of newspapers circulate in your 
vicinity and throughout the Union ? Can you see journals 
of a degrading and demoralizing character circulating with¬ 
out longing for the power to supersede them with those 
that are pure and elevating? Can you with indifference 
let this second greatest power in the nation remain any 
longer in the hands o£ the god of this world, who has long 
wielded it? 
We do not at all ignore the fact that many excellent reli¬ 
gious papers are published, and that they have accomplished 
a vast amount of good, but it is jtEws-papers of a religious 
temperance character at a low price that can alone super¬ 
sede NEWs-papers of an opposite character. 
And now when an effort is made at a very heavy expense 
to accomplish this great work, and that effort has every 
appearance of proving, by the Divine blessing, eminently 
successful, is it not incumbent on all who care for the 
public weal to do what they can to make that success 
rapid and great?— New York Weekly Witness. 
The following are a few extracts from many hundreds of 
somewhat similar letters received in the course of business 
at The Witness office: 
New Britain, Conn. 
The Witness is the best and cheapest paper I ever had. 
If I can do anything in N. B. to extend its circulation I 
shall be most happy to do it. I have a large family, but in 
the Witness is food for all, old or young. I would like to 
see it in every family. J. Vile. 
1’ipon, Wis. 
I am so well pleased with your paper that I cannot drop 
it. Your soundness on the Temperance question, and 
other important questions, is cause of gratification. May 
you reach the 100,000 subscribers, and that speedily. 
Byron Kingsbury. 
Cambridgeboeo, Pa. 
I am greatly pleased with your paper ; it has the right ring 
about it. Let your practical motto continue to be, “No 
compromise with sin, and no surrender." The good and 
true are with you, and so is “ The Lord of Hosts.” 
“ The Children’s Letters are very popular.” 
Fort Dodge, Iowa. 
Believe me that the Witness is read in my family, and 
that, too, with an avidity in no small degree complimen¬ 
tary to that paper. It is truly a superior publication, and 
on the light track on all great living issues 
J. II. Lazier, Pastor M. E. Church. 
Olatiie, Kansas. 
I am a reader of the Weekly Witness, and esteem it 
highly. I have never known a religious paper before in 
which all classes could be listened to. I rejoice the bar¬ 
riers are giving way to free thought and speech. It seems 
to me the Witness is doing a good work. 
F. A. Beckwith. 
Broadhead, Wis. 
For more than thirty years I have labored as a Congre¬ 
gational pastor in Wisconsin. I have enjoyed the reading 
of some of the best of our religious journals, but with none 
of them have I been better pleased than with the Witness. 
Its ring is clear, positive, and pre-eminently Christian. I 
can safely place it in the hands of my parishioners as a co¬ 
laborer with their pastor. Hiram Foote. 
LETTER FROM REV. DR. CBYLER. 
Lafayette Avenue Church, ) 
Brooklyn, Nov. 10, 1874. { 
Dear Friend Dougall— By some unhappy accident your 
kind invitation to the late “ merry-making ” of the friends 
of the Witness was mislaid. So I neither came nor sent 
my apology. I should do myself an injustice by not telling 
you how heartily I rejoice in the measure of success that 
has thus far attended your noble enterprise. Thank God 
for a daily paper that will not “bow the knee to Baal! ” 
I have several times recommended your excellent Wit¬ 
ness to my congregation from the pulpit. Cannot other 
pastors do the same? 
Even at this late day let me tell you how much I regret 
my not being with you, and our dear old friend Robert 
Carter and the other staunch friends of the Witness. 
Long life to you and your brave, unflinching advocate of 
God’s right against Satan’s wrong! 
In haste, yours cordially, 
Theodore L. Cutler. 
The above letter was received after the Witness 
50,000 Celeln-ation. 
20,000-Dec., ’74, 80,000. 
Increasing Popularity of the WITNESS. Circulation, Dec., '73, 
SEW HOMM, WEEUBaY WITNESS, J©HS MUGALL, Proprietor, ft Spruce St., Sew York, 
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A large herd to select from. None but good ones sent out 
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One Roar Pig - - $20. 
One Pair - $40. 
One Trio = $55. 
I have also a few choice boars and sows, six to eight 
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JOSEPH HARRIS, Moreton Farm, Rochester, N. Y. 
P REMIUM CHESTER WHITE, 
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D. H. GOODELL, Antrim, N. II. 
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M A W S„ E S II A B> E FLOCK, 
Imported from the best breeders in England. The flock is 
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Address 
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Moreton. Farm, Rochester, 1ST. Y. 
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