Nejriy f\< (‘O co,des of 0110 801’111011 pub
lished every w< ok in the year!
I.et u , s'-ip;i moment until we exactly un
derstand the surpri-ing greatness of these fig
uics. it i gem l ’ ally reckoned that an average
"1 thr o pe;-ons re.id each copy ol the
daily m wspapers published. That would
make Talmage < weekly audience 54,(XX),000
pvrsom-, or nearly as many as ar i contained
in the I nii' d Os course, ho I. is no
such audience as that. Let us bo on the safe
• ’de and dixido tho l<S,O<M),c.i;O into 9,(4’0,0(X).
'I hat would give him an audience of nearly
double thy number of persons contained m tho
state ot N; \v York ; nearly throe times as many
- in tho state oi Ohio; over twice ns many ns
uithe-’Tti' of Pennsylvania; three times as
many as in the state of Illinoi s and double as
many asnre contained in the statesof Connecti
cut, Ma.sai’husetts, New Hampshire, Rhode
iTsland, Vermont, Now tlersey, Delaware and
tlm (li>tr:< t of Columbia combined 1
His audience is larger than all tho people
conL'in. d in some foreign countries. <-■ t your
t ibleof tho population of the world ami you
will tin I that Abyssinia and Afghanistan have
onlv gv ,iw inhabitants, Australia about
- J >.‘ ■•“, BeL inm not quite (>,<XK),‘KK», Bolivia
.'uno. on i, the Dominion of Canada imt .">,()( (),-
O'? *. Denmark less than E-vpt less
A- . ; i..i»o,i i;i)m Ireland only a trille ov< i- 5,000,-
«on. Norw iv not 2,900.000 ami Sw< den ami
Sw r. /••! land together only about • "<).
