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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XVI, Issue 32, 7 February 1881, Page 4

The Home demand for the litho-j graphed sermons supplied wholesale, and retail by London traders does not keep pace with the supply. With en-: terprise worthy of their race the pur-: veyors of pulpit thuader in the city are, seeking to open up a new market in thei New World. According to the " Phila-j delphia Ledger" American clergymen are receiving circalars from London, dealers in second-hand sermons offering them discourses, " lithographed in. a bold round hand" to resemble manuscripts, at a shilling apiece, or four pounds sterling per hundred. At this rate a pulpit could be kept going all the year round, twice every woek, for a little over eighteen pence per Sunday. That seems low enough, but ifc can be done still more cheaply. The same dealers offer to supply sermons in print, "warranted orthodox," at ten cents, each, while for the more fastidious are others not quite so cheap, which have " a pleasantness, yet an awful; solemnity about tbem." American ex-, ports of breadstuff's haye attained such proportions of late that it is quite consolatory to reflect that London dealers, in second-hand sermons are doing something, however little, to restore the balance of trade between the two countries. If, however, this new branch of British export trade should reach:

i large proportions, it is feared the American tariff should be adjusted so as to provide that " protection for native industry*' which is regarded as ' indispensible for the developement of 1 all American manufactures.