The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1872-09-29

coming art season, we only see GROUNDS fOr
congratulation on the evident and rapid prog
ress we are making in the highest branch of
human industry.
Scintillations OF the Religious Press
Woman as . Pious Motive.
The fact cannot be disguised. There is a
strong moral and religious as well as physical
element now being infused into the religious
discussions of the day. When a noted orator
of the East was asked sWhat was it that made
England the terror of the ocean and the land?"
that orator answered-sIt was whiskey"
The inquiry now is "What is it that makes the
pious element paramount to every other in
our social organization The answer is
'fWoman. In all the progressive moral and
religious movements we find at this day that
woman is taking the initiative--the pioneer
position 1t is to be seen in the advanced
stage Of the temperance reform, in the admir-
able systems of Sunday schools, in the educa-
ton and the elevation of the unevangelized
children of the streets, in bringing the way
ward and the astray back to the
paths of rectitude and virtue, in clutching
from the grasp of the arch-fend those timid
specimens of mortality who, once on the
downward track, know no right nor left until
they find themselves in the dark ocean of
hopeless perdition. When woman takes the
helm of morality you may be sure the sterner
craft will be directed in proper course.
We are pleased to learn from the Christian
Union Brother Beecher) that Massachusetts is
coming well to the front in the work of enlarg
ing the opportunities of woman The domi-
nant political party at its last State Conven-
ton Tin Massachusetts, committed itself posi-
lively to woman suffrage. An able plea for
the admission of women to Harvard College
is made. new College for Women has been
founded at Northampton by womans NUM-
fcent bequest In his editorial capacity Mr..
Beecher says he is appalled, at the PROPOSE
ton to furnish, by wholesale, writer's for
the daily and weekly press as well as of books,
and in his desperation the eloquent preacher
aud hearth-side advocate exclaims, eff the
mania for authorship is encouraged to become
an epidemic, Heaven help the editors and the
public" A good many editors undoubtedly
need Heavens help, but should the Rev.
Henry Ward Beecher proclaim the fact aloud2
In the meantime, let the good work of the good
women go on. They have proven themselves
the best of artists, writer's, poets, lawyers Gf
we are to believe Shakspeare), Of warriors (if
we are to believe the history of Joan d'Arc),
of mothers Gf we may, as we must, credit the
Christian theory of the mother of the Saviour
Of mankind).
The religious New Year of the Israelites will
be ushered in on Wednesday evening next,
and this festival as well as that of Atonement,
following ten days later, is observed more
generally than any other throughout the whole
year. The synagogues, according to the Jewish
Times, are during those days filed with de-
vout worshippers, the prayers are recited with
trembling fervency, and the words Of admoni-
ton. as they fall from the lips Of the spiritual
teacher, find open hearts and docile minds.
These festive days, continues the Times, are
the embodiment of the cardinal and funda-
mental idea of the whole Jewish religion, the
representative force Of the grandeur and
sublimity of the Notwithstanding doctrines
annunciated by Judaism accountability and
reconciliation" This might be regarded as
embodying both the Grant and Greeley
political doctrines, emitting for the time
being the phrases of addition, division and
silence" '.Rosh-H ashanah'' will, no doubt,
be faithfully observed this year by our Hebrew
fellow citizens.
The Catholic Freeman Journal, always fresh,
piquant, pertinent, impudent and forcible,
gives us it's views upon religious tests in poll
tics, apropos of Francis Herman for Governor.
Selling the view of the religious objection to
his nomination, the Able says:-sMr. Ker-
mans religion was no factor in the motives of
his nomination" And he never wrote truer
line Good citizens nowadays do not ask
what mans religion is, but only inquire,
''Will he make good, faithful, upright officer,
O straightforward friend as well as servant of
the people?"
The Liberal Christian (Rev. DR.. Bellows)
has q sensible article on Presidential Jour-
nalism," in which the editor recurs to
recent visit to England, and says he was much
impressed with the general excellence, the in
telligence, the dignifcd and wholesome tone of
editorial writing in nearly all English journals.
We were continues DR.. Bellows equally i'm
pressed with the fact that, as newspapers the
English journals do not for moment bear COM
parison with our own. Necessity has not yet
taught Englshmen either to run" newspaper or
70 keep hotel. That they will in time learn to do
both o. well, II not better than their cis-
Atlantic children. may be regarded as Ger.
tain. But the time Ia not yet. They must
wait for popular education, disestablishment,
Wore general and familiar intercourse with for.
egners, ali OF which are coming fast enough. But
in respect OF editorial competency to write nteli-
gent temperate and statesmanllke leaders, most
American journalists could aord to go to school 10
them for good while.
The Independent has bloody chasm article
concluding as follows -
inst elect Mr.. Greeley, and through him bring the
democratic party into power, and then the demo-
Gratis tine unrepentant Southern ex-rebels, the Ku
Klux Klans, the Tamnany thieves ana Iowdies,