Weekly Trinity journal., 1874-08-22
THE NEW DIVINITY.

The Union Of the 18th inst. had lead
er, which its contemporaries of the
chicbadee" order unite in pronouncing
as blasphemous. We take issue with our
chickadee friends on that score, for if the
genius who does up the ponderosites of
that sheet is not justified in arrogating to
himself the attributes which appertain to
Deity alone, it is not for the lack of ap-
preciative worshipers. We make an ex-
tract from the article to which we refer,
which was written in reply to a Mendo-
cino paper:
1--WE reproduce the views of our Men
docno friend because they are amusing
and because they are the echo Of great
many journalists Of the same mental cali
Der, fixed prejudices and moral obiquity
scattered up and down this coast, from
the TRINITY Journal down to Fried
lander's organ, the San Francisco Post.
1t is neither blasphemy nor egotism in
the Union to quote in this connection
from Cowper's grand hymn stanza or
two for their future guidance in guessing
the motives OF this paper:
God moves in a mysterious way.
His wonders to perform
lie plants his footsteps on the sea,
AND rides upon the Storm
The ways OF the Union are as much a
mystery to the weddings and snealllings
of journalism as the ways of God to man.
The Union can never be
understood by these infinitely small pa
pers, which cringe and crawl at the feet
OF demagogues and rich men, any more
than the ways Of God can be understood
by men,"
Now if the above had been penned by
any other man living than the editor of
the Union, we should believe with the
majority of our contemporaries, that it was
but the vaporings Of a diseased mind
We certainly do not claim to "fathom It's
purposes" which like the little joker"
now you see, and now you don't see I"
And when we see how many there are
among our public men, who pursue ex-
actly the course which the Union points
out Tor them, contrary to what their own
sense Of right and justice must be dread
ing its adverse criticism worse than the
iu@h VI " hiiP VI SUI plOust CiluSluR D6-
fore it to court its influence we know not
but it has reason to think itself justified
in its assumption ofsome of the attrib-
utes Of divinity. 1t has worshipers who
never permit themselves to doubt its in
tallibility, and pour their strains of ful-
some praise at the foot of its altar. Wit
ness the following TIE Deum Laudan1ts
which it copies from one Of its pe-wees
There are a number of journals in
San Francisco who find it difficult to con-
ceive the course Of the Union. Among
these are the Examiner, Post and ChrO1i-
icie. We would state to those able Jour
mails that, while they are foreign to pro-
glession and cling to the same old rut,
the Union, irrespective Of parties and
their trammels, pursues the course Of
right and justice, As civilization goes
forward as the age becomes more en-
lightened, the Union goes with them in
their onward strides and if there is n
journal in the world that throws an i'm
pregnable shield around the poor and OPP
pressed, that journal is the Sacramento
Union. Nor will the appreciation of the
masses Of the people be lessened for the
great good it has done because of false
and sneaking teachers"
After this sample, we hope the right of
the Uaion'S editor to claim jnfallibiity
will not be disputed.