Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1885-06-26
PRESS AND PULPIT.
The Attitude Of the Secular Tres1
Towards EEeligicn--IssV. n.
GEadGcn's Opinion.

0aetLN-NA4.n SkaAtaAEAEs
The attitude of the average American
editor toward religion is one Of calm
superiority It is not the only topic he
handles with the air Of mastery. Art,
philosophy. medicine, law, political science.
social economy, he Unders tanCs Just as
well as he does religion. There are ez-
cept;ons, but the typical journalist is
nothing if not infalliblg There is an Oh
vious cause for this. Is not the supply Of
knowledge as OF all other commodities,
regulated by the demand Put an Amer
lean in position where he is obliged to
know everything, and Ike Mr.. Squeer's
pupils, he goes and knows it, Though not
over reverent toward religion. the secular
editor does not take an interest in it.
Thirty years ago the great majority of the
secular papers practically ignored religion.
Occasionally you find q managing editor
now who seems to think that religion is q
matter Of no consequence to a newspaper;
but the number is small, for their papers
fail to survive.
The great majority Of successful daily
papers manage this matter very different
ly. They recognize rcligion as a great
special fact; they perceive that the contin-
Uous series of religious movements and
events is an important mart of the news of
the day, quite as worthy 10 be chr0nicled
| us the cog hshIS anu Ihe divorces; ana
| they observe that the people most init
mately concerned with the work of the
churches are intelligent ard thrifty, like
yer,ise in them, a ci,lss 10 viii h The man
arcr rom well af,ord tO INV nor+ir,I!ar, At
tention
| coilld naOc dozens of Dcy-,era1,p~g
East ana Wet tbnt never yyare ,,arsarntII
od fo,. 1i,b +ooii,erasS, soI-a ~ ltL,t ,,,t
devote mrnh- enoca fo Teiiniore No.,
The astonigbinT fcat Of frle5Tgrhirg tba
whole of The rpyiscd versio7f Of ihn Nav
Tnst1r,nrt 70 CHICAGO on tha d,I, Of i+s
arrival MT New Yori. and nrint.rr h tSo
next morning viii l0ng he ranemEeraa
n was 1lndoiIrtedI, tia most I,,ol1iSiotIe
| sc0op'i cyor 9Chi2vo.I -l5v nm A1Strirap
! ncysrayer
me increase Of o+tartio, tn raIfrrio-,s
matters hv.1Ip sar1Irt. f.r,,sS il ,ine ~ M
trr ror9Drsharsio1 Of tina srrna md f,,it,.-
| tiGn NJ tLe re,ysno,ar lie rt,oTtg ~ W.
ii~io1is nfta7gnaes ora rana-a,lIy infaiIj-
cent ana ocrnrnta fairoutiira If ,,h"t
e said aud doua 1T M C,onlr.ss iii 10
found in The journals Of t,lis. civ and will
be telerraDheJ TO Mi rqrfs of tfa ro;.utry
The value of the meeting viii he indaGn,
itey mutibiiej bv Inc sa1cnar nev-s ,(si.
Even in the casual rarortin@ Of sarnio,ts il
is sUrprisirg how we'll rost of those nan-
ell pushers do ccntriye to rct boIJ at The
snbstanceof what is saiI 9Iibn faifhfnI
teacher of The Christian law md Gnenal is
often Indebted To hose raDorters fnr =
| great extension of hfsinfiupnce As9ru1a
these younr mon are iTighE cnlrfaors
md thor0usbly Iikpa6la
On the whole. if is Iy he rerortar rather
than bv the editorial wI.iiai. tEat I.alicinn
has thus far cen most eFcrtiyrfr served
The wide awake mapGgin9 al Or If,1,,
! reDortcrs on the track Of RELIGIONS move
ments There are Jew daily 5ourugIs in
the country by which cCitorfgl cnn,I0p},t
and criticism on current RELIGIONS events
are intellirently ma1a-notably two or
three in tits valley. They gre ant to Le
| more confident than lucid. more prarInat,
zeal than profound. II would ne too mnch
to EXPECT of the average editor that no
should ALWAYS discuss G0ctriral md cccIe-
siastical Questions iutelligcntlv, h world
be equally unnNailing to EXPECT him TO
refrain from discussirg Cues,ious ti,,t no
does not understand.
is q live man with n sbillelab in his
hand to keen Cuiet all through The sI:udy
simply because he does not clearly know