The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-03-30
PRESS ANDPULPIT COMPARED
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 enough. The meager ability sufficient to gather and state news will not be
 enough. The journalist of the future
 will be required to be yersed and
 grounded in history, science, political
 economy, logic. the languages, mathe-
 matics. the arts, laws, politics, meta
 physics and all the other knowledges
 which are a foundation of a liberal
 education. These knowledges will be
 trained in the direction of the art of
 statement and exposition and they will
 be concentrated on and percolated
 through journalism as they now are on and through law, surgery or divinity. Examination, diploma and license will
 be as real and mean as much then in journalism as in any other learned call ing. The estimate of the public to- ward journalism will then be raised as high as the standard of journalism it.
 self will be. The press will then be worthy of mention with the pulpit, not merely, as now, as a force, but as a refining one, as a profession.
 Coming to a more familiar consider ation of the contemporary relations, re- sesnbIances and contrasts of the press and pulpit in our cities, it can be said that the long missing link that made union rather than likeness, was found in the reporter. There is nothing, as a rule, hideous of mien or vicious of nature about the reporter, but so did not the preacher regard him at the out set. He was at first seen but to be hated, for he was looked on as one who, by mistakes, would get the wrong idea of a sermon, or who, by correctly printing it, might make it impossible of repetition elsewhere, it being the prop erty of sermons, history and political workers, to repeat themselves. Little by little, however. pleasant relations were established by the reporter be- tween preachers and editors as a class. This was evident in variety of ways. The two classes often concertedly push forward the same reforms. The an- nouncements of services and sermons are a constant feature of Saturday and Sunday editions of newspapers. The sermon writer and the leader writer have decidedly affected one another in the art of putting things. Of late years the press has maintained much more ethical tone than it formerly indulged. Within the same time the Sunday dis course has had more point, sympathy, simplicity and toleration than it pre- viously showed. The polenlic spirit has largely disappeared from preaching. The abusive spirit has become offensive and fare in journalism.
 The difference there is in the method of minister and journalist in sense attracts them to one another. The journalist who keeps himself behind his Jovian or Chinese thunder realizes that the minister must keep himself in front of his people. Each, in that mood which makes him wish to be the thing he is not, at times envies the other his function. The clergyman would like to have the security and seclusion of an impersonal expression of his thought The editor longs for the consciousness of power and the sense of fellowship with the nearer that come to the ora tor. To the preacher the editors chance to express his views every day and to send them every whither com pares favorably with the expression of ones views to few once or twice a week. To the editor the preachers ob- ligation to make utterance so seldom and the full time to mature his thought seem delightful. Really, however, neither would change places. Each prefers his own work if he is lit for it. It is well for journalism and for re- ligion that each does for thirdlys in editorials and squibs in sermons would be deplorable. This habit of casual comparison of editor by preacher and of preacher by editor renders the for mer the best of listeners in the sane tuary and the latter the most welcome of visitors :n the sanctum.
 It is assumed that the journal is rather helped than hindered by callers. It is almost religiously believed that an animated talk between a lawyer, a politician, banker, and a clergyman, all talking at once in his office, is a positive gain to the leader writer, es- pecially if his subject requires close study and if he knows that the man over the way will be too glad to note any mistake. All this, however, has it's compensations. It makes the newspa- per office the stamping ground of cere- braI men,. Among those ministers, in their Monday holiday mood, are likely to be the freshest and most forceful. It will not be pretended, however, that the clergy have been hospitable in kind. What layman ever got a glimpse of sermon amaking? The hand of Divine Mercy, and long years after the editor has ceased from the as- of the wisdom he had not, the historian will search the files of their 
 That what man is, that he thinketh is as true as that what a man think eth that he is, and the two professions of which thought is the motive power should ever bear it in mind. I have been moved to say this because cler- gyman and a sciolist of Boston once declared that the atrocious attorney theory of journalism was the prevail ing one there. He may have had war rant for saying that If so, more is the same of Boston journalism; but no re- spectable or influential journalism of New York state is responsibly repre- sented by any such declaration. < make bold to say that journalism will become a profession in the best sense, not unless and until it's avenues shall be closed to those who are unfit ted for it's duties. Education, special