THE PRESS AND THE PULPIT.

Temuka Leader, Issue 195, 8 November 1879, Page 3

THE PRESS AND THE PULPIT.

chief of the reporting staff of the ' - istcbnrch Press has sent the foil owing ~-r to the Globe ; (To the Editor of the Globe.) IDn, —From a paragraph appearing in r;. ■ .otter of the Christchurch correspondent of the Saturi;ay Advertiser, I learn that some of the evangelical ministers of Christchurch are greatly concerned ns to the moral and religious welfare of the members of the journalistc profession in Christchurch. The paragraph further states that a society for the conversion of journalists was resolved to be formed, I trust, sir, that such a marked display of bad taste, and what I may be permitted to call ecclesiastical snobbery is simply a coinage of the fertile brain of the correspondent. If it be not so, let me tell these reverend censors that there exists amongst the journalistic fraternity in Christchurch, and I dare say elsewhere, as much if not more true morality and Christianity as 'does in the smug brond-clothcd Pharisees who go to church three times a day and thank god they are not as other men are. The Rev. Dr Talmage ■ —who, I persurne, will be accepted by these would be leaders of benighted journalists as a sufficient authority—in a recent sermon said that he was surprise considering the meannesses and the hypocrisies with come professionally under the notice of journalists to find so many of them God-fearing men. bir, I.take the resolution, if it were passed, as an insult to a nwble profession, one in which it is possible to find as good citizens and Christians ns any under the sun. Despite the fact that their profession leads them to look with some degree of distrust on human nature, I can assure our evangelic.d friends that thojournalists of Christchurch discharge, their duties as citizens, Christians, husbands, and fethers quite as conscientiously, and I believe faithfully, as any other class of the community.— Yours, &c., Geo R, Hart