The Bible in Newspaper Offices
An Ohio man writes to the Congregationalist that the two following stories are believed to be true in his State: When Salmon P. Chase was governor of Ohio he issued a Thanksgiving proclamation wholly in Scripture quotations. A Democratic paper declared that it was plagiarized, but frankly stated that it could not name the source. Whereupon a leading Republican paper hotly replied that the governor was entirely capable of writing the proclamation, and that it was original! A few years ago the Toledo Blade, one of the brightest and best informed of the Ohio dailies, began an editorial with the statement, 'Some wise guy has said, 'It is more blessed to give than to receive.' ' The leading Sunday-school man of America, a citizen of Toledo, called the attention of the paper to the ignorance of familiar scripture, and the unintended irreverence suggested by the sentence, and asked for a correction. This was neglected, until an article was taken to the Blade office written for another Toledo daily, calling attention to the 'break,' when a rather grudging explanation appeared.—The Christian Advocate.