A few days ago an article appeared on modern Italy by one who [knows it well and it illustrates my point. "The view which the world takes often," he wrote, "is cur-\iously and disastrously at variance with the facts. It is due to the exigencies of news gathering (i... that hunger for the exceptional for which newspapers cater). Ig some maniac drops a bomb on a crowded theatre the anarchistic incident is reported at length, but the fact that a nation is furiously at work is not reported at all." That is the press all over. It specializes on firebrands and fools, deals with broken laws and lives, lost hopes and liberties on the ground that what is normal is dull. Thus it supplies evidences every day of the need of a Saviour and continually provides incentives to the prayer "Our Father, let Thy Name be hallowed. Thy Kingdom come Thy will be done." So long as we have our newspaper we shall never cease to be religious, for by the aid of its mirror our sins are kept ever before us.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.