Show Why Editors Know Their Bible Tt ro 1 is no news in m the report that na editors dl tors c still tIll know then B ole ol well enough to quote it 11 al although thU though h the Bibble DIbble Guild his has recently collected opinions OpinIOn of many leading ed cd tors to substantiate this fact If If no longer quoted the BIble that would be bo news S The paper newspaper nC r office has i 1 Bible well thumbed ml nd wor frequent refer refer- reference reference reference ence and the thc aV avenge l ge editor c his hs a cons part pirt of or its contents tuck tu tucked k- k ked ed cJ away in m hl his head Th s is natural for foi the editor must speak tc t a e hn U of cf his readers l N other book beok no author or group of has contributed so much to the form and substance of the Im I'm dish language as has the Kirg I IJ J Janes Version Its characters and live in our ou duly daily speech ech kc Hsc David and Jonathan th the or Jud s the traitor phi phra s soa I like the Thorn in the Flesh rIe h 01 of the GoHen GoH-en Calf have almost b bacon e a let lettes tors tes of the tl e alphabet letI I T-e T old school editor probably wont went w to o h and SanJay School and I ev even m if he went his WIll avid the theE B E Vc bic reading ding impressed itself on his I memory Many of the younger mien In In the profession may have missed n I t team ng rig A supercilious atti- atti tuJe aile tOl ta a ird the B We ale is 13 only too gen gen- gen gen-e-al gen I eal al amo g tha he but quite regardless cf of its effect up upon I ram on the tho r character this attitude p ap- ip is ms having a bad effect upon heir English Most of the edItors who rho pi c e essed themselves in this in- in inquiry conducted by the Bible DIble GUIld declared that it would benefit the English of all waiters lIters in n the he younger ones if the they were ere more with the Bible And ADd there is ms a more mund mundane anc mo- mo motive mo motive tive ive involved Let an editor make a mIstake let him speak of tle tl tI e Twelve r or the Apostle h and his faithful readers let hIm um know about his slip immediately tely I Any ny editor whose public Includes many nany readers of the Bible and Bible ind what public does not needs needs to know his lible if only for self preservation ter 1 |