Show Why Editors Know now Their Bible There Thele is no news newa in m the report that n PCT paper editors still know theIr Bbl Bible well cn enough to quote it al- al althou although al although thou though h the Bibble Guild has recently collected opinions of oi many leading edItors to su substantiate this fact If edItors no longer gao ed the Bible that would be news The average n newspaper office has a Bible DIble well ell thumbed and nor wor nb frequent refer refer- reference reference ence and the avern average e editor has a considerable part of its contents tuel- tuel tuc-ed tuc ed away array a ay in m his head Thi Thio is natural for the editor must speak ak the language of his readers No other book ro 10 author or group of has haa contributed so much to the form and substance of the English lai lal p guage as has the Km King T Tames Version Its characters and phrases live in m outs our OUE daily speech Types I pes like Ike David and J Jonathan the friends or Judas th the traitor cs cs like Vie te t e Thorn Thom in tie Flesh or the Golden Calf have a almost almost most become let let- letters let letters of the alphabet The old school editor probably went to h chun-h and Sunday School and even eHn Jf f he wv v went ent a mst imst his wll Will the I BIble reading reeding sled itself on hs ITS m Many of the younger men I Im m in the profession nay ay have ml missed e-dl e that training A supercilious atti- atti tJ tise toward the Bile Bille e is 15 only too gen gen gen- general gen cUll eral among the you ou ger generation I bolt bat quite of its effect up- up upon upon up upon on their character this his Ius attitude ap- ap appu apparently ap apparently pu is hay h hm having m ing a bad effect upon their English lish Most of the e editors who pressed c e teams themselves lees in m this m- m inquiry in inquiry c conducted by ye e a Bible G uld declared that it v won wound ou benefit the English of all writers an nn the younger ones if l they ey eyere were ere more familiar with the e Bib e And there is a mo moi more e mundane mo motive mo- mo motive tive involved Let art an editor make l a mIstake let him speak of the Twelve elve Commandments or the Apostle Jeremiah and his faithful readers let hIm im know about his hs slip immediately Any editor whose public many readers of the Bible and Bible and what public does not needs not needs needs to know his Bible if l only for self preservation |