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The Daily Dispatch: may 22, 1861., [Electronic resource], article 9 (search)
The Northern religious press. In employing the phrase "Religious Press," we have, of course, no reference to the organs of New England Puritanism. We have never suspected any of them of religion in any way or shape. Rev. Theodore Parker, the type of a large class, was an avowed infidel upon almost every essential article of the Christian Faith, and Beecher & Co. are worse than infidels in practice. Nothing, in fact, would surprise us more than to see a single Christian sentiment in such a paper as the New York Independent. We should as soon expect grapes from thorns and figs from thistles. But there is a class of religious journals and of divines at the North who have been generally supposed to be sincere in their faith and honest in their practice, and it is these journals and persons whose transformation we cannot understand. We find in a Southern religious journal various extracts from some of the pious Northern press: "In the Church of the Messiah, (Unitarian,) a