Two slight collisitins of the Press with the Church are
reported this week. In one, a vicar was bound over on a charge of what was evidently a purely nominal assault on a journalist who was pursuing his professional activities at a funeral service and declined to depart when requested. On that I express no opinion. Any human being, I imagine, can attend a church service, and I know too little of the attendant circumstances in this particular case. But with the vicar who vetoed photographing, in his church at a marriage service I have complete sympathy. It is insufficiently realised that the marriage ceremony is as much a religious service as normal matins or even- song—at either of which the operations of photographers, whether professional or private, would be recognised to be grossly out of
place. To emphasise that as occasion offers is very much to the good. * * * *
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