Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, May 30, 1881, Page 6

f | 4, i Seis BEE he eS eT jal ae eaten en ee aes bed nt Slit nae eo Bot 4 ¥ ) , hand-press thot Bible text. Ona scroll held . inone hand of the statue of Guttenberg fs * novel " awakened stich widespread interest as this - even 6 THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE: MONDAY, MAY 30, 1881—-TEN PAGES, . resolutions drawn up by the Committee: “That it is desirable that the Convocation should tominate a body of ils own members to undertake tho work of revision, who siiatt be at liberty to Invite the codperation of any eminent for scholarship, to whatever nation or religious body they may belong.” If you will read the prefnes to the “revised version,” you will see a full statement of the principles and rules which were adopted by the English Committee at the outset. EWU brieiy note these points. Hoth the English and American rivisers were divided into: two. compantes,—one to revise the Ofd Testament, theother the New. Ench company was to go aver the portion to be re- vised twice, At the conference pon the re- sult of the first revision, « majority vote was to decile; at the second or final conference {t required a two-thirds vote for approval, When the adopted text differed from that of the authorized version, the alteration was to be Indicated in the niurgin, : ‘The vole to revise the headings of chap- ters, pnges, poragripls, Italics, and punetia- ton was so far modited afterward as to omit entirely “the headings of chapters and mages * ‘The results of the Inbors of the En- alish Committee after the first revision Were prompiiysent over to the American Committee, nid their eriticisins and opinions received and considered before the second revision was made. And, when that was finished, it alse was sent to the American Comittee to receive thelr further conslt- eration and comment, And so on to the end ofthe work, The full list of the different readlugs aud suggestions of the latter Com mutes: forms an appendix to the English re- vision. ‘The whole work was done In good falth "oO cannot = , 1s Gi 3 and in a spirit of enthollelty. ‘The divine ft of crention’s Genesls 1s re but heartily respect. the sentiments whiclt peated from agetoage, “Lebthere be light.” | oy mnatish Connuittes express nt. tH Maws awakened mind repents the prayer of | Se Eual orefate ton that ma aL tig cluso Ajax for “More light” Ils deep-felt need | ferring to the dificulties which must and longing for it fintls response, but the moat Read Riel an tualertaleiog they fuller dawn ouly stimulates tho thirst for | 88¥2 °° We know full wi defects must ‘i i . have thelr place in a work so long and so re ARLENE never Ue tL sattallet Anluous Hs this whieh has NOW come tO. Mit Jet us i q regard our attalnments. with humble minds und. Blenityhes and imperfections there are in the noble transtution which we have been in view of tho vast realins ot knowledge that stiit remaln unexplored, called upon to se; blemishes and bmper- fections will assuredly be. found hy our ree In the City of Strasbourg stands © monu- ment, surmounted by a statue of John Gut vision. All endeavors to translate the Moly tenberg, the Inventor of cut metal printing Scriptures into another tongue must fal short of thelr aim where the obligation is type, who printed the first cony of the Bible Qn Latin) ever given to the world, For Imposed of producing a yerston that shall be allke literal and Idiomatic, faithful to each years he tolled in secret to produce that in- vention, nud then for ten or twelve years thought of the orlzinal, and yetin the expres- more he Inbored to- put through his rude RELIGIOUS. Several Sermons on the Re- vised Version of the Testament. The Work Receives the Ine dorsement of the Rever- end Speakers. Consecration of the Church of the Good Shepherd at Lawndale. Crime and Criminals—Sermon by the ° Rov. A, M. Piltchee. TUE NEW VERSION. SERMON ON THE NEW TESTAMENT REVISION, BY THE UY. Be GALVIN, ‘Tho Third Unttarian Church held a large ‘congregation yesterday morning, and the pastor, the Rev. E., Galvin, vreached the following sermon on the Revised New ‘Testa: ment; Let there be light—Gencata, 43 sion of it harmoniots and free. From this point let tg tnke 9 retrospective view, nnd trace, ns brielly but clenrly as we ean, the sources from which the New Testa- ment writings have been gathered, - Going back to the times which preceded tho nge of printing, what do wo find? Of the Jonger and more anclent MSS. over fifty of the Gospels, fourteen of Acts, six of the Catholic Eplsties, fIfteen of. the Pauline Epistles, and tive of the Apocalypse. Of the tho French inscription, “1a luulére fut” (Light was”), But how falnt aconeeption did that poor Germun printer have of tho marvelous Influence, as a disseminator of shorter MSS, there are, according to Prof. light, which tha press was de® |'Siith, ‘of Scotland, nearly 1,000 for. the tingd to exert upon the — world, is and as many more for the rest of the Testament, ‘These have been gathered from a large number of sources, extending from ancient Gaul to Constantinople sud Egypt. = f you ask, What are the oldest MSS, extant? 1 answer, ‘They are the Codex Vatieanus, whieh has been In the Vatican Library at Rome from tts fowndation in the sixteenth century. it is judged, from ine ternal evidences, to live been copied in Egypt. It contains the Old Testament and a large portion of the Now Testament, and is assigned to the fourth century. The Codex Alexandrinus, now in the British Museum, is written Jn four volumes on parchment, In the New ‘Testament twenty-four chapters of Matthew are want- ing and two chapters of John, ‘This MS. is believed to have been written In Alexandria and fs nsstuned to the fifth century, ‘The Codex Epuralul (so-called because it 1s palimpsest, hat tg, tn ancient MS. written i His labor bronght him to bankruptey, and his first priuting-press was seized by his creditor, Fust, or Faust, who took from him also a part of the honor of his great Inven- tion, But that first printed Ulble that went forth froin Guttenberg’s own hands was to contribute more to the enrichinent and bless- ing of mankind than any bout that was ever written, It was destined to find Its way into every village and hamlet of tho habitable globe, and to have “the gift of tongues” that should enable it to speak in familiar language to men of every tiation and tribe under heaven. Martin Luther caught Its spirit In the cloister, and ft inoved him to burst the bonis of Ponish authority, and tp translate the Scriptures from 0 ded tongue into German, and sen the book forth to rev olntionize nll Europo and awaken a living faith, over with the writings of Ephratin the In 180 the British and Forelgn Bible So- | Syrian) 1s in the Imperial Library elety was orsinized in Enitand. Within less | at Paris. ‘his also isaseribod to Alexandria than eighty years that Soclety hns printed and distribiited 74,000,000 Bibles, ‘Testaments, ond selected bouks of the same, Our Amer- [can Bible Society, formed in New York City In) 1817, has, distributed 42,000,000 of coples, and other forelen sociuties 15,000,000 more, In other words, seven sucletics, with an average existence of not over fifty years, fave put the Bible, in whole or in pret, Into the liands of one-tenth of the world's popula- thon. Anil what ts more, friends, during the pet fifty yeurs the best miuds tn England, in Europe, and America ave been studying the nalts source, and to the fifth century. Lt egntalns large portions of the Old atid New Testunents, ‘The Codex Cantabriguusls, or Bezae, so called after Bezn, who In 158 gave it ta tho University Library at Cambridge, England. It contains the Gospels and Acts, with a-‘Latin version, and once contained the Catholic Eplatles, all of whieh, save EL. John, xb, 15, in Litin, have been lost. ‘This MS, 4s assigned to the latter part of the fifth or sixth century. But surpassing all the others fs the famous. Codex Stratticus, which was, after a long Scriptures as they were never studied before, | and diligent search for ancient documents, and. as IT shall endeavor to show you, new | discovered by Dr. Tischendorf, in the holps have been. found, and new fight ling | monnstery of St Catharine, on At. dawned upon thelr pages, which give them astrongerelulin to our honest neceptance ag aquickening spirit in our duily Hyves, Yell ne, friends, why tt was that, for three months or iore, all Europe and Ameries havo been Ina state of expeetiney, looking for the publication of the reyised version of the New T What history, or announced as In press from the most noted wuthor of our times ever Sinai, dn the. year 159, No chapter in Dr, Livingstone’s researches In Africa or Kano’s expedition to the Arctic Sea has more thrilling Interest than Tisehendor{’s account of his repeated visits to that remote and iso- Inted mountain cloister, where at Inst lic found the rarest trensure of Biblleal manu- seripis thatis known to the world to-day, This nanuseript contains the entire Greek New ‘Testament, the Epistle of Barnubas, parts of Hermns, and 100 more leaves of tha Septuagent.° “Tt has been examined,” says Denn Alford, * not only by Tischendorf, but by ‘Trejelles and other competent judges, aud Is by them assigned to the tourth century.” But you will say, Tha most ancient manu- scripts of the New Testament only date back to the fourth century: where are the original records of the Gospels and Eptstles? ‘They were ail lost, so that not a fragment of them remained. And, furthermore, there aro no marked evidences of a Christian It erature tll! the latter part of the second cent- ury. Tow, then, you will ask, could the New ‘Testament records he reproduced ? The anawer is; through the writings of men in the second and third centuries who were eminent for thelr learning and «levoted to the Christin Chureh, They ure called on this Aecount the Church Fathers, aud aceupled prominent places inthe Church in various countries, ‘They made numerous quota- reprint of a book that has been elreutatians in the world for elgtiteun hundred years? If ponular writer secifres 0 salu of thirty or forty thousand coples of lly book In four or five years he [s well satisfied. But therecamo over from England, as a first installment merely, 400,000 copies of the revised Now ‘Testainent. and these were wl lmmudiately taken up by the bookdesters In yarlous pare of our country. And whut a striking Hus. tration did Wwe have of tho marvelous progress which has been mada in the art of priuting when, within forty-eight hours, or Jess, after the first copy of that book was obtained, ong of “our city lournals (Tue Cincago Tianune) sent forth, besides its usual large double sheet of news, a supplement containing the entire New Testament. Within three days that journal is reported to have sold over 100,000 eoples of the supplement. And itis at sonable esthnate to make that within 1 from the Gospels and | Epistles night at lest 1,000,000 copies of the rev! whieh have been. preserved in thelr version will have heen sold in this country, | Writings, We read: th ports in 1” - TO} their books of controversies which arose and of the efforts on the purt of the oppo- nents of Christian doctrines to overthrow thelr clalms of acceptance. We. find also hat attempts were made to secure the recog- nition of numerous apochryphal writings ns apostolic. ‘The men, therefore, who were de- voted to the spiritual Interests of the Church: and the maintenance of truth, were put ret- ively on the defensive to maintain the purity: of the Gospel teachings, Ienes they made Miunerous direct quotations from them, and. also look active steps towards forming 0 ‘There ts another feature of modern jour- nalism which is not so praiseworthy, and that fs to call upon the aninisters to pass their adgment upou a work that has taken ten years to complete before the sun goes down on thy very day when that work Is just. pub- Ushed. We should make more real progress ua as ane fins sald, we mado haste more slowly. It Was my first Intention to give a revicw of the “Revised Version” to-dny; but fare ther reflectlon convinced me that such a dls. course Would be of grenter interest and protit ih toyoult Lshould first give you a elearer | canon of the Christian Seripiures. fdenof the sourees from which the New | ‘Tischendorf says of drenwus, Blshop ‘Testament text has been derlyed, and the | of the Christian Church of | Lyons, various transactions through it Kas passed | in Gaul, at tho end of BEES from a nixed, crude slate to one more aud | ond century, that, In combating the more perteet. Gnostic heresies of that tine, he referred. to Do you ask how we can claim thatthe Now | about 400 passages In the Gospelaover elghty ‘Festument text ls purer and tore accurate | of which were direct quotations from Johivs than that of u thousand years ago? Lanswer | Gospel, ‘The writings of ‘Tertullian, Bishop that notonly lias greater seholarly abllity | of Carthage, about the end ot the second Deen brought to bear upon the subjee! sentry, also certaln lundreds of passages. but that the more anelent and well, | from thy Gospels, 200 of which aro taken authenticated MSS. have been brought to | trom John. Nebt within the lust two centuries, and, what Ip his article on tho Bible in. the last edi- is wondertul to relate, the Greek MS,, whlel | tion of the “ Eneyelopedia Britannica” Prot. now stands at the head of the [st as proba- | ltubertson Sinith, of Edinburg —one of tho diy thy oldest Ih existence, wis, discovered Ko | foremost scholars of our the —siyss “At recently nx 1858, by Tscheudorf, of Germans, | thy thine of the great teachers of the close of of whoin L slinlt speat later, the second century Cremeus, ‘Tertutiian, Wo havea far more accurate knowledge | Clement) wo tind a two-fold collectlon,—the conce ni the Pyramids and ruined tenmples | Gospel and the Apostles, The Gospel com- of Egypt (han people who Hyed a thotwand | prises the four evangell sta; and this number aaKo, because we have found the key to] was se absolutely fixed as to adit of no further doubt. Quite beyond dispute were algo tha main books of the Apostolicon, the Acts, thirteen Epistles of Paul, L. Peter, 4 dobn, and the Apocalypse." As was very naturally tho case, while dif. ferences of opinion existed In the various ranchesof te Christian Church Itself for uuny years, as to the writhigs which de served to be regarded ns strictly canontenl; but, before the close of the fourth century, {hesy differences were to a large extent ad- Justed, and a very general agreement was reached. ‘Tho Eustern Chureh, we are tol, did notaduit the Apocalypse Into the canon wnt the fitth contury, while the Western Chineh was for o Jong thne doubtful avout the Eplstis to the Hebrews, Jet us look buck still farther and take 5 More comprehensive view of things, that wo nay form clearer Ideas of the original New Testament records, yur ho hleroxlyphics eut dn the blucks of stone, And we know more about Pompeil and Her. culuneun than was Known ten or fifteen tures ago, because thosy buried cites Deon excavated from the ashes, and 4 for themselves ty unmistakable lan- guage, Let as understand clearly whit the “ Re- vised Verslon of the Now ‘Testunent” clalins tobe Itelahns tobe not an entirely now franstition of the Greek text of the New ‘Yestanient, but a careful, studious review of what ls known as tho *Auhorized English Verslon.” Pint version wis made jn the relga of King dames 1, in 16, and was a translation of the best Greuk MSS. then known, rnd Willan 'fyndall’s noted trans Jation as the basis for the work. And, be It sald, Chat the Fie version, with all its iuipertections, is Uie best spechnen of pure, HiteebiKon that the world contains i snd itis ne wonter that it has found, Though all tho writers of the Gospels, the a treasured plitco tn the ts of millions, eis, and the Epistles were Hebrews by The 1 justly recognized the | birth, wey wrote in Greek, And why in beauty and f chess of that AngtoSaxoi Grevk rather than In thelr native tongue ? “i560 far usin their judy. ressed the trath of the orlxinal text, to retala the words, though 1 must cons fuss that, In nota few instances, they have Jost, rather than kalned, by thelr transposl- Hon of sentences and by verbal chunges. Their ehlef work in making new translutions of the text was confined to those cuses where now light had been derived from more value able and better authenticated Greek MSS,, discovered since the King James verlon Was published, ‘Lhe Eugilsh Convocation of the Province of Cunterbury, which orlginated this Han for revislon In February, 1670, showed Hecause Greek was the language spoken throughout the elvilized World. att tut tne, Nearly three conturles — before he birth Christ the Ola ‘Testu- mont, Known as the Septuagint yer- ston, had been written in that tongue, und thus found tts way into do Gentle churches throughout thecarth, ‘The Hebrew was rapidly vasalig into disuse, — Greelc schools were established tn Alexandria. Cievro hud su mastered the direwk that he could speak to fluently aud eloquently in that tongue ag fa his own native langunge. when tae. aN pails eddrvased m sort Oe sembllen of dews and Greuks, they pro ts honest Intent to secure tle best results | spoke In the Greek tongue because rt oul from thelr work by a vote “to invite the | understand them. And so, in the diffusion codperation of Aiortcan sebolars.” And | of Christlunity throughout the Gentile re- the following wasone of the fuuduuenutal | glons of the West, Greck = was made the grand medium of commu: nication. But "the Greek of the New ‘Testa- ment writers,” as De Witt says, “is not pure, but Juduistle, and “we may diserimiinte? in it “three etements,—the Greek, the Jewish, the Christina.” ‘The first writings of the Now ‘Testament were doubtless nade upon papyrus rolls pre- pared from thin strips of a tall: Egyptian reed, ent tengthwwise from the Inner section, ‘These rolls were not durable and must have Deen soon worn out by use, ‘The written characters employed In those tines were what is eatled the unelal, or large, rude capltals, ‘They were written without any diyislon of words or murks of pinetuation. ‘The hest comparison we could mike to that style of writhyg to-day fs one of the frat. attempts of alittle child to printa letter to his absent father, You can readily understand how enally errors might be mate In eopylng such ingmuseripts, In course of timen large number of yer- slong were made from the original writings, the carliest of whieh were the Syrine, or the Peshite, ““limple?? version, which was used tn the churches of jaand the old Latin tin Afrien. The old- ost of theso dates from the middle of the sec- ond century, From the Peshito yerston sprang one In Arabic and one in the Perstan tongue, Still another Arable version was made il: reetly from the Greek text. At a Inter pe- rlod the New ‘Testament was transinted [nto the native Egyptlin or Coptie. Versions ‘were also made in the Upper Aeyotinn and Lower Eqpntian ttnlects, "The famous Gothle versfon of Ultilas was male fn the fourth century, the Latin Vulgute of Jerome also in the fourth, tha © Armo- nian in tho fifth, | tho wre pint In the sixth, — the i in the ninth, and from the old Latin version came the Anglo Saxon. Thus we see that Egypt, from whose hard bondage and Idolatry Israel had tled, now welcomed Christianity ag a gulding Malt. and Constantinople, which, a fuw centurles Inter, eave her allegiance to Mohainmed 1s God's chosen prophet, showed great devo- tlon to the work of translating the Christian Gospel Into hor native tongue, Chauges in the trinseription of the New Testament were gradually Introduced, ‘The writings were minds fram parch- sment. A. few punctuation marks were used, in the fourth = =—oor . fifth centuries, and about the middie of the fifth century one Euthalius, of Alexandria, intro duced the system of writing the text In short Ines (called the stechomotric system), to elitate reading. Another Afexanirlin de- vised the plan of dividing the Gospels nto short chupters or sections, In order to make readier. somparaons of similar passages. ‘was not until tho thirteenth century that the Arrangement in chapters, which now obtains in our English version, was Inyentgil by Cardinal ftugo; and not until Wit that ho present: plan of yerses was adopted by Robert Stephens, Itls to he remarked that, with the nuitipli- cation of the written caples, and versions of the New Testament, errors multiplied also. These were doubtless tor the most part the result of enrelesness. And when one set o€ copylsts undertook to correct these errors, they were likely to muke others, by additions ot thelr own. Lc is also very reasonably held, Uiat tho notes whieh some transhitors wrote In the margins were not Infrequontly adopted Into the text by their successors, And thus, in the cotirse of several centuries, the original text beeame much corrupted by this large nuinber of * yarions readings,” as they areeniled. ‘This is # fact to be lonestly ad- anittedt, And now If it be asked, Maye Biblical scholars been able to rectify these great errors and to forin a correct judgment in re- gard to the orleinal text? Lanswer, Yes, too very lary extent, What the study of comparative anatomy has done to advance that branch of physical science, the study uf comparative philology, of archwology, and Biblicul — crittelsin has dong to secure a purer and more reliable text in the New ‘Testament. Somy of the ablest xcholars of the world, men of careful and wise Judgment, have de- voted thelr lives to this work. Casting aside all pride of seet and prejudice, they have made the “search after truth” thelr one, steadfast purpose, With the niu of the oldestand best unelal MSS. (of which Lhave spoken) and the tes- thnonies borne by the best minds in the early Christian Church ft Its varlous branches, they have cnrefully compared the numerous revislons, and: this have been able to find tho key of Internal evidence of the genulie- ness of the New Testament writings, whielt has enabled them to separate the original text from the additions and corruptions with yemarkable aceuracy. They do not chim to have secured either a complete or « perfectly necurate text. ‘That will, doubtless, never bedone, But they have rendered an invalu- able service to the world In the good results their faithful fabors have achieved, it is from the tnvention of printhig that not only the greatest Incentives but also the ost eittclent helys for the prosecution or thorough work in the revision of the Seript- ures have been derived, "fhe press has done more for this enugo In three centuries and a half than could have been done In a dozen centuries without It. ‘The Greek New Testament was first printed in 1514, It was tho Complutensinn Daly. ice of Cardinal Ximones, of Spain, At it may be said in this connection that shrowd onterprise In“ tho printing art dates back to that first publication, ‘There being some felon in getting the Compluten- sian Polyglot {nto press, ane Frober, of Masel, anticipated italsgue by printing aliasty edition prepared by Erisinus, And here L would call your attention to a far more tinportant matter. In tho third edl- tion of the work of EErgeunis, In whieh ho mintle use of portions of the Complutensian text, first appenred that noted spurious pas- sage in the First Eplstlo of John, vi 7% and which the unscholarly lave | so long quoted as tho strongest proof-text of thedloctring of the ‘Trinity—vlz, For there are three that bear record In Henaven,— the Father, the Word, and the ILloly Ghost; nnd these three are one.” "Thint text has re mitined In our authorized English version tl to-day, when It has been dropped by the revised version, It still stands In the Latin Vulgate, ‘The Complutensian Polyglot was ono of the guldes followed ino making up the King: James version, but there were great det elencies and errors {1 the text. From tho tine of its fssuo till to-tlay the most valuable additions to the knowledge of the true Blbilcal text hive heen made. Wo shall only brieily glines at tho stages of progress made, In 110-40 cume forth Robert Stephens’ editlon, to the third edition of which such valuable additions were nile by Th, Boz that it became adopted as the received text, ‘The Geneva verslon of 1535 had also high claiins as an authority. After these came the London, Palyglot in 1057, and the scholarly Greek ‘Lestainent of John MUL, in 107; of Bengel, in titty Wel- atoin, in L751; Grlesbach editions of 1703 and 1800, which were held in high esteem in Burope and Anerien; Scholz, of the to- min Cathulic Sehooly Lachman's eritteal work In 1843 and 1850; and lastly, but mone the foremost in xonnd erltesl Judgnient and falthful coutributions to tho clearer knowl- edge of the New ‘Testament text, the works of jgnatwatine, Tischendorf, and Dr, ‘Lre- Felles, Lhave given, friends, only a briof résumé of the more lmportant features of that) work which lies bobind the recently, published revis- Jon ofthe Now Testament, From this lmpers fect aketel you may forntsome conception of the yast amount of labor and research while ht has been expended in its production, for this Just work.Js Inked with all dat has gone bee fore It, We ennsee how the light tins Increased with tha Incrensa of faithful researcl. Shall we not recornize It.as tho Nght of that over revealing Truth whieh fs leauing them more aud more unto the glorlous Mberty of the sons ot God? And, in the clearer, purer Bibly text shall “not ati souls feel more ani more tho quickening power of the sweet Gospel of desus, the Christ"? Do we not read a deeper meaning in those words to His disciples which fell from Tile lis more than 1700 years ago, Go snd niske disel ples of all nations.” and in those other words of strongest fulth In the perpetuity uf Ilis fospel, “Heaven and earthy uiay piss away, but My words shall pot) pass away,” And by Chis shall all men. know that ye are my dlgciptes, that yo have love one foward ane other’? TUB PANCUMENTS, SERMON BY POF, SWING, Prof, Swing preached yesterday morning to a Inrge = cougregation in the Central Chureh, taking for his theme, the quaint title “Tho Parelmments,” and giving his hearers an Interesting aecount of the world of letters at the Inception of Christiunity. and for tho next two or three centuries, Follows ' ] dng is the discourse; Dring, when thou camest, the books, and ospe- olally tio parchmunts.—11, Timotby, 1v., 1. tiga part of the good providence which has always followed the Bible that In oan age when worldy pursuits and successes had begun to make many forget tho existence or | did not feel anxious to mara parchment by 1 | e . | maklng corrections, and, furthermore, men | ances be true it fs tho sublimest book In tho | Of the genuineness, uncon ANd trust, a ee ls ey eta annalt nie took Freat liberty In ‘amending, ng’ they | whole world, for In those great statements tion, nuthontlelty. ineptration, ana reserva. y bp 2 a ? thought, the sense of the original composer, | ev Pa heart can find the way of Ife.) ness for a gouly Ufe and an inluplete. ment. Vesldes being a worthy reprint, ® | A treatise It all the classle pertod seomed | and by obedience cau ft tself for any exist- | hops of out Bibles we have patortal task performed by gourd scholars, it comes as | much ike any other piece property In this | enee, bolt in this world or in some better | Gon whatever. ‘The — ge: No gues. A new Impulse, and for a Uni will entisn the | Tess Wel that the purchiae antlR HLF haprove Jond, Tess | OF 1 iuthort | teat Ww fi 2 Hew negnisition ta his own . s fn ts also beyond dispute, | le public to give some mew ait klnt | atmostcertatn that nearly halt of the Look TIF NUVISTON, lous of the best sclotars on. these ttm. thoughts toward that history of Chest | or job is from a dishonest source. Some : és ; ony clear, poaltive, and conclusive, ty tsar and his disciples, Fainting hearts may well ‘i ‘ x “h BENSON MY THR REV. C. A. TOWLE. a 4 Nelusive. Its Jan, 8 is A ‘at scholar who got the old Arabian of Cliatdean Yesterday morning the Rev. CA. Towle ig slinple, direct, perspleuons, levey ual he cheered by the wonderful demand forthis | louse determined at once to. make repalrs y i phe aiae eompr to new volume and by the peeuturity of an nga | and build an addition, which was able enough, and bold enough, and sympathetle enough to tnsert the entire New ‘Testament. tn a morning newspaper. Sneha sudden ralning down of divine words came not wholly frum the fact that ony thes are fond of the sensational, but Intgely from tho generat conviction that after all sata by: atheist of unbeliever the peoplo still feel that their Testament Is the best volume they havo yet held in thefr mortal hands, ‘The events of the last few days may well assure thors wrote down. Many minds lave come between the Clirist and the Pant and us to inke away or. add something, Nurea make up a sublime and perfect ATK Christ and nv perfeet path of in shis possession a grospel Hike our owns “Then Ponts was overpowered both the tetrarel, who feared lest We cannot hope diat we now havo in our Now Testiument exnetly what Christ sald or what any one of the an- pens and many Dut the words ln which all the mantseripts atuly. Follow Lactanting in hls necount of the erueifixton aud you will feel that he lid thelr outeries and the instlzation of Ilorod, he should Us or tho narrative, for If all its Inrgest utters | ns the fotindation of thele hope prenehed at the Bethany Congregational Chareh, corner of Ituron and Pantina atrecis, on the Revised New ‘Testament, tak- ing for bis text tho well-known Scriptural passage: “The Word of the Lord endureth forever.” Mr, ‘Towle began by snying that tt was his objec in avenking upon the subject, to correct the idea which some people hind conceived thata new Bible had been given them to worship, Ie then went onto ex- plain why tho revision lind heen made— simply because civilization of to-day pos- sessed a more thorough knowledge of the of an abiding charm for the ny No, book Ins so seized on the pager and heart. It has been the great educa the common people, and {tt fins deter; ro tho atyleand expresslon of religions thee It Is nssoclated with tho memories svete elildhoods tt is the strength and BUD) our our waturor years, aint ib Is UIE Consolation antl trust when the shadows of d i Nbauieout pathway. ae eath hickeg ecently this ate old Bible fone a revision, and tho character ap unde ors of the learned and consecrated who have devoted a decent of years ee task Is sow belng subjectert to the test of Hs henslon of all classes, ‘but DOsseeseg ed, us that our modern civilization is not yet | deposed from hissoverelanty, .... ‘There ny a pubic Jndginent. If this be w ready (a throw away the records left by the | fore they led him away when he had been Greok language than, Ib di when the Tlie Mowether n atrange thing, Our nh st apostles. Many are the opinions as to thy | scourged with rods; and before they crucl- | onugo tha exit incaning of some words in | bets to growth of years and generatio origin and contents of tho New ‘Testament, pet hiitn they: anoekud him, for Whey pat upon the English language had chanel ha ahoul It ght lipaly, ry fw ns that the book fs of priceless worth to soelety. | for food, and mingled for him vinegar to xlariig Hit been somo of the inistakes In the | 8, tho Geneva, Bible, or noma While the Interest In the revised Testa- | drink. After these things they spat upon | oid translation thatiuinisters lind lone boen | Bishop's Bible. ‘Two hundred ‘and seven? ment Is stil warfh In our hearts, Jet ts make | Ms free and, struck hiin with tho palins | tithe habit of reading certain texts not ox- | years have elapsed since King James ver atheme outof the inquiry, “ Wheneos cane the New Testainent?”? 7'8 find an exact an- ser to the question would be a Inbor of yeurs for men the most learned, but we busy people can perhaps gather wp some facts aud themselves contended about his thoy enst lots among thomselves for histunic Ant found in the copious writings of tha fathers to muke quite a full history of the luvtrines of Jesus, arlations are of reflections that muy not be wholly destitute . t when | the: to not of fnferest. One of the first thoughts that amin BONE some Inw ‘J ents a) arise is that our workd hus always been a essential belief. writing world, Man {fs an anfinal that writes, At what {ime tn Als history man began to ex- press himself by written characters, no one can afirm. fowever deeply our autiqnaries may dig in the ruins, and caves, aud tombs of past races, they come upon tho carved or. engraved symbols of feelings and thoughts, Pictures must for along thine lave been the written lingtage, for the outline of a King: or Queen, or a stave, or a soldier, must hive been the must obvious manner of imnaking some note of these persous of many conditions, ‘The distunce between such asinbols ond such a written tongue as the Sanserit or Greek must haye been very great. ‘The bank of Job fy said to be one of the oldest of all essays or treatises, Jt lates back of Moses, but Job wished that his enc my had written 2 book, thas showing us that in that faroit time book-making had he. vome meommon art. The exeavations ductor In some article of Jast inthe hundreds of manuscripts, welghed nll together In their moral results, must be portance. They would inake tn phystent selene ant tnponderable and Inyis' intangible substance. atuple of yacuttn. om ni age full of literary zeal in which period even slaves loved to by writers, when copylsts were professional workmen, when all scholars were theological in quality, when elties gloricd In great Hbrarles and citizens took pride In books, when an uprising religion clothed with great interest everything issuing from a disciple or an apostle, then enme together the twenty-seven parehients which make up our Testanient. Not allof them into one complete and finish- ed book, but virtuallyns we have them before our eyes today, ‘There are nearly 2,000 anid i the rulns of ott! Eeynt disclose nes of | Manuseripts which antedate the print- old Hbrarians and boo! rs, | ing art and which make up the and that one of t ele ers Tint composed | sources of the modern Wivle, Of these Ouks, there are two eminent ones, “Tho Alex- or nrranged "30, Over the don; fi eta andrinn” and “The Vatican.” The Alex- of a Hbrary. ereeted fifteen lundred years before the aposttes composed their letters andrian manuserlpt, was. perlings composed annals this fuseription was found, by Cham | Hit the fourth century, Itcontalus all of the pullion: BALSASL FOR SOULS, instead | Ol Testament and all of the Now, oxcept of haying only HtUle divinities of the woods | twenty-four chapters ofalatthew, and nearly and the brooks, Exynt hata god called Presi | wo from dol, and six or seven trom Paul's dent of the Library, and a goddess caited the Lady of Letters. In the ruins of Thebes we have evidence, not only that the art of writ- ing ts old, but also thut the Chinese art is .as old as the oldest, for cleht vessels wero found bearing all the same Inscription, “Lhe flower opens, and lof another year]? Thus man appenrsasa wrillng creature, amaker and lover and preserver of libraries, and by the thie this xitted being had reached the Greek period he hal become as Infatu- ated with writing and with books as any modern is fnfutuated With painting or music, second Ietter to the Corinthians, It thought to be the work of a Indy of Alexan- dria, but tho proof of such allegation is ng wenk as tho matter is unimportant. ‘The Vatican manuscript is confessed to be older than its great rival, but they ditfer so much inthelr contents thatucither could have been neopyof theother. ‘They were made froin Independent data and In different styles of penmanship, Quite consideravle quantity of the Bible of to-day is absent from this grent copy, but. these two stand as grand foundations of the modern text, and, ag ze or with the recent house-decorntions, Great | thoy sprang up in on time when writers,.a3 to quantity and dually, havenp- | wl” were quoting from the — original peared inveach historle period, Vefore our | documents, it must be confessed. that they contain the sum and substance of the Christian history and doctring, ‘There ware Syrine and Latin coples ay early as tho nec- oitdand third centuries, thus ‘bringing the work so near the times of the events thait wo are bound tu admit thatthe New ‘Testament is one of the most authentic works that has come to us from any remote perigd. Its pages are the photographs of eveits, Sueh are the general reflections which alse as we look at the revised ‘Testament, and as. era began a Sbrary in Alexandria lind accu: mulated 700,000 volumes, A half-milllon of these were destroyed by Jdutlus Civsar, the remalning collection was destroyed a few centuries later by. some other” barbarian, ‘The Immense public libraries assure tty that the house or palace of each rich citizen was supplied with books, We know that the great Romans had Iiterary slaves whose whole time, was devoted to finding and caring for books for their masters. Aesop was an educated slave, and so was Epietetus, and We read Paul's request that his companion sines between these two lay a perlod of | of travel should bring along the “books and (oo years and the two clnasle coun- pacelitents. As though the request were tries, we are Jed to coneludy that in | issued to the world the enerations are obey Tug the order and are bringing along with them the holy books and parchments, ‘Tho Alexandrian manuscript has journeyed from Egypt to Loudon, and with 1,500 years of Christan’ story aédind Yin the form of nets, and Luws, and manners, and institutions, nnd iiterature, and of a tumultuous human life ,it reposes in the Britizh Museum, older than the Empires that inake up the thrones of Europe, older than the cathedrals which are ivy-covered and fall of decay, Lf that man- uscript was executed by the pen of a lady, ‘Theela, the years she gave to it of her youth or womanhood were of more value to soclety than wotld have been all the happiness she could have found inthe halis of merriment: or benuty, Anuge was to come when new inventions and all-levouring hunger for all truth and when universal education were to demand, in a single day, hundreds of thou- sands of copies of an English reprint of that way of Iife, traced once in Greek letters by a weary hand, ‘The world has indeed come with its * books and parchments.” For many centuries It has moped along with Its aring full of the parchments of Homer, and Plato, and Cieero, und Virgil, and Cwsar, and of Je- sus and bis associates, but lof after elghteon hundred years of constant comparison, and stuly, and application, this same world, wicked and skepllcnl ns itis, arches up to tho great bundle of rolls, cathered from all ages, lice flowers from all fields, and says: Wo still prefer tho Now ‘Testament. ., ‘This mnautfest choice ts made the more re- murkuble by the fact that our thnes have just been passed over by an army of de- gtructive critics who have sald with power and with much literary elegance that there fire no holy writings, and that thore is no holy world, and that thero fs no divine soul Inman. ‘This army has seemed at tlnes to bo one of a perfeet devastation, ablo to turn a fertile Innd into n desert, and as though o resistless conqueror had appeared the hearts of many have becour filled with fear, What names “have Jed the invasion! Renan, Stranss, Uuxley, Darwin, und the maby: rades in thelr great schools have with at suctive words asked the people to consider earth an Isolated world, its awn cradle and its own grave, No more persuasive rhetoric hog oyer Invited inan to the philosophy, “Let us be. happy for to-morrow we dle,” Aut yet while thls army of the earthly Is marehing along we percelve that there are millions of hearts which stil prefer the yarchinents which proclaim God and which cull mankind Ls immortal children, This multitude which buys. the Revised ‘Testament no longer supposes that the book was conmposed nthe sky: by the Almighty; Hand of man is sven and confessed; words, and sentences, and chapters, and perhaps books are tn the Bible which should not be there, and itmay be some ideas are taught which reasons now must rejects but the world has been generally educated above that Httleness whieh docs not disthiguish between tn objection and a cavil, and has come to that mental power which asks for the ailequate substance of facts, and hus, nui rites, and doctrines, It was i sinall and superstitions period, which usked Jlenven ta be the composer and Piuplinher of a Inrge voluine, That was the purled which worshiped words, and which would found a church upon t clause of 8 sentence, nud which would put multitutes te death foe non-compliance With some doubtful utterance of © qucstion- able nuthor, Eneh text was a ningical agont—an Aladdin lamp. Tho hue man family which now buys the “books and mumnuseripts” has “moved away from the yale of superstition and hus cone to that rationalism which is happy over the sibstanes of anything that is holy or use- ful, it would Indeed Juve ta know all about those wonderful tines and scenes around Christ; it would love to hear again every word uttered by the Lord ar uttered or written by his sulnts; 1 feels ashnined of those seribes who dared crase a word from the gospels, or who dared amend them to sult thelr iden, or pages or Jettoring; it would love to know all and to cherlah at no hour, over any chapter, a doubt, but it knows that whit fs most valuable to mun all that long reach of time books and ninnu- scripts and the urtef writing and composing wert things so useful and profitable and hon orable that even slaves attempted to be essay: ists ar philosophers. Cusar was as much of a writer us a General; Cieero was ns fond as, our Charles Sumner of his own speeclics and letters, and hence It fs that among Cieero's works are found perhaps three hundred Iet- ters prepared us though for the modern press, ‘The Home of these elegant Jiterary men had adally newspaper called the sett Dharna which was eagerly soturlit by the lawyers and statesmen and Generals of the tiny. ‘That the lett Diurne ald not Issue 40,000 copies ench morning, and that Its proprietors 1 printed In one issue an entire Revised Homer” or “Revised Xenophon,” we way bo certain, but the Journal appeared ench day mM many covies from many’ busy vers, and had In it the Intest news from the Senate aud tho battlefleld, and perhaps the latest sonnet. from some poet, and the latest harangue by a. candidate, Reealling these facts, you will be ablo to forms some Just pleture of thatage in which Paul wrote to T huothy and requested him to bring wong cartaln books nnd parchiments, and out of which eine to us the “books and parchments” which are bond up inte the * New ‘Testament.” | Our sacred volume eaine from an nge of thinkers, and writers, and bookmakers, Even the fishermen who dragged thelr had caught something of the fenmiar taste, and the Lute, and Jolin, and Pant had lived ina world ‘of Hbrarles and discussions. Among the Grecks there had long heen Pancuals of wisdom, and the seene In Virgil, where nt tha patnes of Dido the company fs entertained by song about the sturs nnd the sun, by wn astronomleat posta aceompanied by the harp, tells us that learning Was as poplar as love, aud that philosophy and romance were compunlons, Tho common usefal pursuits were overshinil- owed by the arty, Including Iterature, Young mon who hud tele that they had rent mental gifts were moving “about hall directions = to find distin- sulsed teachers of rhetoric, and prosody, and oratory, and, though often froin these shops there came more rhetorle and syntax than sense, yeb thelr existones tells us that our ‘Tostament eamo from an ‘era which wrote down all its thoughts upon all subjects with 8 wonderful amount of forces and benuty. It must have como to pass that In the first century after the death of Christ there were hand reds—perhnps thousands—of copies of Matthews, and Murks, and Johns essays in nemory of thett Mustrious frlend, and there Tuust have been hundreds of coples of eneh locter that came from Pau, ortrom Jude, or Peter. Ne sooner wotld such futters revch their destination Uian the literary slaves or freemen would begin toamuke copies Upon papyrus or parchment, Notoenly had Paul “buoks and preeliments.? but equally must all the leading men in the new movementand out of t have hid ys of written rolls in thely hones, huinblear great. A groupol tose enrllest Chiristhin scholars and writers has vecelved the name of ¢ ‘The Fathers’? {t would be dificult te find In all the annals of mun A more wonderful collection of thinkers and writers, ‘They were about fifty tn num ber, und occupy with thelr presenes mil oplutons, and veclesfastion! rule, 0 porlod of perhups 800 years. ‘They all ved where the streams Pagan and Hebrew and Christin met, and from the troubled state of public oplilon they tbihed all possible forms of dovtring, and give to all holy writings us many renderings as there were fathers, Unl- yorsnthin, Millenarianion, FPatuliswm, Calving isin and Poluginnisin are all plainly seen tn the volumes Jett tho worl by these devoted and talkative chteftalns. When they began sone of the Apostles were still Uving; woen they Jud all passe away the things sald by Christ and ils souipatons had become tho familiar words and furme of the Ronn Eu. pire, Difering us these men did, over the meaning of a“ wospel or at a eptatlos they all) quote the words ot both ‘Testmncnts, and thus did an intinit service to. humanity, for what the world was at lost to need was the word of Christ and Ils Apostles, Give the world the words, and and to soclety ly a vast array of general it would at lust Haye upon thelr beat line | truths; sach asimay becume the laws of right port. All these “fathers” without doubt | actlon and paths orthe Iighest happiness. peasant allor leading parts of those treats Mes HOW gathered futo the Lible, and this wo seo coming gradually togethor inte the possession of each bovk-lover, or theologian, or Bishap, all those ‘parehments which bore she inne of holy.” We can lnaging with What zeal and anxiety y father whe possessed ast. John” wouldattempt to secure a St Paul" anda © St. Mark,” and we can finag- ine Kome one of those great Misputants lead- Ing somo guests into the library to show them, with a kindof American boasting, that he had yocured at last all the holy parch- invnts of the new religion, Vanity and piety have often worked together for the world’s ond, on interesting uuestion arises: In what condition of fulthfuluess did these copies comy to these seckera and purchasers? One must confess that md world was lufinitly Jess honest thon than tt now fs, u fact which Is copeclally suvere on te wast. Copylsts Clyillzation Is the unfolding of great princl- ples aud fs quite pidepanduntae the question, trom What details did the prinelples come. Buta lotty human being is only a clvillzi. thon, uot in oan empire but in a single heart—the sin ina drop of lew) and hence the noblo individual ty the unfolding of great truths of duty, and falth, and hope. A Chiris- than is therefore not one Who knows a my- riud of minor facta or allexations about his Master, whore « Gospel way composed and what words cameln or wentout aa the genera. tons passed, but he fs one in whose mind the pussies teachings of Jesus have an ablding tame aud in whose bosom there is deep du- sire to tive as the Master lived and to dig tn the Master's hope of a resurrection. ‘Tho pregeut quality of the people demands that ts ‘T'estainent be the purest copy possible of the thoughts and deeda of the periad it os- sumes ta recall, but it asks nob for any absu~ lute yurfection li the details of the yerblaze of their hands; and whet the exccutioners rents mantle?” Enough extracts are to be Mfe and ‘The many thousands of differences found at estimated ag belug utterly destitute of Ine ble and They would be an ex- netly as thoy appeared, but exactly as they Were mennt; ts, for instance, substituting the word “love.” for " charity? In the pase sage (1. Corinthians xill, 2 And though [ hestow all my goods to feed the poor, an though Iuive my body to he burned, and have hot ‘charity,’ It profiteth me nothing? Ar. ‘Towle sald that tha New Testament was how probably as perfect as it could be so far ng the transhttion was concerned, But made no ditferenes whether we still cling to the old or the new transition. No essential doctrines had been changed, and no seetarinn principles had been Infected,—it was the game old Book of Books. ‘The rovision had already induced many to read the Bible who had never before cared to look nt it, and, though they may have heen incited sole ly by curlosity, it nude no difference, so loug as they were taught the Word of God, Many conversions would result simply from, this euros desire to read tho reylsed New ‘Testas aien! ston, but many editions of the Greek Now Testament, with translations amie have been produced by scholars, and hay been studied by ministers, by theologial tenchera, aud, to suing extent, by lay mem bers of the Church. ‘The ctnendations and suggestlons contained In sue caomunentarie: as thoxe of Benxol, Alford, Bloontteld eet Stuart have largely entered Into the know! edge and Ife of Christian households ang ehurchts: t ‘They have fount utterance lu the pulpit and religious perlodieals, ee pite-elnss and Sunday-schosle also tn hut there nra some pissages of Dle nuthority In our Eagiiale bible eee sional mistranslation, a faulty consteucdo an obsolete word here and there, js matter ot popular apprehension. "The desire has grown for yours that these errors might he corrected,—a desire whieh las been great} atekened by the enrnest and thorough scholarship which las been applied to he study of the original text of the New Testa. ment. And yet the interest and en thusinsm with’ which the Canterbury re vision ling been received is beyond the bounds of any reasonabld expectation, It shows the great regard witch tho inasses of the peoply hinve for the Word of God, and ths strong hold which the Holy Seriptures haye onthe public mind and consclenee, What of tly new revision ? fs the question on every lip: does ft preserve Intact the ol doctrines ? aud, despite the changes, does it maintain the rhythin aud mugsle of the dear old Bible vE our childhoowl? Of orthodox teachings itimay be sale that they rest on the unquestioned utterances of ‘he Greek original, and tha moro necurate and unmistakable the translation the mon dstinctly are the fundamental truths de elared.. No articte of Chirlstian falth is ue pugned or discredited in the slightest de greo by the labors of the Canterbury re visers, Aud so far ag stylo is concerned, though soe passages read a little strangely, yet, In the maln, It sounds like the old book, as well as teaches the old doctrines, Some verses have been omitted, and some passages have been iarked as of doubtful authority; but no theylogical schotar will be, startled, nnd the omitted clauses and doubt ‘al passages are not essential to dugmaiie teaching or to practical morullty. — They have long ago been praetically excluded from. the text, in the puiplt, and popular use, “‘Lextial erltlelsim in. the las generation or two has made very pegat Broge ress. ‘The labors of Lachmann, Tlschendor nnd others have not been fn vain; and the Greek of the New ’Lestanent from whieh this revised version has been constructed Is of re. miutrkable correctiess and elegauce, aud of unimperchuble authority. The principles on which the revision was made required that us few alterations as poe sible be Introduced into the text consistent with falthfulne: that changes be niade ng far ns practlendle In tho lunguage of the earlier or uuthorlzed versions, and that the text adopted should be tht of the. highest Authority A. great imanys changes have been made, but they are mostly aligh changes in thomselves, and they are to the Intent, to use the language of thoearllest translators, “that the blessed book of Got Inight he bottur wnderstanded of the people.” “Ln Cormime one estimate,” says Dr, J. i. Thayer, “of this new attempt to perfect the people's Bible, we must begin by reminding ourselves that the attempt ts no [novation It is one of the pecullarities of our English version that it 1g conmposit, the product of successive generations of scholyrs, Notonly is it thus characteristically fitted to undergo revision from the to thie, but In subjecting it to amendment maderu scholars are faliil ing the Intent of these who have made it what it iss” THE TESTAMENT. BERMON BY THE REV, J. 1. WALKER, The Rev, J. IL Waller preached last even- ing In the Campbell Park Presbyterian Church on “The Revised: New Testament.” Ile introduced the subject by a reference to the Immense notice the eyent had attracted, tho vast number of coples—2,250,000—sold the first day, and the publicatlonof long portions, and, In one Instance, the entra text by ‘Line Trmusy, and the consequent rending of it by a Jarge number who would not otherwise have done so, «A great deni of Iterature re- lating to the New ‘Yestament has been gathered =oup and published by tho dally papers, 50s that = now tho people hnye a better knowledge of the facts than ever before, rid tho assertions of infidels will have far less weight, So much good has already been accomplished by the revision, _ The change of long usage may disturb many good people at first. ‘Tho Bible 1s so prectous we earn to memorize It at our mother's kneu; Its very Innguage ins ncharm that Hogers In our memory ay not ing else does, so that any change 1 ft secins like altering the features ofa dear friend. A Httle thought on tho subject, hawover, will remove all difficulty, We ist remember that God’s Word was given to us in the Hebrew and Greek languages. “Ag these be- camo deat languages the necessity arose for putting it in a living langunge, whatever that night be, so that we have had a great inany translations and revisions from the second century till the present, whien, in fact, is just what our n:lsslonaries are con- tually “olng: translating tha Bible into Chinese, findostanee, and othor lan puages to meet the wants of the peonle, Thero is nothing In the mero | fact of revision to weaken our faith In the Bible we huve cherished so tong and revered so much, What every sincere and cnrnest per- son wants Is the words of Gow in our own lungunge as oxict as possible. Here the apeaker dlgressed for the purpose of carrect- Ing 11 errondous fhipréssion whielf has gone forth that “hell? and a good many other words have been left out, No doctrine re- eciyed by Chiristenctoi ty at all hupaired by the revision. If some wntenable positions have been removed, others have been strengthened. Ie then gave a bistorlent ac- count of the revision, how it camonbout, and the ritles Inid down for the government of the Committee, which was not to make a transtation, but to correct such things in the authorized version as would make It clear- or and more nearly represent the Greek text, Yo giv “are! 4 Methodists, I think, especiatly, ought to dondetine opegreration, a cleat es bear in nin’ that one ‘of the best revisions ed out the three = grent — suurees of our authorized version was made by by which scholars determine whit the exact New Testament was, (1) Ancient man- useripts all run back to. the fourth century, (2) the early versions baek to the second century, and (3) the writings of the early Christlan fathers, in which nearly the entire New Testament is quoted, The principal changes wore then noted and tlustrated by compirisons showing the great hinprove- ments made. ‘Tho spenker then proceeded to dual with the {ue What effect will 16 haveon the faith of Christions?” A fear has been expressed that tho eifect on un- scholarly and thuild pee ple will bo to weaken thelr faith in its authority. Though it may appear to have that effect at first, it will soon wear away, If, indeed, It exists at all, for peo- John Wesley, and more than any othor siacle houk hits elven churacter te Methodist preaching aud experience for more than @ century. Mr, Wesley's © Notes on the New ‘Yestunient” have been published and clr culated In Europe and America by hundreds of thousands, — In his preface, after bearing testhnony to the general excellence af the English translation, he says: “* Yet Tito not say tt Is incapable of being brouxht, in seve ora! places, nearer to the orlginal. 3 eitite will TD oniitrm that th cee coples from which — this translation was made are always Uie most care reet, i therofore J ehall take ths pert ns occasion may require, to mu a there a small alteration? ‘This preface 33 5 2, 137 years ie Will soon tearn that there hus been no | dated Jan, 4, 1754, nnd ts, thorefore, 137 years Change in tho Word of God, but siimply | old, Sr. Wesley haut soon tone atuled Bele of the dress in which 3 pre- | Bel’s Gnomon, and his trv Thentary are Based upon it, but he was with: out, The wl vAntnges ry nioiern rescareliesand criticisms enjoyed by the Canterbury te Yisery, especially iu. relation te the charac et of the original text, A comparison at a two verslons deyelups some remarkable i sults. One of the learned gen Mm «| employed Inthe recent rslon exults In the fact that" custuway has gone ont of the New Testaments a at atonement” In Romans vy Li, has ee ’ sented, “As you cannot breathe upon a calla ly without leaving a rust-spotor upon a maldon’s reputation without leaving no taint. so faith sof such ® suered eliaracter thata disturbance of that upon which it Jeans may for a thine impair its stil Lan yoy firmly of tho opinion that the reviaton will vory shortly have th tof strength ening the faith.of Christians, tion of how soun it will bo r urches, his oplnfons are similar to those, ch “ 1s sts’? of the r if " oy ‘ reconeltinion; that the ben: i ° already published i eae iy ees ie Rovelutions nye changed into ving gee able criticism and discussion at first, but Sires tink a ei that bye that It would finally be adopter by all | Xie unt sega ‘naw reals 7 Matuow xili, 2 al wat mautway that “daiuned” has evel placu to “condemned” In Romans xlvu Bh and that “let,” In Homans Lb, 1, iP rel thi Chrtstendon, and used for many generation: 18 COIND. 2 Mr. \Watkor will read a paper on the samo subject before the Presbyterian ministers two weeks from to-day. Ifthe wenther fs tavor- nble the meeting will be held in Donglas Park, nnd partake of the nature of a, piente, the ministers boing necompanied by their wives ond families: If not, It wilt be held tn thelr room tn the MeCormlck Block, hinderad."” Very well, let us all reloir butent the ame time, let it be Teme red that Mr. Wesley mudo every one OF indy changes In Teh, aud tag they ura i familiar to every Muthodist student o! vinity. The comparison might be extended n » dn Heorews, THE SAM OLD BIBLE. Pe atey Hor verily Hie took net oD Vio SERMON UY THE REV. A.C, GEORGE, DD. | the nature of angels, but Ile took on 4 . ul Abratu? ‘Che Cauterbary fF Beers For verily nut of angel ath He take hold,- but He taketh bol MS testa suod of Abralian,? In Mr, Wesley st hold mente aia aida fe Kul petting WAN excellent womal salil tn Following Js the sermon dolivorad by tho Rey, A. C. George In tho Centenary Aetho- dist Church last eventng: ' “For whuteoover things wore written afore- time were written for our learning, that wo through pationce and comfort of the Scriptures wight huve bope."—Lturt,, 2.5 4. el turned ‘Jesus’ out and PY’ ‘Wo are vitally interested In a book which | 24 “'Thoy have d Jesus OU AP comes to us ri ® revelation from God." Wo fn Jostua," retorring t9 I ebro Wt tht “Yes,” Tanswered, vo Me! t3 will fre juterested in Its history, Its doctrines, and morethunacontueyago,so we Sethodlss In 4 e wit Its morallties, We cannot be indifferent to | not complain.” ‘Yuko another exalt what It promises, nor to what It] Phils tb, 37 hid Hae veel th Gor threatens, Its cheering assurances on- peter cine” the recent roylson I ter into our souls, and become almost | © Oniy let ou nannies of fee rosloy tr a part of our boing, Ita plotures of prophocy and Its unfoldings of immortallty enrich our present fleeting Ife, and enhance the dignity and grandour of our manhood, Buch an inspired: book, read from ehild- hood, trusted for guidance, received ay tha testimony of God, inwrought Into the very texture of our boing, and made the ‘ground. ofour confidence and hope, becomes dear and sacred to ua in Sts very words, Its truth would seem less precious in any other garb, Wo crave the samo old Bible, not only In substance, butin form, We do- sire to hear the precious truth precisely aos it fell on the cars of our fathers, us 16 wag taught to us in our childhood, as we have breathed it in our prayers, and as we have ‘heard St from the lips of the surrowing and the dying. «It would be sud, Indeca, if our English Bible were ather than 4 falthtut transcript of the Word of Gol. If we werd obliged to recelve a new translation, In sub- stunce and form, ¢ would take two or three generations to recover from the shock, 5 4 Fortunately, no such nevessity fs lald upon Be This Book, this Holy Buok, on every line, , SE eeOnty let your behavior be of the gospel, of Clirlst. yn Where the authorized version our conversation fs In Heaven, bury edition has, ¢ For ou ine lieaven,’ Mr. Wesley teas ‘a tion In the text, bur he hi a “The Grok word ly vf BVT gis, our meaning: our eltizenshlp, our ti affuctions, are alread in Leaver, 3h In the recent reviston Satta we fot whe “Be not auxtous for the mor! Ow ies and morrow. Will bo anxious for Mth ot str. In nothing be BM ht! In the text tis word Rare which has novw, In tho sense ° oi I Uy obsolete, and ave the triiy idea OF he paltiz in his note: Fie anxlously earelitt vent" ing,’” ” like panier He rot lt are alsa in’ L ‘Thess, coyutug of the cout tell and remain into raven thein whic us 4 Dont the tnd lar wep; ft id in pO frely chunrer 0p 1 TT at erbury NIMeN Pa orly Beautifully rend coming of iy 2 hor, shail tn nowlse. precede AeA fat pirat vor ing tat eatetl a dat Yerslon has, 1 Fogteth, and dcluwer rs reads? ¥ thon to himself, not dls Xe uiaraith Reed teat He Ot sa ee body, with Judgment’ Jn jh ‘rhe waitin ature . sigaatrronn Ore ta lust > | drinketh, _eateth Bo drinkel yy de is recelyed by all denominations of Christians | meut = unto nl rt