Vermont telegraph. [volume] (Brandon [Vt.]) 1828-1843, 1836-01-21
For the Telegraph.
BIBLE SOCIETY.

Dear Br. Murray:
Twas gratifed with your remarks in
regard to the present attitude of the Board
of the A. B. S., which it appears has sus-
pended the payment OF the appropriation
made to the Burman Mission for the cir
culatlon ofthe Scriptures in that language.
cannot, however, believe that the final
decision of that Board will be against the
payment. Large sums have already been
paid into the treasury of that society upon
the faith that the proper proportion ofthese
should 60 to Burmah to assist in the cir
cutation of Mr. Judson's translation ofthe
Scriptures, as this is the only version of
the Scriptures which exists in that Ian
guage. Justice demands the pay.
ment of the proper proportion of
these funds. 1t is certainly to be hoped
that the Board of the A. B. S. will deal
justly.
There are some parts of thisst which
have not been visited by the agent of the
parent society, and in which he is yet ex-
pected; and lest your suggestion to with
hold subscriptions already raised until the
final decision Of the Board should be
known should prevent our friends who
are yet to be visited, from subscribing at
all, / would propose that whenever they
shall be visited by the society's agents,
they should subscribe to the utmost of their
Hberolity designating their contributions
Mus-"For the circulat ON of Mr. Judson' s
translation of the Bible IN Burmah"-
Funds thus designated could not be d.
verted from the object of the donors; and
| funds might be secured to the object that
otherwise, under the existing suspension
of the appropriation to the Burman mis-
sion, mi ght not Re raised. With your
leave l will also suggest, that those friends
who have subscribed and have not vet
paid instead of Withholding payment,
which might by some be construed into a
want of good faith, should pay their sub
scriptions promptly, at the same time de-
signaling on the subscription paper as q.
bore, for TIL Burm0m Bible.
The proposition of H., in the 18th mum
Der of your paper, to take up a collection
for the circulation, on the first Sabbath ir
February, meets my warmest approba
ton. God speed the work, and give t,
all our brethren a willing mind.
am one of those who would be ver7
unwilling to have the Baptist denomina
ton fall off from so noble an institution a
the A. B. S.; yet if the final decision G
it's board is to withhold the appropriation
to the Burman mission, and this is to b
taken as a precedent for its future opera
tons, l should consider ourselves com
PEELED by the wants of perishing world
f to the formation of distinct general SOC
: ETY.; and would give my voice that, a
, soon as it shall be made known that tn
Board haze made fna! decision agains
the payment of the appropriation, eficier
measures be taken for speedy organiza
t ton of distinct society, upon the broa
basis and with the grand design, of givin
J the whole Bible to all the nations of tn
earth, fully and honestly translated into a
of their respective languages and dialects
= The public may not be fully apprize
S ofthe ground on which the Board hav
:, suspended the payment Of the appropria
S ton. | understand it to be simply this
>, that in Mr. Judson's version of the Bul
h man Bible, the original words baptiz
b and 60ptlsmG are translated, instead {
3, having their Examinations altered and be
e ing transferred without any exp PLANTATION
f their meaning, as in our English Bible
e If the price to be paid for the patronag
d d of the A: B. S. in the foreign distribute
J of the Bible, is, that very important pa
o of the sacred Scriptures must be left ur
e translated, our duty to the heather worl
e forbids our paying it..
n FRIEND TO MAN.
j" Jan ~, 1886.