The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1848-05-15
The City Bible Society.

The tenth anniversary meeting of this Society took
place last night, at the Rev Mr. Benedict's church
corner of Norfolk and Broome streets. The report
showed that the Of $105 SO had been received
various sources and that 1924 Bibles had been distri-
buted being increase of one-fth any previous
year from which fact the Society still in debt
about $500
After the reading Of the report the annual sermon
delivered by the Rev. Mr.. Remington, from the
81 chapter of Paul to I'd Timothy the 10th
All Scripture Is given by inspiration of God
&C. He said: We have a book here which coll tho
Bible 1t processes have high claims upon U.S. and to
communicate great and glorious things 1t is therefore
proper that should know something of its history
Though the text speaks of the Old Testament
the New not then completed, yet the New Tesla
has high claim to the sacred appellation
the Old. The facts recorded in the New Tcstamen
predicted in the Old while the New recognizes the
Old by constantly appealing to it, The Bible there is
called the Holy Scriptures account Of the holy
doctrines which they teach, and they termed
nonical because when their number and authenticity
ascertained their inserted in eccles-
astcal canons to distinguish them from other books,
which. being of no authority kept out of sight,
aud therefore styled ''apocryphal.' The first five
books Of the Old Testament, commonly known as the
Pcntatcuch ascrbcd to Noses the other books Of
the Old Testament well as tn sse of the New.
written generally by the persons whose names are at
tached to them 1t is the prevailing opinion among
they perfected in his day. in the Chaldee cha
ractor for that language being generally used among
the Jews in his day he thought proper to change the
old Hebrew character it, which has since that time
been retained only by the Samartans among whom it
is preserved to this day
In following out this brief history of the Bible it will
not be amiss to give passing notice Of of the
versions and TRANSACTIONS Of the sacred books
Among the fourteen ancient versions Of either the whole
prominent parts of the sacred volume, the most
important the Samaritan. which is the pure He
brew the Chaldaic which is called the Jewish Targa-
rus and the Septuagent ira nsation into Greek-the
latter Of which has been deemed Of the greatest
Importance by competent judges. The five books of
Moses translated from the Hebrew into Greek. in
the time of Ptolemy Philadephus King of Egypt about
two II lrpd ty-fiy md
approved by the seventy elders who constituted the
Alcxandrian Sanhedrim. as faithful version. The
other books of the Old Tesamen Mt done at differ
ent times by different hands, rs the necessity of the
case demanded, and were probably completed before
the Christian era would appear from the quotations
Of the Evangelists the Apostles and primitive fathers
The Vugate translation into latin. is also a very
important version supposed to have been made in the
fourth century. The New Testament which includes
the four Evangelists and Apocalypse has undergone
many TRANSACTIONS. About i've hundred have been &C.
tuay examined and compared, colated. with extraor-
binary care many of them running up to the Sth.
eth 9th. 5th and 4th centuries The first printed
Bible in our language was that translated by w. Tin
dal, and printed in 1926. Most of the copies were
bought up and burned by Bishop Tonstal and Sir
Thomas Moore.
BY the inspiration of the scriptures are to under
stand that the sacred writer's composed their works
under such immediate influence Of the Holy
Ghost that Good may be said to speak by those writers
to men : and not merely that they spoke to men in
the of God nd by his authority There is con
siderable difference between the two propositions Each
supposes authentic revelation from God but the
both as To
the subjects spoken Of and the of expressing
them. Heb. T. l., God. who ut sundry times &C y
In gancing at the evidences of the inspiration this
ancient book 1T may not be improper to observe that
Moses and Christ stand as the founders of the two
great departments Of the Bible The biblical record
states that Moses the leader and legislator Of the
nation Of the Jews nearly 1000 years before the Chris
tian era. according to the common chronology This
IL grounded upon the tradition and national history
of the Jews and il is certain that far from there
being any to doubt the fact much less sup
pose with the extravagaut fancy Of some modern in
fdels, that Moses was NEUROLOGICAL parsonage. the
very principle of historical evidence which as
Of the truth Of any unqucstoned of pro-
fame history. assures Of the truth Of this Mr. H.
dwelt upon the proof of the authenticity OF the Bible
and its inspiration and such. essential to man =
highest interest, and perfectly adapted to meet his
moral wants.
After the a collection. for the benefit Of the
Society. taken and after the singing OF "A hymn
the congregation dismissed with the bcnediction