Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1857-07-08
as far as we dare go. (Italics copied
from the pamphlet

circulation Of the scriptures with such
translation, would do more than all GU
looks to enlighten the masses on tina
subject;"i i. c. the Baptist doctrine of bap
tism.
Rev. ]. E. Bill. Eng. Extract fron
!, speech,) p. 50. "shall we leave lh'
change in the hands our Pedobaptis
brethren, or come out with a translation
according to the conviction Of our owl
COnscience?" Convention Of Christian
(Disciple) Churches in Kentucky, p. 50
"Resol0ed, that we recommend TO the
favorable regard Of our brethren gener-
ally, the efforts made by our Baptist
brethren in having a new version Of The
Holy Scriptures. and would be happy
to CONCUR with them in this great and
important undertaking."
Rev. Prof. Adkins, p. 65. "Wby
should we be constantly referring TO the
original in vindication of doctrines and
practices, which the simple translation Of
a l0ord, or arrangement of a sentence
would render plain TO every common
reader"
We might add many mole TO these
quotations, but we think we have given
enough and more than enough 10 vindi-
cate our position, that the movement
aims principally at the change of one
word.
Let US not be understood as implying
that this makes it w0ong, we do not doubt
that many conscientious Baptists and
Disciples, rejoice in the movement on
account of the very thing we have point
ed out, and with their belief on the sub
ject they Should do SO.
We will now answer some of Nh. BIS
questions. He asks Isl.
Perhaps no one will question the abil-
ity of King James revision. for the re-
vision is a good one. But we submit,
may not . good n be made better?
In answer to this query, We might
quote St. Paul, upon marriage.
As Mr.. Brown has been content to do
sOeH matrimonially, the same practice VIC
think would apply to the Mrory of revis-
ion. Again he asks:
And may We not believe that two hun
dred years later in our worlds history,
there are facilities for the work which
they did not have? Has not the whole
department of sacred philology made
great advancement since that epoch?-I
Has not the material for a faithful revis-
ion augmented a hundred fold?
To these questions We would reply in the
words Of Elder Norton, that the assertion
in the affirmative would need proof
Again:
But those men liking James's trans
%lators) are not to blame for what was
then not movable. Nor is it to be
placed to their discredit any more, their
ignorance of the steam car or electrical
telegraph.
This is ceItainly an unfortun .te COM
psrison, for Mr. Brown. Surely he
would not have us believe hat the Scrip
lures ike the Steam Car, and Electrical
I, Telegraph. are the inventions of men.
Ii so, the analogy would hold good, but
not otherwise.
Is it not True that the same arguments
used against revision now, would have
been as good against King James YER
sion FROM the Bishops Bible?
Just exactly. and would be just as
good against the new revision now p,o-
posed. There lies the difficulty, there
would be no end 10 revision.
II seems 10 us that no sure way could
be devised 10 destroy all venera ion for
the Scriptures, in the minds of men, to
the estimation in which they are
leld, and bring item down at once from
heir sacred position as an emanation
from the Most High, 10 the same level
with the inventions of man as to establish
te precedent that they may be altered,
and intcrpolated, at the will. or caprice
IF each sect, or each succeeding genera
ion.
Either revision must stop somewhere,
Or it may 60 OIL until each Ierisionist has
altered 10 suit himself, and until the last
OF the original Bible will be re-
out Of existence.
Is it not true that the ~sectarian iniu-
ence under which our version as brought
orth, and the fact that many words and
then in use are now obsolete; to-
sether with other reasons that might be
given, show the p~racticabillity at least,
f not the necessity of a revision?
We cannot admit that the Common
' ersion is secturian. 1t was male when
Piotestantism was young; before it had
iplit into the present sects and denomi
l%ations. Puritanism was just raising its
lead in the English Church, as Meth
'dism. Preshyterianism, &C., did after
ward, andthe Episcopal Church embrac
d within its membership a wider range Of
in now essential doctrines than has
yer since existed h~armoniously within
he limits of the same religious organ
That no sectarian bias was in
reduced into the translation, is evident
rom the fact hat this alleged imperfec-
ion in the word baptize which is the
erious fault charged. against the old
does not consist in enormously
ranslating the acOrd, Tut in transferring
o the English text. and making an Eng
ieL word ont of the identical Greek word