Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1857-04-01
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"This know also, that in the last days pcrilous
times shall come"
Mr. EprToR These are great days.we live in,
and wonderful age but above all and greater
than all the improvements in the arts science and
agriculture, tie inventions ofthe age in which we
live in, all taken into consideration, the Revi-
sion,' so called of the Scriptures, caps the climax
supp SC these great teachers Of the present times
undertake toinform us that since the days OF King
James until now, VIC have been III the dark about
the wo.d of God, and all the preaching has been
cunnngly Devised Fable of man, and not the pure
word, and all christians hare been most eyre
gueously mistaken, aud their faith has been in
yain and they have believed in vain, and they have
been found false teachers ,G,d and his word.
Now, Sir, if this he true and ca"not come to
has to undergo an entire correction, and they are
wise heads that have made the great discovery.
What do YOU think is the condition of the world
since that time until now? Why, sir, the people
that have received the truth in the love of it have
been mistaken, and We that live now arc in no
better condition. Now sir, this thing, if am not
mistaken, had its origin at the North, where all
spurious doctrines have their beginning, and where
all projects are concoctcd alone for the purpose Of
quilting the people and making money, and this is
oYc of them Therefore, to make money they have
adopted this plan Of setting aside the Bible we
have and publishing an other that they would call
revised, corrected and made better; and what is
still more astonishing is that the people at the
South arc taking it up to help carry out their pur-
poses, and lecturers are employed to 90 round to
make speeches on il and raise money to carry it
out They tell us that Of all the Othodox Churches,
there is ono to represent his Church, as scholar,
faithfully to correct these mistakes and hlunders
and make it plain. We heard one of these Lectu-
rers not long ago, and he attempted to show the
people where the mistakes were, and tie utter
nonescnsc of some Of the passages of the Bible,
and 80 on.
Now, sir, if there is any object part from ma
king money in this matter, it is to be found in this,
namely, that each denomination wants to put i
word to suit his peculiar notions of what it ought
to be- The Baptsts wants to strike cut the word
Baptsc and insert Immersion the Metho-
dists wants to take away both, "Baptise and
I" Immersion and write Sprinkle and so
on TO the end of chapter with other notions Of
forms and doctrines, that they wish to get rid Of,
and put in something, that to their notions OF
what it ought to he and suit them better; and
when this is accomplished they will be satisfied
and the Bible none the better, but worse, and the
people the same. If these selfish bggUts had the
good of man at heart, both as regards the tempo
raj and eternal good Of man, and would 70 about
trying to amcliorate the condition Of their fellows,
and striving to suppress nfdclity, and 10 advance
the moral condition of tic world by teaching the
morals of the Bible instead Of trying to revise
them, / think they would be accomplishing great
deal more good than they will By the latter
Sir, a great number of other inhabitants Of this
world, who had no other guide but the present
Bible have died in the faith it taught, and have
gone to heaven, and thousands still living in the
same nth, will get there too-and if this he true
and it cannot be contradic,ed-then in all conf
mon icnse what is the use of better Bible The
way a made so plain in the present Bible, We have,
that L "way .faring man, though fool need not
err therein" have seen some who arc good, of
all denominations, who are opposed to the planr
and I, for one speak on. my eternal dlSapproval OF
it to the last.
To undertake to revise and correct the errors OF
the Bible is no small undertaking, at least at this
late aye of the world; and mon should make it
matter of great and serious, and continued prayer
and fasting before they attempt such stnpendous
work which shall not only last through the
pres. mt generation, but shall endure through all
coming generations, if, provided our children do
not find out some mistake too, and think tlem-
selves still more competent to the task, than was
their Fathers and set to work to do the very same
Eling over, and think it in better style and more
suitable to their notions Of Greek, Hebrew and
Latin.
Those who have takon the pains Of searching the
Scriptures daily for themselves, understand the
Spirit of the Bible great deal better than they,
I fear, who have under taken TO revise is. AND u