Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1858-03-15
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WHEELING, March


your columns several short notices of the deep
religious feeling in many of our institutions OF
learning, and other localities. This is all right,
for by this means many will become partially
acquainted with the religious movements of the |
day, that otherwise might never have their
thoughts turned in this direction. We hope
then gentlemen, that you will, by brief notices,
or through your correspondents, give us n
glimpse into that phase of society, as opportu-
nifty may serve. Not however, because we
think that NIL religious excitement is Christian
ity, or that the God of the Christian is almost
deaf or asleep, SO as to need great noise, to
attract his attention, or that the God of Nature
and Revelation Is n God of disorder and confu-
sion, as some OF the late "revivals" would seem
to indicate; but we want to see society in all of
its phases, that we may see and know men as
they are. believe that great man once said,
i'll substance, THAT Simpletons study books
alone, philosophers study things" This is
doubtless true; but greater than he has said,
Not every one that saith unto me Lord, Lord,
shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; ont he
that doeth the,ciH or my Father, lchich Is in
heaCeH."
But since we have commenced speaking on
religious subjects you will permit us to say, for
the benefit of some of your renders who may
take an interest in such subjects, that two Bible
Societies of this country have had it in their
minds to correct our present English version of
the Sacred Scriptures. The former, the Ameri-
can Bible Society, commenced its operations in
this direction, believe in 1S4S Its chief OBJ
ject was to remove all obsolete words and phra
ses, and bring the version of King James up to
the modern English without going behind his
translatoTs to the original Hebrew and Greek of
the Old and New Testament. After three and
half years of faithful labor, their committee
presented corrected copy to the Society for its
adoption, lWRing made about ticentyJour thou
sind corrections This was in 1852, at which
time the Society adopted the corrected version,
and from that time to the present, all the copies
issued by it IN the English language, amounting
to hundreds of thousands of Bibles and Tesla
ments, have been of this corrected copy. They
have been sent to all parts of the civilized world
| by this great Society. Never, until their annual
meeting last May, was there any act of the So
ciety, indicating that it wished to return to the
| old version, with its twenty odd thousand err
| rors But nt this meeting the subject being in
troduced and discussed, special committee was
lappointed to re- examine the whole subject
Recently that committee reported to a called
meeting of the Board of Managers, and they
have determined to return TO the old version
with its errors; but whether the Society ut its
annual meeting in May next will sustain its
Board, after for seven years publishing and eulo-
gising this corrected version, not, the future
alone will unfold. After this determination by
the Board, the whole of the revision committee
resigned, after entering most solemn protest
against the course pursued This revision com
mittee being composed of seven of the ablest
divincs of the Society, their protest and resig-
nation have produced most profound sensation
in the Protestant world, they being individually
and enthusiastically connected with the same
number of religious parties
| What will be the end of this matter no one
can yet tell, but there is no doubt of its eventu-
ally being productive of much good. The lat
ter is called the American Bible Union. This
Society has for its object the procuring and cir
i CulatIOn i'm all LAM Of q
/ earth. 1t was organized in 1850, the other in
| 1916, and very soon after set about the correc-
ton of the English version of the sacred scrip
/ lures 1t differs from the movement of the 9TH
er Society i'll this: The Revision Committee
of the A. B. S. were not allowed to go behind
King James translators to the original Hebrew
and Greek, and translate ecclesiasticwords, &C.,
| &c. They were limited in their powers, and
could not therefore, as scholars, always give in
| English what they saw the originalmeant. This
was the great error of this Society. To remedy
! all such evils, and give pure version to those
speaking the English language, the American
Bible Union require of her Revision Committee
to translate every word and phrase OF the orig
iDal Hebrew aud Greek languages of the sacred
scriptures into the best English of which they
are masters, making the common English YER
sion the basis ofthe revision. This work moves
steadily on. The Revision Committee stand
connected, enthusiastically, with some nine OF
the leading protestant parties of this country
and Europe, and are among the ablest scholars
of the age. The Society announces that they
intend 10 do the work thoroughly, and it would
seem that they do, for they have been at work
now some seven years; have gone over all the
New Testament at least once, and part of the
Old; have, and are publishing these revisions
for criticism, preparatory to the action of the
Final Committee, and have the work so far ad-
vanced as to select and put to work this commit
tee on the New Testament. There is no doubt
but that the course pursued by this Society 50
far will give us decidedly the best version OF
the word of God that has ever appeared in the
English language, and we may look for the New
Testament in year or two from this date.
No SHAVING on SuNDAY.-The BARRIERS of the
city of Utica, N. Y, have unanimously agreed
to close their shops on the Sabbath, and neither
to work themselves nor allow their assistants to
work on that day. They have published the
following card over their signatures:
We, the BARRIERS and hair-dressers in the CITY
of Utica, feeling our need of the Sabbath, for
the object for which it designed, and believ-
ing our patrons twill be considerate and kind
enough Ito concede it to us, pledge their word
and honor to each other that they will do no
business and allow no business to he done in