Des Arc citizen., 1860-02-08
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ers, ln ,ES5U, or,glnated ,dhe s''lAinefican Bible Union" in order that they ,migh I proceed without restraint. He was chosen
 Its first President. aud shortly after its
 formation, he addressed t as follows {:
 |" Brethren and friends of immersions1 versions ofd the sculptures in all' Ian
 guages. and especiaiiy tniFhe BnglistSthe
 American and Foreign Bible Society was
 organized to Tylndicate a principle and in laccordance hwih that principle, baptidsc
 shoudsbe orendered by, words signifying Ito ainrnerse.vs is uaa se t8HF ol fs saaf Y 3, Again in. the saine year. addressing
 his own society he says e"s sthe American
 Bible Union must, come up 10 the help oot
 the Lord against the mighty. .s* '
 and showto all whop understand ouralan- guage that baptism is immersion only. x
 If,itis right to preach 1t il as rSghi to, qrint it;7777,o print t ; Tn the the Bible, 2 Again in 1853, he says, i" In revising [the commonly received revision, the real point of Controversy between us and the | fahtrFevisionisls, is9the questionel whether
 baptfdso shall be lranslatedlo tor no. iah3 . ys l have now shown the origin, and i the object of the. American Bible Union, and here let me say that all this was honest and above board. The chief officer of Fthe society told the world in unInistaka-
 ble terms that their objectswas te make an Bible X, However much we
 may ,disapproye of the object we must ad. Unit the distinctness Of the announcement of ii t,A-and the society has been true to it's original intentions, for Fl have now be- hfore me portions of their rrevised scrip lures" and I find that wherever the word
 bapliZe occurs m our common version,
 fnsaaerse aaSr, is found in the 'srevised Tone. But along with the above ficts, how laree weato reconcile the statementsa put forlh intheiri pamphlet and uttered by Itheir agents when lhs collection oi anoney lis the .obiectf, According 10 these, the whole affair is the most 'unsectaflatf thing Fin the world The tactics of The society remindsIne of d beaaiiInnoidea advanced near thnty syeafs age iby the ce!ehrated
 Alexander Campbell, who, by the way,is
 one of the vice. presidents of this union,
 and one Of it's translatofs. The idea was
 this: That all denominations in the land should unite in one body, and lay aside their rsectaraniviews.g Many were delight ed with it.. But lhelr ardor cooled when
 they learned that the grand prerequisite
 for his union was, q plunge under fhe ,cd- Ter So, our Bible union men would be entirely willing for alt denominations to unite and cosoperate with them. in epnb'l fishing an immersionist. Bible, though. they would not for the world call il a sec- tarian Bible. a.
 o Second I am opposadaothis smovernent,
 becalise Us aeadenoy ds 10 take aUay co'Fs dence in Me scriptares si't conanaoa asse. and fo ieape ths, EaglisA speaking vorM soith-l out q Bible., 1 need not spend time in
 proving to you that the object of these
 men Is to leave the impression on all minds that aoar common,revisionlisi unwor-
 tby cf confidence. .illuTheyl assert that eit
 aboupds in error and would have us be-
 leve that its errors are of a. grave char, acter. Nov reflect for a moment on
 what would be the consequence, should they succeed in inducing thea majority of our citizens slhrough ghont tue land 10 believe
 this.,a The legitimate result would be, that inidelily would rush in like a flood, The entertainments which now stem the torrents of vice wo6ldbe soon swept away,
 and scenes notaunlikeahose of the French
 Revolution would be enacted in our. own favored land. l am. aware that they. would reply that they intend giving us a
 better Bible. But who will believe this ?
 It is much easier to ddestroy confidence thanpto restore it. Who. I ask ko can, for
 one moment, believe that a society like
 this, will produce Bible that shall com
 mand the confidence of all classes in our
 own land, in Great Britain, Scotland,
 Ireland and the Isles of the sea? la And
 we knowrthat our common version does all this. .,f,l 4a. sf..s..s .....,....s .,el3
 No my friends, if they succeed we shall
 be without a Bible And the results of impaired confidence in thes word of God
 are appalling. st,Let the conviction. suc-' ceed that lhe, common Bible is full ct err. TOTS, and tue consequence Is that we feel
 no necessity for reading it. We know
 moi where they are. They may be every
 where. w ndl lnduCetAenl COuiu WE nave
 in our families, if we believed rit waselull of errors2 ,When listening to
 il when read from the sacred desk, the
 idea would arise that our ministeris read
 ing from bundle of errors-when he would select his text, wesmight think that very probably bis text was aone of ,hems And, as gold, when expanded, is still
 gold, and base metal when hammered
 out, is still base metal, so as your mihis- ter unfolds his text, you would naturally fconcude that the whole discourse was
 founded oa error--and when the Biblelis
 read at the dying couch, and the depart
 ing soul is encouraged 10 trust in the
 promise of Him who has told us, that i'his rod and his staff shall comfort us
 while we walk through the valley ofithe
 shadow of denth," even then, if we would
 believe the Revision men, for aughi We
 would know, we might be giving forth
 some of the vagaries of Old King James
 or his ignorant tfanslators. When Dr.
 Kane returned from his icy ahodea the north, with a constitution sacrificed in the co,.sa. or b,,,oa ha onrtmhf sOuth arr,